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Journalist. Author of Our Moon Has Blood Clots and Hello, Bastar: The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement. Yale World Fellow, 2015

New Delhi, India
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  1. 21 minutes ago

    Ashima Kaul remembers how her father was forced to join an Azadi procession in 1990 and had to flash a V sign to escape being singled out. On the right, see what a TISS scholar says about it in a paper (courtesy )

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  2. 29 minutes ago

    Doctor Rohini Bhat reacts to trailer

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  3. 32 minutes ago

    Doctor Varuna Raina reacts to trailer

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  4. 41 minutes ago

    A Kashmiri Pandit reacts to trailer

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  5. 6 hours ago

    Thank you, Gazal. Thank you for listening to things I could tell nobody else in Bombay in 2016.

    This film narrates a tragic chapter of our history - how their own land betrayed Kashmiri Pandits. It also says that hatred and violence are not the answer. Not then, not now, not ever. From the pen and the heart of my friend -
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  6. 6 hours ago

    जाने काहे दे रहें हैं सर. समझायीये तो कि कन्फ़्यूजन कहाँ है.

    जाने देते हैं सर। कोशिश करने का शुक्रिया।
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  7. 7 hours ago

    सर मैं हिंदी में कोशिश करता हूँ. इसका पहला प्रयोग कश्मीर में हिंदू अल्पसंख्यकों के प्रति हिंसा में किया गया. ३ साल बाद भले ही दिल्ली में इसका प्रयोग अलग हुआ हो. ३ साल बाद.

    Yes of course. But it did start as a Feminist song in Delhi.
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  8. 7 hours ago

    Three years after it was used in Kashmir extensively to brutalise the Hindu minority.

    Sorry I am disoriented. Did you not say it was first sung in Delhi in 1992???
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  9. 7 hours ago

    Nothing should be discarded. Just pointing out that it was first used in Kashmir contrary to what you say.

    So 1992 Delhi should be discarded????
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  10. 7 hours ago

    By Kamla Bhasin’s own admission, this was first sung in Delhi in 1992, three years after it came to fore in Kashmir. If it was used earlier by Pakistan feminist movement, would like to hear the tone of these slogans then. Right now, it is absolutely copied from Kashmir.

    The Aazadi chant was not imported from Kashmir like people want you to believe. It was a feminist voice against Patriarchy. Here it is.
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  11. Jan 8

    बहुत शुक्रिया, अविनाश. जब भी मन आहत होता है तो आपके बुलाकी साओ की ओट में चला जाता हूँ.

    मेरे भाई की जय हो!
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    Jan 8

    Thank you for reminding about the kambal. Apparantly my daadi got this kambal from a similar distribution drive in 90. We still have it. It reminds us of the journey. P.s. Thank you once again, for OMHBC and shikara🙏❤️

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  13. Jan 7

    Thank you, Imtiyaz. When I return home, I will use all my currency to make sure that you are my neighbour and that there is no wall between our houses.

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    When despite facing extreme circumstances with existential threat, you chose love instead of hatred, you make SHIKARA. Breathtakingly stirring movie based on real events. A must watch for Kashmir Lovers.
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  14. Jan 7

    Tum kaun ho be. An electrifying protest song written by mera dost

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    'हिंदुस्तान से मेरा सीधा रिश्ता है क्यूँ बतलाऊँ तुमको कितना गहरा है तुम कौन हो बे तुम चीखो तुम ही चिल्लाओ कागज ला ला कर बतलाओ पर मेरे कान ना खाओ तुम बेमतलब ना गुर्राओ तुम ये मेरा देश है इससे मैं चुपचाप मोहब्बत करता हूँ' मुंबई में प्रदर्शन: सुनिए की वायरल कविता...
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    Jan 7

    I held it together till I saw the tomato truck. After that it was tears and heartache that hasn’t gone in last 30 years.Tribute to every Shiv and Shanti who lost their homes and dreams. Congratulations and This is heartbreaking

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    Jan 7

    The trailer did not show any Hindu Muslim love story! Ofcourse competition from people with a better aesthetic sense, it bound to pinch a little. It is a beautiful trailer. Looking forward to watching the movie.

    Brilliant Hindi Muslim love story. I was wondering why did they at last moment changed the line from ‘love letters from ’ to ‘’the untold story of Kashmiri Pandits”. I hope people don’t get confused between a love story and genocide.
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  17. Jan 7

    Our collective memory. The story of all of us. We will never forget 1990.

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    Jan 7
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    Am taken back in time. Can see myself in this crowd 😭yes we have experienced all this and much more - ज़ख़्म तो खुलेंगे इस फ़िल्म को देखने से - यह कहानी नही आपबीती है । Thanks for the courage, not so easy.

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    Jan 6

    reminds me of the time my grandfather took me carry a kambal that were getting distributed for free at kachi chawni for "migrants", near luthra school. i have walked the road with kambal rolled in arms.

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  20. Jan 6

    The first glimpse of

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