Isha Bharati Pandit For more than three decades, a strange silence has pressed itself into the collective memory of India-one embedded in official narratives, softened in textbooks, spoken in whispers, or erased altogether from classrooms. In 1990, an entire community was forced to flee Kashmir shattering a community that had inhabited Kashmir for centuries. The reasons for this mass migration remain vigorously contested. Militant groups like the Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) and Hizbul Mujahideen presented Kashmiri Pandits with three impossible choices-“ralive, tsaliv, yagalive” (convert to Islam, leave the place, or be ready to perish). Yet Pseudo scholars and...