Kashmiri Pandits return to celebrate Maha Kumbh
About 12,000 Hindus, of which most were migrant Kashmiri Pandits, on Tuesday celebrated Maha Kumbh at the 'Sangam' (confluence) of the Sindh stream and Jhelum river in Jammu and Kashmir's Ganderbal district. This is reportedly the first time since the 1985–1995 exodus of the community from the state that the Pandits have visited in such numbers.