#indian-authors

[thepersonalwords]

some words bring warmthjust bybeing next to each other.

Sanober Khan

[lexion219997]

Titans by @alllvinho on twitter/x

[quotelr]

You have not failed until you accept your failure.

Udai Yadla

[bucephaly]

It's kinda shocking to me how few people seem to know how prevalent the 'my great grandmother was cherokee' myth is and how it's almost never actually true, especially when it comes with things like 'never signed up' or 'fell off the trail' or 'courthouse burned down destorying the documentation' etc etc.

People just don't even seem to know the history like.. when the Trail happened. My great great great grandfather was 2 years old during Removal in 1838, so peoples 'my great grandmother hid in the mountains!' is so clearly wrong. And we have rolls. From before and after removal, rolls done by cherokee nation and others by the government, rolls that were not stored in one random flammable courthouse. It's not difficult to find the actual evidence of ancestry.

And just.. there are lots of ways those family stories get started. It was a practice during the confederacy to claim cherokee ancestry to show one's family had 'deep roots in the south' that they were there before the cherokee were removed. Many people pretended to be cherokee and applied for the Guion-Miller payout just to try to steal money meant for cherokees - 2/3rds of the applicants were denied for having 0 proof of actual cherokee ancestry. [We even see lawyers advertising signing up for the Miller roll just to try to get free money.] And the myth even started in some families in the cherokee land lotteries, where the land stolen from us was raffled off, including the house and everything that was left behind when the cherokees were removed. We have seen people whose families just take these things stolen from the cherokee family and adopt them into their own family story, saying that they were cherokee themselves.

If you had some family story about being cherokee and you wanna have proof one way or the other, check out this Facebook group run by expert cherokee genealogists that do research for free. Just please read the rules fully and respect the researchers. They run thousands of people's ancestries a year and their average is only around 0.7% of lines they run actually end up having true cherokee ancestry.

[sodacatz]

I'm so down bad for this man it's not even funny

[maihonhassan]

When Franz Kafka Said,

“I cannot make anyone understand what’s happened.”

And Wajid Shaikh Wrote,

“Be-basi hain ek chubhan si hai, khush hain par ik ghutan si hain.”

[hussyknee]

Seeing characters in romance stories just jetting between countries at a moment's notice with no thought for visa; seeing airports as sites of triumphant climaxes and romantic denouements instead of places of fear and danger where a sword hangs above your head— it all breaks off little pieces of my heart. They're constant reminders that my people will never be human enough in the colonial world order to be allowed to move freely around it. No matter what your race, those non-refugees living in the Global North will never understand what it's like to be part of a global ghetto where your passport is nothing but a trembling supplication and humiliation.

[catbrarian]

came across a few books from the horror genre by indian authors at a cafe i visited. this looked like an impressive collection from a very niche genre. the titles include:

ghosts in our backyard by alisha ‘priti’ kripalani

spooky stories by kaveri gopalkrishnan

the haunting of delhi city by jatin bhasin and suparna chawla bhasin

india’s most haunted by k. hari kumar

[thepersonalwords]

a single poemthe thing that can keep melight on my feet,when my soul isheavy with sorrow.

Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

[oatmealcrisp-freak]

Danny Fenton Phantom is trans and mixed race I'm just saying

[finalgirrls]

A playlist for one of the best literary horror girlies: Jade Daniels from the Jade Daniels trilogy (My Heart is a Chainsaw, Don’t Fear the Reaper, and The Angel of Indian Lake) written by Stephen Graham Jones.

I had to make this as I read an advance copy of The Angel of Indian Lake (out later this year!!) with a moodboard because I’m well into my feelings about the series and Jade.

[aahanna]

"My reads for this month are going to be these "

Indian author edition

[anirregularperson]

[maihonhassan]

When Farhat Ehsas wrote:

Meri dil ki tabahi ki shikayat par kaha us ne , tum apne ghar ki chizon ki hifazat kyun nahin karte

And Jaun Eliya Replied:

Kaun is ghar ki dekh bhaal kare, roz ek cheez toot jaati hai

[clonerightsagenda]

Kind of feel like Novik gave El a Chinese friend and made her half-Indian to try to offset the optics of the Sinister Chinese Bloc but I'm not sure it's working

[mysticaltastemakerwitch]

Viggo Mortensen, my love 🌹