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What connection do these bangles have with kashmir? Why are they called kashmiri bangles?

@Junaid_Mattu Ajmer and Nizamuddin are Sufi shrines of local saints and not a mosque or temple. I am not in support of any kind of ban or permission seeking for visiting a place. It's bizarre when one does it, it's still bizarre when everyone does it. So.

Imagine a Muslim shrine like Ajmer or Nizamuddin asking for a similar affidavit from the thousands of non-Muslim devotees who visit both shrines. Imagine the outrage.

@Wohkaulthi @searchkashmir @Ankit__wali Thanks for the shoutout to subtitles. I did those. Yay!

Still processing the movie. We need to have more Koshur movies. Do watch #BattKoch💜 @searchkashmir @Ankit__wali

@Junaid_Mattu @shehryar_khanum You putting this up here shows not only your frustration but also your lack of understanding of the fabric of human existence. If you think this question matters given the destruction and death in Iran, it's for generating unnecessary polarisations. This is irrelevant.

Apparently the fact that Israel has massacred 70,000 men, women and children in Gaza and is doing that in Iran now is about Kashmiri Pandits?? Whenever a Muslim child is brutalized or killed anywhere in the world - blown apart limb to limb - “what about Kashmiri Pandits?”

@shepuchibhaji Boys Don't Cry (1999)

hi can anyone recommend a movie that will emotionally destroy me I want to be sobbing uncontrollably and questioning my existence

@neeednewname @searchkashmir I ask because I did the subtitles and script supervision and other unofficial AD stuff for the film.

@neeednewname @searchkashmir I hope the subtitles were simple enough. Yay!

Beautiful film, watched this on Saturday. If they’re showing in your city, do watch! It is in Kashmiri but they have subtitles, so non-Kashmiris can also watch. Follow @searchkashmir for where to watch.

@OmarAbbasHyat I feel that's what you need to do by not mentioning us when you're the one who can't cope!

@kashqueeri Cope!

Not a fan of Kashmiris. But they did! From schools students, private employees, business owners, government employees to regular everyday people took to the streets in Kashmir, condemning Pahalgam attack.

@linus_aniar @shahfaesal Comes from श्वान: or شوانہ or Shvànha in Sanskrit.

@shahfaesal dog: hoon in kashmiri and hund in german. what’s it called in sanskrit or vedic ?

Take the word krāl (potter) in Kashmiri language. In almost all Modern Indo-Aryan languages except Nepali and Sinhalese the term for potter derives from the Sanskrit kumbhakāra. Kashmiri, however, stands apart. It retains the older Vedic word 'kulāl'.

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@kaulonduty Tohi te chuv mubarakh

@kashqueeri Herath poshte 🙏

Me invoking Agni dev again after pooja is done.

@Arun_vish Haerath is not a hindu festival. Shivratri might be, who knows!

Shiva Ratri is a Hindu festival. Repeat after me, shiva is a Hindu God.

Yours truly took care of carefully including everyday Kashmiri colloquialisms during the shoot, managed Script Supervision and did all Translations/Subtitles.

@bhatnaturally It is cultural. We have a separate harvest festival, Pann.

Thankfully, Shivratri is not labelled as harvest or a cultural festival

@Ateendriyo And Lungs, most importantly.

People whining in thr QTs should absolutely be made aware that Kashmiri pandit families, including yours truly, would offer fresh, raw goat blood and sacrificed goat head, to the Bhairava/His Gana-s, during Hara Raatri. Would be fun to see that meltdown.

@MattLaemon @searchkashmir Not your post, I largely agree with it. Razdan sahab ka reply ka reply tha.

@kashqueeri @searchkashmir Please send yes

Yesterday was Salaam Doh, I will give some not-so-widely known information as Herath kharch to the new generation of Kashmiri Pandits who are keen to understand the difference between our celebration of Maha Shivaratri and the way it is observed across the rest of the country. Shivaratri is not a wedding anniversary. Shiva Parvati were married in Margshirsha. Shiva Sati in Chaitra. So this night was never originally about a celestial wedding. It marks something far greater. Shiva appeared as the endless pillar of light. No beginning. No end. When Brahma and Vishnu tried to find its limits, they failed. Ego failed. Measurement failed. Only the Infinite remained. Across India, Shivaratri is often celebrated through fasting, temple visits, and reverence for the divine couple. In the Kashmiri Pandit tradition, which draws deeply from Kashmir Shaivism, the focus is more INWARD. It is not only about devotion but about realization. Shiva is not merely a deity to be worshipped. He is pure consciousness. The night represents the revelation of that boundless awareness. This is where our ritual of Vatuk Pooja becomes central. This year was my first Vatuk Pooja, and instead of simply performing it, I wanted to understand it. The vessels we worship, initially starting in the chokas of the house, symbolize Shiva, Shakti, and the entire cosmic order. Filled with water and walnuts, they represent the universe contained within the home. The walnut, rough on the outside and intricate within, mirrors the human mind and the hidden layers of awareness. Most celebrate the marriage out of reverence and easy way to understand Shiv Shakti. Very few pause to reflect on what truly appeared that night. For me, this Shivaratri was less about ritual and more about inquiry. Less about repetition and more about meaning. If we are to pass Herath to the next generation, perhaps we must pass not only the walnuts and the vessels, but also the questions.

@searchkashmir @MattLaemon This is gross (mis) reinterpretation. Don't have the energy to type it all out magar ba sozov message.

@MattLaemon KPs don't celebrate it as a wedding out of convenience. There is a tradition backing it. It is union of Shiva and Shakti in presence of devas, bharavas and ganas. People host the ritual as a "re-witness". Shiv lagun and Shiv parinaya are models of kp weddings.

@avzaagzonunaada Plus the destruction of Dative verb form is killing me. It's 2026, do it right or don't do it.

Kashmiri native speakers, does “Herath hund chu roshni ...” sound natural to you, or does it feel calqued off of Hindi-Urdu?