
Winter
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when you see somebody outside the state wearing a pheran and you scream ‘alaay koeshuer’
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri When you’ve played with shishir gaants (icicles)
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri When you have burnt a carpet with your ‘Kangri Kick’
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when you wake up early on a winter day and rush to eat harissa
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when you come out of your bed at midnight just to check from your window how much it has snowed.
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri When you tuned into Sheher Been at 7 PM everyday during power cuts in Winter.”
Power/ Electricity
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when “Nangi taarih lagun” either means an Electric Shock or it means you are in LOVE
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when first gust of wind and all you hear is ‘Gode kar pagheken palwan press. Pawer gasei wene.’
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when u say “pawaras loga nar” during dark winter evenings.
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when u say “sarni gov ha?” during power cut.
Sports
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when you say kirket and not Cricket.. :p
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when ‘Jol bat’ is synonymous with badminton!
Food
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when you don’t feel satisfied unless your meal includes rice.
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when noon chai and thaen wala czochwor is the best thing you love to have in the evenings.
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri When you feel mandach carrying wazwan in a plastic bag at a wedding.
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri When you can cut a hot piping gushtaba into 4 exact peices with your bare fingers.
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when you will force a guest to eat till he cannot breathe and then you will say ‘tohi logwe ne athe (hand) kunei
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri When you eat every single organ of the goat like the chagul( goat testicles) , charvan( liver), hooves, the kidneys.
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when you invest your everything in ‘weddings’ and ‘building houses’
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when you visit picnic spots n the first thing you do, is to sit down n eat!
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when the ladies say ‘hathhaz mei haz chu sori band’ bt still eat everything.
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri When your kulcha breaks and dips in your kahva. And you eat the kulcha after with your finger or drop it in ur mouth.
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when you love Noon chai more than “Lipton” chai.
Wedding
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri When love marriages still mean”Aem chuna panai kormut!!”
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when in a marriage you focus more on what you and others are wearing and ignore the bride and the groom :p
Language
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri When ‘record’ means a song for you :p
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when u use “mat” way too much.
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when everything bought from Saudi is termed ‘HAJUK’ and is kissed repeatedly all over!
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when u call a chewing gumas ‘chingamm’
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when you say palate instead of plate, sakool instead of school, ayer instead of air, caalej instead of college.
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when a strange woman to another says “hatai kyah wanai”
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri When you have heard Imam saying ‘Bahar Haal’ multiple times in a Khutbah.
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri When Jahal is the best thing you know to switch off a discussion of logical reason..
Family
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when your family is on the street, waiting for you after dark.
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri When your Grandma says “Naer khudayas ti nabiyas kormakh hawaal’e” everytime you leave your home.
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when a mother tells her kid ”yur wala b karai nosy saaf”.
Kashmir
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri When you always wondered what Kashmiris in Azad Kashmir were like.
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri When u get angry Everytime u hear/see arnab on timesnow n feel like breaking his head :p
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri When People In India Call Us Aatankwadi.
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when you deep down always wait for an occasional #Hartal !
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri If u don’t use ur voter ID For voting but for getting sim-cards.
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when protests for even water , electricity or ration will turn into Hum Kya Chahtay Azaaadi !!!!!”
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when u spot every other relative,friend and even the shopkeepers of your mohalla at Pahalgam on 15August.
#youknowyouareakashmiri If u happen to pass all the uncles, u always hear them debating about Kashmiri politics.
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when you correct a person to say Srinagar not Shrinagar, Kashmir and not Kaaashmir.
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri when in India , u see a vehicle with a JK no. And in excitement u scream “kashir hinz gaed”.
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri When You Are Advised To Keep Your Identity Card With You Everywhere.
And last but not the least
#YouKnowYouAreAKashmiri When you keep saying “Kasheer bani kuni”.
Data has been collected and curated from Twitter .
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