local lunatic

"I thought you liked those storybooks and that phone more than you love us? wHy Don'T yOu Go bAcK to ThEm?"

"Coming outside only for breakfast, dinner, and lunch, ah? Otherwise always in your room only."

"Beta, YoU mUsT bE BoTh IntrOvErTed AND ExtroVeRtEd. It should all be equal. You have to be everything, then only you'll amount to at least something."

"tch tch, can't even talk to neighbour but talking to neighbour's dog."

making playlists has been my favourite hobby recently and here are some of them

edit: the link were broken so I have updated them. hopefully they are accessible now.

tender hindi - soft, gossamery songs

indian miniature painting - oh to be dancing on the banks of yamuna, bacchanal in the forest, holding lilypads, with the deer and peacocks as the moon rises on the horizon

hitchhiking a truck / charpai in courtyard - folk vibes

a civilization beyond indus - ancient and medieval kingdom vibes

desi academia - chai aur kavitaen

with her past midnight in the delhi city-lights - "i fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.“ but it’s in the amber streetlights of the back alleys/balcony of a big city. [hindi+english]

tender hindi songs of night - in memory of those summer twilights when there’d be a powercut and the whole family would sit on the porch with handfans, telling each other stories

dil me jhula sa laga hai - songs about self-love and life