🦚 Desi Academia
Things you will relate to if you're into Desi Academia
Being fascinated by your family's history, tracing your lineage, and compiling a family history book to help future genealogy enthusiasts in your family.
Planning on having a whole section of your home dedicated to your family heirlooms when you're older.
Writing poetry for/drawing portraits of your one-sided romantic interest, but ending up revealing neither your objet d'art, nor your affection.
Museum dates >>>> (even though you don't actually go on any dates).
Finding niche blogs that talk about historical clothing in the sub-continent. (Any recommendations, please?)
Wanted to be either a psychologist, archeologist, or crime fiction writer at some point in your life.
Tried learning Urdu or Sanskrit. Most likely couldn't.
Lassi > Coke (tastier and healthier)
Having the capacity to spend hours admiring the same damn painting.
Having an unhealthy amount of interest in films and music that came out well before you were born.
Wished you could just leave everything behind and lead a simple life, grazing cattle in the mountains, humming a mellow tune.
Never miss a historical film. Mughal-e-Azam? Jodhaa Akbar? Bajirao Mastani? You've seen them all. More than once, to say the least.
Scented candles are your elixir.
Been waiting for quality desi anime and webtoons practically all your life.
You're very invested in the academia aesthetic but dgaf about your actual academics.
Whenever you hear semi-classical music, you start fantasizing about being a courtesan performing in front of the ruler, and who then falls in love with you (or something else along the same lines).
Amar Chitra Katha comics are to be credited for making you this way. It was Desi Academia before DA was a thing.
You've read everything from Chanakya's Arthashastra to Sun Tzu's The Art of War, hoping to become an ingenious leader but irl you're still a backbencher with stage fright.
You like wearing traditional attire on your birthday.
Multani mitti and aloe vera over chemical face packs ANY DAY!
"I am not dil phaink, I'm just highly appreciative of beauty." 🥺👉👈 (guilty 🤚)
