Video- Muslim neighbours host Kashmiri Pandit Bride’s wedding in Kashmir

June 28, 2022 by News Desk

Rayees Shah

Wherever weddings or other ceremonies take place in Kashmir, local Muslims and Pandits eat at the same table and attend communal ceremonies together.

An example of religious harmony was witnessed in Lar, Ganderbal, Central Kashmir, where the Muslim community hosted the wedding ceremony of a local Kashmiri Pandit woman to renew the centuries-old religious tolerance and brotherhood in the Kashmir Valley.

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The local Muslim community not only attended all the wedding functions of the daughter of the late Pandit Mohanlal Pandit, but also hosted it in the traditional Kashmiri culture.

A pandit who spoke to The Kashmiriyat said that this place (Lar, Ganderbal) still exhibits the long-standing religious harmony and unity. Here, Hindus and Muslims co-exist and have always shared each other’s happiness and suffering.

Local Muslims and Pandits eat at the same table and participate in ceremonies together whenever there are weddings or other celebrations in Kashmir, he claimed.

“We have never allowed Meena Kumari, who lacks a patriarchal shadow, to feel like an orphan,” a Muslim told The Kashmiriyat.

Due to unfavorable conditions in the Kashmir Valley three decades ago, most of the Kashmiri Pandits had migrated and settled in other cities including Jammu. However, many Pandit families still live in different parts of Kashmir and live side by side with the Muslim population here.