Well the question is not so unique to me, but everybody in Kashmir. With a little curiosity one wants to know, why did 250,000 Kashmiri pandits run away from Kashmir? Who drove them out?
Time and again I had tried to seek an answer to my query. I was still pretty young at that time to know the real causes but now, having added good 14 years to my age, the urge to know was even greater. I talked to people who were at the helm during the era; they told me that it was the militancy that drove the Kashmiri pandits out, for they feared their lives. But I was not satisfied, for had that been the reason, I would have been the first to fancy a flight. But I am still here. So that was not an answer.
Later, by chance I happened to meet a commander of a militant outfit who was calling shots then and posed the same question to him as well - Why did Kashmiri pandits run away? His answer came no sooner I finished my question. It was Governor, under a sinister plan, who caused the migration, as he wanted to eliminate the Muslims. May be he is right in his assertion, I thought, but was myself far from being satisfied.
And then I questioned hundreds of the migrants and everyone gave me a different answer and my confusions added up with every new person I met. And the unsatisfied being inside me continued to ponder over the matter, but never did I find the answer, until a few days back. I ultimately found the answer in a well-furnished flat in DDA colony at Munerka in New Delhi. At last! I found that neither was it the Muslim militant nor was it the villainous governor but a beautiful Sardarni, who did it all, though she was responsible for only half the exodus.
Well, it happened so that the beauty in question fell in love with a young and handsome lad not knowing that he was denizen of the Valley. She still regrets it, and confesses that she would not have committed the double mistake, first of marrying and second one to a Kashmiri. The young lad was a Kashmiri pandit and the lady after marriage came home to be with her in-laws. Though the parents had agreed to the marriage with reluctance, but till the last moment they had not accepted her as Bahu of the household. And the differences soon added up to tremendous heights, and one day after much a verbal altercations the boy was finally asked to leave home, not before signing a black paper fortifying all his rights to the inheritance of his forefathers.
This angered the Sardarni so much that she wowed never to return to Kashmir till they (kashmiri Pandits) are here. And did everything in her power to drive them out. She remembered the words of the Guru that EVERY SIKH IS EQUIVALENT OF ONE LAKH TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE. And she succeeded a few years later in accomplishing her mission and is a happy woman now, though she is yet to return to the land of her in laws.
Though my problem has been solved but the answer has added an element of mystery to my quest. If she managed to drive the 125,000 pandits out, who drove the other half? Where is the second Sardarni? Can anyone help me find her?
first published:November 27, 2006, 15:01 ISTlast updated:November 27, 2006, 15:01 IST
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If traveling made someone so intelligent, then i feel that everyone should travel as much as possible. Last time when I got a chance to travel to a distant place, well it is so by all the standards, life is pretty primitive here in Kashmir, I got the answer to a question that has been lurking my mind since long.
Well the question is not so unique to me, but everybody in Kashmir. With a little curiosity one wants to know, why did 250,000 Kashmiri pandits run away from Kashmir? Who drove them out?
Time and again I had tried to seek an answer to my query. I was still pretty young at that time to know the real causes but now, having added good 14 years to my age, the urge to know was even greater. I talked to people who were at the helm during the era; they told me that it was the militancy that drove the Kashmiri pandits out, for they feared their lives. But I was not satisfied, for had that been the reason, I would have been the first to fancy a flight. But I am still here. So that was not an answer.
Later, by chance I happened to meet a commander of a militant outfit who was calling shots then and posed the same question to him as well - Why did Kashmiri pandits run away? His answer came no sooner I finished my question. It was Governor, under a sinister plan, who caused the migration, as he wanted to eliminate the Muslims. May be he is right in his assertion, I thought, but was myself far from being satisfied.
And then I questioned hundreds of the migrants and everyone gave me a different answer and my confusions added up with every new person I met. And the unsatisfied being inside me continued to ponder over the matter, but never did I find the answer, until a few days back. I ultimately found the answer in a well-furnished flat in DDA colony at Munerka in New Delhi. At last! I found that neither was it the Muslim militant nor was it the villainous governor but a beautiful Sardarni, who did it all, though she was responsible for only half the exodus.
Well, it happened so that the beauty in question fell in love with a young and handsome lad not knowing that he was denizen of the Valley. She still regrets it, and confesses that she would not have committed the double mistake, first of marrying and second one to a Kashmiri. The young lad was a Kashmiri pandit and the lady after marriage came home to be with her in-laws. Though the parents had agreed to the marriage with reluctance, but till the last moment they had not accepted her as Bahu of the household. And the differences soon added up to tremendous heights, and one day after much a verbal altercations the boy was finally asked to leave home, not before signing a black paper fortifying all his rights to the inheritance of his forefathers.
This angered the Sardarni so much that she wowed never to return to Kashmir till they (kashmiri Pandits) are here. And did everything in her power to drive them out. She remembered the words of the Guru that EVERY SIKH IS EQUIVALENT OF ONE LAKH TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE. And she succeeded a few years later in accomplishing her mission and is a happy woman now, though she is yet to return to the land of her in laws.
Though my problem has been solved but the answer has added an element of mystery to my quest. If she managed to drive the 125,000 pandits out, who drove the other half? Where is the second Sardarni? Can anyone help me find her?
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