Uprooted & Forlorn hits stands

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Jan 19: As a tribute to all martyrs, Rohit Tickoo has penned down his thoughts as a memoir to record the series of anti-Hindu pogroms and the circumstances that led to the genocide and forced exodus of Kashmiri Pandits. The memoir is in the form book ‘Uprooted & Forlorn- The tale of Kashmiri Pandits in exile’ which was launched on the exodus day today on Amazon and notion press.
The book is about the uprooted Kashmiri Pandits who have been driven out from Kashmir by radical Jihadis and intolerant lunatics. The book highlights the concerns and challenges of Kashmiri Pandits in exile. The book deals in the surrounding and circumstances, the genocide and the forced exodus of Kashmiri Pandits. It exposes the cliché which is built around citing the reason for terrorism to culminating denial of democratic aspirations and politics in the Kashmir. The book tries to answer some crude realities of the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits by providing certain facts in the public domain. It reflects the psychosomatic problems and emotional trauma the community experienced in exile and explores the desperation and strength that has allowed the community to survive even after three decades of mass exodus.