With Explicit Calls For Violence, Kashmir Files Isn't About Empathy for Pandits
- 2 years ago
The Kashmir Files is a movie that weaponises the pain and suffering of Kashmiri Pandits to create an environment of disaffection against Muslims, against Muslims from Kashmir and Muslims from the rest of India, against universities like JNU, against professors and against journalists.
Look, it is definitely important to highlight the pain and suffering of Kashmiri Pandits who fled the valley in 1990 and to talk about the violence and atrocities that led to their exodus. But The Kashmir Files does so with a lens of inciting hatred against Muslims, journalists and the like - more than filling you with empathy for the Kashmiri Pandits who lost their homes and loved ones, it implores you to hate these “others”.
Look, it is definitely important to highlight the pain and suffering of Kashmiri Pandits who fled the valley in 1990 and to talk about the violence and atrocities that led to their exodus. But The Kashmir Files does so with a lens of inciting hatred against Muslims, journalists and the like - more than filling you with empathy for the Kashmiri Pandits who lost their homes and loved ones, it implores you to hate these “others”.