1. An 80 year old Kashmiri Pandit lady based in the US told author Rajat Mitra that when she was a teen she was given a small packet of poison to be consumed if she was abducted by Pakistanis. In 1990 she had passed on the same to her granddaughter, telling her the same.
2. “The women of our community preserved it and kept it ready, perhaps over centuries. Every mother taught it to her daughter and asked her to pass it on with time. Maybe it will stop now as there is no Hindu left in Kashmir anymore. I hope this episode will not be forgotten.”
3. For Pandits born before Jan 19, 1990, dates are extremely important. If one was born before that time and was 7, one heard and remembered the slogan ‘raliv, chaliv ya galiv’ (convert, runaway or die) coming from the mosques all over Kashmir for you because you were a Hindu.
4. If one was older than that, one heard that it is the women, including your little sister who your neighbors wanted you to leave behind in order to create an Islamic Kashmir.
5. If you were older than that, you perhaps wondered why India and the rest of world remained silent and understood Kashmiri Hindus had no one to speak for them. Silence too long has been known as the language of trauma and genocide its expression.
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