Kashmiri Pandit (Hindu) devotees pray during the annual Hindu festival Mata Kheer Bhawani Mela at the Kheer Bhawani Temple in the Tullamulla area of Ganderbal district, about 30 kilometres northeast of Srinagar. Amid tight security, thousands of Kashmiri Hindus, many of whom were displaced 25 years ago, attended the festival to pay homage to the Hindu goddess Mata Kheer Bhawani on her birth anniversary. Some 200,000 Kashmiri Pandits fled the Himalayan disputed region in the early 1990s at the start of an insurgency against Indian rule, mainly to the Hindu-dominated southern city of Jammu, and
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Kashmiri Pandit (Hindu) devotees pray during the annual Hindu festival Mata Kheer Bhawani Mela at the Kheer Bhawani Temple in the Tullamulla area of Ganderbal district, about 30 kilometres northeast of Srinagar. Amid tight security, thousands of Kashmiri Hindus, many of whom were displaced 25 years ago, attended the festival to pay homage to the Hindu goddess Mata Kheer Bhawani on her birth anniversary. Some 200, 000 Kashmiri Pandits fled the Himalayan disputed region in the early 1990s at the start of an insurgency against Indian rule, mainly to the Hindu-dominated southern city of Jammu, and they return yearly for the temple festival. (Photo by Faisal Bashir / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)