Category: Cultural Conversations
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I was about to turn 18 when I got my first tattooMonths and months of thinking, scrolling through the internet for ideasAnd then finally deciding to get one single word tattooedWith each letter in the handwriting of a woman I love, a woman who changed my lifeMy mum, my sister, my teacher and my best…
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Here is a list of quotes and shayaris I keep going back to as I try to navigate through my peak adulting years away from a place I once knew to be home- 1. Zakir Khan’s kabhi kabhi na badi baat keh deni chahiye, uparwala dekh raha hota hai, aap jesa kehte ho na vese…
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Arooj Aftab’s cover of Hafeez Hoshiarpuri’s Mohabbat Karne Wale Kam Na Honge is seven minutes and forty one seconds long. You left me four months and three days ago. For the first ninety days, coming across anything that you touched, liked, talked about or even knew of made my heart weigh about thirty three kilos.…
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni quotes Amrita Pritam’s There are many stories which are not written on paper, they are written on the minds and bodies of women in the very beginning of her latest piece of art- Independence.I read this line and the first thing I did was take a picture and send it to a…
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If I had a penny for every fuckin’ time I have been asked to“Learn to take a joke”“Chill”“Laugh it off”And my most favourite- “Lighten up”I would be covered in gold: head to toe The usual inappropriate jokes on my body–“If I start wearing a bra, I would need a bigger cup size than yours”“God you’re…
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I read this beautiful piece written by my dearest Rishika called “Google Maps is giving me directions to a cafe in my own hometown” this morningAnd a fellow Indian in Europe told me “you seem like a very Europeanised Indian girl” last weekI wear my mother’s very traditional-looking vintage ring to university every dayI have…
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Just me ranting:)) Girls from good families don’t abuse. 11 years old, I hear these boys calling each other names that I didn’t get I heard a similar one when my elder sister was hanging out with her friends So I ask them what it meant She was about to tell me but her friend-…
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Coke Studio Season 7: Chaap Tilak in the voice of Abida Parveen and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is a version of the 14th century ghazal composed by Amir Khusro in admiration of his spiritual mentor Nizamuddin Auliya. Disclaimer- I know that many interpretations of this song say that it is a conversion song as chaap…
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Disclaimer- I very well know that I am privileged; I grew up in a loving family with great friends studying at a reputed school with a silver spoon in my mouth. So, when I talk of my pain or suffering or struggles, I very well know that they are nothing in proportion to what people…
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This shall be pretty long. Bear with me. छोडो मेहँदी खडक संभालोखुद ही अपना चीर बचा लोद्यूत बिछाये बैठे शकुनि,मस्तक सब बिक जायेंगेसुनो द्रोपदी शस्त्र उठालो, अब गोविंद ना आयेंगे|कब तक आस लगाओगी तुम,बिक़े हुए अखबारों से,कैसी रक्षा मांग रही होदुशासन दरबारों से|स्वयं जो लज्जा हीन पड़े हैंवे क्या लाज बचायेंगेसुनो द्रोपदी शस्त्र उठालो अब…
Still Wondering 