2021 Autumn in Naya Kashmir Brings 1990 Winter Terror Chill for Kashmiri Hindus

I was nine months old. Mosques in Kashmir that night on their loudspeakers chanted slogans asking Kashmiri Pandit men to vacate the Valley and leave behind their women. On September 21, I was told Jammu and Kashmir security forces first received intelligence input about a possible attack on Kashmiri Hindus in Srinagar. The Silence is Appalling Kashmiri Pandit Sangarsh Samiti, a body of Pandits which chose to stay in the Valley since the last three decades, in a stinging letter to the Lt Governor Manoj Sinha said, “From last more than ten days there is an input that the businessmen and prominent faces from Non-Migrant Kashmiri Pandits/Hindus living in Kashmir Valley will be eliminated from Kashmir Valley and concerned agencies are in deep slumber and reason to which one more killing of the leading businessman was executed.” “That the callous approach shown by your good self’s office and the security agencies working in Kashmir Valley have raised questions regarding the intentions of the present government about the security of the Non-Migrant Kashmiri Pandits/Hindus living in Kashmir Valley,” they further write. Kashmiriyat is a word coined to show false sense of brotherhood to hide the Islamist radical ideology and terror against Kashmiri Hindus and Sikhs in the Kashmir valley.