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The #PahalgamTerroristAttack has emptied Kashmir within hours. The fear is real. The silence is terrifying. But we, the Kashmiri Hindus, have lived through something far worse and we lived through it alone. In 1990, there were no headlines. No social media outrage. No journalists rushing to the scene. Just the sound of slogans echoing from mosques: 'Raliv, Galiv ya Tsaliv' (Convert, Die or Leave). And we did leave. We left with newborns wrapped in shawls, our elders carried in arms and our gods folded into cloth bags. We left with no time to pack, no idea where we were going and no one waiting to receive us. We left not as tourists afraid of violence but as natives hunted for our existence. There were no hotels or safe zones for us. We were shoved into torn tents in unknown cities, in the biting cold, where ten families shared one open toilet and hope was a luxury. Our engineers became labourers. Our scholars sold street side pens. Our mothers starved so that we, their children, could have half a meal. And the world? The world watched in silence as if our pain did not matter, as if we were invisible. But we survived. We stitched our broken lives together with dignity and grit. We carried the ashes of our ancestors, the keys of our stolen homes and the pain of exile, not as burdens, but as proof. Proof that we were there. Proof that we were wronged. Proof that even after everything, we refused to be erased. To the world today, this may be a moment of shock. To us, it is a reminder of what we have already endured. And overcome. We are not just survivors of 1990. We are the storm they couldnt silence. We are the memory they couldnt bury. We are the aboriginals who refuse to disappear. We are still here, without converting, without surrendering, without forgetting who we are. We are still here as proud Hindus, children of Sharda, keepers of Kashmir's true soul. And no matter how far from home we are; Kashmir still lives in us. We are Kashmiri Hindus. And we are still here. Unbroken. Unconverted. Unafraid. Always a Proud Hindu, - @RohitInExile 🙏🏼🚩