Book Review Title: Our Moon Has Blood Clots Author: Rahul Pandita Publisher: Random House India, 2013, 2014 ISBN: 978-81-8400-513-4 Pages: 257 Price: Rs 350 History has to be saved from the mediocre. The mediocre rule the world. And their vision extends little beyond their own noses. Their memory goes as far as the comforts and wellbeing of themselves. “… my memory must come in the way of this untrue history,” as Rahul Pandita paraphrases Agha Shahid Ali. The memory of those who find it difficult to accept convenient truths that ensure the present wellbeing must come in the way if history is to be redeemed. Rahul Pandita’s book is an endeavour to redeem the history of the Kashmiri Pandits who were driven out by the Muslim fundamentalists. The book deserves to be read by every Indian, especially by the Muslims of India. Kashmir was a paradise where people belonging to two different religions, which later became bitter enemies, lived together in exe
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