#desidarkacademia

[g0j0s]

you cut off women from dancing, because girls of good characters do not indulge in such lewd activities. if they become one with their swaying hips, how will you hold down their bodies and spirits?

you cut off women from reading, because books have so many vile ideas about freedom and humanity. hence, they may begin to spin ideas from the yarn of knowledge, jeopardising the conditional safety of your cage.

you cut off women from adorning themselves lovingly, because lest they begin to like the shape of their noses or the curves of their waist; they will stop caring about other people and conforming to your standards of beauty.

you cut off women from expressing because girls from good families do not raise their voices. you say the devil resides in their voice boxes and if they don’t watch their tongues, they may taint the name of their families.

you cut off women from being, so the only thing they’re left with is fear and misery. grinding that terror on the stone of fate like grains, they toil away their lives.

then you call them many many rotten things if any of them refuses to believe this. still, if they don’t comply, force is applied repeatedly.

they become a skeleton of their potential self, grieving in secrecy; because privacy is a luxury. what if in the empty silence they finally start thinking & questioning?

yet, you wonder why they’re exhausted and angry, fighting silent wars within and outside.

[undergroundtoast]

When Prasoon Joshi wrote “tere ishq mein meri jaan fanaa ho jaaye. And Fall out boy sang, “what is there between us if not a little annihilation”.

[moon-musing]

How they did what they had to do to get u out of their lives, now u do what you have to do to get them out of ur mind.

[filtercoffeeonsteroids]

The whole gajra-in-hair, payal-jingling aesthetic 🌼

[selfawaremaniac]

in my peak Mughal princess era

[angstypangstybaby]

"Woman holding fruit"- Raja Ravi Varma

[madhubai]

Just a random desi tag game

1)Favourite 90’s bolly movie - Hum Apke Hai Koun

2)Favourite 00’s bolly movie - I have more than one actually lmao :”) I love Umrao Jaan , Yatra , Devdas

3)Favourite 10’s bolly movie - Bajirao Mastani

4)Favourite female playback singer - Lata Mangeshkar , Asha Bole , Shreya Ghoshal

5)Favourite male playback singer - Kishore Kumar , Mohammad Rafi , Arijit Singh

6)A non-hindi song that means a lot to me- Maahi ve

7)Fav piece of traditional clothing - saree or punjabi suit / salwar kameez

Thanks @minxingcyberlover for tagging me 💖

Tags: @desidarkacademia @jodhadreams @ji-jii-visha @urlocalpari @dhumvati

[drblogg]

your life is as long as you fake it

mehendi is as much as love makes it

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#desiblr #desigurl #desigirl #yourdesigirl #desi tag #justdesithings #quirky #coolgirl #india #indianthings #hehehemehendionmyhandswhen #desis #hidesipeeps #desibesi #priyankachopra #desiislife #mehendi #henna #south asian #quirkygirl #originalpost #follow #desimemes #laugh #desilaugh #browngirl #desiacademia #desidarkacademia #desistuff #iykyk

[pitrsattabhaadmeinjaa]

Oh um, hello I would like to be part of the desi gang too :)

FELLOW DESI

LETS GET YOU SOME NEW FRIENDS

@bangtan-babies @secret-eden @that-geeky-dude @thefandomonly @uvindi @blues-clues-oh-wait @desidarkacademia @itseatyourdamnapples @chiksey @starviki @rainbowsnowflake @i-love-books-and-i-cannot-lie @an-adventureland @limp-wrist @didyouputyournameinthegobi @holding-infinity-and-a-book @yumiiiiiii @cowboy-is-queer @momo-all-the-way @insaneasgardian

[g0j0s]

female friendships are so precious and beautiful. sisterhood is so inherent in women. there is a life force where many women are sitting together and conversing. their giggles reverberates through the deepest chambers of the even the coldest of hearts & softens them. when they take care of each other together from oiling their hair turn by turn by to putting henna on each other’s palms, everything is a sacred offering to some source unseen; but only felt. they spend hours talking about things unfathomable from the basis of love to the state of the world, the soul, beauty, last, present & future & many other philosophies. because when they’re sitting in a room together that’s where they’re easily allowed to ‘be’. here, they aren’t someone being smothered by alotted identities. they aren’t just someone’s sister or daughter or even lover, but just humans trying to make the most out of their freedom to breathe.

[lotuslyricist]

Aesthetics of Feminity in ancient India #1

#indian #desi #desidarkacademia #chokherbali #AncientIndia #Aishwarya

[moon-musing]

You're not beautiful or pretty to me. You are you. You are your silly laugh. You are your mind fucking poetry. You are your chipped nails and your baby hair. You are your scar on ur left knee. You are all the people you have loved and the others who never loved you. You are your dirty jokes and your wildered innocence. You are mine and at same time everyone else's . You are you in your most insignificant way yet you have got me looking at you in a room full of pretty eyes and seamered lips.

-𝑠𝒶𝓂𝒶𝓇

[placeholderformymonkeybrain]

Hey there!! To all those who love #DesiDarkAcademia, made a little playlist. It's got some coke studio, some Raaga based classical music- thumris and khyaal, some Bollywood, folk, ghazals and Sufi music. Hope you like it!

[selfawaremaniac]

How exactly do I explain to my people that I grew up watching women in lehengas, and saris, and salwar kameez; how do I explain that I've never set foot in India or Pakistan but their language is not foreign to my tongue; how exactly do I make you understand that these are not my people but they are mine, that ever since I could imagine getting married, I've always imagined wearing a lehenga & an Arjit Singh song would play in the background as I descend the stairs of my ancestral home; how do I make you believe that I, who has only seen these people from behind a screen, have loved them & still love them with all my heart? How do I explain myself when they point fingers and tell me to stay in my culture? How do I tell them that this is also my culture? In my heart, it is mine; in my heart, I am as desi as I am Nigerian; as desi as I am not. How?

[hiraverybrown]

سوچتا ہوں کہ محبت ہے جوانی کی خزاں اس نے دیکھا نہیں دنیا میں بہاروں کے سوا نکہت و نور سے لبریز نظاروں کے سوا سبزہ زاروں کے سوا اور ستاروں کے سوا ۔ن م راشد

#desidarkacademia #desitumblr #desipoetry #urdupoetry #desi #indiandarkacademia #vintageaesthetic #aesthetic

(at 𝙉𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙜𝙞𝙘) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXI6-vtgjtq/?utm_medium=tumblr

[dosa-sambhar]

The 1st one gives me desi dark academia vibes and rest are so cute