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shakchunni · 5 years

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desi tag!

tagged by resident ig baddie @lblis 💜

1.What’s your name and what does it mean? zaheen, according to my mom means talented and i also heard from my pakistani teachers that it means intelligent in urdu

2.Where from the motherland is you/your family from? everyone in my family is from chittagong bangladesh

3.Would you move back to where your family is from, why or why not? as much as i love bangladesh... no lots of reasons involving me having less freedom there as a wamen and the political climate lol but also i dont feel a sense of home there anymore :’(

4.What language(s) can you speak? bangla hindi urdu english mainly and french ig

5.Favorite Bollywood movie? probably kabhi khushi kabhi gham or kuch kuch hota hai

6. Favorite desi meal? tehari, paya, hilsha fish w mustard yum yum n fish paturi

7.Where in the motherland do you want to visit? sylhet ! it’s known for it’s tea gardens n lots of historical landmarks and sonargaon (it means village of gold!) for the architecture

8.Favorite desi singer? bengali bands my parents listened to: souls, miles, renaissance, and bhumi

9.Describe your favorite desi outfit? currently i rly love gararas i bought a pink one for the last eid and it was so gorgeous

10.Can you make a round roti? YES ! i have always been naturally talented at making perfect rotis (wife material mashallah) my grandma used to taunt my mom when i was little bc she sucks at it hehe

11.Favorite Bollywood actor? i hate men

12.Favorite Bollywood actress? kajol, deepika, sonam, madhuri, priyanka

13.Favorite desi in the western media? hhmm priyanka ig

14.Strange superstitions you’ve heard from relatives. dont go out during maghreb dont have ur hair loose at/after maghreb bc jins if u bite ur tongue or get hiccups someone is thinking about u dont play with shadows bc it will bring bad luck

15.Describe your spice tolerance. very high my family is from the part of bangladesh stereotypically known for eating extra spicy food hfjkjs and my dad’s family eats rly spicy food on top of that so both of those combined..

16.Best street food. fuchka! otherwise known as pani puri. also bhelpuri and those little newspaper cones they sell with fried muri and onions and peanut and chillies

17.The weirdest question you got from a non desi person. “how come u dont have an accent if u lived there”

18.How do you like your chai? i dont :/

19.When was the last time you have visited the motherland (if you dont live there)? 3 years :”((((

20.Your favorite and least favorite part of your culture?

favorite: literally everything aurang said really “desi” culture is so vibrant and diverse we have so many different kinds of cultures and within those sm languages and clothes and food and music and everything it rly makes me proud to belong to such a colourful culture :”) i was reading some books my grandad gave me and the author was talking about how dhaka, where i grew up, was one of the most prosperous cities in the subcontinent in the medieval times n makes me kinda mad to think abt how we had that taken away from us thx to white ppl :)

least favorite: how brown people are late to everything and colourism and antiblackness and how the colour of ur skin denotes the way people, especially women, are treated. also the other day my mom was saying how i cant take this one pair of pants to bangladesh bc u can kind of barely see the outline of my legs and it look’s “trashy” and no one wants to see that when literally every man in my family walks around shirtless only in a lungi like i dont wanna see that but i digress

im gonna tag @sitaaras @bengalifairy @ubhokami @hoseoch @kuraepika and any other desitual who may wanna do this i can’t rmbr anymore even though i know u guys exist :/

#this was fun i love talking abt myself ty aurang #juhi ik u just liked this but im tagging u bc i remembered 1 more browntual

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