Rahul Pandita is a journalist and an author based in Delhi. He is a 2015 Yale World Fellow. He has also authored the bestselling Hello, Bastar: The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement, and co-authored the critically-acclaimed The Absent State. He has extensively reported from war zones that include Iraq and Sri Lanka. In 2010, he received the International Red Cross award for conflict reporting.
He has been a speaker at international forums like the Carnegie Endowment Center, Stanford University, Brown University, State University of New York, Michigan University and the World Affairs Council. In 2014, he was a visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Advanced Study of India.
Pandita's last job was as editor (opinion and special stories) of the national English daily The Hindu.
Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old when he was forced to leave his home in Srinagar along with his family. They were Kashmiri Pandits-the Hindu minority within a Muslim-majority Kashmir that was by 1990 becoming increasingly agitated with the cries of 'Azaadi' from India.
Our Moon Has Blood Clots is the story of Kashmir, in which hundreds of thousands of Pandits were tortured, killed and forced to leave their homes by Islamist militants, and forced to spend the rest of their lives in exile in their own country. Pandita has written a deeply personal, powerful and unforgettable story of history, home and loss.
This powerful and moving book throws a sharp new light onto one of the most tragic conflicts in the modern world.Gives a searing account of the displacement, struggle and survival of the community.Pandita presents a deeply personal, powerful and unforgettable story of Kashmiri Pandits.I can only thank Rahul for telling our story and bringing it out for the world to know what actually happened to the Kashmiri Pandits and non-Muslims who had to just get up and leave overnight.
