A mass hysteria took over the collective consciousness in the aftermath of The Kashmir Files in 2022. “This is exactly how it was”, many claimed about the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley in the 1990s, even as exaggerated figures and one-sided versions of history were casually thrown about in the film. A conjuring of memories was superimposed on the wounds of a community that still reels under the trauma of being torn away from their homeland.