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the songs where a male singer sings from the perspective of a woman...literally my favourite<3

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since i'm from india, i present to you (i know most of you are aware of this, but here we go)

🌜Indian dark academia🌛

book recommendations (part one):

Indian literary classics

the guide by R K Narayan

malgudi days by RK Narayan

the private life of Indian prince by Mulk Raj Anand

untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand

train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh

godan by Munshi Premchand

the room on the roof by Ruskin Bond

the complete adventures of feluda by Satyajit Ray

combat of shadows by Manohar Malgonkar

the autobiography of an unknown indian by Nirad C. Chaudhari

literary fiction

the God of small things by Arundhati Roy

the white tiger by Aravind Adiga

the inheritance of loss by Kiran Desai

a suitable boy by Vikram Seth

sea of poppies by Amitav Ghosh

narcopolis by Jeet Thayil

the great Indian novel by Shashi Tharoor

fasting, feasting by Anita Desai

the house of blue mangoes by David Davidar

vanity bagh by Anees Salim

I mean ok, European classics were poetic and beautifully written but why are we sleeping on the vastly underrated genre which is Indian Classical Literature

Because look at these:

Excerpts from Abhijānaśākuntalam (The Recognition of Śhakuntalā) by Kālidāsa, trans. Chandra Rajan

Have you ever read such poetry

#literature #indian literature #indian classics #classics #Dark Academia #Light Academia #Romanticism #romantic era #poetry #poems #plays #classical literature #European classical literature #Indian Classical Literature #i have decided that I will share excerpts of all the ICL plays we do throughout my course because THESE DESERVE MORE RECOGNITION #you all say that DA and the Literature community is too Eurocentric so you BETTER give these the recognition they deserve #break away from the Eurocentrism of it there is so much more literature out there #take a break from Shakespeare forreal #anyways fun fact: it is not known when this play was written it when Kālidāsa existed #the time period of his existence or the composition of his works is not known the estimations are vast #so he cannot definitively be placed in a specific time period #but we know that this is from ancient India and we love to see it #maybe I'll learn Sanskrit to read the original sanskrit text who knows #my point is. indian classics. they need more recognition. so you all better reblog this and others that I will share occasionally.#spread this around. this is high poetry like come ON #And Hindu mythology is very interesting if you need a break from the Greeks #go on expand your horizons #text #October 2020

"It is well known that the gods often become afraid of the penances of others."

- Abhijānaśākuntalam by Kālidāsa, trans. Chandra Rajan

#this is such a raw quote I love it #i then proceeded to insert this quote in my fic #because 😌#text #quotes #literature #classical literature #classics #indian literature #indian classics #indian Classical Literature #European classical literature #dark academia #perhaps this could be classified as dark academia Literature or Cottagecore no it has more of a Cottagecore vibe #idk man #anyways I love this book ?#stop ! sleeping! on! icl!#November 2020

Me: as much as I love them I don't think classics are very relatable :/

The classics:

#ive been laughing at this for so long now #this is in the middle of a very serious scene too lmao #also it's spoken by the jester who is most likely gay #as it always is #text #classics #indian classics #literature #Indian Classical Literature #november 2020

Remembering Munshi Premchand

The Women of Premchand: Compassion, Conflict, and Inner Strength Growing up in a home where Dharmyug and The Illustrated Weekly of India lay side by side, literature wasn’t just entertainment—it was quiet inheritance. My earliest memory of Munshi Premchand is not from a Hindi textbook, but from an English translation of Idgah—the story of a young boy’s simple sacrifice resonated deeply, but…

#hindi literature #indian classics #Munshi Premchand #Women in literature

Soji and Cream

Happy Fathers day weekend!

Fathers day at our home is spent pretty relaxed, with the whole family outside around the braai, my husband says I’m an expert braai master – he isn’t wrong. The best gift you could give a Dad on fathers day is a full stomach of incredible food, and whether he’s a meat or potatoes kinda guy one thing he’ll definitely want is to end lunch on a sweet note.

I have you…

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#Fathers Day #Indian Classics #Soji and cream

Chicken tikka masala

When I first moved up to Johannesburg in 2011 the one thing I always craved was a good plate of Indian food like my grandmoms. Back then I couldn’t cook to save my life so I optqed to live of boxed chicken schnitzels and 2 minute noodles, tragic I know!

I looked forward to every Friday evening because that was the one night a week I’d go to an Indian restaurant and get my fix of delicious, spicy…

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#chicken tikka masala #Indian Classics #Indian cuisine