From the President s Desk

Dear Community Members, 

Namskar!!

"The Kashmir Files" film has disseminated information about the torture suffered by the Kashmir Pandit community to a wide audience in India and abroad. Such a good film was never produced earlier. I suggested to my brothers, sisters and young ones of the community to see the film. Most films have a week-long life. After that week these lose their lustre. "The Kashmir Files" is a film for all times.

Majority of the films, produced in Hollywood, or Bollywood, are the fantasies of the authors, which can be right, or wrong. There is no incident of fantasy in "The Kashmir Files". It is truth from the beginning to the end and based on substance-full documents and narration of events by witnesses of the first-person type.

It is but natural that many viewers start weeping on seeing the barbarous events. A Kashmiri Pandit woman is raped, then placed on a saw mill. The machine is put on and it cuts the innocent Pandit woman into two pieces. Even animals do not resort to such barbarity.

On the Pakistan National Day, March 23, Kashmiri Pandit residents of Naermarag, a village in the Shopian district, are forced to come out of their homes. They are asked to stand in queues. The terrorists shoot all of them dead point bank. There are many women and children in the queues. This is a Nazi-type killing of Jews.

Director Vivek Agnihotri has laboured hard for years to prepare a film the like of which was never produced. As a result, while most films. lose their popularity in a week, even four weeks, after its release, cinema halls, where the picture is being shown, attracted huge crowds.

There are men like Arvind Kejriwal, who failed to appreciate the significance and depth of the film. They, wrongly, thought, that it was of the propaganda type. Within a short time of their expressing such views, they had to eat their word and say that the film reflects the true picture of the sufferings of the Kashmiri Pandits in such a tragic manner as population of no other Indian state has experienced.

National Conference patron Dr. Farouq Abdullah said that BJP governments, in states, had waived off entertainment tax on the film with a view to spreading hatred 'in the hearts of the people' Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh suggested Dr. Abdullah to stop seeing happenings with tinged glasses on. Sh. Singh said Dr. Abdullah is running away from the grim truth that he was responsible for the genocide of Kashmiri Pandits and the exodus of surviving members of the beleaguered community from the valley.

Shri Jitendra Singh remarked: "The film is a documentation of the entire chronology about who was at fault. What Abdullah is saying is an expression of his guilt. Can he deny that he left the valley when Kashmir was burning and Kashmiri Pandits were being massacred., He left Srinagar for London in 1989 and returned in 1996."

Soyam Sewak Sangh patron Mohan Bhaagwat has praised the truth and depth of the film. He says it has enlightened audiences in India and abroad about the happenings of the Kashmiri Pandits in 1990. He expresses the hope that the time for the return of the KPS to their homeland has arrived. How I wish that his desire could prove to be pragmatic and effective. As things stand, exiled K.Ps have no courage to go back. Even the few families living there are feeling jittery. The community needs to be provided a Homeland where the provisions of the Indian Constitution run in both letter and spirit.

The current month is important for the future of Kashmiri Pandits. Members of the J&K Delimitation Commission are meeting various persons who have made suggestions about the delimitation of constituencies. The Commission members are requested and suggested to keep in mind that Kashmiri Pandits, too, should have the representation. As things are, this orphan community can send its representatives to no state or central legislature of any country of the world.

What was kept under wraps through false narratives by the successive Govt. to nourish the so called Muslim minority vote banks, has been globally unfolded Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri and his spouse Pallavi Joshi along with the team of the film. It has not only opened the eyes of our own countrymen and also of whole world. The world has woken up to question how such a gruesome and ghastly human rights violations were allowed in India, a largest democracy in the world. The incidents that it portrayed are not new; this is of one family, I am also a victim myself. My wounds were freshened deep inside me for the last 32 years opened up a fresh. For the most Indians and the world the truth has finally been revealed. It touched upon some facts like how democracy and failed in the state which was captured by the separatist elements of radical Islam and bureaucracy.

Finally in 1990, the original inhabitants of Kashmir-that contributed most to India's philosophy and language-Sanskrit- were ethnically cleansed from their land by Islamists. Just like the Jews who constantly got discriminated against time and again, the Kashmiri Hindus had seven Exoduses from the time of the Islamic invasion of India to the 1990s. It was even more direct with the posters and rallies that rang with the slogan- Raliv, Galiv or Chaliv- Convert, Die or Leave.

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Courtesy:   Koshur Samachar 2022, April