India, July 5 -- The ethnic cleansing and genocide of Kashmiri Hindu Pandits from the Valley of Kashmir is by far the greatest moral calamity and administrative failure of modern India that dwarfs other comparable atrocities.

The chargesheet filed by the State Investigation Agency (SIA) on Monday (June 29) against five operatives of the banned Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) for murder, including its jailed chief, Yasin Malik in the brutal murder of a Kashmiri Pandit nurse Sarla Bhat that took place nearly 35 years ago is a welcome step in the right direction; a much needed moral course correction in the history of modern Kashmir; a case of "better late than never." It offers a glimmer of hope to the Kashmiri Pandits who were kille...