#desi quotes

[aahanna]

SHADES OF DESI LOVE

[maintohthakgayibhaishaab]

People who drink milk with malai on it stay away from me

[chezmeh]

When Ahmed Faraz wrote:

sunā hai rabt hai us ko ḳharāb-hāloñ se so apne aap ko barbād kar ke dekhte haiñ

(I heard, she’s empathetic to those down on their luck.

If so, let’s ruin ourselves to such a state, to see.)

[soul-from-another-era]

Samjhy?

[shunrehihosumedha]

25/06/2025

In my mind I know,

I ache for that view, the kind that poets chase in vain. Skies, impossibly clear, draped in silken clouds. A sun like amber honey melting on skin. The breeze, a whisper from forgotten gods. It was, by all measure, was indeed a paradise.

And yet, it was never home. Beneath that golden calm, the people carved silence into me, turned breath into burden. Even in all that open air, I was suffocating. Behind the lens, chaos. Quiet, cruel, and unrelenting.

So I ran. Fled from wild meadows and whispering hills into a city of steel and sirens, where nothing breathes freely and beauty is eclipsed by motion. Somehow, in this cold geometry, I found peace. Not in the softness of nature, but in the indifference of concrete. The mountains offered wonder. The city, in its brutal stillness, offered me myself.

(Home, Darjeeling’22)

[kadwarasgullaa]

[little-desi-historian]

Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment. It has to be cultivated. We must realize that our people have yet to learn it. Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil which is essentially undemocratic. - Annihilation of Caste by B. R Ambedkar

Happy India Republic Day! 🇮🇳

[andaaz-e-aafat]