Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 24: A team of volunteers unified by a dream across a few continents today announced the launch of the “Global Kashmiri Pandit Business Foundation”, dedicated to creating a platform for Kashmiri Pandit entrepreneurs anywhere in today’s connected world.
There was a need to create a platform for Kashmiri Pandits scattered all across the globe after they took a while to pick up the threads from a hopeless situation 30 years back said one of the founder and Director – DK Bakshi. The Foundation commits itself to nurture entrepreneurship among Kashmiri Pandits towards creating wealth and jobs for global community.
On October 1947 goes back in the recent history the day when evil forces, the Kabali Tribals tried to bury us and the trend continued as recent as 1990. However, 22nd Oct 2020 is the time when our seeds bloomed again, after getting scattered all around the globe. Today would be known as the historical day for Kashmiri Pandit community in the world and a legacy is being given birth today.
Three decades of struggle put in by the most peaceful, educated but resilient community of KPs with utter confidence and grit came, saw and conquered the world.
With new vistas opening in current world, the true global village, new resurgent young and not so young Kashmiri Pandits needed something different to fight their struggle and it can only happen if the community is prosperous and grow businesses around the world. With this thought in the mind of many of us for quite some time, team GKPBF – comprising of Ash Raina from Brisbane, Australia, DK Bakshi from Bangkok, Thailand, Jyotsna Fotedar from Gurugram, India, Ravi Kachroo from Bengaluru, India, Vinod K. Pandita from Gurugram, India & Vidya Bhushan Dhar from Toronto, Canada, deliberated for many months and finally the foundation was incorporated as Section 8 company in India and launched on 22nd Oct 2020 through a webinar.
The launch was graced by the presence of three KP business stalwarts Dr. Ashok Kaul from Ottawa, Canada, Moti Kaul from Mumbai, India, and Uday Challu from Gurugram, India. They not only supported this historical event by being part of the webinar but committed their support as mentors and guides in the future.
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