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I'm tired of Westerners acting like they are the authority on queerness when in fact, until they colonized it Asia was a queer friendly place. And we are all supposed to care so damn much about their problems be it knowing about Stonewall or which new trendy word they want to use to define things that have existed for centuries before them while they refuse to do the same for us or even acknowledge that we just do things differently. They want it done exactly as they've done it. When it's Indian or any other Asian person choosing culture/history/family over themselves it's because they are repressed/religious/uninformed/bigot, etc. Not that we just wouldn't do that. If we were straight we still wouldn't do that.

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Kuch to log kahenge logon ka kaam hai kehna

I’m finding it’s the way of the world….

When fluffy bls were being made people complained now when we are getting more mature complex stories it's "negative lgbtq representation" i would have gone nuts as a director ngl

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Murmura Chivda - Spicy Puffed Rice - Alfa Foods

A delightful Indian snack known as murmura chivda or kurmura chivda is made with puffed rice, curry leaves, herbs, and peanuts. This quick and easy recipe for crunchy and spicy puffed rice may be prepared in under 30 minutes. It is a nutritious, gluten-free, vegan snack that is great for teatime or as a Diwali (faral) snack!

Try this murmura chivda recipe if you're wanting to prepare a quick, easy, savoury snack for Diwali, which is just around the corner. Kurmura, also known as Murmura Chivda, is a quick, crispy, and highly addicting snack that can be made in about 30 minutes. If you enjoy chivda as much as I do, try this alternative recipe for Poha chivda.

What is Murmura Chivda

Puffed rice is known as murmura (or muri) in English, mamra in Gujarati, and kurmura in Marathi. It is taste-neutral, light, and white in colour. Indian households frequently utilise it to prepare snacks like bhel puri, sukhi bhel, murmura combination, and chivda. An Indian snack mix or spicy trail mix is called chivda or namkeen. The ingredients and recipe for chivda can differ depending on the locale.

The major ingredient in chivdaa, which can be either oats, cornflakes, rice flakes, or puffed rice, is typically a mixture of dried fruits, nuts, other fried crispy foods, and spices and curry leaves. I'm giving a recipe for murmura chivda in the Maharashtrian manner today.  This chivda is made with puffed rice, split-roasted chickpeas, roasted peanuts, and is spiced with curry leaves, green chile, and basic spices. It is a far healthier and tastier alternative to purchasing pre-made alternatives like diet bhel, lemon bhel, sukhi bhel, or other puffed rice snacks. It is a really basic and straightforward dish that comes together in less than 30 minutes.

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What Will Inspire You To This Recipe

It's easy and basic.

It is quick, assembling in 20 minutes.

extremely tasty and compelling

Healthy, gluten-free, and vegan

at ambient temperature, a long shelf life

Excellent with tea or as snacks when travelling.

ideal for a flavorful Diwali faral.

Ingredients

Puffed rice: are murmura, mamra, and kurmura. It serves as the recipe's foundation. Similar to the rice crispies cereal, it is white, puffed, and light, but its flavour is unflavored and unsweetened. Murmura of Basmati rice was utilised. These are offered online and at grocery stores in India. Nuts: I've roasted raw peanuts until they are crunchy. To reduce the time, use toasted peanuts. These give the chivda some protein and a pleasant crunch. You can also use cashews and coconut flakes as an alternative. Split chickpeas that have been roasted: Dalia (daliya). They also provide a nice crunch. These are offered online and at grocery stores in India.

Spices & seasoning: To create chivda, you'll need basic tempering components like turmeric, curry leaves, asafoetida, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, and zeera. If you want to make it less spicy, you can omit or reduce the green chilies. Sugar and salt are used to flavour food and provide a hint of sweetness. Oil is used to temper. Use neutral, flavourless vegetable or canola oil.

Step By Step Procedure

1 - Dry roast the puffed rice on medium-low heat, stirring occasionally, until crispy (approximately 3-5 mins). One puffed rice should crush easily between your thumb and index finger when tested, producing a crisp, crunchy sound. Transfer to a sizable dish or clean plate. Set apart. Puffed rice can be roasted, but doing so will help it stay beautiful and crispy for longer. 2 - Heat oil in the same pan (clean it if necessary), then add peanuts. until the peanuts are brown and crispy, saute on medium heat (approximately 3-5 mins). Transfer to the bowl with the puffed rice after draining. 3 - After that, add the split chickpeas and cook them until they're just beginning to turn golden (approximately 2-3 mins).

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4 - Drain and add to the bowl with the peanuts and puffed rice. Set apart.

5 - Add the mustard seeds to the same pan with the oil over medium heat. Due to the roasting of the peanuts, the oil may appear little stained, but that is okay. 6 - Add the cumin seeds, asafoetida (hing), curry leaves, and green chile once the seeds begin to sputter. If you are too close when adding the green chile, it could make you sneeze and cough. 7 - Continue cooking until the green chile and curry leaves are crispy. 8 - Lower the heat and add the turmeric.

9 - Continue to cook the turmeric for a few seconds. Keep it from burning. 10 - Add salt, sugar, split chickpeas, and roasted murmura to the mixture. 11 - Gently stir the mixture until it is thoroughly covered and crispy. It will change into a lovely shade of yellow.  To avoid the mixture burning, turn off the heat and continue mixing for a few minutes after you have done so. 12 - Spicy Puffed Rice Mixture, also known as Murmura Chivda, is ready!

Suggestions For Serving and Storage

Before putting the puffed rice chivda in an airtight container, let it cool fully. It lasts 3 to 4 weeks at room temperature before going bad.  With chai or coffee, serve it room temperature as is. It also works well as a lunchbox and travel snack.

For a quick answer to your chaat desire, top this chivda with onion, tomato, potato, and a squeeze of lemon juice! You can also use it as the base for bhel puri! You should eat the mixture right away because adding any type of vegetable may cause it to become mushy.

Recipes Guide

For this recipe, use crisp, fresh, high-quality puffed rice. Even puffed rice that hasn't expired occasionally becomes stale, squishy, and develops an unpleasant odour after being stored for a while.

To make soft puffed rice crunchy once more, dry roast the grains of rice. The puffed rice is twice roasted, once before tempering and once more while tempering, to prolong the crispiness of the chivda.  Green chiles and curry leaves should be cooked till crispy. Their shelf life is extended as a result.  This recipe is simple to double. You can either prepare a big amount to share with your loved ones or preserve it in an airtight container.

To suit your tastes, alter the spice amounts. If you like your puffed rice chivda light, omit the chile or use only half of it. Add two chilies or (1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon) red chilli powder with salt and sugar at the very end if you want it hot. Red chilli powder shouldn't be added to heated oil since it burns quickly.

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bring capitalism into the equation, and we're getting the fetishization of gay relationships

Genuine Question: How does capitalism play a role here? I can't imagine BLs make so much money that this would be an actual problem? Artists need to live, eat, sleep and need to invest in the tool of their trade, so can capitalism really play a significant role outside of keeping people alive?

In Kabe Koji for instance, the lead is a successful bl manga artist and he doesn't seem to be well off. And it's not like BLs are in any way high quality stuff. Even GMMTV, the oldest and largest player in BL don't seem to have so much money that it can count as something even close to exploitative. Kinnporsche only had the money it did because of Mile and even they nearly went bankrupt.

I don't think BL/yaoi/y-novels are the kind of genre that makes a lot of money and that means people who write these stories are doing so because they love them. Should we really gatekeep that?

bl is a capitalist venture that oftentimes perpetuates harmful stereotypes

(Boy India would eat you alive.) BL as we know today is a pretty young genre. And there are growing pains to everything. No one gets everything right off the bat and that's okay. Allowing people to grow is the important bit. I'll say this as a queer Asian, BL isn't anything different than most romance movies and shows. The problematic things most westerners site exist in Het romances as well. They are working with that frame of reference and that might seem like a Thing to westerners but for us it's one and the same. Not to say it's okay but this is about putting things into perspective. The BLs are mostly emulating Het romances with boys. Of course this isn't always the case and is less and less so lately but that's where it started because unlike say the US, a regular person doesn't really have a frame of reference for what is culturally queer in their own country given all the homophobia. Like in India, you go to Mumbai, you have a gay night life and even then you have to know someone to know where and when. I'm not from Mumbai, I'm from a Tier 2 city in Gujarat. I've never in my life heard about gay stuff. Which also means I have no frame of reference for what is considered culturally queer in India. Again, just putting things into perspective. Homophobia runs our lives and narratives in ways I don't think westerners really understand. Which might be another place this discourse comes from. India won it's queer rights in silence. I bet most people don't even know there is a Supreme Court case going on right now about marriage equality. ThaiBL made the world focus on their marriage equality issues and that's the only reason most westerners would even know that this is a thing. In a way ThaiBLs represent all of us Asians saying that we deserve marriage rights too. And that is a BIG deal.

As far as The Eighth Sense is concerned, it's like you mentioned one of the creators is a European and that certainly influences the way he would have seen the story and BL in general from a European perspective. To him it would all look and feel strange but Asians understand.

I recently had a conversation with my father about 'Why Gujarati's are ... basically running India and most of the world' (it's more complicated than that but that's a topic for another time) (we say this because our PM is Gujarati, most of India's biggest business owners are Gujarati, most of America is run by Gujaratis and Punjabis (we are a big deal there)) Anyway, the important bit is - Asia fundamentally views the world different than westerners. That doesn't mean we don't like things like liberty and freedom and equality. It means we are a collectivist society (which has it's own problems but that's another thing altogether) as opposed to most of the west's individualistic society. Capitalism is evil for you people because your individualism leaves no space for moral responsibility of your fellow countrymen. It's not the same for us. It's also why people didn't understand GAP. Sam not leaving her grandmother is not unique for us. We take care of our elders. We always have. We always will. It's also why Mon couldn't ask her to leave with her, it would be wrong. There are thousands of Indian movies where this is the main conflict. Many views have been presented and ultimately it's an individual choice but society will look down on you. That's just how we are. There is nothing wrong with that.

To go back to the point of BL vs Queer Media, it's the same way people consider Anime to be for children. Our perspectives are inherently different because out cultures are different.

As Asians I don't think we should try to fit the mold of the West and what they think is real, actual queerness or queer representation. And for Westerners, I think people should start to accept that there are people who are fundamentally different to you and that's not a bad thing. It's not a discourse. That's just people being people. Cultures being cultures.

Now of course, this is an Indian perspective. It will be fundamentally different to a Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Korean perspective. Hell, I imagine an Indian would have something totally opposite to say. But that's the point of diversity and India has kinda mastered the art of diversity.

(I'd also say the West has no right to determine what is and isn't queer. Asia was pretty fucking queer friendly until the West started poking around. In fact this debate is itself a remnant of colonialism. They destroyed our history and now poke at us to laugh when it's the exact effects they intended.)

ik there's the contentious topic about categorizing things as bl and making the distinction between bl and queer media, and i do think there have been valid points in the discourse about how bl is changing and its going through a sort of r/evolution now that bl is getting pretty big (and i'm talking exclusively about asian bl here btw, so in this context it would be the globalization of asian bls). but i also think that it's important to not disregard history and bl's roots.

bl was created by women for women in the 1970s in japan. although from a feminist perspective, bl challenges gender and sexual norms, bring capitalism into the equation, and we're getting the fetishization of gay relationships for (predominantly) straight female consumption.

idt it's a "right or wrong" situation. i believe two truths can exist: bl is a capitalist venture that oftentimes perpetuates harmful stereotypes, but bl can also be liberation for a lot of people. especially asian bl—as a bisexual woc, seeing nonwhite queer media is so so important to me. and i am not asian, but i know it's especially been revolutionary for my fellow queer asian brothers, sisters, & enby siblings.

i read somewhere that the directors instructed juntaek to not watch (korean) bl when studying for his role in the eighth sense. i found this reeeeally interesting, since i've also seen people mention that the eighth sense is not a bl, but queer media. i also think it's important to point out that one of the directors/writers is a white european man, and i'm pretty sure he was the one who told juntaek to watch things like skam or call me by your name instead of kbls—i haven't seen skam but cmbyn is white queer cinema (also problematic, but i digress). in the past, there was also that british bl heartstopper (sorry besties i still haven't seen it i probably should), in which the author expressed that they did not want to label it as bl, but there was backlash as, at least the show, clearly drew inspiration from asian bl.

as a historically asian genre, how does this distinction (bl vs. queer) perpetuate the western hegemony of queer thought? usually when people make this distinction, i don't think they take into account that race plays as much as a part as queerness (intersectionality is so important). but on the other hand, i also understand that bl has clear tropes and narrative structures that make it a bl. we wouldn't call moonlight a bl, or the handmaiden a gl. but also, films are a different medium with less restrictions (if you've seen a korean film vs. a kdrama, you get me lol).

i definitely don't have an answer or anything. the eighth sense is filmed through such a queer lens and it touches on the nuances of the queer experiences in a way i haven't really seen in bl, but i still i find myself wary of proclaiming that it's not bl, ja feel? is the eighth sense (along with bls such as bad buddy, old fashion cupcake, to my star, etc.) a marker of the r/evolution of bl? i guess i just wanted to open up the conversation to hear people's thoughts, especially from my fellow queer pocs.

at the end of the day we're all here to be entertained, but i'm glad to see discourse and think it's fruitful in the long process of decolonizing our mindsets.

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Mouni Roy heads off to Istanbul with Aashka Goradia and Sanjeeda Shaikh to bring in her birthday

Mouni Roy heads off to Istanbul with Aashka Goradia and Sanjeeda Shaikh to bring in her birthday TV's original Naagin Mouni Roy turns a year older on September 28. The lady has taken time off from the shoot of Made In China to spend some quality time in Istanbul, Turkey with her gal pals. Sanjeeda Shaikh, Aashka Goradia, Sohanna Sinha and Anisha Verma have also accompanied the Bong beauty. Mouni charmed one and all as the spunky wife in the historic sports drama, Gold. She has wrapped up shoot for Romeo Walter Akbar as well. The two projects remaining are Brahmastra and Made In China. We know the actress loves to travel and Turkey with its cultural and historic sights is a treat for her. Mouni seems to have visited Greece as well with her girl gang. From enjoying Tango performances on the street to shopping at malls, the girls are living it up. https://www.instagram.com/p/BoIHyBJAFN1/?utm_source=ig_embed https://www.instagram.com/p/BoLqbMhnew1/?utm_source=ig_embed https://www.instagram.com/p/BoLkZ8IjNyv/?utm_source=ig_embed The actress will play a Gujarati girl in Made In China. This is her first film opposite Rajkummar Rao. The makers brought her on board keeping in mind her popularity with the masses. Stay tuned to BL for more scoop and updates. Mouni Roy heads off to Istanbul with Aashka Goradia and Sanjeeda Shaikh to bring in her birthday Read the full article

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I've seen it but I won't quantify it as a BL or much less a BL we never got.

For anyone wondering - the show was overall average but since it was one of the first queer characters it was big. It was decent, something I'd watch if it was on and change the channel once the episode ended. Though not something I would seek out or stay with. It was big when I was in college. I don't know about S2 though. S1 was in 2019 and there was something about S2 so unless a trailer has been released and I just haven't heard of it, I won't hold out hope.

For other queer media -

The Fame Game - Madhuri Dixit is the lead and her son is gay. He tries to commit suicide before the show starts but I'd call it pretty safe on the trigger warning. There is nothing graphic, we see absolutely nothing. But the reason I mention it is because his mother has figured it out and tells him she accepts him and love is love. She like broches the subject rather than him 'coming out'. And, if I remember it right, most of the characters are accepting. (Big deal in India) And he has the sweetest romance with a friend. The romance is not a big part of the story but the acceptance is.

Maja Ma - I love this movie! Another Madhuri Dixit starrer. She is a Gujarati housewife/mom and I had chills when she declares "Lesbian hu main" (I am a lesbian). Literal chills. If I were to say it - this is perhaps the best queer movie made in India AND it stars one of India's biggest actresses in the lead role. Which makes me very hopeful for the future. It was funny, very politically aware, honest and I'm almost a 100% sure the creator is queer coz you don't get this good at queer rep unless you are queer yourself or someone very close to you is. (It also has the gay pose where one char is looking forward and the other is looking at them and the first one blocks half of the other char's face.) Also like all things Bollywood there is a dance sequence. And since they are Gujarati - it's dandiya. Played by the lead and her long time love, in front of the whole society. It was so freaking beautiful.

Apparently there was a Indian Show with a gay character with a tiny glimpse of a bl storyline?!

https://www.reddit.com/r/boyslove/comments/105wtgq/throwback_to_the_indian_bl_we_never_got/

It's called Made in Heaven and follows the story of two wedding planners who face many challenges in their profession. One of the main characters is gay. I've yet to watch it, but from the tid bit I've seen it's really cute. I think a season 2 is also yet to come.

I started this one, then got distracted by something. Netflix, right?

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Any Gujarati BL fans here? I have just finished a scene for an OG Indian BL set in Gujarat and part of the dialogue is in Gujarati, so tell me if you'd like for me to post it. It's so good and I want to share but it's in Gujarati,...

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Marathi Lexical Items (Words)

Marathi (मराठी Marāṭhī [məˈɾaʈʰi]) is in the southern group of the Indo-Aryan languages, along with Konkani (ಕೊಂಕಣಿ, कोंकणी, Kōṅkaṇī), Sinhala (සිංහල; siṁhala) (spoken in Sri Lanka) and Dhivehi (ދިވެހި, dhivehi) (spoken in Maldives). It is the official language of the state of Maharashtra with 73 million speakers (2007 census). It borders closely to the Kannada and Telugu speaking areas of India, which are Dravidian languages. Marathi, like all the other Modern Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from Mahārāṣṭri Prakrit, one of the Prakrit dialects. This article looks at some words which differ from words in other Modern IA languages due to semantic changes, and, in those languages, all the words are cognate. Hindi and Bangla, the two most spoken IA languages will be included, as well as Odia, Punjabi and others if found.

Although Sinhala words are being included in this article, it should be noted that it has gone through several major changes, including losing all its aspirates (an iconic phonetic feature of Indo-Aryan languages) as far back as Sinhalese Prakrit and is surrounded by Tamil-speaking areas, Tamil being a Dravidian language which lacks aspirated phonemes.

Prakrit kahēi; kahaï ( Sanskrit √कथ् √kath) was the basis for the verb “to say, talk” in the modern Indo-Aryan languages such as Hindi कहना kehnā; Sindhi kahaɳu; Punjabi ਕਹਿਣਾ kahiɳā; Gujarati કહેવું kahevũ; Odia କହିବା kôhibā; Bengali কওয়া kôwā (h is lost in non-initial position); Sinhala කියනවා kiyanavā “say, speak”.

However, Marathi uses म्हणणें mhaɳaɳẽ. Konkani, closely related to Marathi, uses म्हण्; ಮ್ಹಣ್ mhaɳ. The word derives from Sanskrit भणति bhaɳati with clear indication of a change of bh > mh. This nasal aspirate is a unique sound in the Marathi-Konkani branch compared to the other Indo-Aryan languages because although they do contain voiced aspirates, they are plosives and not liquids, as in this word.

The Sanskrit word भणति bhaɳati does descend into the other IA languages: Hindi भनना bhannā (archaic); Nepali भन्नु bhannu "to speak/ talk"; Bangla ভণা bhoɳā (archaic); Odia ଭଣିବା bhoɳibā; Gujarati ભણવું bhaɳvũ “to recite; study”; Sinhala බණනවා baɳanavā “call, tell”.

The word for “to see” derives from a Middle Indo-Aryan form, *देक्षति *dekʂati (Prakrit dakkhaï) (Rigvedic दृक्षसे dr̥kʂasē “may you appear”), from the root √दृश् √dr̥ś. Language samples include Hindi देखना dekhnā; Punjabi ਦੇਖਣਾ dekhɳā; Sindhi ɗekhaɳu; Gujarati દેખવું dekhvũ; Bangla দ���খা dekhā; Odia ଦେଖିବା dekhibā; Sinhala දකිනවා dakinavā. However, Marathi has पाहणें pāhaɳẽ in addition to देखणें dekhɳẽ (“to see; look”). There are two dictionary sources for this. The first one [link] derives it from the Sanskrit word प्रेक्षण prekʂaɳa “looking; observation” with the verb प्रेक्षते prḗkṣatē and the root प्र​+√ईक्ष् pra+√īkʂ. (In the Prakrit stages, the glyph क्ष् kʂ was pronounced kkh and we can observe the change of kkh > h). The other dictionary [link] derives it from प्रचक्षयति pracakʂayati “illuminates”, from the root प्र​+√चक्ष् pra+√cakʂ “perceive; look at” (Rigvedic प्रचक्षते pracakʂate “considers; supposes”). A cognate includes Sindhi پهڻ पहणु pahaɳu “considers, supposes”.

Konkani uses ಪಳೆ पळे paɭe.

Seeing that प्र​+√ईक्ष् pra+√īkʂ is one of the sources, we must also consider Prakrit pekkhaï, Hindi पेखना pekhna “to see, desire” (archaic); Punjabi ਪੇਖਣਾ pekhɳā; Gujarati પેખવું pekhvũ “to observe closely” Sinhala පේනවා pēnavā “to be seen”.

Punjabi also has another word for see:  ਵੇਖਣਾ vekhɳā, from वीक्षते vīkʂate; वि+√ईक्ष् vi+√īkʂ. Seeing that many words for seeing and observation can be traced back to the root √ईक्ष् √īkʂ, it seems more plausible for the Marathi word to originate from the same root.

Old Marathi also has a causative: दाखवणें dākhavaɳẽ “to show”, such as Hindi दिखाना dikhānā; Punjabi ਦਿਖਾਉਣਾ dikhāuɳā; Bangla দেখানো dekhāno; Odia ଦେଖେଇବା dekheibā; Gujarati દાખવવું dākhavvũ; Sinhala දක්වනවා dakvanavā; Sindhi ɗekhāraɳu; Prakrit dakkhaï, dakkhā̆vaï.

(One other word where we can observe the change of kh > h is लिहिणें lihiɳẽ “to write” which derives from Sanskrit लिखति likhati; √लिख् √likh. Cognates include: Hindi लेना lekhnā; Punjabi ਲੇਖਣਾ lekhɳā; Bangla লেখা lekhā; Odia ଲେଖିବା lekhibā, ଲିହିବା lihibā; Sinhala ලියනවා liyanavā; Konkani ಲಿಉಂಕ್ लिउंक् liunk, and the noun is ಲೇಕನ್ लेकन् lēkan.)

Marathi ऐकणें aikaɳẽ “to listen; hear” comes from two dictionary sources. One dictionary lists it as coming from Sanskrit आकर्ण​न ākarɳana “to the ear” [link] while another lists it from several sources. The first is *आचिख्यति *ācikhyati [link] “communicates” from the root आ+√ख्या ā+√khyā “to tell, narrate, announce” as well as अवेक्षते ávēkʂatē [link] “perceives” from the root अव​+√ईक्ष् ava+√īkʂ “to see, contemplate, observe”. A cognate to Marathi is Konkani आय्क् ಆಯ್ಕ್ aayk.

Other languages use a word derived from the Sanskrit word श्रवण śravaɳa “something heard”, derived from the verb शृणोति śr̥ɳṓti; √श्रु √śru “to hear; listen; study”. Hindi सुनना sunnā; Sindhi suɳaɳu; Gujarati સુણવું suɳvũ; Bengali শুনা shunā; Odia ସୁଣିବା shuɳiba; Sinhala අහනවා ahanavā (< आशृणोति ā-śr̥ɳṓti)

Marathi झोपणें dzhopɳẽ comes from the Sanskrit root √स्वप् √svap “to sleep; fall asleep”. Hindi सोना sonā from the word शयन śayana; root √शी √shī “to be stretched; relaxed; asleep”. This also includes Bangla শোয়া showā; Odia ଶୁଉବା shuubā. However, a second dictionary entry [link] lists it at from the root √स्वप् √svap. From there we find the Hindi, Bangla and Odia entries, as well as Punjabi ਸੌਣਾ sauɳā, Gujarati સૂવું sūvũ and Sinhala හොවනවා hovanavā “lay”. The Marathi word was not found in that dictionary entry. If this is true, we can assume that all the words were derived from this root and in the case of Marathi, we see an odd change of sva > dzho.

One other word found in Marathi for “sleep” is निजणें nidzɳẽ which is derived from Sanskrit निद्रा nidrā “sleep”; verb निद्रायति nidrāyati “to fall asleep”. Cognates include Sindhi niɳɖrāijaɳu “to be sleepy”; Konkani निद्दे ನಿದ್ದೆ nidde; Sinhala නිඳනවා nin̆danavā. Nouns are also found, such as Punjabi ਨੀਂਦਰ nīndar, ਨੀਂਦ nīnd, Hindi नींद nīnd, Marathi नीद nīd नीज nīdz, Konkani ನೀರ नीद nīda, Sinhala නින්ද ninda.

The Sanskrit root √पठ् √paʈh “to read” was the basis for Hindi पढ़ना paɽhnā; Punjabi ਪੜ੍ਹਣਾ paɽhɳā; Bangla পড়া poɽā; Odia ପଢିବା poɽhibā; Gujarati પડવું paɖhvũ and Marathi पढणें paɖhɳẽ. Marathi also uses the word वाचणें vātsaɳẽ derived from the Sanskrit root √वच √vac “recite; invoke” and verb वचति vacati “makes recite” and Konkani uses the same root too: ವಾಚ್ वाच् vāc.

The Sanskrit noun वचन vacana “speaking, statement” descends into IA as follows: Hindi बैन​ bain “speech, sound”, Old Bangla বঅণ băăɳă “word”, Punjabi ਬੈਣ baiɳ, ਵੈਣ vaiɳ “word, lamentation”, Sindhi veɳu “abuse” and Sinhala වදන් vadan “word”.

(The Sinhala word for study is simply කියවනවා kiyavanavā; Prakrit kahāvēi, the causative form of kahēi; kahaï).

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Jeet Trivedi : Known for his Blindfold Abilities in Painting, Driving, Reading & Cycling

Jeet Trivedi : Known for his Blindfold Abilities in Painting, Driving, Reading & Cycling

Jeet Trivedi, a student of automobile engineering from Bhavnagar, Gujarat, is a well-known name at his very early age. Jeet is three times district champion in chess at Khel Maha Kumbh organized by Gujarati Government, won a gold medal in international debate competition help at Mauritius. He won gold and silver in painting competitions hosted by Avantika Group. Jeet, however, is known for his bl…

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Indian BLs WIPs

So, months ago I joked around with the idea of writing Indian BLs and bestie, I don't think it's a joke anymore. I don't know how it happened but over the course of these few months I've plot bunnied my way into over 20 Indian BL ideas. Each unique in Indian entertainment as well as in any BL. Mind you I won't be revealing every one of those ideas here. I don't want to promise something I might not end up finishing for a couple years, if not longer.

This is a list of Indian BLs that I have fully outlined and an ready to start writing. I am currently doing preptober for Kimhan AU.

So let's start there,

Kimhan AU

Months ago when Kinnporsche started airing, I'd just got to my college dorms and I came up with a scene of a girl fighting minions and standing over them, shirt open, heaving and angry. Her 'bodyguards' come and she yells at them for being terrible at their jobs. I was looking for a place to put the scene among my other WIPs but it didn't make sense anywhere. It stayed on the backburner for months until - I was in the supermarket and I met some Gujarati people (Context: I am currently living in Germany for my Masters but I am from Gujarat). And we started talking. Afterwards I realized how I'd lied, not really a lie, but like changed in how I talked to people compared to how I did back in India. And as a certified overthinker I did what any overthinker would do - I overthunk. Which lead to this idea of a character who presents as sweet and innocent but really is very sharp. Around the same time I'd read a Kimchay meta about how Chay isn't as sweet as he seems and Kim isn't as un-affected as he seems and that played in my head and that was how this ended up being called Kimhan AU. This doesn't really have anything to do with kinnporsche, it's just tangentially inspired by it. (Kinnporsche was something, wasn't it? I have 7 works that are tangentially inspired by something that happened in Kinnporsche or a meta someone wrote)

Anyway, Meet the Characters -

Kim (F, 25) is the youngest of an Indian Mafia family. She has just arrived at her dorms with Big (I am still using temp names. I like names to come to me instead of going to them), her bodyguard and oldest friend. Her dad wants her to keep an eye on P (I dubbed her Princess coz she is the heir i.e. Princess of the rival mafia family). The families have hated each other since an event, years ago, that lead to the death of their first children. Kim doesn't know why she must endure this but after what she did a few weeks ago, she has no choice.

Type (F, 22/23)meets the most beautiful woman she has ever seen at the supermarket once and she can't stop talking about her, to the frustration of her new friends. When she sees her again at the college cafeteria she calls out "Didi". She is the awesomest person Type has ever met, beauty and brains. But then Type finds out she is gay. Type is a good Indian Girl. This gay bullshit is just bullshit. Aisa kuch nahi hota (something like this doesn't exist). And why would Kim need to like a woman when she is so beautiful she could get any man?

[A/N: Let's just say she is in for a surprise. So I had just watched Ep 1 of TharnType when I wrote her and you can clearly see the influence. Type is someone who constantly puts her foot in her mouth and I think that's awesome.]

Big's (27, M) family has served Kim's family for years but sometimes he feels like he could kill Kim any second, especially when she knows his weaknesses and tells the very persistent, very beautiful boy in his dorm how to seduce him. Big has never had any moral issues with doing bad things but a relationship with a 19 year old is where he draws the line. He remembers being 19, he remembers the arrogance and the stupidity and the regret.

K (19, M) was supposed to focus on getting his bachelors. Which was all fine and good and then the most handsome man walked into his dorm room and he wants him carnally. Problem is Big won't stay in the same room for more than a minute which meant Kim had told him. Now how was he supposed to seduce him? But with that Adonis body comes something strange. He's heard him talk about shipments and products and protections.

[A/N: KimType are the fun couple and BigK are the not-fun couple, if you didn't already get that. I was watching Minato Coin Laundry at the time. So...]

Kimhan AU is tagged with KimhanAU or just Kimhan if you want to know more.

Cult

Another tangentially inspired by Kinnporsche. This time it's Vegas Theerapanyakul. but a woman. No murder, just the general sense of 'What the fuck is wrong with them?'

Confession: Some parts of the narrative are real life experiences.

Hetakshi was bored. It had been 6 months of getting her Masters degree which she did well enough (not that her parents would agree unless it was 90% +), but there was nothing to do. The thought hit her so hard she was thrown back into the past - She was on the plane to Germany watching a movie when she thought - What if I start a cult? Wouldn't that be funny? So queue up your inspirational music this socially anxious introvert is going to start a cult. But how? She asked google. She learned, she practiced, she gaslight, gatekeeped and girlbossed. And then she met her -

Sachee didn't understand why she cared so damn much about this one person than she had anyone her whole life. Perhaps it was because she didn't understand her. Hetakshi was...complex. Confident and cocky and sad and soft and rude and shy with the brightest smile and the saddest eyes. It was as she(Hetakshi) slept on the floor of Sachee's dorm room did she(Sachee) realize her feelings might be more than friendship. So what is a Gen-Zer supposed to so when they don't understand something - Google Zinda bad (a hindi victory cheer)

[A/N: You kinda have to stay with this one till the end to truly understand everything. There is a lot of religious symbolism that I don't know how to get into a premise. It's parallels. It's Yin and Yang. It's a study of human nature, of love. A beauty and the beast narrative.]

It's tagged as Cult

CharuTirth

On to lighter topics. A Indian Food BL coz I saw Old Fashion Cupcake and I have no self control.

Youtube wasn't a thing he'd thought about, ever. Until the pandemic hit and he had all the time in the world to pass. Charu has just been qualified for shorts and he's trying to find a style. Tirth, his videographer, suggests a review of street food in Ahmedabad. They idea is good and they both like it but really it's just an excuse to spend more time together. Charu doesn't want to trouble anyone's life, he is happy just to watch and help even as he hates every second Tirth flirts with other people. Tirth's liked Charu since he's friend passed him the box of sweets he made. He knows what people think about him - about how he moves and how many people he sleeps with. He'd learned to lean into it. If they are gonna talk he better give them something to talk about. But with Charu, he's fine just spending time with him and being his friend.

What neither of them know is Tirth's cousin (Jiva) and Charu's best friend (Hemal) are horrible meddlers who love meddling. It starts with Jiva seeing the ThaiBL wallpaper on Hemal's phone. They agree Charu and Tirth would make an awesome BL couple and what are friends for if not to help?

[A/N: This is very tongue and cheek, fun, light-hearted, classic Uni-set Thai BL narrative but in India. No brains needed here. Okay, a few brain cells needed for the systemic colorism and homophobia but the story is very light on them. Supportive parents in this one. Coz I deserve it. This was the first bl BL I came up with. It's very different from my typical angst writing style. It's a rom-com hands down but I can't, coz I am me, not add some social commentary. Yay! (sarcastic and exhausted)]

Tag: CharuTirth or FoodBL

There are others but for now these are the three big ones. I'm going to be doing Kimhan for Nanowrimo. Hopefully I have some sort of a book by the end that I can send publishers. (If you know anyone, please help me) It would take me a year to fully finish all three, if I am consistent and diligent and don't fall into a spiral and if my immune system doesn't kill me first.

I am planning on writing in English and Hindi. Coz there are dialogues that you just can't do justice in English and there are other things that I only know how to do in English. Like my username says - I'll fuck around and find out.

Do you prefer the term Indian BL or Desi BL? Help me tag this.