The upsurge in violence in 1990 in Kashmir was an armed resistance to Indian rule.

The minority Hindu community became the target. Since then, around 250,000 Kashmiri Hindus have been living around India.

What has happened to this banished, hidden population, who have been in exile for 16 years?

In this programme, Chandra and Roy cross the Himalayas to revisit memories and their ancestral homeland.

A mixture of happiness and anticipation possesses them. There is a little fear, too.

They go there to rediscover lost people and places, but how will their old friends and neighbours receive them?

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First broadcast in June 2006. Produced by Shivani Sharma of the BBC's Hindi Service.