Does the Language that we speak, affect the way we perceive the world? This question has been under debate for a long time now and has seen the work of several cognitive linguists ranging from Benjamin Whorf to Lera Boroditsky. The present work looks at two aspects of Language i.e. word order and grammatical gender and as to how they play/do not play a role in influencing the way we think about the world. The first part of the work focuses on word order (i.e. SVO/SOV distinction) in Language. A non verbal motion experiment was performed on native Hindi speakers (Mess workers form Hall V IITK) which is primarily a SOV language and on native English speakers (using Amazon Mechanical Turk) which is primarily a SVO language. Results showed that irrespective of whether your native language is SVO or SOV in nature, SOV is the preferred order while performing pictorial motion tasks. In the second part of the work, grammatical gender differences between Bihari Hindi and Standard Hindi were looked at. Hindi in general does not have any separate classification for the neutral gender. In Bihari Hindi, most of the neutral words are considered to be masculine whereas in Standard Hindi, there is a specific set of rules to define the gender of a neutral object. A visual experiment was done on native Bihari Hindi Speakers and native Standard Hindi speakers, using words which were masculine in Bihari Hindi but feminine in Standard Hindi. Results showed that participants notion about the word was influenced by its gender in the participant’s language, thereby demonstrating the effect of grammatical gender on one’s perception.