Justice Markandey Katju-(Justice Markandey Katju is a former Judge, Supreme Court of India, and former Chairman, Press Council of India. The views expressed are his own)Even 2000 years after their diaspora from Palestine, Jews still say, ”If I forget you O Jerusalem, may my right hand perish” ( Psalms 137 : 5 ). Similarly, the Kashmiri Pandits like me who had migrated from Kashmir a long time back still say ” If I forget you O Kashmir, may my right hand perish”. The 2600 Kashmiri Pandits still living in Kashmir ( out of the 500,000 living there in 1990 ) are sometimes killed by extremists even today. https://www.dailyo.in/politics/30-years-of-exodus-four-reasons-why-kashmiri-pandits-will-never-return-to-kashmir-29010Yet, despite this sad situation, I will still keep saying ”If I forget you O Kashmir, may my right hand perish .”

Source: Hindustan Times March 18, 2023 02:48 UTC