90s Bollywood X Dark Academia

Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali)

So, India is dying.

Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren't amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I'd love it if we could talk about that for a minute.

If you can't do anything else, please just read and reblog.

A second COVID wave has taken out the healthcare system. There are no more hospital beds. There's an oxygen shortage. There's a critical vaccine shortage. The Central Government has thrown its hands up and is passing the baton to the State Governments to do what they can.

There are over 16 million covid cases. A record 330,000 new cases reported yesterday - comparable to the US at its peak. 187,000 dead as of today.

There is no plan.

Mass cremations are taking place. The cremation grounds are running day and night and they are short on wood. People are watching their loved ones die while waiting for a hospital bed, and then they're unable to give them the proper burial rights.

Hospitals are overwhelmed. Patients are being confined, two to a bed. They're the lucky ones.

We are on the verge of people dying in the streets.

This is the second-most populous country in the world. The largest democracy. A country that encapsulates over 15,000 years of recorded human history and has endured everything from famine to invasion to colonisation.

We might be at the end. This might be the thing that does us in.

People are dying.

People are dying.

People are dying and there is no plan.

More good news? Variants are popping up. A double mutation strain has shown up. It is resistant to current vaccines. This will not go away. This is the devastation they warned of when the anti-maskers were out protesting the minor inconvenience of covering their face in public.

My country is on the verge of an emergency state. Our government has failed us. This is as dire a situation as it ever could be.

Look. I don't do much with my life. I write fics, some of you have read them and that's pretty much it. I spend my days with my head in the clouds because that's where I like to be.

But two days ago, my grandmother tested positive, had to be taken to hospital and the ambulance caught fire.

She barely made it to the urgent care she needs.

So, here I am, using whatever meager platform I have to cobble this request together. Because I have to do something.

If you can, donate.

Or spread the word.

Help. Please.

damn.

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palestinians are saying that social media is indeed helping to spread awareness about the atrocities that are happening in their homeland so please never think that sharing posts on your accounts is useless!! it is working!! this is one of the rare cases where social media can actually be used as an active tool and it has never happened before regarding the palestinian cause so we must keep on doing this collectively

So here are some desi/desi dark academia playlists. They are my baibies. Take good care of them.

The last playlist has ✨ beautiful✨ (mostly) tamil songs.

I've added some more of 'em. You can check them out in the notes(?)

@music

some gentle reminders and encouragement in case you need it today:

you are loved just the way you are.

you are safe here.

you are not alone.

you are incredible and will continue to be.

i am proud of you.

you are going to change the world.

you are going to be okay.

This is a reminder that you belong here with us, you are important & loved and you deserve to have a long and a good life. 🌸

Music in TWILIGHT (2008) (insp.)

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