Our Moon Has Blood Clots : Rahul Pandita

Our Moon Has Blood Clots is based on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits in late 1989 and early 1990. 

    Initially the author talks about the history of Kashmir through decades. The origin  of Kashmiri Pandits and their lives in the valley the detailed description of the festivals and culture. 

Then the backdrop changes to the tense environment when the agitation for the cries of 'Azaadi ' from India increases. The fear of being massacred in your own home. Rahul Pandita's family flees its home in Srinagar along with many families to Jammu who were lucky enough to survive while hundreds of thousands of thousands of other Kashmiri Pandits were tortured and killed by Islamist militants. 

The author describes the helplessness and emotional trauma his family and he went through when they were forced to live in exile in one's own country . The struggle to adjust with a permanent emotional scar through rest of his life. The last part where the author visits  his ancestral home where he has to knock to enter his own house to find new occupants where each corner of the house built by his ancestors with blood and sweat only to be occupied with someone else leaves me heartbroken .

As an Indian its gripping and detail description of brutality that our own countrymen had to go through brings goosebumps . The untold story of Kashmiri pandit ethnic cleansing couldn't be written better. Its a must read for not only an Indian but a human against human atrocities.