Forging Critical Solidarities Across the Kashmiri Pandit-Muslim Divide

Abstract

Sometime in the 1990s, shortly before the storied migration of the Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley of Kashmir, a young Pandit woman runs into a young Kashmiri Muslim man in the stairwell of the building in Srinagar where they both live. It is winter and the pipes are frozen, so she is returning home with a bucket of water in hand, filled for her family’s use from the water tank downstairs.