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| ‘Promote Kashmiri language, avoid inter-caste marriages’ | | Identity blues of migrant pandits | | ET Plus Report
JAMMU, Mar 18: The displaced Kashmiri pandits seem concerned about their identity. They have started feeling the dangers of inter-caste marriages and have sought an end to the practice. The migrants do not want to get drowned in the huge human ocean called India. Notwithstanding the packages offered by Maharashtra, Gujarat and some other States, the migrants feel that the community is getting diluted. A human being cannot survive on reservations in technical institutions, jobs in big business houses and hollow slogans alone. Some thing else is also needed. And what is needed was expressly stated by the President Kashmiri Pandit Community (KPC), Kundan Kash-miri while addressing a meeting on September 22 at Jammu.
He said it was urgent need of the hour for all of the community people to pledge for acting together on the following burning issues of the community.
"Avoid inter caste marriage. This dilutes our community ethos, rituals and other way of life as well as adversely effecting our population growth", he said.
He also urged them to increase and enhance their population by avoiding one or two children norm. "Don't allow your community to perish within a decade", he said.
He stressed need for promotion and preservation of Kashmiri language. "Make it habit to talk with your children in Kashmiri language which is our mother tongue", he appealed. The KPC is now holding workshops to achieve the objective. "Out of 50 marriages, 30-35 are inter-caste marriages", Meenakshi, the publicity secretary of Kashmir Vahini said. The group is the women wing of Panun Kashmir.
The community members who stayed back in the Valley have facing the same problem. The president of the Kashmiri Pandit Sangrash Samithi, Sanjay Tikoo was the first to express his concern over the issue. Tickoo says: "The way return of the migrants has been planned is not going to help the resident Pandits. In order to protect and preserve our identity, we have to find boys from the community for our girls. This is not possible unless the migrants return to the Valley and stay here for ever. Return of an individual for a short span of time is useless. It may project a rosy picture of otherwise explosive situation in the Valley but the problems we have been facing will remain unaddressed." |
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