This article explores the profound implications of the Kashmiri Pandit exodus on the cultural and social landscape in Kashmir regarding shrinking space for an idea called KASHMIRIYAT. Drawing upon Siddhartha Gigoo’s novel The Garden of Solitude as a primary text, the research excavates displacement, cultural Loss, and persistent psychological trauma in the exiled Kashmiri Pandit community. Using the narrative mode of Gigoo, in which personal and collective memory are interwoven, this study aims to consider also how literature can work as an archive for specific forms of cultural peripeties matter (exile); it enables a way to communicate the diversity of conclusions that till today develop from exile. Engaging in Comparative Literary Analysis, Manikandan looks into the context of diasporic literature to which the novel belongs and brings out pan-human issues like Loss and identity. This Paper uses interdisciplinary perspectives from psychology and sociology to understand the Loss of cultural identity and mental wounds of displaced individuals. The article emphasizes how Gigoo’s creative output is still highly relevant today, tied as it was to current socio-political conditions in Kashmir. Further, it argues that literature can foster empathy, understanding, and reconciliation within conflict-prone societies.