My Skills Include Reading An Entire Page Of An Academic Text Without Absorbing A Single Word

GOD THIS IS SO COOL!!! we should start a garba club 🙂‍↕️🗣🗣🗣

*gasp* are you gujarati ?

Yesssssss

Tame pan?!

niche things I love about Indian culture

(Besides the awesome fashion, food, mythology, architecture, music, and philosophies)

-in Hindi, “ladies and gentlemen” is “goddesses and gentlemen” (देवियों और सज्जनो)

-how you measure age by how many monsoons you’ve seen (“he is of 10 monsoons”)

-good morning WhatsApp forwards. Yes, this is a controversial one. I just think it’s cute as hell

-how 2 Indians can each know like 4 languages but still not be able to communicate with each other because they don’t share a single common one

-men wearing lots of jewellery especially gold hoop earrings 👀👌🏽

-nose rings (I got mine when I was a kid WITH my parents’ approval)

-the fact that Indian English uses so many archaic words and terms. And also so many terms that sound like they’re from the year 2050 (like “biodata” for resume)

-“where should I put this?” “On my head.”

-the expression “sucking my blood” in Punjabi when someone is annoying you. “Stop sucking my blood,” “He’s really sucking my blood.” Also “He’s eating my brain” in Hindi is a good one too

-how shop owners serve you food and chai and how the men drape saris over themselves to model them for you

-impromptu poetry sessions (“वह क्या बात है!”)

-there’s a reason so many animes are inspired by Hinduism and Buddhism. The original spirit bombs and other magical energy weapons were in the mahabharat lol

-really off the wall units of measurement. Lakh makes perfect sense. Crore makes a bit of sense. But why is a mahakalpa 311,040,000,000,000 years. Why does an akshauhini consist of 21,870 chariots; 21,870 elephants; 65,610 horses and 109,350 infantry. That is so specific

-the fact that no one’s gonna top the party we’re gonna throw when the queen dies

Chaliye aap kehti hai toh Maan lete hai ( but like romantically )

Idk why I have been humming to Sheila ki Jawaani every moment like abhi thode din pehle exam tha uske beech May bhi gaane lagi matlab kya yaar

desi parents

me: i want privacy  my parents: 

why is it always "your eyes are pretty" and never "gulabi aankhen jo teri dekhi, sharaabi ye dil ho gaya"?

Mahiyaa finals ke liye aa jaao 😭😭😭😭😭

Bhai I made tomato soup today and uhh here's the recipe

Boil 4 tomatoes, purée Bana do, side pe. Chop an onion. Heat up some oil and a bit butter, add the onions. Masaale ka dabba kholo. Add some hing, digestion ke liye baccho, onion me thoda sa chilli powder, enough to make it a bit spicy, and salt. Phir purée daal do, paani, uhh mixer me paani daalna aur phir kadhai me. Corn flour me paani and a bit salt. Add it into the kadhai, aur 2 black pepper, chilli flakes, oregano, peri peri. Sab taste ke according daalna. Aur might sound weird but maggi masala, aur thoda sa tomato ketchup aur aadha chamacch pizza sauce. Let the soup thicken up and cream daal doh. Bass ho gya hehe

Boht zyaada cry aa rha hain.

sometimes words are not just enough,

Gaali dena zaroori hojata hai

Red Bull and Ghazal supremacy