When my grandfather was hospitalised a few years ago, the doctor, on examining him, asked us about the scars on his back. That was when I first found out about how my grandfather had offered refuge to several Kashmiri Muslims who were followers of Sheikh Abdullah in the 1930s, and had suffered severe blows on his back from a lathi charge from the Maharaja’s soldiers,” narrates Rajesh Prothi, editor and founder of The Cherry Tree.