Click on an image to display a larger version.
We have no set price structure - our preference is to establish a working relationship and negotiate a price that both parties are happy with. Please contact us for details.
Just one room to accommodate the whole family where husband, wife and children all eat, sleep and entertain, whilst outside are the squalid communal toilet and bathing facilities.
‘Pandits’ are Hindus who are considered wise, learned people, 100% literate and their field of expertise is boundless from art, literature, religion, science and more. Now left to ponder.
From a fertile land and invigorating clean crisp air generated by the snow capped Himalayan Mountains to a baron landscape.
Today thousands of men, women and children still remain ‘living’ in the squalid camps.
Camps can best be described as being ‘worse than living in refugee camps’ - unbelievably so ‘refugees’ living in their own country!
Today thousands of men, women and children still remain ‘living’ in the squalid camps.
Plaque for contribution of toilet block.
Keeping clean no mater what the weather summer and winter.
No matter what the weather no matter what the age the chores have to be done.
Daily routine no matter what the weather.
The environment of the compounds that these people have to endure leaves much to be desired. Their clean fertile Kashmir Valley has given way to open drains, dirt and stones where the Pandits attempt to grow vegetables in the baron soil.
The clean fertile Kashmir Valley has given way to open drains, dirt and stones where the Pandits attempt to grow vegetables in the baron soil.
One Kashmiri Pandit clad in traditional attire spoke out for many exclaiming, ‘I can not understand why the world doesn’t care about us!’
Memories are all they have.
Only bars at the window to protect from the weather.
Jammu and Kashmir, camp, squaller, unhygienic, disease, house, baron land, stony, unfertile, people, man, dirt, lifestyle, washing, housing, infrastructure, shrine, relgion,
Cramped unhygienic living conditions have given rise to a variety of diseases.
With the death rate rapidly out pacing a declining birth rate it is little wonder that those Kashmiri’s who remain surviving in the camps view their future as being very bleak.
Many children were born in these camps and know no other lifestyle.
Many children were born in these camps and know no other lifestyle.
‘Pandits’ are Hindus who are considered wise, learned people, 100% literate. The elders still strive to educate the children in the camps.
Freezing cold in winter, stifling hot in summer the conditions the young children have to endue do not deter them from wishing to learn or the teacher to educate them.
Looking towards 'Paradise' the Kashmir Valley.