She Taught Him The Alphabet: He Repaid Her By Helping Drive Her Out Of Kashmir – OpEd

Some tragedies are best understood not through statistics, but through stories. This is one of them.

In Srinagar, in the late 1980s, a young woman taught at a government school. She was a Kashmiri Pandit—a teacher by profession, a believer in education, coexistence and the fragile idea that knowledge civilises societies.

Every morning, she entered her classroom carrying books and hope. Among her students was a boy from downtown Srinagar. She taught him to read. She corrected his mistakes.