#India Town

[kamfalk]

From Spain: Chick Corea Elektric Band performs selections from their first album, live at the Pabellon Deportivo, Del Real Madrid, Spain, May 1986, with Chick Corea (keys), Scott Henderson (guitar), John Patitucci (bass) and Dave Weckl (drums).

[bethanydelleman]

Speaking on the Ellen Show, Knightley said her daughter (who was born in 2015) was “banned” from watching Cinderella, which Disney produced as a cartoon in 1950 and a live-action film in 2015. “[Cinderella] waits around for a rich guy to rescue her. Don't. Rescue yourself!

Says the woman who starred in a trilogy that said, "No murderers and theives were good actually because they wanted freedom."

[charminglygrouped]

Cotton skirt-cloths produced in India for the Thai market in the 19th century. Cloth of this nature was made-to-order by Indian craftspeople, and combined Indian and Thai textile technologies with Thai motifs. Several of these cloths have been created using mordant-dyeing and draw-resist techniques; the gold paint in the first, fourth, and last cloths was probably added in Thailand.

Mordant-dyeing is a technique that uses natural dye alongside a dye fixative—in this case, a metallic salt—to chemically bind the colorant to the cloth, and produce more permanent colours.

In resist-dyeing, some areas of the fabric are covered to prevent them from taking on any dye. A drawn resist technique uses a resist, such as wax, mud, gum, or resin, that is drawn onto the fabric.

A resist-dyeing technique may also be combined with a block-printing technique: in which case, a resist is applied to a carved block or stencil, and then pressed onto the fabric.

Contrast these colours and patterns with those on cloth intended for the English and Dutch markets.

[whaliiwatching]

no one understands them

[recherchestetique]

Arial view of Auroville experimental township in Viluppuram district, India

[boopsloop363]

Boop! I disagree about the cities; since they lack the natural habitat (too much concrete, cars, noises, no wildlife, no forest / desert / beach), they always attract people who haven't really bonded with their family so they try to get that comfort from being in a large group. And since the majority of people don't even own their homes in the city, they do not invest time and effort into decorating it. Whereas, in the rural areas, people know each other, they own their homes and make them pretty, and they stay longer in one place. Wishing you a good Fourth Advent! 💌

I've had a really rough week, I'm working on the weekend as well and Monday we're going to the sludge basement again so it'll be nothing but nonstop fun fun fun for me, anon. You make good points but that wasn't always the case. Lots of tight knit ethnic communities formed in these cities at one point and some continue to do so. These communities were deliberately destroyed using blockbusting shortly after desegregation to break the powerblocks a tight knit community inevitably creates. Once these people were spread to the winds and the solidarity collapsed, the cities inevitably fell into the hands of the elites who had little to worry about from the atomized individuals left within. This current situation isn't the norm by any means and it was done deliberately to reduce the political power of the average American

[turnedpalefromlackofsun]

So My plan for world domination is that I'll draw

And then uh

Yeah

No so hear me out

I'm gonna conquer one side with indian lolis. Because the lahenga and sari leave so much waist exposed, it's super easy to just... tailor the clothes a little to expose more

And then I'll conquer the other side by drawing yaoi

And then I can conquer the ones nobody wanna conquer because they're a detriment to society by making an alt account, canceling myself, and then fixing my own art

And slowly, Indian aesthetics will subconsciously seep into everyone's minds and then my culture will be popular and more people will draw it because it's pretty

[gimme-a-second]

English translation: Do not say to prayer, "I have work to do." Say to work, "I have to pray." Pray before your prayer is offered (i.e., before you die)."

(This is a Hindi couplet emphasizing the importance of prioritizing prayer over worldly responsibilities.)

📍Local shop, Lucknow

[thedaily-beer]

Pure Project + Ghost Town Brewing The Serpent's Head West Coast IPA (Picked up at Windmill Farms). A 3 of 4. Lots of complex tropical fruit and some herbal/resin notes in the nose. The body is on the lighter side with some citrus and white wine-like notes, too, and finishes relatively clean with just a touch of bitterness.

[dailystreetsnapshots]

Dharamshala, India

[heebsjeebs-deactivated20210312]

I have customer who is a Spaniard with an accent, and I love him because he's polite and he understands all the work that goes into what he comes in asking me to do, but I also hate that I'm basically a parrot and that I struggle with trying to not pick up his accent as soon as he opens his mouth.

[000marie198]

Incorporating jinns in fanfics with real life accuracy is super fun. Who'd have thought

[charminglygrouped]

I found a passage that's potentially interesting from the point of view of "post-colonial" / comparative literature studies. An Englishman introduces another Englishman's account of a masquerade ball given and attended by Europeans in Madras, India, in January of 1811, and imagines what the Indians there must have thought of it. He wonders how the absurdity (including in terms of gender!!) of the masquerade, and seeing Englishmen in silly costumes, could have been reconciled with the Indians' necessary belief in the wisdom and learnedness of their English rulers—and concludes that it was probably unwise to give them so much cause to doubt the wisdom and learnedness of the English, or to cause them to have to find ways to reconcile their (according to him) belief in English superiority, with this evidence of their wild behaviour:

Undoubtedly, if we could dive into the hearts of our Hindoo subjects in India, we should discover many reflections indulged on the character, manners, dispositions, and prevailing oddities of their European masters, which never escape their lips. The Hindoos are not famous for sincerity: and while under subjection, silence and concealment scarcely appear otherwise than as wisdom and prudence; virtues in no mean estimation. The character of an Englishman requires at all times more familiar acquaintance with his home, and his enjoyments there, than foreigners in general can obtain, in order to their fairly appreciating, or understanding it. We may presume, that this proposition applies to India with augmented power, and that among a population so diverse in almost every respect from Europeans, the act of wonderment is frequently excited by the vagaries, freaks, humours, and pastimes of the stranger-sovereigns who be-lord Hindoostan.

Some of our athletic exercises, as horseracing, or cricket, or even the humbler amusement of trap-ball way pass well enough without censure, though not without surprize, as violent exertions in that sultry climate. Games of chance are customary among the natives; and to the performances of professed dancers they are no strangers, though they do not dance themselves; but, what can they think of that motley assemblage of personages, and characters, of transformations and revelry; that mixture of all ranks and personages, which composes a masquerade? By what process of logic shall they be able to explain the delight experienced by a man of the robe, who lays aside his solemnity to assume the knowing leers of a Newmarket jockey; or the zest with which a captain, habituated to command, becomes an infant six feet high, or acts the female ballad singer, whose trills are executed, as the character requires, in a falsetto voice? Without persuing these remarks, we confess that, could we procure them genuine, "Warm from the heart, and faithful to its fires," we should greatly admire the various readings, and still more various comments to which (for example) the promising proposals of Mr. Terence O'Blarney, could not fail of giving occasion. "If this gentleman had not seen such practitioners in his own country, would he have imagined them in this?—and if he be correct, what a strange land is that where officers the most efficient, military, legal, ecclesiastical, literary, &c. &c. are supplied by contract, with speeches, opinions, discourses, and suggestions applicable or inapplicable?"—Were the whole history of this amusement translated into the vernacular language, into Persian, or &c. and circulated in the Acbars, throughout the east—what would be thought of it? To deem the British fools, would be contrary to long experience: to admit the constancy of British wisdom, would be in opposition to these presents: perhaps they may cut the knot they cannot untie, as others have done before them, and infer, that the English when grave, are so grave, when learned, so learned, when wise, so wise, that to render life bearable they must sometimes indulge in the contrary extreme; that frivolity must triumph over gravity, imbecility over learning, and fatuity over wisdom. Those who find these strictures ill placed, will be mistaken if they think us enemies to fun; we too, with the poet, are convinced, that Dulce est desipere in loco [it is pleasant to be frivolous in the appropriate place]; but, whether that locus [appropriate place] be India, where a handful of Europeans governs a population of millions, is more than our convictions will allow us to insist.

— "Hindoo Estimate of English Manners: A Masquerade, to Wit?" In The Literary Panorama, vol 10 (September 1811), pp. 483-492.

(the article he's responding to, which provides a description of this masquerade, follows immediately after)

[khuuuusshi]

(https://wanderon.in/blogs/white-town-in-puducherry)

IT'S WHITTTTEEEE TOWN!

White Town is simply gorgeous. A piece of France in India. Taking a simple stroll down White town is a blessing to your eyes. The gorgeous array of colours; the warm oranges to the cold blues, the variety of flora, the intricate doors, and so on.

White Town, also known as the French Quarter/colony, allows you to experience a part of France in India. The houses in White Town are to die for. I would kill to live in such pretty houses. They have large columns and arches, intricate details carved into doors, the extravagant amount of flora, simply gorgeous.

The French influence isn't just visible in the villas but in the cafes and shops too. Many restaurants in the area serve French cuisine and have menus in the language.

It's an incredible way of experiencing a blend of Indian and French culture.

Going to White Town is a must!

[etchif]

Playing openguessr country mode and like 50% of the places I'm spawned in are in India

[anouchan-jpg]

so i was in Goa and i saw a total of 2 cats and around 985 dogs 🤨