Kashmiri Pandits launch Global Kashmiri Pandit Business foundation (GKPBF)
Bangkok, Brisbane, Dubai, NCR India, Toronto – 22nd October 2020
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.
22nd Oct 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. The talent in the community is
absolutely of the highest order, and today you name any country, and you will find the local KP
community trying to work towards development of their families and future generations and giving it
back to society who gave them those opportunities.
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 august presence of three KP business stalwarts Dr. Ashok Kaul from
Ottawa, Canada, Mr. Moti Kaul from Mumbai, India, and Mr. 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. They felt that this team of volunteers with a unified dream was
certainly and surely a welcome step to help our future KP generations to choose to be employers than
employees. The idea is to support any KP business around the world and to take these businesses to
next level of excellence.
The webinar gave a complete roadmap for action and commits itself to nurture entrepreneurship
among Kashmiri Pandits towards creating wealth and jobs for global community.
GKPBF has support of many KP business stalwarts around the world. This initiative would create
community development, growth, and prosperity.
For more details, you can visit
Website – https://gkpbf.org/
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/globalkpbf
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/gkpbf
