Dear #Kashmir , a thread (6)
Orange is my favourite colour. No other colour comes close. I am not too sure where the obsession began. I am pretty sure it stems from the Chinar leaf 🍁 (or as Canadians like to refer to it as Maple leaf) it will always be a Chinar for us 1/?
Orange is my favourite colour. No other colour comes close. I am not too sure where the obsession began. I am pretty sure it stems from the Chinar leaf 🍁 (or as Canadians like to refer to it as Maple leaf) it will always be a Chinar for us 1/?
All the best things are orange. The fruit 🍊 pumpkins 🎃 (no, not pumpkin spice lattes, that trash is weird). Kashmir, nothing beats my Dadi’s Kahwa straight out of a samawar. In the summers when it’d be sweltering I’d still ask her to make me some. She’d always look at me 2/?
Like I am daft. Sipping Kahwa in the summer watching the sun burn into the most beautiful orange, amber and pink. That was my summers. I didn’t appreciate it enough, forgive me. Kashmir I useless cry, remember, curse and cry some more while you enter #Day60 of a completely 3/?
Inhuman and arbitrary blockade. All because your zeal, beauty, magic and strength was feared by India. A nation that is meant to treat their guests like God but treat their citizens less than garbage. God forbid if that citizen is Muslim. Don’t take it personally Kashmir 4/?
Yena aoush chzeu haraakh? (Don’t shed tears) India is gone. Zealots rule it and even God has refused to acknowledge its existence. Kashmir, it’s 3:40 AM and I still think about you while I sleep in a string of naps and while I go about my day. While I mindlessly do my job and 6/?
While I eat my meal and while I ‘study’ (whatever that is). Kashmir, there’s a section in my wardrobe that has clothes that I exclusively wanted to wear to a vacation I never took. Little did I know that it’s because I hadn’t been home, travelling to an unknown place seems 5/?
like an alien concept. That trip to Thailand I had planned seems very insensitive and stupid. Kashmir no matter, I’ll see you soon. I don’t mean when days are better. You probably think there’s no end to my selfishness. I am just like those tourists that use you for their 7/?
Instagrams. That take dumbass (sorry) selfies and show you off to their friends and family but don’t bat an eyelid when you’re being strangled. I don’t mean when days are better. I’ll see you regardless. If everybody is made to forget your presence I will still remember. 8/?
Kashmir my words seem hollow but have faith; in me, in Allah, in your children. That were carved out of your soil, that drank your dew, that danced on your grass, that sang your anthem that were dazzled by your twinkling stars and that played X and O on your falling leaves. 9/?
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