True desi kid behaviour:
1. Stuffing the entire gol gappa in your mouth, and then asking for sukha puri
2. Stuffing an entire rasgulla Or two and trying to eat it with the chashni dripping down your chin
3. Eating kadhi chawal, but there are more pakoras on your plate than there is kadhi.
4. Arguing about the best maggi style
5. Putting garam masala in pasta because IT IS TOO BLAND
6. Eating dal chawal on a low day
7. Sham wali chai with rusk, while looking at the setting sun
8. Making the subah wali coffee when no one is awake
9. Lajpat nagar wali chowmein, which you eat while standing in the damn crowd
10. Sipping piping hot Badam milk in the winters
11. Eating Curd rice with spicy roasted aloo, and having the most amazing nap after
12. Eating Garma garam gulab jamun in the peak of winter
13. MALPUA RABRI
14. Gorging on falooda during those sweltering july days
15. Eating dhabe wali aloo parantha, makhan ke saath
16. MAKKI KI ROTI, SARSON DA SAAG
17. Getting drunk on Diwali wali daaru
18. Sneakily drinking bhang wali dood during holi
19. PANEER TIKKA
20. Eating momos with the tikhi chutney and dying because of the spice
21. HOT Dosa, which is crunchy on the outer edges, but soft on the inside, with spicy sambar and coconut chutney
22. Idlis from the steamer, with onion sambar and mulagapodi
23. Pappu annam and charu, on a Sunday, and then a 4 hour nap
24. Gongura annam, perugu pachadi, on a random saturday, because gongura leaves were leftover
25. That sweet and sour mango pachadi at the peak of mango season
26. Tirunelvelli halwa, fresh from the stove
25. Kesari, with filter coffee, after it has rained
(I'm hungry now)
467 notes
·
View notes
To summarize this awesome post by @papenathys as a fellow South Asian girl: "I do not dream of labour" is not for us, was not designed with us in mind, and it will never be for the majority of us. We will literally be left to starve and die if do not labour or fend for ourselves. We have no alternative to labour.
The typical romanticization of the world and life, the way Tumblr and Pinterest and Instagram portrays it to us, is inherently Eurocentric. It is not available to us, and we need to all stop expecting a harsh, colonialist world to eventually accommodate us. It won't.
17 notes
·
View notes