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Restoring Kashmir’s temples

For many in the Kashmiri Pandit community, the opening of long-shut shrines is the first step in return and rehabilitation efforts
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Devotees at the Sharda Mata temple in Teetwal, Kupwara. According to Muhammad Saleem Beg, convenor of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) in Jammu and Kashmir, ‘Ancient temples in Kashmir are historically significant and in terms of archaeology, they are very rich. The Archaeological Survey of India has also done a very good job of protecting them — even in times of disturbance.’ ANI

Amid a sense of unease nearly six weeks after the massacre at Pahalgam, there were mixed emotions at Tulmulla in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on June 3 as hundreds of Kashmiri Pandits from across India descended on the Kheer Bhawani temple, and the local Muslims came out to welcome them.

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