What happens when you go to the spiritual source where your book began

‘What happens when you go to the spiritual source where your book began’ “What,” my daughter asked, an incredulous look on her face, “are we going all this way to commemorate an event that took place three hundred and fifty years ago? Why do we traverse the same path which a disciple took carrying the martyred head of his Guru to give it to his ten year old son?” I explained to her how our doing this shows respect and our gratitude for an act that saved our religion three hundred fifty years ago. To a generation brought up on internet and instantaneous mobile traffic, the proposal of a yatra (spiritual journey) can seem surreal and even have a sense of unreality that is difficult to comprehend. We were discussing a phone call that had come a while ago. The person at the other end, Mr. Ashwini Chrungoo, President of Pannun Kashmir, who is campaigning for the homeland of Kashmiri pandits, had asked me if I would be willing to read a chapter from my book ‘The infidel next door...