IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319-1775 Online 2320-7876

WOUNDS PERSONIFIED: A PROTEST THROUGH ART FROM GIGOO TO AGNIHOTRI

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Junaid ul Islam, Summi Jan

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Throughout the world, wars, battles, and other international conflicts (armed or non-violent) have been affecting the livelihood and lifestyle of people. Not only do combatants who could have been deemed acceptable targets in an armed conflict suffer from these conflicts, but civilians also bear the brunt of the harm. In these armed conflicts, forced displacement, innocent killings, rapes, and other sexual assaults are common crimes of war against civilians. Migration due to conflicts is one of the worst outcomes that have drastically changed the demography of the world. The migration experience has not only been recorded by historians and academicians, but it has also found its expression in literature and movies. The turmoil in Kashmir in the 1990s made not only Muslims of the valley face the consequences of the conflict but the Kashmiri Pandits as well. In order to give voice to the miseries of the Pandits of Kashmir, various fiction and non-fiction works (which specifically focus on the migration of Pandits from Kashmir valley in the 1990s) have been written. Apart from the seminal writings of Arvind Gigoo, Rahul Pandita, Meenakshi Raina, Siddhartha Gigoo, Tej N Dhar and Paro Anand who have greatly contributed to literature about the Kashmiri Pandits, the cinema too has played its role in pleading the case for Kashmiri Pandits. Movies including 19th January, Sheen, Shikara, and the recent controversial movie

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