A Long Season of Ashes by Siddhartha Gigoo
Siddhartha Gigoo
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In the 1990s, many Kashmiri pandits had no choice but to leave their homes behind. This is one such story of displacement
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In 1996, six years after being forced out of his home in Kashmir, Babuji lost his memory and sense of hearing, but the forever smile on his face proved that he left this world happy after tasting the sweetest nectar of life
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Rani’s palace of dreams is gone. But next to her tent is a small hill. On it are a few idols of gods and goddesses. Lord Krishna, Lord Shiva and Goddess Lakshmi.
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A Commonwealth Short Story Prize-winning author’s diary of events on his last link to Kashmir.
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Exile is a story that starts, and gets repeated, over and over.... This story will never end till the Pandit, the original Kashmiri, recovers what was lost.
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