[Reader-list] Documentary portrays migrant Kashmiri Hindus’ ordeal

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

Documentary portrays migrant Kashmiri Hindus’ ordeal

March 7th, 2009 - 9:37 pm

Link -
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/documentary-portrays-migrant-kashmiri-hindus-ordeal_100163951.html

Chandigarh, March 7 (IANS) A documentary portraying the ordeal of displaced
Kashmiri Hindus was screened here Saturday evening, followed by the
inauguration of a photo exhibition highlighting the manner in which hundreds
and thousands of migrants are living far away from their homeland.
The event was organised by Roots in Kashmir (RIK) - a Kashmiri Pandit
organisation - at the Panjab University (PU) campus.

The 45-minute documentary “Wuzmal (Lightning)” is a compilation of footage
from various films on Kashmiri Pandits.

“More than 500,00 Kashmiri Pandits are staying in refugee camps in Jammu and
Delhi. They have lost their land and all the resources and are forced to
live in miserable circumstances,” Sugandhi Thusoo, Chandigarh coordinator of
the RIK told IANS.

According to the organisers, the event was held to garner public support for
the return of the migrant Hindus to Kashmir.

“There are many Kashmiri families residing here and most of them are well
settled. But still, there is an urge among them to go back to their original
home and our aim is to stimulate that urge,” said Thusoo, a mechanical
engineering student at PU.

The photo exhibition depicted dilapidated temples in Kashmir and life in
migrant camps.

“We are focusing on terrorism across the globe. In the light of last year’s
terror attacks on Mumbai and the recent attack on Sri Lankan players in
Lahore, it would be injudicious to talk only about Kashmir,” said Bhawick
Jalali, another RIK member.

read more at - www.kashmiris-in-exile.blogspot.com/


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Aditya Raj Kaul