8 Quotes by Rahul Pandita

Sometimes it is best to leave things ambiguous, suspended, so that some hope remains.

I’m on bridge, bridge is on water, bridge-bridge cancel, I’m on water.

Vidyam deehe Saraswati.

For most of us, Kashmir means a calendar hanging in our parents’ bedroom, or a mutton dish cooked in the traditional way on Shivratri, or a cousin’s marriage that the elders insist must be solemnized in Jammu. A.

During the rule of another governor, Atta Muhammad Khan, Lawrence writes: Any Musalman who met a Pandit would jump on his back, and take a ride.

How can you say that?′ he barked. ‘It is they who have forced you out of your homes, turning you into refugees.’ I looked him in the eye and said: ‘General, I’ve lost my home, not my humanity.

I remember the day when I realized I had no memory of her voice. That morning I had been reading the newspapers like I did everyday. I would read a report or two, and Ma would point out advertisements of houses for sale. There were many of them.

Another problem is the apathy of the media and a majority of India’s intellectual class who refuse to even acknowledge the suffering of the Pandits.