double gilaas

Cherry Earrings
July. 2013.
I had to promise my little cousin a ‘pizza treat’ for posing





My mother remembers
in spring
she would run around with cherry earrings.

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Cherry Picking. Kashmir. 1953
(From  the archive of Indian Photo Division)

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dimyo dilaas
gandyo walaas
peirtho gilaas kulni tal

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Kashmiri word for Cherry comes from Persian word for Cherry: gilaas

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Update: April, 2016

Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s Irania film “The Silence” (1998)

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