Shusha Raina

“Emotions that are not acknowledged or expressed tend to jumble together and emerge as anger. Eventually, suppressed feelings refuse to stay down. When they do, they erupt as small spurts of irritability that hurt others.”
― Jonice Webb, Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect

“The magic of feeling better and coping better lies in putting words to your feelings and sharing them.”
― Jonice Webb, Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect

“Another problem is the apathy of the media and a majority of India’s intellectual class who refuse to even acknowledge the suffering of the Pandits.”
― Rahul Pandita, Our Moon Has Blood Clots: A Memoir of a Lost Home in Kashmir

“Another problem is the apathy of the media and a majority of India’s intellectual class who refuse to even acknowledge the suffering of the Pandits. No campaigns were ever run for us; no fellowships or grants given for research on our exodus. For the media, the Kashmir issue has remained largely black and white—here are a people who were victims of brutalization at the hands of the Indian state. But the media has failed to see, and has largely ignored the fact that the same people also victimized another”
― Rahul Pandita, Our Moon Has Blood Clots: A Memoir of a Lost Home in Kashmir