On the 7th of this month, our worthy PM will be visiting Kashmir Valley and addressing a rally at Bakshi Stadium in the heart of Srinagar city with a bounty of development schemes for our so-called brethren of Kashmir Valley. We the Kashmiri Pandit Community will be eagerly watching, if he has got some gift for this minuscule community, which is still waiting for its permanent settlement in Valley, which was previously promised by the current dispensation and was put in their manifesto of 2014 and 2019 respectively. We have been waiting for a long, and every dispensation of the time voiced concern about our plight in their election days and our rehabilitation agenda surfaced in every political party manifesto, as our plight as a human suffering, got their rallies bigger and bigger. But nowhere the commitments of different dispensations could mature in actions, maybe because as a minuscule community we are not a vote bank for them, and our voices here and there are not being heard.

We have been writing about our plight from the time we were hounded out from Kashmir Valley by Jehadi forces. We all have been voicing our concerns at different forums in India and around the globe, on an individual basis. Our activists are sharing their feelings and concerns in all the media channels, which provide a good audience for their viewership. Still, nothing concrete has happened for the resolution of our sufferings to this date. Whenever any untoward incident takes place in the valley involving our community, our plight and sufferings are highlighted in the media and this goes on for some days till the feelings are subdued and the storm passed.

We have been waiting for our return and rehabilitation from day one, when we left our everything in the valley and still there seems to be no Happy ending to our sufferings. We have lost our two generations in exile, who breathed their last breath, waiting for the end to their exile, but could not! And this community is presently getting its breath through a ventilator of its third last generation who were born in Valley and they are the flag bearers of our Cultural Ethos, and after them, this Ethnic Community will seize to exist, on the Socio-cultural front of our community will cease to exist.

Over the last two decades, India as a Nation has done better on all fronts under the present dispensation and we as a community are proud to be the witness to this growth. We have taken a keen interest in the education of our children and they are also a part of our nation-building,  and the growth and development that is making our India a vibrant nation.

As we tread this path of exiled life we are facing some very vicious issues on our Socio-cultural front and those issues if not addressed very soon, the future of our community will be dark and this community will lose its traces and it will be lost in the annals of History. Our survival is based on the principle of Community living,  and this only can be ensured when the present dispensation makes its resolve to settle us at one place in the valley at a secure place. We are an endangered species, and our survival should be a priority for this dispensation, otherwise, our community will be extinct on the Socio-cultural front and our ethnic community will lose its unique cultural identity.