FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

istory has a habit of biting back when you least expect it. Thirty-two years ago, Kashmir was on the brink of a communal hell. Homegrown jihadists, trained in Pakistan, unleashed a reign of terror specifically targeting members of the minority Kashmiri Pandit community, including prominent figures. This led to their rapid exodus from the Valley: perhaps the biggest story of internal mass displacement for political reasons since the Partition, tragically affecting 75,000 families. Despite the blurred record, an estimated 700 Kashmiri Pandits were killed, many of them brutally, though the state government figures put the number at