#shyama core

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Making desi aesthetics, pt. 1

So, me and @zeherili-ankhein were discussing about the lack of diversity in Indian aesthetics. Like, the in-general aesthetic for the brown crowd is "desi core", at leas the one that is extremely popular, and it just feels...generalized stuff? Like, chai, lehengas, bollywood films...?

Ofc, no hate to desicore, but I just feel that for a country as diverse as India, we should have more aesthetics, yk? So, I kinda made some basic aesthetics for girls, with the help of my sweetu santra @zeherili-ankhein , and I really, really wanna hear y'all's inputs in this.

The first is the Rajasthani aesthetic. Now this makes up a HUGEEE chunk of desi core, tbh. Like in clothing, it can include Lehengas, the typical Rajputi poshak, bandhani sarees etc, with rajasthani prints like gotapatti and all. For daily use, like, I think angarakha kurtis, paired with palazzos will look VERY nice. Dupattas with bandhani prints too. For a more modern look, pencil skirts and fitted jeans will look good, i think. With v-neck tops??? Also, boots.

This aesthetic was deep jewel colors, like ruby red, sapphire blue, emerald green etc., with gold accents. Bold chunky jewelry + local Rajasthani jewelry will look very nice too. For makeup, I think bold kohl eyes and dark red/brown lipstick shades will be really pretty.

The second is inspired by the Mughal paintings. Dresses include flowy kurtis and dresses especially anarkalis, ghararas and shararas, and flowy dupattas. In modern dresses, flowy sundresses, heart-neck tops and long skirts will look so cute omg. Kurtis can be paired with palazzos. Traditional clothes can have zari work done. Also flats or block heels will look v v good.

This includes pastels shades, like various shades of pink, cream, ivory, blue, lavender, mint green, etc. In jewelry, I think silver and pearls will suit this aesthetic. This has a light makeup look, with blush plus light pink/nude lipstick shades.

Third is the Vrindavan aesthetic, this mostly focuses on Krishna. It is like, nature inspired, is prett fresh, and gives you the vibe of an old temple. Jewelry involving peacock and lotus motifs will suit very well, along with flower prints. The fabric is mostly cotton, and the colors include orange, yellow, lotus pink, soft blues, white etc.

This aesthetic is pretty relaxed, and as for dresses, I think loose kurtis, wide trousers, cardigans and crochet tops will look v cutu :> Accessories mein, simple sandals, hairbands, cute necklaces and tiny earrings will look so, so pretty. Also bangles and payals>>>>

The last one for this part is more inspired from the earth. It has more earthy tones, colors like deep reds, mustard yells, olive green, brown etc etc. Fabrics include cotton and khadi, and this aesthetic has a rustic and boho-ish vibe, i think. Prints are block prints (ily block prints uwu)

I think long coats would really suit this aesthetic? And idk why but TURTLENECKS TOO OMG. For jewelry, I think vintage and oxidized jewelry will look very good, especially nose pins.

What do you all think? I have four more aesthetics left, will post them in part 2, one is bollywood inspired, one is related to classical dance, one is more eastern indian (bengal-odisha) and then the last is south indian. This is js the basic draft I made of these aesthetics

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chapter 1

On love & loving & the universe & coffee

I’m in college, and I can safely say I know a thing or two about understanding the world. Just listen to me for a second while I explain my qualifications. First and foremost, caffeine runs in my veins, so you know I’m always alert. I’m so committed to this addiction that one time (that time being now) I spent a total of $20 for the experience of drinking a fancy latte where the foam is in the shape of heart and the ambiance can be described as “urban chic.” I don’t even know what urban chic means, but it feels appropriate so we’re going with it. One time, I was studying with a friend, and being the biggest pain-in-the-ass imaginable--making loud groans and ugly faces at my Research Methods textbook and mouthing cute things like “oh my god, I want to die.” At one point, they looked over at me and asked do I drink coffee? Implying maybe I should drink some right then.  And the face I gave them was a mix of pure shock, disgust, sarcasm, contempt, and every other adjective in the dictionary that is synonymous with “are you fucking kidding me.” Then I said something like “that��s like asking me do I wear clothes.” I don’t think that friend is ever going to want to study with me again.

When I’m not drinking coffee, I get an adrenaline rush from flirting with strangers and going shopping with my mom (in no particular order on most days, but shopping with my mom usually prevails anyway).

I know about the trials and tribulations of life. It’s a rough place out here. My top four pet peeves include loud keyboard typing, assholes, forgetting to learn from my mistakes, and getting asked the stressful question of “how are you,” but those are always subject to change because a lot of things annoy me. I can rant about things that annoy me for thirty-minute intervals or longer. My best friend Shyama is the same way, which is probably one of the reasons we are best friends. Last night, she called me to rant about the fact that a mutual friend of ours cannot for the life of her accept compliments and it’s really taking a toll on  their friendship and how should she confront her about it? That conversation lasted 40 minutes and then we both had to get back to our lives. I’m lucky that I’ve never really had to face the trials and tribulations of life. I’ve never been assaulted, or hungry, or not privileged. I just told you that I spent $20 on one coffee excursion so that says a lot. It hurts me to my core how difficult life is for some people. I wish it wasn’t.

I’ve had a total of one boyfriend and that lasted for 1.5 months, so I also know about falling for someone and then having it all get a little warped. It didn’t have to take me two marriages and three kids to figure it out. I just kind of skipped over all that courtroom drama. But the courtroom drama does seem a little intriguing sometimes: Next on Law & Order: Who will keep the kids? Who freaking knows but please not me, that sounds like way too much work.

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Jaishankar’s post on Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel kicks up Twitter slugfest - india news

Foreign minister S Jaishankar found himself in the middle of a tweet-storm over a claim in a book he released that India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru initially didn’t want to include Sardar Patel in the country’s first cabinet.Jaishankar, who launched the book “VP Menon, the unsung architect of modern India” here on Wednesday, tweeted that he “learnt from the book that Nehru did not want Patel in the Cabinet in 1947 and omitted him from the initial Cabinet list. Clearly, a subject for much debate. Noted that the author stood her ground on this revelation.”Historian Ramachandra Guha was quick to respond. “This is a myth, that has been comprehensively demolished by Professor Srinath Raghavan in The Print. Besides, promoting fake news about, and false rivalries between, the builders of modern India is not the job of the Foreign Minister. He should leave this to the BJP’s IT Cell,” Guha said, also in a tweet.The debate spiralled from there with Jaishankar holding his ground. “Some Foreign Ministers do read books. May be a good habit for some Professors too. In that case, strongly recommend the one I released yesterday,” he tweeted.  Learnt from the book that Nehru did not want Patel in the Cabinet in 1947 and omitted him from the initial Cabinet list. Clearly, a subject for much debate. Noted that the author stood her ground on this revelation. pic.twitter.com/FelAMUZxFL— Dr. S. Jaishankar (@DrSJaishankar) February 12, 2020  Some Foreign Ministers do read books. May be a good habit for some Professors too. In that case, strongly recommend the one I released yesterday. https://t.co/d2Iq4jafsR— Dr. S. Jaishankar (@DrSJaishankar) February 13, 2020 The book’s author, historian and foreign policy analyst Narayani Basu (Menon was her great-grandfather) wrote that according to “both Menon and Vidya Shankar (Patel’s private secretary), Nehru’s original list (of ministers) excluded Patel altogether.” In the chapter titled “Omission”, Basu also said that India’s last viceroy Lord Mountbatten had to intervene to include Patel in the cabinet. She also quoted what Mountbatten told British journalist Harry Hodson to drive home her point. But Basu also said that Mountbatten, who was otherwise meticulous with records, didn’t record his conversations with Nehru on this issue anywhere.The Nehru-Patel rivalry has been played up by the Bharatiya Janata Party, which has sought to claim the legacy of India’s first home minister, a member of the Congress. It even built a large statue in his honour, the Statue of Unity, in Gujarat. In response to Jaishankar’s tweet, former union minister Jairam Ramesh tweeted a series of letters and said: “In light of the fake news doing the rounds that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru did not want Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in his cabinet, sharing a series of letters & documents.” He said “the truth was Nehru’s letter to Mountbatten of July 19, 1947 had Patel’s name right on top of new cabinet list.”Taking a dig at Jaishankar, Ramesh tweeted, “Problem with this very accomplished and erudite foreign minister is that he wishes to forget the books he read before becoming Foreign Secretary in Jan 2015. Do refresh your memory...” The papers posted by Ramesh also showed that Nehru kept his own name at the end of the list. Ramesh posted two letters from Nehru to Patel to underline the friendship between India’s first PM and his home minister. In one letter, Nehru informed Patel that he had convinced BR Amebdkar to be the law minister of the country and asked him to “approach Shyama Prasad (Mukherjee), Rajaji (C Rajagopalachari) and Shanmukham (Ramasamy CK Shanmukham Chetty).”In another letter, Nehru formally invited Patel to the cabinet saying, “As formalities have to be observed to some extent, I am writing to invite you to join the new cabinet. This writing is somewhat superfluous as you are the strongest pillar of the cabinet.”Another former minister Shashi Tharror also entered the debate and tweeted: “Jai, I have the highest regard for VP Menon, a hero of Indian Independence from my state, but human recollections can be wrong. Read this carefully documented refutation of the “Patel’s omission from Cabinet” story (for which VPM was the only source).” he pointed to an article in The Print that said the narrative of Nehru omitting patel from the cabinet initially was false. In a statement, Basu said: “Everything is in the public domain. Historical interpretation remains subjective. However, while it is important to have some debate/disagreement around a subject, it is now seventy years after the fact. Frankly, this is not the core of my book. Nor was it the core of VP Menon’s life. He made contributions to the history of this country that deserve to be highlighted, and not sidetracked.”“I wrote this biography to illuminate a man who has been overshadowed by history, and not to have this book caught in the crosshairs of a political bushfire,” she added. Read the full article

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The corner shop essay The Corner Shop - Sample Essays

It may have been more socially acceptable in the old days to own a corner shop than it is today due to the economic growth of the western hemisphere and an increasing number of immigrants, who would be more than satisfied with a job in a corner shop. Analysis and interpretation of ”The Corner Shop” In the last decades globalization has forced every country in the world to define what values and unique characteristics makes the country different and exceptional. The essay “The Corner Shop” is written by the British writer and former journalist at the centre-left liberal newspaper The Guardian Shyama Pereras in 2000, and it deals with this exact topic. She puts focus on how globalization has taken a thing considered as a unique specimen of a nation and changed it into something foreign. The corner shop stands today as a daily reminder that we all live in a global village. Shyama Pereras starts her essay with a quote from the Sunday Times that says “if your surname is Partel, you’re seven times more likely to be a millionaire than if your name is Smith”. To understand this statement, it’s important to understand the history of the name Partel. Partel is a surname of Indian origin. Within the United Kingdom, it is the twenty-fourth most common surname nationally, and in central London it is third most common. When The Sunday Times uses Partel in comparison with the surname Smith, which is the most common name in the United Kingdom, she puts every Englishman up against every middle-eastern immigrant in the United Kingdom. What the Sunday Times really is saying, is that when you’re a middle-eastern immigrant you have a much bigger chance of being a millionaire than if your part of the indigenous English population. Pereras chooses to involve this Sunday Times “rich list”, to underline the actuality and legitimacy, which this topic has in today’s society. To exemplify she gives a daily example that especially Englishmen know and can relate to: The corner shop. This compressed form of shop where you can buy the basics such as alcoholic and soft drinks, newspaper, magazines and simple groceries has since the concepts entry been considered as a core-British asset. Shyama Pereras describes the corner shop as much more than just a little shop; it is “the center of community life”, these sights are used for locals to meet and greet. Back in time Brits used these shops as a place where they could buy their “New Zealand butter, Ceylon Tea and the Daily Herald” – all goods that are British trademarks. However did the Corner Shops undergo a drastic change up through the centuries – as the increasing globalization took its toll in the last part of 19th century, the assortment of different supplies from around the world expanded and suddenly there was a decline in demand of old traditional British articles. Here Shyama Pereras uses her own experience to further clarify this development.... View more ...

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In the name of the goddess: Music and crackers

Diwali and Kali Puja are celebrated with equal enthusiasm in virtually every part of India. The deity invoked may be different, but the occasion is almost always accompanied by revelry, feasting and sound, generally in the form of crackers. Music really has little place in these celebrations, quite unlike the occasion of Navratri when in many states, there is a public and private display of music and dance.

In Southern India, we even have the instance of specific Navratri compositions sung in the name of the goddess in all her myriad facets, the Navaratri songs of the composer Swathi Thirunal being an instance in point. In fact, music on display was part of the courtly investment in public celebrations of Navratri whether it was eighteenth-century Travancore or nineteenth century Mysore.

Blaring of songs through loudspeakers is common, with organisers having easy access to the repertoire of what is commonly known as shyama sangeet.

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Diwali, on the other hand, is not conventionally associated with singing or a genre, even in Bengal with its rich traditions of shyama sangeet initiated by the eighteenth-century poet Ramprasad Sen, the celebration of Kali pujo has little to do with music as a feature in ritualistic terms. Admittedly in the public worship of Kali (as the sarbojanik utsav or community festival), the blaring of songs through loudspeakers is common, with organisers having easy access to the repertoire of what is commonly known as shyama sangeet.

The core of the repertoire is the mystical poetry of Ramprasad Sen and Kamalakanta Bhattacharya who lived in the Nadia and Burdwan zamindaris respectively in the late eighteenth century. They produced numerous Sakta songs that became part of a living tradition. However, we do not know how they were sung or when they were standardised.

What we do know is that these songs were published in anthologies and circulated in the world of print from the later decades of the nineteenth century. How they were sung or set to tune is not something that we can easily recover. The style that we now associate with shyama sangeet was in all probability put together by early twentieth century artists such as twentieth-century artists such as Pannalal Bhattacharya and his brother Dhananjay Bhattacharya both of whom were ardent devotees themselves.

Radio and subsequently cassette recordings played a key role in popularising the corpus of songs that made up shyama sangeet as a genre and in defining a prominent skein in the music-cultural identity of Bengal.

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Radio and subsequently cassette recordings played a key role in popularising the corpus of songs that made up shyama sangeet as a genre and in defining a prominent skein in the music-cultural identity of Bengal.

The musical features of this genre are at once simple and straightforward, eminently reproducible and capable of making a quick and enduring impression acoustically. With simple lyrics that address the benign maternal force of the goddess, the tunes are sharp and clear and resonate with theatre music. The melodies are simple, lilting and make a quick impact and thanks to particular modes of accessorisation adopted by later day comperes and radio presenters (Jagnannath Bose of Kali katha fane on FM being an excellent case in point).

The way these songs are sung and presented helps produce a particular register of effect which is extended by mass consumption during festive occasions such as Kali pujo and then becomes an audible marker of identity. The role of FM in this in contemporary times is especially marked, some early morning channels have devotional programmes such as Kali katha with its staple of shyama sangeet rendered by old and new artists, while others combine a judicious mix of Vaishnab keertan, sakta sangeet and adhunik thus making up a distinct Bengali musical profile which is easy to access by listeners.

It is interesting to reflect on the accessibility and comparability of Sakti imagery and tunes especially in relation to Nazrul Geeti or Atulprasadi in Bengal. That the poet Nazrul was deeply moved by the figure of the benign mother and set his own songs to tunes that were informed by raga music is well known and requires no elaboration.

The regional register in the reception and adaptation of classical music idioms and style and its deployment in the rendering of more local songs and musical expression to carve a distinct musical identity.

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What is striking is the regional register in the reception and adaptation of classical music idioms and style and its deployment in the rendering of more local songs and musical expression to carve a distinct musical identity. One can find this especially in the case of Tamil compositions that were popularised in the twentieth century when the political urgency of Tamil nationalism made it imperative to carve a tradition and practice that set it apart from the mainstream Carnatic repertoire.

In the case of Bengal, the articulation of genres and styles such as atulprasadi or nazrulgeeti or indeed shyama sangeet was not as explicitly identified with either language nationalism or caste politics. But in any case, the intervention of mass media consumption and the use of cultural practices such as music during public ritual occasions - secular and otherwise - gave all these genres and forms a new currency that has helped in the consolidation of an aural public that Ramprasad Sen may never have envisaged or foreseen.

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why do I have the buri aadat of cramming before exams?

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Went shopping for my baby cousins, and ended up buying this cutie for myself

(Yes, I did buy toys for them too, but she is so cute I couldn't resist 😭😭)

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I tried black coffee for the first time in my entire life and....

I LIKED it?!!!!!! HAWWWW

I felt that I wouldn't, since I legit drink milk with a pinch of coffee powder, like it's more like coffee-doodh, and I'm more of a chocolate girlie, but I LIKED BLACK COFFEE?!!!!! W T F. Also, I think I like cold black coffee more than hot black coffee, mostly due to my childhood trauma of getting my lips burnt while trying to drink hot chai.

BTW I hate chai pls dont kill me

IN MY DEFENSE, I RARELY DRINK IT, MAYBE I'LL LIKE IT IF I EXPERIMENT A BIT-

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MY LIFE HAS BEEN A LIE

so, I was adding books in my Dad's amazon cart, and I saw that he has a prime membership. Since years.

He doesn't even know that we can watch Prime video through it. He only got it for faster delivery services.

...wtf.

AND ALL THIS WHILE I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR MOVIES ON PIRATED SITES

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It's my 2 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

OMG OMG

2 YEARS?!!!!!!!!

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Arre, Papa yaar, trip ki to Maa xhud gayi yaar 😭

BC airport reach karne ke baad message aaya ki flight cancel hai. Meri trip barbaad ho gayi🥲

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