trophy bride industry. the subcontinent rishta culture now values a women with a fancy degree more. most old aged women now want to flex how their bahuu is so highly educated in their friend circles while they still refuse to give her liberty in their homes.

Hot bartender was rolling a joint while pouring me this. There’s “fuck Israel” graffiti everywhere. This might be the greatest country on earth

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Same situation in Pakistan. Growing up I saw a lot of Urdu language pulp fiction magazines and booklets (usually with detective, horror or fantasy elements) in small bookstores and roadside book stalls. Now I hardly ever come across any.

The European way of living is the right way of living. Humans were supposed to cycle to work, use stairs everywhere, eat healthy food, climb a rock, sit in a cafe after work and watch passersby. Also import immigrants for the hard jobs.

everything not black n white sometimes it be Bengali

someone just said three years on T... 😭

Including children

Muslims be like does allah allow humanity and compassion

why do Americans insist on saying eye-ran and eye raq, yet they can say Italy

RT @itgirlenthusias:

“Heated Rivalry” was a five-month psychological experiment conducted by McGill University. The study is now complete. Thank you for your time.

desis: I'm desi trans people: I'm trans that one desi trans friend you try to ignore: do you think nashta is a good name

there are masjids everywhere for those with the eyes to see

they are gentrifying jhumkas guys

Across South Asia, Persian influence runs through our poetry, our languages, our architecture, our crafts and our sense of beauty. Iran has been a wellspring of art, religion and culture for so many of our communities across history - it can’t be easily summarized. In Kashmir, Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani, the Persian scholar and Sufi from Hamadan, helped shape Islamic life in the valley. But his influence didn’t stop at religion - he brought with him artisans and traditions that helped establish Kashmir’s renowned textile and crafts industry (pashmina weaving, papier-mâché). And for centuries Farsi was the language of government, poetry and learning across much of the subcontinent, under the Mughal Empire. In Punjab, Persian poetry and Sufi thought shaped the region’s spiritual and literary traditions, through poets like Bulleh Shah. Even for all of Pakistan, the spiritual and intellectual father of the country - Allama Muhammad Iqbal - wrote much of his political and spiritual poetry in Farsi, to the extent that he’s studied and memorized in Iran. Our many, many communities have long been meeting points of many civilizations, but among the most constant threads running through many of them is Iran. It’s why the assault on Iranians and Iran has had such a visceral, emotional reaction from so many from the subcontinent. Decades of anti-Shia propaganda could not undo what was at the root.