Opinion | After 36 Years Of Exile, Kashmiri Pandits Return Home

The Global Kashmiri Pandit Heritage Tour and Conclave 2026 is not only a physical journey back to Kashmir, but a journey across 36 years of exile, longing, and quiet preservation

There are journeys that are measured in miles, and there are journeys that are measured in memory.

For the Kashmiri Pandit community, the Global Kashmiri Pandit Heritage Tour and Conclave 2026 in Srinagar is both. It is a physical journey back to Kashmir, but it is also a journey across 36 years of exile, longing, resilience and quiet preservation. It is a return to the land that shaped our civilisational imagination, nourished our saints and scholars, held our temples and springs, and gave us the language, rituals and rhythms by which we knew ourselves.

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We call this gathering Praagaash—The First Light. The name is deliberate. It does not claim that all darkness has ended. It does not pretend that the pain of our cleansing has vanished. We are filled with agony as to why the world turned against us, violently? Why every arm of our world failed to save us? Why after 36 years our world remains a chimera? Pragaash does not relinquish any historical rights. It says something more........

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