For years, this denial of the Kashmiri Pandit genocide has been ossified into the collective psyche of the country, with the help of silence, apathy, counter-narratives and conspiratorial theories that pass the buck of the exodus on the shoulders of the victims, i.e. Kashmiri Pandits instead of holding the perpetrators accountable.
Being a Kashmiri Pandit I wanted to create a piece to educate the world about the tragic history of my community that transpired in the Valley during the early 1990s and continues even today.
With my design, I draw attention to what appears calm from the outside verses the reality.
