Subjectivity Journal#Kashmir #Pandit #Pandita #Exile #TraumaAndClass New article by Madhav Dubey and Nagendra Kumar exploring the persistent experience of uncanny estrangement within the intimate space, analysed through Homi K. Bhabha’s notion of the #unhomely
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41286-025-00222-4
“Unhomely” home: trauma and displacement in Rahul Pandita’s Our Moon Has Blood Clots - Subjectivity
The socio-political upheaval in Kashmir during the late 1980s led to the mass displacement of the Kashmiri Pandit community, forcing them into exile across Jammu and other parts of India. Rahul Pandita’s memoir Our Moon Has Blood Clots (2013) provides a deeply personal account of these traumatic events. This paper explores the persistent experience of uncanny estrangement within the intimate space, analysed through Homi K. Bhabha’s notion of the “unhomely” while also drawing from trauma critics such as Cathy Caruth, Stef Craps, Anne Whitehead and Irene Visser. It is argued that the trauma of Kashmiri Pandits is not rooted in a single overwhelming event but in the continuous experience of “unhomely” in Kashmir, coupled with severely harsh living conditions in exile, which resulted in a constant state of trauma. Lastly, the paper considers “rooted cosmopolitanism” as a potential framework for healing and reconciling with this trauma in the present.
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