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[ataphya]

"mythology" is a word I absolutely despise. Why? This word is a reminder of over hundred years worth of tortured and "cleansing" that Bharat went through, in the hands of imperialist british. Everything that we believed in was turned into "myth" and "superstition", our paths of spirituality were considered insane and vulgar. Eventhough, the british left eventually, they left behind slave minded idiots, who had not quite gotten out of the "colony mentality" that they had developed to flatter the imperialist and for many, to gain favour against their own brothers and sisters.

The truth is, it isn't just the story of India only, Greece, Norway, China, Japan and many others. Anything apart from "mainstream" is a myth. Well, guess what? It's not. It's Greek Theology, Hindu Theology & Japanese Theology.

My goal of "DESI DARK ACADEMIA" is to get rid of that word from India, atleast from the minds of people who actually have thinking capacity of their own and don't leech on others.

Call it what it is or eat shit. Namastey.

[ataphya]

"Don’t be afraid of the dark, my child. Light has a source. It can be snuffed out. But darkness has no source. It just exists. This darkness is a path to That, which has no source: God"

Amish, Sita the warrior of Mithila

[ataphya]

"A man becomes a Mahadev, only when he fights for good. A Mahadev is not born from his mother's womb. He is forged in the heat of battle, when he wages a war to destroy evil."

Shiv, The immortals of Meluha (Amish Tripathi)

[ataphya]

People talk of colour of eyes all the time, as if that is of significance; light to be epitome of elegance and dark not so much, yet his would look beautiful in any shade for, it's not the colour that makes his different - it's the way they speak the utmost truth even when he despises it, it's the way they bloom when he reads his favourite poetry, it's the way glisten when he tries to find answer everyone's curiousities, it's the way they become silvery when his chest feels heavy with the burden of life. They form a poem that I read in an instant and comprehend with full depth. His eyes are fascinatingly my favourite because they are my home.

Ataphya, from a book I'll write one day.

[obademiyaan]

This is how eyes speak and only the one who understands you reads it

[ataphya]

Demisexual moodboard - Bharat Edition.

[obademiyaan]

Something hit me, wasn't there a phrase called "wonder-o-wondr", is that how we got our wow?

[missfalcon]

[wordsnquotes]

“A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.”

— Amit Ray, World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird

[ataphya]

Imagine, walking around in a Mandir or Gurudwara with your love, only to swirl around and find that he/they/she had been holding on to one end of your duppatta the whole time, as you were completing circles. He holds it up to remind you of the fourth circle (parikrama) and you find yourself smiling ear-to-ear. Life is mundane.

Ataphya.

Shershaah (2021) Dir. Vishnuvardhan

Credits to Martyr Captain Batra who held on to the other end of his fiancée's dupatta in Mansa Devi.

[ataphya]

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

Jean Louise Finch, To kill a mockingbird (1960)