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A Guide to Desi Dark Academia

since the dark academia aesthetic is awfully eurocentric, here is a little post about desi dark academia :) writing this made me romanticize my culture so much...i fell in love with it all over again!

Literature:

A few classic literary works include:

The Mahabharat by Vyasa

Devdas by Sarat Chandra Chottopadhay

Parineeta by Sarat Chandra Chottopadhay

Amost everything by Rabindranath Tagore( e.g Kabuliwala , Gitanjali, Shesher Kobita, Chokher Bali, Charulata etc)

Toba Tek Singh by Saadat Hasan Manto

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Film:

Satyajit Ray's works like Charulata, The Apu Trilogy, Shonar Kella etc

Dipu Number Two, based on Mohammad Zafar Iqbal's novel

Haider , an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet

Padmavat

Kai Po Che

Rang De Basanti

Masaan

Lootera

3 Idiots

Music:

Oldies by Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammad Rafi

Sufi music like Qawwali and Kafi, by Kazi Nazrul Islam, A.R Rahman, the Pakistani sufi-rock band Junoon etc.

Ghazals (a form of poetry)by Pankaj Udhas, Jagjit Singh, Ghalib and Ghulam Ali

Flutist Hariprasad Chaurasiya

Sitarist Ravi Shankar

Fashion:

Jamdani sarees made of dhakai muslin (a delicate ancient fabric made by the Mughals that were given names like "baft-hawa", meaning "woven air")

Chikankari kurtas!!

Wearing gajras (flower garland made of jasmine) in your hair

Colourful bindis and bangles (the larger your collection of bangles the cooler you are, its the south asian dream)

Payals and jhumkas <3

Old silk shawls and dupattas during winter >>

Using attars(alcohol-free perfume)

Wearing mehendi on your hands

Styling almost anything with gorgeous nagras

Classical Dance: a few forms

Bharatnatyam

Kathak

Odissi

Manipuri

Kathakali

Activities:

Roaming around historical sites and grand havelis

Visiting old zamindar baris and mosques and temples then being enchanted by the architecture

Watching jatras ( folk-theatre performances)

Growing up listening to your grandparents read folktales to you ( e.g Thakumar Jhuli, meaning grandma's bag of tales)

Trying to learn ancient languages like Sanskrit and Persian

Learning classical dance since you were like 4 and bragging about how many different forms you know (look me in the eye and tell me madhuri dixit was not your childhood idol)

Boat trips on the Padma river, pretending to be Tagore

Waking up to the azaan at the break of dawn

Having steaming hot tea at a small tea stall on a rainy day

hope y'all enjoyed this :)

holy shit. the season 2 of kota factory hits too close. i havent even watched the whole episode but im crying.

also the colours turning back to black and white? poetic cinema. im getting cultish vibes from maheshwari.

moral of the story- give up on your dreams!

Neil or Todd II Charlie or Neil II Chris or Ginny II Meeks or Cameron II Mr. Perry or Mr. Nolan II Latin or Greek II joining Dead Poets Society or joining Welton Academy II housemates with Meeks and Pitts or housemates with Knox and Charlie II dusk or dawn II Walt Whitman or Shakespeare II Keating’s football class or Keating’s first class II Pitts or Stick II radio free america or midnight summers play II biking or driving II yearbook or rowing

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This or That: Dead Poets Society Edition

Neil or Todd II Charlie or Neil II Chris or Ginny II Meeks or Cameron II Mr. Perry or Mr. Nolan II Latin or Greek II joining Dead Poets Society or joining Welton Academy II housemates with Meeks and Pitts or housemates with Knox and Charlie II dusk or dawn II Walt Whitman or Shakespeare II Keating’s football class or Keating’s first class II Pitts or Stick II radio free america or midnight summers play II biking or driving II yearbook or rowing

Mine:

Neil or Todd II Charlie or Neil II Chris or Ginny II Meeks or Cameron II Mr. Perry or Mr. Nolan II Latin or Greek II joining Dead Poets Society or joining Welton Academy II housemates with Meeks and Pitts or housemates with Knox and Charlie II dusk or dawn II Walt Whitman or Shakespeare II Keating’s football class or Keating’s first class II Pitts or Stick II radio free america or midnight summers play II biking or driving II yearbook or rowing

lil monjulika appreciation post cuz she's a goddamn icon

I blog for the girls who cry on their birthdays and lose a little bit of themselves during the summer months

someone just told me that if i say what im wishing for out loud, it doesnt come true :|

since its 11.11, im wishing for mental stability

What's the point in wearing school uniform if it doesn't fit the dark academic aesthetic? That's the bare minimum can my school step the fuck up??????

boys will be boys IS reading poetry in a cave with your besties

boys will be boys IS NOT kissing a girl who is drunk and asleep

omg-

OKAY OKAY OKAY SHUT UP what if todd's birthday is really november.....okay okay???? then like its cold...neil's wearing a coat. todd isn't...so neil gives todd his coat...you see what this means????

this means i can connect this to taylor swift!!!! okay so like??? champagne problems right????

so like "november flush and your flannel cure" thats like...saying person b is giving their flannel or whatever to warm up person a during november cold.....

dfnfdjdfdf doesnt make sense but i love the song a lot and fkkdd i did make an edit of if a while back and just wrote this carwreck of a post bc im too lazy to make a fic of this