Book Review [58] : Our Moon Has Blood Clots

'Our Moon Has Blood Clots' is a great work of History on the subject of exodus of Kashmiri Pandits, ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the Pakistani supported Islamic radicals and betrayal by the government of India and Kashmir. These days it has become a fashion to simply discard the tragedies of Kashmiri Pandits as myths, some do it for the sake of their own notion of "Secularism" and some do it to remain viable in the current "extreme liberal" media polity of India. History is truth, it is polity and religion invariant although the future generations need to have an open mind to objectively take the words written in history books and the prevalent historiography. Rahul Pandita has done a great favour to Kashmiri Pandits in particular and Indians in general by documenting the exodus and ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Pandits from Kashmir Valley in 1989-1991. The people who now cry about the alleged human rights violations perpetrated by the security personnel in the valley conspicuolsy ignore the plight of Kashmiri Pandits and try to wipe the slate clean. The Hindu Right on other hand has exploited the Hindu sentiments on Kashmir without doing anything for the rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits while the left and centre parties have ignored them because they are not "significant" in numbers. 

Its an old maxim that refugees have no homes and even the world becomes small for people who flee from their houses without giving a fight to the intruders, unfortunately this is true even in this case. True Secularism is devoid of any religious bias and its definition should not vary from time to time and from people to people. 'Our Moon Has Blood Clots' is a very personal story of Rahul Pandita and he has covered the two exoduses of Kashmiri Pandits really well, first one in 1947 when Pakistani tribals pillaged Kashmir and second when Kashmiri themselves pillaged its minority community. I would also like to this post by the same lines from V. S. Naipaul:
"The world is what it is,  men who are nothing, who do nothing to give them a chance to move from nothing to above, have no place in it".
Highly recommended book 10/10.