Political parties not keen on mitigating sufferings of Saraswaths of Kashmir: Kashinath Pandit
The Hindu
‘The Saraswath community across India should understand the plight of their brethren from Kashmir’
No regional or national political party has an agenda to mitigate the sufferings of Saraswaths of Kashmir, regretted Kashinath Pandit, retired director, Centre of Central Asian Studies, Kashmir University. Political parties have also not shown any inclination to take Saraswaths back to their 6,000-year-old homeland in Kashmir, he said.
Delivering the keynote address at a one-day conference on “A Confluence of Saraswaths Worldwide” organised by Vishwa Saraswath Federation here on Sunday, Prof. Pandit said that the genocide and complete ethnic cleansing of Saraswaths of Kashmir took place in the 1990s.
It has forced the nearly four lakh Kashmiri Saraswath Hindus to live as refugees in their own country for the last 32-years. The present situation calls for introspection among the scattered Saraswath community, which must unite and contribute to national identity. The Saraswaths are inheritors of a great civilisation, which must be taken forward, he said.
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