ACTION REQUIRED BY THE THE PANDITS TO PRESERVE THEIR IDENTITY
The foremost need is to have an obsessive sentiment for their mother tongue and a purposeful effort at home to speak in Kashmiri so that the new generations pick it up from the cradle,along with English or vernaculars whose usage is so prevalent in these times that it eclipses the mother tongue. Frequent visits to community gatherings on festivals and assemblies and occasional seminars for introducing the young ones to history and geography of the valley, culture ,ethos,traditions,and scriptures for acquiring a proper mix of temporal and secular training as a society to preserve their moral fibre. As has been the case in all previous post exodus situations since 14th century only a smaller number returned to the valley when they could. The history will repeat itself now. It should be
recognised that only a minor part of pandits who had fled the valley in 1990s will be willingly susceptile to resettle in the valley
which has been sample surveyed to be only about 30000 persons .The population of pandits in the valley even with the govt sponsored efforts may touch a figure of 37000 after all the effort.
For more than 250000 pandits, who have since made their home elsewhere, the state should make it mandatory under law that they and their future generations retain the state subject rights without any limitations, subject to production of authentic evidence of having been a resident of the state up to 1990s so that they are free to return to the valley in future when they ever plan to do so. Who would not pine to go back to their roots?
The foremost need is to have an obsessive sentiment for their mother tongue and a purposeful effort at home to speak in Kashmiri so that the new generations pick it up from the cradle,along with English or vernaculars whose usage is so prevalent in these times that it eclipses the mother tongue. Frequent visits to community gatherings on festivals and assemblies and occasional seminars for introducing the young ones to history and geography of the valley, culture ,ethos,traditions,and scriptures for acquiring a proper mix of temporal and secular training as a society to preserve their moral fibre. As has been the case in all previous post exodus situations since 14th century only a smaller number returned to the valley when they could. The history will repeat itself now. It should be
recognised that only a minor part of pandits who had fled the valley in 1990s will be willingly susceptile to resettle in the valley
which has been sample surveyed to be only about 30000 persons .The population of pandits in the valley even with the govt sponsored efforts may touch a figure of 37000 after all the effort.
For more than 250000 pandits, who have since made their home elsewhere, the state should make it mandatory under law that they and their future generations retain the state subject rights without any limitations, subject to production of authentic evidence of having been a resident of the state up to 1990s so that they are free to return to the valley in future when they ever plan to do so. Who would not pine to go back to their roots?
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