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- Rahul Pandita
- Delhi-based conflict writer. Author of "Hello, Bastar: The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement" (Tranquebar Press), and co- author of Hachette India's non-fiction book of 2010,"The Absent State".
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- "Hello (1)
- 1857 revolt (1)
- 1947 (1)
- A Journey from Kashmir to London (1)
- A Poem in Hindi (1)
- A Story in Continuum (1)
- Aamir Khan (1)
- Abida Parveen (1)
- Agha Shahid Ali (2)
- Agnivesh (1)
- Ajmer (1)
- AK-47 (1)
- Amarnath (1)
- Amritsar (1)
- Anuradha Ghandy (1)
- Army in Kashmir (1)
- Arundhati Roy (1)
- Ascetics (1)
- Ayodhya (1)
- Azad (1)
- Babita Pandey (1)
- Bakery (1)
- Bal Thackeray (1)
- balcony (1)
- Barog (1)
- Bastar (2)
- Bastar" (1)
- Batalvi (1)
- Begum Akhtar (1)
- Bellow (1)
- Besra (1)
- Between the pages (1)
- Bhagat Singh (1)
- Bhindranwale (2)
- Bomai (1)
- Brass Band (1)
- cafe (1)
- Calculus (1)
- Calvin and Hobbes (1)
- Campaign In Rajasthan (1)
- Candy (1)
- Carlsberg (1)
- Carpets (1)
- Cawnpore (1)
- Chandigarh (2)
- Chaplin (1)
- Charbagh (1)
- Chess and Nirvana: A travel along the Ganges (1)
- Child soldiers (2)
- Cholera (1)
- City (2)
- Cobra forces (1)
- Coffee (1)
- Colombo (1)
- CPI(Maoist) (8)
- CPM (1)
- Cricket (1)
- CRPF (2)
- curtains (1)
- Dal Lake (3)
- Dalit (1)
- Dandakaranya (1)
- Dantewada (1)
- Dausa (1)
- Delhi (1)
- demon (1)
- Dhoni (1)
- Dignity of the dead (1)
- Doordarshan (1)
- dreams (1)
- Election (1)
- English (1)
- erectile (1)
- essay (18)
- Faizabad (1)
- Family tree (1)
- fiction (10)
- Fidayeen (1)
- Flower dreams (1)
- Flowers (1)
- Frangipani (1)
- Gadchiroli (1)
- Ganapathi interview (1)
- Gandhigiri (1)
- Garhwal (1)
- Ghost (1)
- graphic novel (1)
- Grenades (1)
- Gujarat (1)
- Gujjar (1)
- Gulzar (1)
- Gurgaon (1)
- Gymnastics (1)
- Habbakadal (1)
- Half marathon (1)
- Half Tomato Boiled Sparrow Eggs (1)
- happiness (1)
- Hari Kunzru (1)
- Haridwar (1)
- Harud (2)
- Heads I win tails you lose (1)
- heart rate (1)
- Heat stroke (1)
- Heinrich Boll (1)
- Hemingway (2)
- hemlock (1)
- Her Master's voice (1)
- Hindi blog (1)
- Home (1)
- Hotels in Kasauli (1)
- Houses for you (1)
- humor (1)
- Hypergraphia (1)
- Hypocrisy (1)
- I want to cry (1)
- IDP camps (2)
- If I turn blind tonight (1)
- In search of a poet (1)
- India Shining in Khairlanji (1)
- India Social Forum 2006 (1)
- Indian television (1)
- Indira Gandhi (1)
- Insurgency (1)
- Jagjit Singh (1)
- Jahangir chowk (1)
- Jammu Roughcut (1)
- Jharkhand (3)
- Jhitka forest (1)
- JK Police (1)
- Kabab (1)
- Kabir Katrina and Ketchup Dreams (1)
- Kalidasa (1)
- Kangri (1)
- Kasauli (2)
- Kashmir (27)
- Kashmir lit fest (1)
- Kashyap (1)
- Kehwa (1)
- Khalistan (1)
- Kobad Ghandy (2)
- Lakshmibai (1)
- Lal Chowk (1)
- Lalgarh (2)
- Landless in Punjab (1)
- Lansdowne (1)
- Life (2)
- Literature (1)
- Loan (1)
- LOC (1)
- loneliness (3)
- love (3)
- LTTE (2)
- Lucknow (2)
- Manmohan Singh (1)
- Maoists (9)
- Marquez (1)
- Meerut (1)
- Meeting Big B on NH 8 (1)
- memory (1)
- migration (1)
- Militants (1)
- Mind wanders in Meerut (1)
- Mining (1)
- Misir Besra (1)
- Mobile phone (1)
- Monaco Biscuits (1)
- Mountains (1)
- mutiny (1)
- My Mother's 22 Rooms (1)
- my name is Khan (1)
- Narcissus (1)
- Nawhatta (1)
- Naxalite (2)
- Naxalites (2)
- Naxals (1)
- Neelesh Misra (2)
- Neelmat Purana (1)
- No sleeping last night (1)
- Nonsense offerings of Peace (1)
- NREGA (1)
- NREGS (1)
- NSD (1)
- Obituaries (1)
- Of Horses and Illustrations (1)
- Of Human Bondage (1)
- Olympics (1)
- Only one Dream (1)
- Opium (1)
- Paash (1)
- Padmini Kolhapure (1)
- pain (1)
- Pandits (1)
- Peanuts (1)
- Philip Roth (1)
- Pilgrimmage (1)
- Pine (1)
- Pizza (1)
- PLGA (1)
- Poems (1)
- poetry (19)
- Postman Bouncing High (1)
- poverty (1)
- Prashant Rahi (1)
- Pratibha's remarriage? (1)
- Prayer beads (1)
- Premchand (1)
- Pubs (1)
- Punjab (1)
- Punjab: A Bihar in Making? (1)
- pursuit (1)
- Qawwali (1)
- Rahul Pandita (2)
- Railway (1)
- Raincoat (1)
- Rains (1)
- Rajapaksa (1)
- Rajasthan (2)
- Razia Sultan (1)
- Refugees (1)
- reporting (10)
- Reservation (1)
- Retinas on Nanda Devi (1)
- Rishi Kapoor (1)
- Ritusamhara (1)
- Roganjosh (1)
- Rum (1)
- Running (3)
- Sadhu (1)
- Safdar Hashmi (2)
- Sarai (1)
- scent (1)
- shahrukh Khan (1)
- Shaivism (1)
- Shankaracharya (1)
- Shirt (1)
- Shivratri (1)
- Should I take you to Shaheen? (1)
- Shrine (1)
- Sinhalese flag (1)
- soaps (1)
- SOG (1)
- Someone peeps into me (1)
- Squirrel (1)
- Sri Lanka (2)
- Srinagar Jammu Delhi (1)
- stories (1)
- Sufi (1)
- Suicide squad (2)
- Sukhna Lake (1)
- Sunday (1)
- Susheela Raman (1)
- Sylvia Plath (1)
- Taare Zameen Par (1)
- Tahaan (1)
- Tamil refugees (1)
- Tamil Tigers (2)
- tea (1)
- Terrorism (1)
- That Night of 1990 (1)
- The Absent State (1)
- The cherry stain (1)
- The Continuum so far (1)
- The Design of Madness (1)
- The Elbow Cream (1)
- The Life of Pandey Ji (1)
- The Missing Man (1)
- The Missing Man (Part 4) (1)
- The Missing Man (Parts 2 and 3) (1)
- The Quest for a House (1)
- The Sampaati Club (1)
- The scarecrows of Kolezari (1)
- The shades of his evening (1)
- Then and Now (1)
- This Characterless String (1)
- This Morning (1)
- Three friends and days of leisure (1)
- Time of parting (1)
- travel (1)
- tribesmen attack (1)
- Triglycerides (1)
- Trincomalee (2)
- TRP (1)
- Turgenev (1)
- TV says: Et tu Rahul? (1)
- typewriter (1)
- Untouchables (1)
- Uttarakhand (1)
- vomit (1)
- Washing machine (1)
- Watchmen (1)
- watermelon (1)
- Weekend getaways (1)
- Weston (1)
- Where is Swadesh Deepak? (1)
- windows (1)
- wine (1)
- Write (1)
- writing (1)
- You have come what for? (1)
- Your almond eyes (1)
- Your Painter yours only (1)
- उड़ीसा (1)
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5 comments:
You make me long for a kulchawur....
I envy you.
May Allah help kashmiri peoples in Freedom Movement.
All your photos bring back so many memories,i miss living in the peaceful kashmir.......
hey rahul, read your "Chinar in my veins" today. I must say you are a very mesmerizing writer....I have my exam in a few days but once I started reading the book, I couldn't stop. The only thing I wish to ask- why is it that you haven't mentioned even a single instance of human rights violations by Security forces? Is it so that such stories never reached you all? Or have they been deliberately kept out due to other reasons?
Regards
Sumegha
Hi Sumegha
Chinar in my veins was written many years ago (almost ten) as a bildungsroman (coming of age novella sort of thing). It has very poor language but the events stated in it are absolutely true. It had been written through the eyes of a 14-year-old boy, who is from the minority community in Kashmir. Ten years later, today, there are so many things I want to add (and remove as well). When I began writing it, I was of the opinion that it should only be telling story from the Kashmiri Pandit perspective. But that does not mean that I am blind to what has been happening in Kashmir - the human rights violations you have referred to. As a journalist, I've brought up such issues many many times. Some of my best friends come from Kashmir. I hope that young people like you and me can make a difference. Put everything behind us and work for a Kashmir which will again be a heaven as it was decades ago. But for that to happen, we must confront truth and not hide behind walls of convenient truths. By the way, what do you do? My email is rahulpandita1@gmail.com
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