“I Exist” is a concept that mainly gyrates around the forgotten existence of Kashmiri Pandits who chose to live in Kashmir Valley even after the mass exodus of Pandits (99.14% of the community) from the valley in 1989-90. While presenting a broader perspective on the theme we have tried our best to give qualitative and quantitative information about the life and living of the valley based Kashmiri Pandits, who have continued to live in the valley without any significant support from any quarter. It is rather a bitter truth that till 1998, not a single organization based outside Kashmir recognized the existence of Kashmiri Pandits in Valley but on the contrary exploited the situation for their vested interests. It must be recognized that Dr. Vijay Sazawal (USA) was the first person to speak outside of the valley about the centrality of the valley based Kashmiri Pandits in preserving the Pandit culture and heritage in a paper written in 1999, that was published by the "Koshur Samachar", a community journal in New Delhi, in early 2000. But the article, at that time, failed to bring awareness in the Kashmiri Pandit diaspora about various challenges faced by valley based Pandits..Read Full Text