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[blackbrownfamily]

[toyastales]

Smoked Chicken Tikka Drumsticks

[itsfookingloosah]

hey bhagwan aaj Nitish Kumar se ek aur giri hui harkat karwaado

[nando161mando]

Liberals every time the Democratic Party does something indefensible

[bogkeep]

night of the old year and dawn of the new. i got to spend it with my friends, which was very lovely. i hope 2025 brings good things

[sudamaniparva]

i wasn't originally going to post about the indian elections (after tht ram mandir mess i'm trying to avoid that shit), but faizabad+ayodhya is too fucking funny not to post about.

gotta love how all of the ayodhya residents despite the insane bjp efforts to rebuild the ram mandir over a demolished mosque and run up their crazy nationalist agenda, went, "you bjp pricks are intolerable. goodbye." and fucking showed it.

good for you guys.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Hannah Ellis-Petersen at The Guardian:

Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party has lost its parliamentary majority, dealing an unexpected blow to the prime minister and forcing him to negotiate with coalition partners in order to return to power. With all votes counted early on Wednesday morning, it was clear that the landslide for the BJP predicted in polls had not materialised and instead there had been a pushback against the strongman prime minister and his Hindu nationalist politics in swathes of the country. The party lost 62 seats, bringing its total down to 240, below the 272 required for a parliamentary majority. It is the first time since Modi was elected in 2014 that the BJP has not won a clear majority on its own. Nonetheless, together with its political allies, known as the national democratic alliance (NDA), its win amounts to about 292 seats, which is enough to form a majority government to rule for the next five years and return Modi to office for a third term.

Meanwhile, the opposition alliance, which goes by the acronym INDIA, far outperformed expectations, collectively winning more than 230 seats. The alliance, formed of more than 20 national and regional opposition parties, had come together for the first time in this election with the aim of defeating Modi.

Incumbent Indian PM Narendra Modi and his right-wing BJP won the most seats, but not enough to gain a majority on its own in the recent election in India. Modi is likely to remain PM, as his coalition partners National Democratic Alliance are likely to cobble a majority.

[triviareads]

I like reading your thoughts on how brown people (and other BIPOCs) are written in billionaire romances. Do you have plans to write a romance with desi characters?

thank you! I've always wanted to try and finish ONE story (literally anything) but I've never actually put in the effort lol. At the moment, I'm just trying to advance my career and I don't super have time or patience for investing the amount of serious effort I'd need to finish literally anything.

But I do have ideas! I've thought about exploring the Indian diaspora in a historical romance; I want to write about a biracial Black/Indian character (characters?) descended in part from indentured Indians brought to Africa or South America or the Caribbean by the British/other Europeans and eventually immigrated to England. I've met Indians who immigrated from Africa, and they grew up with this unique culture that was a mix of African, British, and Indian and it's quite different from Indian culture alone. They or their families were also expelled (in the case of Ugandan Indians) or all but forced to leave (in the case of many Kenyan Indians) Africa, and it's a sad but interesting parallel because of how many of their ancestors were forcibly brought to Africa to begin with.

I've also thought about writing a biracial Anglo-Indian character (historically it would usually mean a white British father, and an Indian mother because, well—) because of the nebulous space they'd occupy in British society; Amita Murray has been doing an amazing job of that in her Marleigh Sisters series. Basically, they're too white to interact comfortably with Indians, too brown to be wholly accepted into British society. A lot of them historically were forced to convert to Christianity and change their names (do you see why "Kate Sharma" except surprise! her name is actually Kathani pissed me off? Why wasn't she always Kathani?).

My ideas for how I'd go about a contemporary romance are a little more vague; I've shelved my idea for a Harlequin-esque romance with an Indian billionaire from India because it was really hard to nail his voice and I spoke with multiple people about this and none of us could quite figure the guy out. So I was recently thinking about pivoting and writing a fake dating romance (and not just because people love that shit rn, though not as much as last year I think) with Indian-Americans but again, I kinda want to contrast experiences. One is the classic rags-to-riches wunderkind who made it (and a lot of that has to do with how their family immigrated to the States and under what circumstances because that's what makes a huge difference imo), and the other is comfortably middle class and they basically end up in a contractual dating situation because Reputation or something.

Anyway, those are my thoughts. TBD on if I go through with them.

[blackbrownfamily]

Chele Yeboah - Instagram

[toyastales]

vegetable samosas

[docholligay]

BOY OH BOY HAS THIS BEEN A FRUSTRATING ONE

THINK OF PLEASANT THINGS THINK OF PLEASANT THINGS THINK OF PLEASANT THINGS

[nando161mando]

American congressman/women from both parties clapping and cheering as Netanyahu admits his intent to accelerate a genocide.

[re-decorate]

WHY ARE THEY PLAYING STRESSRD OUT AT THIS PARTY

[ethannku]

i finally understand the appeal of weddings