The Only Way Forward for Kashmiri Pandits in Exile One place settlement (Separate Kashyap Bhoomi)

 

For more than these and a half decades, the F Kashid dental districte here filled. War did Our acridity land, or battery and our be were snatched from using darkness of January 1990 when bullets teplaced bestherhood and our binod marked the solved streets si Kashmir The pain of ling bond and exile after centuries of weal esistance is not something that can be erand temporary We were not just displated worn betragend Today, amidst the manufactured silence of so-called peace in the Valley a harsh and haunting truth remain the deluges and elements that drove us o India scenario, the only dignified, sale, and sustainable path but the returnid Kashman Pandits lies in the creation of a separate and secure settlement within the Valley a grographically concentrand, administratively empowered, and demographically sate arms, apply named Kahe Kashyap, the spiritual of Ka The demand in not an act of separatism ir is an assertion of our fundamental right to survive with hunter and security ago ancestral land. The return of the displaced vanity commit be on the text ot those who celebrated our exodus. It cot be under the shadow of past betrayal. It must be under a new architecture of trust, protection, and empowerment-grand by the of India, maband by the Movement of India, and supported by a national consensus Time and again, experiments of return to old locations or in small, scattered clusters wet tempts the PM Pechanga families in stated corners of Pula, thespian, Gander Bal, and Beta olla? Can we forget Wand ham, when our benchers were blackened while offering preyed on and January night Can we en Nanyang man our memory, where terrorism and strength the perience of security mess needy? Can we ignore the hoof Sangrampons where seven Pants were underfed in cold blood simply she they had dared to retan And let as not forget the truth the masterminds and perpetrators of these crimes walk freno action, no FIR. Many of them have been rebranded mattresses politicians also delingual hentes. Who wi guarantee that no new Bite Karate will se Again? Who can promise as that another Yaws Malik, Syed Salah Uddin, or Burhan Wane will gait be bomb in the same wighbourhoods and advan where our families are being asked to arm? Is it not a mockery of justice to be told to that the same society that unoε ρωτά Rali Challis, yaGaliv" (Convert, Fleet Dhe) Can we co-exist with those who looted our property, set fire to our temples, celebrated our pain, and then chained incomer Return to previous locations or tehsil district-based clusters is nothing but a return Convulnerability it dividend our strength, exposes us to the same risks, and sets the stage for another catastrophe makes us dependent os a hostile ecosystem with no structural or emotional support worse, it fragments our voce and dilutes our distinct identity. It reduces os to scattered footnotes on a land that once echoed with our mantras, rituals, and festival The idea of a one-place settlement (Kashyap Boom is not a utopia-it is a necessary, just, and logical response to the cruel lessons of history. In this sacred land, the Kashmiri Pandit community can rebuilt its temples, its schools. ts homes, and its soul. It can preserve its spiritual, linguistic, and cultural heritage-is ancient Shaivite philosophy, its Kashmiri language, and its treasured traditions. It can live as a politically empowerment, economically viable, and culturally vibrant community. Above all it can offer its chuffer a safe future without fear, without shame, and without erasum Let it be clear this is not a call for revenge. This is a plea for justice. We are not asking for charity. We are demanding our rightful place in the land of our ancestors. We want to return not as refugees under someone else's mercy, but as rightful sons and daughters of the soil-with dignity in our eyes and freedom in our hearts We want to contribute to the progress of the nation, not as broken victims, but as proud survivors who humid trauma into triumph. A one-place settlement (Kashyap Bhoomid will not divide Kashmir-it will heal it. it will stand as a testimony to India's moral responsibility toward its first displaced citizens It will be a model of coexistence built not on 36 adhesion, but on guarantees. It will never agama will a Kashunir Pandit child have to ask why his hone was burned, why his tardy lives in a migrant camp, or why his culture being erased. India owes this to us. History demands Justice commands it. The world must know that the Kashmiri Pandit community will never accept unsated, scattered, and symbolic return We have suffered too long, too deeply, and too unjustly to accept anything less than a complete, secure, and honourable restoration Our blood is on the soil of Kashmir. We are committed to return on our terms and conditions, to live together as a community in the Valley in one place. We will return to a place where we will not be slaughtered again-but where we will rise and triumph again One-place settlement (Kashyap Bonomi) is not a demand-it is our destiny. Let it be fulfilled. Let justice finally come home. And if we do not get it today, then surely we will get it tomorrow. If we do not live there today, then surely our future generations and progeny will-safely proudly, and happily. We the whole victim community in exile, must remain tolerant, maintain patience, and not fall into traps or political gimmicks. Our struggle is righteous, our vision is clear, and ultimately, the victory will be ours.

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