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february “the month of love” moodboard

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Amrita Sher-Gil & a self portrait

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i do quite enjoy it when you pass by a stranger you find attractive & you both share a look. knowing you’d like to say hello but you don’t. rather hang on to the moment knowing you’ll never see them again

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tbw

certain women (2016)

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——Jhumpa Lahiri in Sabyasachi at the Indian Coffee House, Kolkata. 📸Vogue, 2016.

Although the shops of college streets hold her novels, no one recognises her. Lahiri is fluent in Bengali, but speaks with an American cadence. Despite being born in Kolkata and moving to America at the oblivious age of three, she is a foreigner, an outsider to the booksellers, waiters and students she encountered.

“I’ve always had this feeling wherever I go. Of not feeling fully part of things, not fully accepted, not fully inside of something. Identify has been such an explosive territory for me…so hard, so painful at times.”

Lahiri moved to Rhode island during the 1970s due to her father’s job as a librarian at the University of Rhode Island. Leaving India and accepting America wasn’t her choice to make and she’s had to grapple with its consequence all her life.

“My parents relationship with Kolkata is so strong. Growing up, the absence of Kolkata was always present in our lives.”

Taken from an interview to Vogue, on the release of her book - In Altre Parole. (2016)

In two of my personal favourites, The Namesake and The Lowland, she weaves language with the politics of inherited identity and memory by basing them in 70s Kolkata.

#jhumpa lahiri #mira nair #the namesake #desiblr #english literature #desi aesthetic #desi tumblr #bookstagram #booklr #studyinspo #studyblr

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2024’s book fair ‘want to read’ and some other visuals. didn’t buy a single book because it was the end of the month, money was a bit short and also sometimes i like to take my time around and research before buying literally anything.

mid sem anxieties amidst some winter and fitzcarraldo blues.

#desiblr #english literature #desi tumblr #spotify #virginia woolf #desi aesthetic #booklr

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exam season and some brief getaways

#desi tumblr #desiblr #kolkatadiaries #studyblr #english literature #studyinspo

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tbr

The World’s Loneliest Whale Sings the Loudest Song by Noor Hindi

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this is literally what every middle class brown child grows up with -- to see our parents wear the same good quality sweater every winter and have it pass down to us, some 20 years later and its still good as new. with the epidemic of micro trends and poor quality fabrics clothes become increasingly disposable and everything we buy in an attempt to 'build an outfit' is a part of our raging addiction for consumerism.

the only way to combat this is to literally go back to our roots, see our mothers, their pherans and coats tucked away in nice little covers, taken out every autumn for defrosting and ready for the next winter. buying an outfit that would go with at least 3 other staple wardrobe essentials. cutting down by asking questions about need or want.

the tagged post wasn't about clothes but now it is. thank you!

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#vintage fashion #fashion blog #fashionblr #sustainable fashion

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hello! it's been a while since you've posted any essay collection 👀 would you be willing to share your favourites of this year with us?

yes! here you go —

Disunited Kingdom by Fintan O'Toole

South Asia's place in contemporary climate fiction by Evan Tims

What's the matter with men? by Idrees Kahloon (archived)

Power to the Caribbean people by V. S. Naipaul (archived)

Can Russia ever be democratic? by Kyle Orton

Death by Design by Daniel Callcut

Joshimath: once upon a town by Rahul Pandita

Exposed by Sadie Levy Gale

In the Shifting Embrace of the Ganga by Arati Kumar-Rao

(Less essay, more interview) Matty Healy by Alexis Petridis

The Roots of Global South's New Resentment by Mark Suzman

How TikTok Became a Diplomatic Crisis by Alex Palmer (archived)

This review of Oppenheimer by Richard Brody of the New Yorker (archived)

India's new growing elite by Shekhar Gupta

There are definitely more I'm forgetting and which I will try to excavate!

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“Every soul has its path, but sometimes that path is not clear.”

Lost In Translation (2003) dir. Sofia Coppola

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Dead Sea, Palestine under the Moon

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Mahmoud Darwish, from "In the Presence of Absence," originally published in 2006