my birthday is 'round the corner and it explains the crankiness, the rudeness, the unannounced bursts of 'i hate everybody and everything and everyplace'

Franz Kafka, Diaries of Franz Kafka (April 8, 1914)

T. S. Elliot, The Wasteland

Naguib Mahfouz, Adrift on the Nile

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Song of a Second April

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories

Mahasweta Devi, inaugural speech at the Frankfurt Book Fair on the occasion of India becoming the first country to be invited as the chief guest for the second time, 2006.

text id: [ …my country; torn, tattered, proud, beautiful, hot, humid, cold, sandy, shining India. My country. ]

Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson) / @wholeheartedsuggestions / Jenny Slate / Euripides again

this ramadan we pray for peace and aid for the people of palestine. this ramadan we remember the previous ramadans, where thousands of palestinians were massacred. this ramadan we honour palestine, and may we see a free palestine next ramadan

Spider-woman Pavitra Prabhakar for a commissioner🕷️

Commissions are now open!

Idk who needs to hear this but removing Mughal history from history textbooks completely to the point that the future generations wouldn't even KNOW who the Mughals were, is not the way to go.

You can't just distort history and remove a chunk of it. That's a very biased way of viewing something that actually happened not even 500 years ago. History is not fiction. You can't remove the existence of real people.

When you remove Mughal history, you also remove the good and bad they did. You remove the reason behind the beautiful blend of Indo-Islamic architecture, culture and art we see today, few of the things that have implied towards a sense of harmony amidst the religious chaos that reeked back in the day. But with that, you ALSO remove the massive destruction and looting of thousands of temples, the inhumane measures, laws and punishments they put up against non-Muslims, the struggles and sacrifices of the Hindus and other oppressed groups who protested against these atrocities oh-so-courageously. You remove their cries, their brave stories. You remove the valiant fights Shivaji, Maharana Pratap and their likes put up against these people. You remove the martyrs of the several genocides these guys (especially Babur) caused. You remove them all, because once there's no Mughals, who did these brave souls fight against?

Also why only Mughals? What about the Khaljis, Mamluks, Tughlaqs, and others? They committed way worse atrocities than the Mughals did tbh. So with that logic all of their histories should be wiped out? But that's almost like a 700-800-year-history-wipeout we're talking about (the dates might not be accurate). And that's not how it works.

Here's a better idea. Just... show their good and their bad, and just don't glorify them and their tyranny. We keep the struggles and the sour lives the suppressed groups lived under the rule of these dynasties, and maybe glorify the brave souls who fought selflessly against them. We show how they plundered any place of worship that wasn't a mosque, and treated the idols of these religions post-destruction. We can also include the non-Islamic kingdoms and kingdoms that stood still and strong despite the invasions, like the many Hindu kingdoms in the south, then the Ahom dynasty and a few other small kingdoms in the northeast, etc. We can bring lesser-known and highly underrated non-Islamic kingdoms into light too in this process, and how they dealt with these invaders. (Half of these points are already depicted in the existing textbooks, or... atleast the textbooks *I* studied back in school, but I think they get kinda overshadowed by the subtle glorification of these invaders)

These are the solutions I'd provide. If anyone has anything to add, please do, or if yall have better solutions, pls lmk. But removing a huge chunk of history just out of pure hate and revenge like this is NOT the way to go about in the field of history LMFAO. It's the same as how that one biased historian recently claimed that no Hindu temples were destroyed by the Islamic invaders.

Hey..

This is the first time I'm going through your blogs and believe me all your writing are so good. 💌

THANK YOU SO MUCH T_T

How are you??

if this was somewhere else, i'd just say "i'm good" but since this is tumblr, well

i'm okay. i recently got into a little accident, so there's a little wound. i am terrified about what's in store for me this year. it's my board year and i have no idea about how to do things. i so want to do well. i am trying to fix my sleep schedule, trying to convince by brain that food is essential for survival.

yep, that's it.

academic validation hell ya!

i am literally so happy (i received my marksheet today) and i scored a 91 out of 100 (that is one mark less than the highest score awarded in my grade) in my native language Bengali/ বাংলা because it has taken me a few years of determination to come here. i had been initially unbothered about this particular subject because of the 'who even takes up an indian language in their higher studies' stereotype. but i realised it is the tongue my mother and several generations of mothers preceding her have spoken in, it is the language they have called their sisters with sweet endearments, it is the language they used to declare revolution against colonialism and imperialism, it is the language they have shed their blood for in the early days of 1952. so i decided, if i could have a perfect score in english, achieving the same for bengali couldn't be am impossible feat. and here i am, my score in bengali pushed up in the early 90's, just like it is for english language (i've got a 98 in english literature but we're not talking about it).

i am happy.

hey just wanted to tell you this is probably the first time i went through your blog and lets just say im in awe of all your writings

lots of love<3

omg that means a lot. i love it when a stranger stumbles upon my silly blog filled with quotes from books and films, poems, stories, a piece of desi culture to thought dumps and criticism; and they like it. this is what brings me back here every day

i love how here on Tumblr, we don't know each other's real names, we don't know a thing about the other person's ethnicity, religion or social background and the lack of this knowledge doesn't bother us, ever. we still choose to love and show our support to the person on the other end of the screen, solely based on what they do on this platform. I've had my fair share of un-amazing people on this app, but my love for this place is more than that.

thank you for being here. it's been wonderful.

I don't why but seeing posts from some of my mutuals made me feel guilty all of sudden though i am not...Even though I know I have never in my wildest dreams hurt them. People are leaving tumblr and some of my mutuals are also leaving.

When I practically, seriously and authentically started using tumblr I met my first tumblr friend (cannot mention).. Met many many other creeps... I shared my trauma to one of my mutuals and they started glorifying the trauma, but still for weird reasons I support that person.. I care about that person and has never shammed that person and visa versa...

(Wanted to give shanti to some people being natorer bonolota sen, but this bonolota sen (me) is a failure)

My class 12 is going to start and I don't think I will be using tumblr in a regular basis.. I will lose my full fleged focus if I focus on tumblr...

Tumblr was like a journal to me, wanted to give advice to the one's who were younger than me. I received lots and lots of love and affection from many of my mutuals..

If by any chance I have caused harm to anyone I am sorry from the bottom of my heart and I know I have always behaved nicely and kept my calm with everyone here..

(Shantiniketan blog will be posted no worries)

The one's I will miss the most

(Ei Natorer bonolota kaoke shanti dite parlona, kaoke na)

@enigma-the-mysterious @basantinodance @hashi-thatta @jukti-torko-golpo @zindagi-se-darte-ho @thecaffeinatedresearcher @dopebanditlightpie @shyam-kariya @punamc @zakhmpemarham and many more...

Thanks a lot for this wonderful journeys guys meet you next year.. (I will be online the whole day todays. If anyone has any queries please dm) BYE GUYS LOTS OF LOVE... I Hope I will have the best wishes for class 12..

@amar-hiyar-majhe this was inspired from your recent post, 'a sudden feeling'

I Forget The Rules of This Game.

'one sided shesher kobita'

i gave you my copy of shesher kobita with little pencil annotates in it. i gave you a piece of literature dear to me and i expected you to give me your heart in return; an unfair trade. although i had put a piece of my heart in the pages of the book —my thoughts—, your eyes saw none of it, your heart read none of it.

plath writes in one of her earlier journal entries — "there is so much hurt in this game of searching for a companion, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and you turn away in tears."

and one day you returned the book, you never showed up again. yes, i forgot the rules of this game. and i forgot that you were good at.

bas koi "aur aap bataiyein aapka din kaisa tha?" puchhne wala chahiye

Ice cream date chahiye

I Forget The Rules of This Game.

'one sided shesher kobita'

i gave you my copy of shesher kobita with little pencil annotates in it. i gave you a piece of literature dear to me and i expected you to give me your heart in return; an unfair trade. although i had put a piece of my heart in the pages of the book —my thoughts—, your eyes saw none of it, your heart read none of it.

plath writes in one of her earlier journal entries — "there is so much hurt in this game of searching for a companion, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and you turn away in tears."

and one day you returned the book, you never showed up again. yes, i forgot the rules of this game. and i forgot that you were good at.