About the Book: Once we had Everything: Literature in Exile
Imagine being evicted from your home and being forced to live in a cramped tent
with no electricity, no water, no possessions, no safety, and no security.
Imagine being forced to live there not for a day or a month or year but an
entire decade! This happened in modern India. In 1990, when half a million
Kashmiri Pandits were expelled from Kashmir under militants threat to their
lives, they had nowhere to go, and were forced to take refuge in tents and
one-room tenements in camps in Jammu and elsewhere. Struggling to survive, the
displaced