Amid torrential rains Muslims cremate Pañdit woman in Shopian village
Shopian, Aug 27: At a time when rains lashed Valley and people preferred to stay indoors, local Muslims here in south Kashmir’s Shopian district performed the last rites of a Pandit woman on Thursday.
Local sources said that a pall of gloom descended the Pargochi village of Shopian as people heard the news about the demise of 103 year old Kashmiri Pandit woman Uma Devi.
Not caring about massive downpour, people from majority Muslim community visited the house to express sympathies with the bereaved family.
“Uma Devi breathed her last while Muslims helped the family in her cremation. She was a respectable figure and everyone in village called her Uma Kaken (Kaken is affectionately prefixed to an elderly woman in the countryside across Kashmir),” said a local, Junaid Ahmed.
Uma Devi and her family didn’t leave Kashmir, when Pandits in large numbers preferred migration during the 1990’s. (KNT)
