Srinagar, May 20 -- For years, a silver-haired man has appeared like a wandering mystic in Srinagar, his trembling hands punctuating a manic monologue: "I was thrown out of my home by my son."

This raging revelation is no longer rare in Kashmir. Outside the city's high-security media hub, elderly men often shuffle in and out with photographs of land documents in their pockets. Most of them tell tales of treachery and the growing homelessness in Kashmir.

To shelter these persons wronged by their loved ones, the government on May 20, 2025 inaugurated Kashmir's first government-run old age home in Pandach, just 12 kilometres from the city centre.

The structure offers a safe haven for the region's abandoned elderly. It comes not a moment t...