The Gawkadal massacre was named after the Gawkadal bridge in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, where, on 21 January 1990, the Indian paramilitary troops of the Central Reserve Police Force opened fire on a group of Kashmiri protesters in what has been described by some authors as "the worst massacre in Kashmiri history". Between 50 and 100 people were killed, some from being shot and others. It was when I went to report on Kashmir in February 1990 that I understood the meaning of the phrase ek patta bhi nahi hila (not a leaf stirred). I used to walk back to the hotel at dusk.
'No hate calls from Kashmir mosques on January 19, 1990'
Kashmiri Pandit Exodus: A Deep Dive into the 1990 Crisis Archit Vats Last Updated: August 8, 2023 0 4 minutes read Table of Contents Introduction Genesis of the Crisis - Kashmiri Pandit Exodus Political Unrest Religious Tensions Dark Days of the Kashmir Genocide 1990 Kidnapping and Killings Threats and Intimidation Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits On January 19 1990, tens of thousands of Kashmiri Pandits migrated to different parts of India under duress. In this photo essay, a young photographer from the community describes the feeling of loss and longing. The reasons for this migration are vigorously contested. In 1989-1990, as calls by Kashmiri Muslims for independence from India gathered pace, many Kashmiri Pandits, who viewed self-determination to be anti-national, felt under pressure. [36] India 7 min read i Snapshot (This article has been republished from The Quint's archives to mark the anniversary of Kashmiri Pandit exodus. It was first published on 19 January 2020.) It was the.
Bye Kashmir Life
What the official Kashmir files say about 1990s exodus | India News - Times of India Chandrima Banerjee TIMESOFINDIA.COM Updated: Dec 30, 2022, 13:05 IST IST Best of 2022: The Kashmir Files, a narrative set against the backdrop of militancy, has been held up as the truth of Kashmir by its director. Following the1990 insurgency in the Valley of Kashmir, thousands of Kashmiris crossed the Line of Control and fled to Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), where they are presently living as refugees. This essay examines the complicated nature of the Kashmir issue that sets these Kashmiri refugees apart from conventional refugees. It is more than 30 years since the "exodus" from the Valley of its minority Hindu Kashmiri Pandit community. The hotly contested circumstances of their departure between January and March 1990, the numbers, and the issue of their return are an important side to the Kashmir story that has fed into the Hindu-Muslim polarisation in India over the years, in turn fuelling the Hindu-Muslim chasm. The dispute between India and Pakistan over Kashmir was sparked by a fateful decision in 1947, and has resulted in decades of violence, including two wars. Since 1947, India and Pakistan have been.
Independence Day 1990 Special Exodus of Pandits from Kashmir begins
The return of minority Hindus to Kashmir, two decades after an exodus in the face of militant attacks and threats, has been held up by the government as an illustration of how it is bringing. On the night of 19 January 1990, all hell broke loose in Kashmir — a place many think of as 'Heaven on Earth'. Several mosques in Srinagar played the 'aey jabiro, aey zalimo, Kashmir hamara.
Shafat Farooq is a Kashmiri multimedia journalist specializing in documenting regions of conflict and areas under strife. He currently works for the BBC as a multimedia producer. In September 2019, Farooq along with a French colleague won the prestigious Bayeux-Calvados Normandy Award for a news documentary in the Grand Format Television category. The Kashmiri Pandits (also known as Kashmiri Brahmins) are a group of Kashmiri Hindus and a part of the larger Saraswat Brahmin community of India. They belong to the Pancha Gauda Brahmin group from the Kashmir Valley, a mountainous region located within the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.Kashmiri Pandits are Hindu Kashmiris native to the Kashmir Valley, and the only remaining.
Back to the 90s? Locals in Pulwama made to sit in freezing cold during
Photographs from the 'Kashmir' section of 15th Anniversary issue of India Today published in 1990. If there is a Kashmir 'special' issue today in any Magazine, you will probably see similar form of story telling through pictures. Photographers who first figured out the Kashmir template include Raghu Rai, Prashant Panjair and Pramod Pushkarna. -0- An abandoned house of a Kashmiri Pandit family in Kashmirs Pulwama District, Jammu and Kashmir, India on 14 December 2021. In the late 1980s, when. Kashmiri Muslim boys walk in front the abandoned Kashmiri Pandit residential houses where 24 Kashmiri Pandits were shot dead by unidentified gunmen.
