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KPA New Year Celebration

KPA New Year Celebration

This year KPA decided to celebrate New Year’s function on January 16th, Sunday, in the grounds of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul at 16, Tughlaq Road, New Delhi. General R. Masaldan had recently taken up the president ship from Mrs. Madhulika Bahadur and presented a glorious spectacle that would ring a bell for quite some time onwards. People were looking forward to attend the function to welcome the New Year with the biradari. It was a pleasant afternoon, food was sumptuous and Tambola was being played in the background. Old acquaintances were meeting afresh, kids were playing around and more festivities were afoot. All ears were eager to hear their names in Lucky Draw, few were successful, and others had to satisfy themselves with good Kashmiri food. The whole function was very well organized but the crowning glory was the Saxophone performance, arranged by Gen. Masaldan, everyone enjoyed the soulful, romantic music that electrified the atmosphere. The current GC members’ picture was taken against the backdrop of the grand mansion of Justice Kaul. The stalls that were installed in the grounds had plethora of verdant wares to offer, biradari members were happy to barge in for the kasmiri var, other spices and the dejahru / atehru along with other accessories. By late afternoon people started leaving, having a day spent quite memorable, the hearts were happy to have spent an afternoon with their kith and kin that would make a wonderful memory for them in future. Kudos to the joint effort that spread so many smiles in humanity!

Our Culture

Our Culture The largest community, within the Kashmiri Hindus is the Kashmiri Pandits (Kashmiri Brahmins), who are divided into several gotras, such as the priests (gor or bhasha Bhatta), astrologers (Zutshi), and workers (Karkun). The Wani are historically Banias, with subcastes, such as the Kesarwani. The official languages of Jammu and Kashmir are Koshur, Dogri, Hindi-Urdu and English. The culture of Kashmir was influenced by the Persian as well as Central Asian cultures after the Islamic rule of Kashmir, though Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam have their own part to play. Kashmir has its own style of dance performance and music that is performed according to the occasion. One of the popular dance forms is Mask dance that is performed during the Hemis Festival. Other major dance folk forms are Chakri, Ladishah, Ruf dance and Dandaras dance. The inhabitants of Kashmir love folk music and tap their feet on the most famous Rabab music. The common instruments played in this music are Sitar, Rabab, Dukra and Nagara. Wanawun, Ghazals, Sufi and Choral are some major music forms in Kashmir that are sung during wedding ceremonies and festivals.

Our Vision

Our vision

KPA envisions to reach to the wider spectrum of the Biradari, establish brotherhood amongst the members of the Biradari and preserve its culture at all odds. We will strive to teach the coming generation about our values and culture as our predecessors bestowed upon us.

Our Mission

Our Mission

The mission of KPA is to find a solution to the myriad displaced Kashmiris or the established ones in a simpler form to make the KPA a huge shade for all travellers. In today’s busy times if we meet to discuss and strive to take KPA work further, is applaudable and we will keep doing it in our own way, to take the baradari a notch further.

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