Not only Pandits but hordes of Muslims too left the Valley following the outbreak of violence. Today, they make a living from IT, media and, of course, selling handicrafts. One of the memories Rizwan, now in his 40s, has of his early days in Bengaluru in the 1990s, is standing outside a public telephone booth waiting for the weekly call from his home in Srinagar. “The call would come in the evening at a fixed time, and missing it meant my parents would worry. The phone calls were our only…
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