Desi Moodboard - Blog Posts

Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we!

For such as we are made of, such we be.

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O time! thou must untangle this, not I;

It is too hard a knot for me to untie!

Stop, O friend, stop fanning me with leaves of lotus and of palm,

the fire in my heart may just suddenly erupt into flames.

~Subhashitavalli

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Dark academia moodboard set in Gujarat

//I've grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the only thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.//

- The Picture Of Dorian Gray - O.Wilde

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//What happens when fire makes love to the earth?//

saanjh ab bhayi nahi aaye / tum bin mora jiya ghabaraye.

desi dark academia mood board

eldest child. artistic, botany student. hiding behind saccharin smiles and soft frowns. voice tingling until it stops serenading. will the expectations ever stop?

sing to me to me, Aaranya. the forest you grew around yourself, is humming, with the vibrations of your music.

✨ANCIENT INDIA AESTHETIC MOODBOARD✨

For @suvarnarekha

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Arre jhumka gira re Bareily ke bazaar me in jhumka gira re

तू जहाँ जहाँ चलेगा मेरा साया साथ होगा मेरा साया साथ होगा…

कभी मुझको याद करके, जो बहेंगे तेरे आँसू तो वहीं पे रोक लेंगे, उन्हें आ के मेरे आँसू

मैं अगर बिछड़ भी जाऊँ, कभी मेरा ग़म न करना मेरा प्यार याद करके, कभी आँख नम न करना

तू कोई जनम भी लेगा मेरा साया साथ होगा…

I would have opened this letter with a ‘dear’, however I wondered for a long time if it would indeed be a correct way for me to address you, after all this time. A lifetime seems to have passed between that evening of 1952 and now, sometimes even making me feel that I have slept through the last 30 years. I would often look at faces of my children and grandchildren, wondering if I am stuck in some never ending dream from which I might wake up any minute now. My hair has greyed in the fringes of my temple and forehead, my smile is showing signs of wrinkle and my fingers feel heavy. It’s not a terrible feeling, I enjoy my experiences most of the time, but sometimes my body feels like it is living the life of someone else. And that in a different timeline I am still there playing with you behind that tree.  Is it still there? I was so sure I will forget everything, you, those lanes, that house and all else. Are you also there? Do you also, like me, go to sleep in the expectation of reliving our lives till 16 years of age again and again, like listening to a record on loop or going to see one particular cinema multiple times? If you are coming back from there, can you accompany me back to myself as well please?

This night seems to be taking all away from me again. The moon is cruel.

Dark academia moodboard set in Pune

//Sometimes in the evening, around twilight, I'm unable to hold back my tears. But then I pull myself together again.//

-Nikos Kazantzakis, Letter to Galateia Kazantzaki wr. c. July,1922

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Requested by:@adoginthemanger

Dark academia moodboard set in Mumbai

//That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.//

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

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non Eurocentric cottagecore moodboard [3/? ] for:@ya-boi-leto

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Kahaniyaaañ khti haiñ kalakariyañ

"Beneath the white veil, dreams softly bloom,..... Love wrapped in mangoes, a tender perfume......The candlelight whispers a quiet lore,....A love so deep, it forever soars.

In earthy hues, passion resides,....A gentle glance where secrets hide.......A corner, a home, a heart’s retreat,.....This desi love, where worlds meet."

क्योंकि हवा कुछ सर्द सी है 🥀

picture credits to the owners (pinterest)

मैं साँस लेता हूँ, तेरी खुशबू आती है