proponents of “Jewish origin of Kashmiri people” can have a field day looking at the image.
It looks like some sort of Star of David and some sort of Tree of life.
After the bridal shower, the Devgon havan – a fire ritual, is performed.
To the left of the fire, drawn in sendir vermilion sindurah on a rectangular cardboard, can be found a Kapavriksha wishing tree, celestial tree of life, spurting out of two interjecting but oppositely inverted equilateral triangles, a figure having only four corners.
To the right of the fire are kept two bricks, up-right, side-by-side, in front of which burns an oil lamp.
Keep going Buddy,
You know there is a full length movie (digital) in Kashmiri “Akh Daleel Lolich”, it took more more than one year to procure it , I finally got it and has become my pride possession in the KP community here.
Orzuv
Raj Pandita
Los Angeles, CA
I have heard about the film. It was all over the media a couple of years ago. I haven’t seen it yet. Will try to get my hands on it.
But I have seen a Kashmiri film called ‘Menziraat’(1963-64). It was the first ever kashmiri film. I was lucky enough to catch it one sunday afternoon, many years ago, in the regional film broadcast of Doordarshan.
I was hoping National Film Archive of India (pune) must be having a copy of it…but their site doesn’t even list the film. In fact they don’t have a ‘Kashmiri’ section of films. Really sad affair!
There is a link on the youtube about the film.
I like the song zoon tarakh particularly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Xl5jHBHO0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE0dlI6LWaA
They have said that this film cost them juct Rs. 7 lakhs to make.
Thanks for the links!
Digital format must have helped to keep the budget low.