Our Moon Has Blood Clots
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| Author | Rahul Pandita |
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| Language | English |
Publication date | 1 January 2013 |
| Publication place | India |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 258 |
| ISBN | 9788184000870 |
Our Moon has Blood Clots : The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits is a 2013 memoir by Indian author Rahul Pandita about the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus in the late 1989 and early 1990.[1]
Reception
Manjula Narayan of Hindustan Times wrote: "The form contributes to much of the power of this book that speaks of the pain of fleeing a beloved home, incorporates moving descriptions of rituals specific to the Shaivite Pandits, and weaves in oral histories and snatches of poetry from, among others, Lal Ded and Agha Shahid Ali".[2] Soutik Biswas of Mint gave a positive review and said, "Pandita writes evocatively about passing trucks filled with scared Pandits escaping to Jammu, the women “herded like cattle”, and a man showing the family his fist and wishing them death." He however felt that journalism was the "weakest link in what is a largely engaging memoir."[3]
Amberish K Diwanji of Daily News and Analysis wrote that the book "makes for difficult reading".[4]
References
- ^ "'Great wrong done to KPs' must be acknowledged in internal dialogue'". Daily Excelsior. 2 April 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
- ^ Narayan, Manjula (19 January 2013). "Review: Our Moon has Blood Clots". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
- ^ Biswas, Soutik (31 January 2013). "Book Review: Our Moon Has Blood Clots". Mint. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
- ^ Diwanji, Amberish K (10 February 2013). "Book Review: 'Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits'". Daily News and Analysis. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
Further reading
- Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal, A Moon has Many Shades, Economic and Political Weekly, 27 April 2013.
- Rahul Pandita, Selective Memory, Collective Amnesia, Economic and Political Weekly, 1 June 2013.
- Sualeh Keen, Inconvenient People, Economic and Political Weekly, 8 June 2013.
- Bashir Manzir, Kashmir: A Tale of Two Communities, Cloven, Economic and Political Weekly, 27 July 2013.
- D. P. Satish, Book review: Our Moon Has Blood Clots, Gateway House, 1 February 2013.
- Prayaag Akbar, A partial but important depiction of loss and exile, The Sunday Guardian, 7 February 2013.
- Pradeep Magazine, From the Valley, a selective remembrance of things past, The Hindu, 8 February 2013.
- Amberish K. Dewanji, Book Review: 'Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits', Daily News and Analysis, 10 February 2013.
- Peter Griffin, Rahul Pandita On Kashmir and its Stories, Forbes India, 8 March 2013.
- K. S. Narayanan, Book Review: Our Moon Has Blood Clots, The Sunday Indian, 14 March 2013.
- Nandini Krishnan, Rahul Pandita, Basharat Peer and Kashmir's contradictory stories, SIFY News, 25 April 2013.
- Dilip Simeon, People: On Rahul Pandita’s Our Moon Has Blood Clots[dead link], Northeast Review, 4 May 2013
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