A Culture Hybrid

British-Kashmiri Girl. 23, London. Spirituality, Art, history, anthropology, politics, philosophy and all things beautiful.

[ishtargates]

Kurdish woman fighter (YPJ) destroys ISIS modesty instructions for women in al-Hol, northeast Syria. Source

~Hasmonean 

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Hohenzollern Castle, Bisingen, Germany

[lovethi5]

[sixpenceee]

Queen Elizabeth through the years as shown through banknotes

[artblackafrica]

“She winks, and people die, but does she grieve the death of so many thousands like me? Strange, one can get no sense of the stamp of her mind, but can see her spirit move through the thin gauze of her body. I feed off it, a parasite, the way you tie people up in your curls. Bring a rope and throw it around my throat. I crumble to dust on her street.”

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Ghazal 1186: qaba vu pirahan-i u ki mirasad tanash

“In the Bazaar of Love: The Selected Poetry of Amir Khusrau” translated and introduced by Paule E. Losensky and Sunil Sharma

[historium]

Street scene in Antwerp, Belgium, showing citizens turning out for celebration a few hours after the Germans surrendered and an end of World War I. 11th November 1918

[hinducosmos]

Rabab & Srinagar First Snow Fall Jannat-e-Kashmir played by Sufiyan Malik. (via Twitter: Sufiyan Malik)

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[bantarleton]

Unionists protest against the Anglo-Irish agreement in Belfast, November 23rd 1985.

[historium]

Two Herero women in traditional and western dress, Namibia, ca. 1929

[historium]

A synagogue in New York holds 24-hour services on D-Day to pray for the success of Allied troops as they land on the beaches of Normandy. June 6th, 1944

[bantarleton]

Three Seaforth Highlanders, Bedford, England 1915. Photograph hand coloured by Chris Foster.

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ophelia come back to me

you can’t find your heart by the willow tree 

Photography by Diana Pamakste

[drxgonfly]

Mount Rainier, Washington (by Protik Hossain)

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have you ever heard such a cacaphony

[livesunique]

Zodiac Pool, Umaid Bhawan Palace, India, Jodhpur.

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INDIA. Jodphur. 1996. A fruit vendor plies his wares. © Steve McCurry/Magnum Photos