[Reader-list] Launch of Rahul Pandita's "Our Moon Has Blood Clots" , 21/01/13 7 pm, Lecture Hall 1, India International Centre, New Delhi.

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Random House India  has  invited  all to celebrate the launch of "Our Moon Has Blood Clots" by Rahul Pandita on Monday, 21st January, 7 pm at: Lecture Hall 1, India International Centre, 40, Max Mueller Marg (next to Lodhi gardens), New Delhi. 

Rahul will be in conversation with Patrick French, author and historian. 

About the book: Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old in 1990 when he was forced to leave his home in Srinagar along with his family, who were Kashmiri Pandits: the Hindu minority within a Muslim-majority Kashmir that was becoming increasingly agitated with the cries of 'Azadi' from India. The heartbreaking story of Kashmir has so far been told through the prism of the brutality of the Indian state, and the pro-independence demands of separatists. But there is another part of the story that has remained unrecorded and buried.

"Our Moon Has Blood Clots" is the unspoken chapter in the story of Kashmir, in which it was purged of the Kashmiri Pandit community in a violent ethnic cleansing backed by Islamist militants. Hundreds of people were tortured and killed, and about 3,50,000 Kashmiri Pandits were forced to leave their homes and spend the rest of their lives in exile in their own country.

Praise for "Our Moon Has Blood Clots": "This powerful and moving book throws a sharp new light onto one of the most tragic conflicts in the modern world. As a young boy, Rahul Pandita was exiled from his native Kashmir. Now, twenty years later, he returns to the prelude and aftermath of his exile, narrating his family's tortuous journeys with great sensitivity and skill. Every paragraph of this compelling memoir rings deeply true." -- Ramachandra Guha

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