#books Indian

[readingawaymyshelf]

My Sisters Big Fat Indian Wedding Review

3.75/5 

Some of my favorite old Indian movies always have a big wedding sequence in them and I was missing those nostalgic big cheesy Indian wedding vibes in the Indian movies these days. This book made me feel all types of nostalgia because it had everything you could want, the wedding chaos, the copious amount of food, nosey relatives, the aunties always trying to set the singles up, cheesy romance where the love interests fall in love in the matter of days. I loved it!

Also can we talk about the cover!

[theacademicgatsby]

i think this might be my favorite picture I've taken till date

[smart-macademia]

desi academia has my heart ☕🖤

[quotespile]

If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.

Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

[permanent0midnight]

currently reading 🍁🫎

[pagesofjasmine]

[mangotalkies]

early morning reading on 16th century maratha empire

[sehsfav]

via Instagram.

[uwmspeccoll]

Decorative Sunday

The Warli are an indigenous tribe of western India, living in the mountain and coastal areas along the Maharashtra-Gujarat border north of Mumbai. Their artistic traditions date back 5000 years, with patterns of circles, triangles, and squares that accrete to form dynamic natural forms like expressive, fluid pictograms. Today, these patterns may be found on the walls and floors of both domestic and community spaces in Warli communities.

In The Deep, a limited-edition, hand-bound book, silkscreen-printed by hand on recycled cotton paper with unique cover marbling, and published in Chennai, India by Tara Books in 2020, the brothers Mayur and Tushar Vayeda adapt the Warli style of their community to present the dynamic relationships between human habitation and the depths of the sea. The text by Arun and Gita Wolf is derived from an oral narrative by the Vayeda brothers.

View more Decorative Sunday posts.

[bezierballad]

I actually began to notice a weird pattern with the arcs:

"INSANE DARK JACK THE RIPPER MYSTERY FULL OF MURDER AND BETRAYAL"

"okay time for a curry competition"

"INSANE MYSTERY WITH AN ACTION-PACKED BATTLE BETWEEN SERVANTS AND CIRCUS PERFORMERS"

"oh no someone died at a dinner party"

"INSANE ACTION-PACKED ESCAPE FROM A SHIP FILLED WITH FLESH-EATING ZOMBIES"

"oh no someone died at this school"

"INSANE ACTION-PACKED JOURNEY THROUGH A CREEPY FOREST FULL OF WEREWOLVES"

"okay it's jpop time"

[brokehorrorfan]

Stephen Graham Jones (My Heart is a Chainsaw, The Only Good Indians) will publish The Buffalo Hunter Hunter on Match 18 via Saga Press.

Set in the American west of 1912, the 496-page horror novel follows a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.

A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story written by one of the new masters of horror, Stephen Graham Jones.

Pre-order The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones.

[theinsomniacindian]

In theory, I'm dark academia. In practice, I'm chaotic academia

[garadinervi]

Leonard Peltier is going home [February 18, 2025]

(image: Peter Matthiessen, (1983), In the spirit of Crazy Horse, Afterword by Martin Garbus, Viking, New York, NY, 1991)

[yaviae]

via autumn-and-winter-collection

[multi-fandom-lunatic]

GUYS. DESI BIANA VACKER HAS ARRIVED. IN A LEHENGA.

by the talented @geo-rosey <33 (I guess my whining about desi vackers paid off in the most beautiful piece i have ever seen) oh my gods you have outdone yourself in every way geo <33

[oyeevarnika]

"पढ़ने लिखने वाला लड़का, पढ़ी लिखी महबूबा को मिलता है तो फूल नहीं देता है, किताबें देता है”

~ तसनीफ़ हैदर