I am returning to this blog after a very long time. Call it destiny. I had started it long ago with a view to air my views on my life and my times. As the wheel of time rolled on, I came to write my first novel, Orphans of the Storm. Though it took quite a time to publish, I am content that that it came out now. As my dear friend, Prof C. P. Singh remarked today, ' Your novel has come out at the most appropriate time.' Well, friends, I did not time it. The Almighty did. Again, it is His Grace that has made the novel chime with the reading tastes of my readers. The novel has been doing moderately well on the e-tailing sites, like Flipkart and Infibeam. And the response that I have received from my readers has been very warm and encouraging. Already, the novel has crossed 33666 likes on its Facebook page and the numbers continue to grow. The likes are spread out geographically across four regions of the country, though my karmabhoomi, Delhi, leads with an impressive tally.
Yet, I would be failing in my duty if I don't record here my deep sense of gratitude to my Kashmiri Pundit community members, who have overwhelmingly supported the sale of this book. Both, individually and as a community, their love and affection has been a driving force to serve the cause of this utterly marginalized community in the politics of independent India.
It is an irony of fate that the community which gave the country its first Prime Minister in post-independent India, finds itself abandoned by successive political parties in power at the Centre and in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The greatest damage to the community was done by the pseudo-secularists, who in the name of this Western coinage, turned a blind eye to the genocide perpetrated on the community and their eventual Exodus from their native land. A warning to such secularists: the present of Kashmir is the future of India, unless they stop playing unethical and vote-bank politics.
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Yet, I would be failing in my duty if I don't record here my deep sense of gratitude to my Kashmiri Pundit community members, who have overwhelmingly supported the sale of this book. Both, individually and as a community, their love and affection has been a driving force to serve the cause of this utterly marginalized community in the politics of independent India.
#OrphansOfTheStorm #KashmiriPandits #VoteBankPolitics #PseudoSecularism #Secularists #JammuAndKashmir #Genocide #Exodus #Kashmir #PrimeMinisterOfIndia
