[Courtesy an old friend]
You know you're Kashmiri when ...
you call a bank 'bunk' and a bunker 'banker'
for you "ootre" could mean ages ago
you know only 3 types of people - musalmaan (meaning kashmiri), angrez (tourists) and punjaeb (everybody else)
you will prepare 20 different dishes for your guest and then say 'asi chhune kiheen ronmut'
your guest will not help himself with the food
you will force a guest to eat till he cannot breathe
and then you will say 'tohi logwe ne athe (hand) kunei'
masjids are full a day before Eid-ul-fitr and empty a day after.
thaph (grab) for you means getting engaged
you tie 'dashi' at tombs and graves inspite of being a muslim
you wear 'taweez' that look like suicide capsules
you burn down your own schools during protest against Indian occupation
you get married by caste and not by characteristics
one day you are a mujahid, second day a militant, third day a renegade and fourth day running for election
You know you're Kashmiri when ...
you call a bank 'bunk' and a bunker 'banker'
for you "ootre" could mean ages ago
you know only 3 types of people - musalmaan (meaning kashmiri), angrez (tourists) and punjaeb (everybody else)
you will prepare 20 different dishes for your guest and then say 'asi chhune kiheen ronmut'
your guest will not help himself with the food
you will force a guest to eat till he cannot breathe
and then you will say 'tohi logwe ne athe (hand) kunei'
masjids are full a day before Eid-ul-fitr and empty a day after.
thaph (grab) for you means getting engaged
you tie 'dashi' at tombs and graves inspite of being a muslim
you wear 'taweez' that look like suicide capsules
you burn down your own schools during protest against Indian occupation
you get married by caste and not by characteristics
one day you are a mujahid, second day a militant, third day a renegade and fourth day running for election
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