Segment about dresses of Kashmiri women from ‘Feminine Fashions’ (1953) by K. L. Khandpur
double gilaas
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| 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)
