#type: rant

I’m gonna be keeping this as short as possible, so let’s get started.

I mean it's not like I have some exclusive personal insight to her life and her choices. My reaction is solely based of her actions in the public. Like..I don't know what she has in her kitty in terms of acting projects. I know she has shot for Shoaib Mansoor's film and God only knows when its second spell will be shot so that film is on hiatus. I know she has done a TVC for Oppo, a recent campaign for AlKaram, and maybe a music video with Azaan. But..what else? In a time when her contemporaries, her juniors, her seniors are all seriously switching gears and bagging as many "hatke" projects as they can..where does she stand? Does she not know what the audience want now? I am just tired of her one-trick-pony way of handling her career. She works far too infrequently. Which okay..not all the actors in her peer list are doing back to back work. But when they do work they make sure to do it in a project that has a spotlight on them.

PSM is bad. It's just bad. But I'd say it's bad because of how unbelievably long it has stretched a total of 2 conflicts. Had it been a 20 epi drama it would've had far more impact. Rakhshi as a character is just not great. I had sincerely thought Maya was done with the whole majboor damsel roles but guess not. Fuck..Rakhshi makes me appreciate Mannu more! Ffs Mannu had more of a spine in her body. She had snatched her agency away from the people who wanted to control her even if it was to drive her car off the cliff. She had turned into a masochist but by god she CHOSE to do that. Whatever the fuck is Rakhshi???? But I digress. My point is that when Maya did do a drama after years..she chose a script which put her character in the same vicinity as someone like Nargis who IS the kind of character audience wants to watch now. Fierce, fearless, someone who dares to speak the sense no one else would. Rakhshi would've worked in 2015 maybe. Not in 2021.

not to miss the fact how rabia butt and her pr has milked her character to the max by making sure all the entertainment pages only talk about nargis every weekend when a new psm epi is to be aired

And then there is Maya Pret.

*screams her frustration out in the pillow*

An overpriced clothing line that doesn't even bother to hide the fact that it has been overly "inspired" by Faiza Saqlain's designs. Is Faiza Saqlain a great designer? Not really. But she has a very signature look. A signature look that Maya has promoted and owned for years! She made Faiza Saqlain's designs desirable! There was a time she almost exclusively only wore Faiza Saqlain's designs. It was a mutually beneficial relationship for them. And then seemingly out of nowhere she comes up with a clothing line which is headed by her cousins but has her own name on it and the clothes are literally the same as what Faiza used to give her but only this time the name is changed? Like???? For years Faiza and Saqlain were by Maya's side. They were more family than friends. But with the launch of this clothing line Faiza is out of the picture. Nowhere to be found on her special days..nowhere to be found on social media. Gayab, khatam.

I know she isn't the greatest when it comes to maintaining relationships. But good god I'd had expected her to stick with the people who were with her in her toughest days. How people come and go from her life is just...I just can no longer keep up with that. I am frankly tired. Regardless of her personal life, regardless of her opinions, I stanned her because there was potential in her. Her career choices used to excite me. I dealt with her hiatuses cuz I had the optimism that she'd come back stronger. But that's just not happening anymore. I know she has health issues. I know a project she is tied to is being delayed. But goodness sab chorh ke beth jaati hai yeh toh. Doesn't even bother to take an initiative to experiment in the time being. Koi webseries, koi telefilm, kuch khud hi produce karle. But nope. She's too busy dropping the people whom she used to sing constant praises of to hang out with new people and making them a center of her universe. I just wonder how long her current relationships will last.

Plate mein sajj ke kuch nahin milne wala. Khud karna padta hai kuch. This is a time where a new crop of actors are being recognized and gaining fame..quickly moving up the ladder. And there's only very limited space at the top. Maya has all but abandoned her place there thanks to her choices which have made her complacent and lazy. Someone will replace her, if they haven't done already.

ray/unknown pillow cover is so perfect...

Hi there! I’ve got two asks about this so I’ll just jot down what I know from the reading I’ve done:

Gandhi was a known racist. He believed that Indians and whites were superior and more civilised than Africans. “To the extent that he wrote Africans out of history or was keen to join with whites in their subjugation he was a racist.“ (Prof. Ashwin Desai). A quick google search should show you the kind of remarks he made about black South Africans during his time there [more here] (Also noting that South Asians, especially Indians, are notoriously anti-black- so it’s really no wonder that this part of his personality is overlooked in the nation’s history books)

Gandhi had a very perverted attitude towards sex. He is recorded to have conducted ‘sex experiments’ to test his celibacy (ie he made naked women share a bed with him). Some of these women were underage. [more here and here]

Gandhi does not sit well for most Dalits in India. Actually, the quote that Gandhi shouldn’t be considered ‘Mahatma’ at all came from the father of the Indian constitution, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar; who was also the leader of the Dalit Movement and one of Gandhi’s biggest critics. Their ideological differences definitely played a big part in this [more here]. But even more so was the outcome of the Poona Pact in 1933. The pact culminated a hunger strike that Gandhi led to ensure Ambedkar’s proposition of a constitution enabling Dalits to elect their own leaders, with reserved political seats (quota), was NOT to go forward. Gandhi, a high caste Hindu, believed that the best way to address caste based discrimination was to, among other things, involve oneself in activities reserved for the lower caste (toilet cleaning etc), whilst Ambedkar, also an esteemed lawyer and Dalit who had grown up facing caste-based discrimination, found that representation was the best way to address this issue. Thus, Gandhi blocked what could have been a great step forward for the lower caste in India. [more here]

The other anon asked me how he was ‘Hindu-centric’ and I really don’t know much more about that then the above mentioned and the fact that he was a devout Hindu most of his life (even if he was critical of all religions). However, I fail to see how being ‘Hindu-centric’ (so to speak) is a bad thing? I think the author of that post I reblogged included that part because the ‘mythology’ of Gandhi (and his incorporation of spirituality/Hindu concepts into political ideology) is a significant part of the current Hindu nationalist regime and their subsequent erasure/oppression of minorities in India. [edit 07/06/17]

As a side note, I used the term ‘mythology’ of Gandhi because as you said, he is put on a pedestal and is considered to be perfect and the father of the nation and whatnot. But as you can see he was also an extremely problematic individual. And what is also problematic is that we can’t dismiss the countless amount of good people his ‘mythology’ inspired: he most certainly played a significant role in India’s independence (along with numerous others who we tend to forget about due to the magnanimous, all-encompassing scale of this mythology). It’s a classic case of separating the art and artist. So people like Mandela and MLK Jr don’t automatically become problematic because they prescribe to Gandhian philosophy. People who look up to and excuse his racist, perverted personality do. We have to keep in mind this complicated dichotomy that is associated with the ideal that is Gandhi. All I can say is that I won’t be calling him Mahatma ever again. 

it's awesome to see queer representation on tv but the fact that stiles didn't answer really REALLY bums me out. it's no news that canon has always treated him as a bisexual i.e "someone next to sex me right now" and of course he's not obligated to come out even if he is queer but i feel like they missed a huge opportunity

he didn't have to say "yes, i like boys as well." 

he could (and imo should) have said "i like people."