With ‘Migrant’ tag, moving on tough for displaced Kashmiris

In the 28th year of exile, children of displaced Kashmiri Pandits continue to face identity crisis. With the stigma of being migrants attached to them, a generation born and brought up outside their native land see it as a mark of humiliation. Although Pandits were displaced from the Valley following the rise of armed insurgency, successive governments have recognised them as “migrant” and not displaced, a deliberate policy decision to negate the reasons for their exodus. Even those youngsters who returned to the Valley under the Prime Minister’s employment package…

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