Tulmulla, Jun 22: The annual Kheer Bhawani Mela at Mata Ragnya Devi shrine in Tulmulla Ganderbal witnessed more than prayers on Monday.  For thousands of Kashmiri Pandits, it rekindled hope of reunion with their faith, their homeland, and neighbours they once called family. From 6 am, the spring at Tulmulla echoed with hymns.  Elderly devotees touched the temple stones with tears, while children born outside Kashmir saw the shrine for the first time. Though away from their homes and roots in Kashmir since three decades, the annual Kheer Bhawani Mela every year rekindles a new hope among the displaced Kashmiri Pandits of their return and rehabilitation in their ancestral land.  For Kashmiri Pandits, Jyeshtha Ashtami at Mata Kheer Bhawani shrine is not just a festival, it’s a homecoming.  “We left in 1990.