सुनीता

aloo paratha, chai, and the sounds of monsoon

[thisiszahraa]

[virginpv]

[harlings]

Hot tea by Mahmoud Hiepo

[thisismywastedtalent]

Pho Bo, Hanoi, March 2016

[postcardsfromwanderings]

Fisherman in the early morning light, Halong Bay, Vietnam

[kaalbela]

Sobia Ameen photographed by Ahmed Farras

[vanishingasia]

A Kutchi woman wearing traditional tribal jewelry shops in the market in the desert town of Rhan of Kutch, Gujarat, India. Photo from my book #VanishingAsia #gujarat #kutch https://instagr.am/p/CMPoJmNgTC_/

[honeyandelixir]

“فکر می کنم در غیاب تو همه‌ی خانه ‌های جهان خالی ست همه‌ی درها بسته است وقتی که تو نیستی من هم… تنهاترین اتفاق بی دلیل زمین‌ام I imagine, in your absence The world is nothing but empty With all its doors shut In your absence I, too a phenomenon without a reason.”

— Said Ali Salehi

[afrofeministe]

Henna / Photo Medina Trevathan

[politics-war]

A rickshaw driver, his vehicle adorned with a message of peace, makes his way through the slums of Karachi, Pakistan.

[divinum-pacis]

Muslim brides wait for the start of a mass marriage ceremony in Mumbai, India, November 20, 2017. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

[kaalbela]

Sudip Chakraborty

[ka-72]

[smsomah]

Afghanistan. Kim Landgraf: The photos of Afghanistan were taken by my father in the years 1968 to 1972 when he was living in Kabul with his young family.

[pclysemia]

“PERFUME—the heady and elusive marriage of the essences of herbs and spices, wild grasses and flowers, bark and animal and tree—is an engine of the universe. From earliest times, people have taken pleasure in rubbing fragrant substances into their skin. Timeless and universal, scent has been a powerful force in ritual, medicine, myth, and conquest. Perfume has helped people to pray, to heal, to make love and war, to prepare for death, to create. To inspire, after all, is literally “to breathe in.””

— Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume, Mandy Aftel

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Raja Ravi Varma

[southasiansource]

ab aaja re mere piya.