The Multiple Tragedies of The Kashmiri Pandits, Hindustan Times

When the ethnic cleansing of the Kashmiri Pandits took place, I was based in Delhi, working at the Institute of Economic Growth. The IEG’s Director was the eminent sociologist Triloki Nath Madan, who had been born and raised in the Valley, and gone on to write a classic ethnography of Pandit life. Professor Madan’s brother, himself a much admired Principal of the Gandhi Memorial College in Srinagar, was made to flee their homeland. Their ancestral house was vandalized, with the family’s price...