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Why Samay Raina is making Kashmiri Pandits proud

Kashmiri Pandits had only two choices: pick up the gun and risk the decimation of an already small community, or leave—and live. We chose the latter.

Comedian Samay Raina’s YouTube special Still Alive has found resonance with a peculiar audience—Kashmiri Pandits. When Raina said, “You only fight when the fight is fair, else you f*** off from there. Kashmiri Pandit wisdom,” it struck a chord with the community.

Kashmiri Pandits were forced to leave the Valley in the 1990s, and lived through years of violence, including the massacres of 1998 and 2003.

But what Raina said has deeper roots. When Kashmiri Pandits began rebuilding their lives in Jammu—after years spent in camps and cramped rented apartments—they were often confronted with a question: “Panditji, why didn’t you pick up the gun?”

The questions soon turned into ridicule.........

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