Kashmiri Pandits In Kashmir: Those who stayed back have a home — and a roomful of regret

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Written by Adil Akhzer , Nirupama Subramanian | Anantnag (j&k) | Updated: January 31, 2020 1:49:38 pm

Ashish Ganjoo, 26, with his sisters, Sheetal (left) and Komal, at their home in Anantnag. (Express photo: Shuaib Masoodi)

In an upstairs room of their modest house in Ranipora village, three generations of the Ganjoo family keep the winter cold out with kangris and blankets and ponder if they would have been better or worse off leaving Kashmir in 1990 with most of the others in the Pandit community as they weigh loss against gain of the last three decades.

The Ganjoos are one of just three Pandit families of their village that stayed on in the Valley as the remaining 60 or so families left fearing for their safety against a background of rising militancy and the killings of several Pandits.