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Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits by Rahul Pandita
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Rare are those books which hold you and vigorously shake the apathy out of you! In this fast world of materialistic ambitions and pleasures, we try to ignore pain; pain, which is dancing naked in streets, homes, offices and our eyes. We develop philosophies and mind-tricks to help us tackle the drudgery of day to day existence. We convince ourselves that we're happy and everything is OK. But then, somehow, somewhere, something slips through the cracks created due to our inherent empathy. In those cracks, We see glimpses of the barbarity, gratuity, and just blind cruelty of humans. It may leave us hopelessness and gloomy depression but some rise and stand. They fight, many times unsuccessfully and the next one takes the baton. There are undying hope and optimism in humans which separates us from animals and it can be a boon as well as a bane. We try to imagine and strive towards a better tomorrow.
This book proves that fact is stranger than fiction. I paused reading many times to digest the gory and devastating incidences that are depicted graphically in this book. It will reveal to you the other side of the Kashmir conflict, the one which is often ignored and suppressed. It will make you be thankful for all the privileges you have had that you didn't find special. It will make you stop whining about flimsy problems in daily life. It will make you thankful for living in your home and being alive.
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