Kashmiri Pandit speaker on exodus day event in San Jose: "My grandfather was a brilliant man. He was a 1952 graduate from University of Wisconsin. He had returned to the Kashmir valley to work in the electricity department.
When he had gone to the market, there was a bomb blast. He had multiple shrapnel wounds. One was close to his aorta.
However, there was a problem. The doctors in Srinagar, the so called educated class whose duty is towards the patients, would simply drain the blood of the Hindu patients, causing their death. He couldn't be taken there.
A relative was still in the valley. He was a very successful businessman with lots of ties. He was allowed to live as long as he paid off the various terrorist organizations operating in the valley. His driver was the conduit. We contacted him.
He had his driver pick up my wounded uncle, paid off people to allow transportation outside the valley & drove him to Delhi where he was treated. He survived but became deaf in a ear.
The first thing that happens with deafness is that gradually, people stop talking to you. And you stop talking to people. He would be silent for days.
With PTSD, whenever he was out, such as walking in the market, any abrupt loud noise would terrify him. He ended up with dementia & died."
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