#Chaudhari

[gael-garcia]

Station Eleven ep 1

[ohmybollywood]

Mahima Chaudhary in Pardes (1997)

[probablyasocialecologist]

Climate change is political but it’s “not the imaginary politics of universal consensus,” he writes in the book’s pithy prologue, nor the “anti-politics of miraculous technological salvation”. It’s also “not the end of the world”. Instead, it’s a struggle between “actually existing people over actually existing crises with actually existing differences, interests, and prospects. Climate change is about power.” Politicians in the global north rarely talk this way. They think of climate as an “on/off switch”. “‘We’re doing some climate’”, says Chaudhary, mimicking them, “‘would you prefer we do nothing?’”. But there are two large clusters of “doing something”, both of which Chaudhary examines. The first is what he calls “rightwing climate realism”. This encompasses a “broad spectrum”, from those who favour “slower climate mitigation and adaptation” to climate barbarism, but it’s ultimately about concentrating, preserving and enhancing existing political and economic power. That is why Chaudhary is insistent that, when we think of climate policies, we must pay attention to plans for borders and policing, too. He considers Joe Biden a type of rightwing climate realist. Among the US president’s most important climate policies is not just the Inflation Reduction Act but the US National Security Strategy, Chaudhary argues. “It is insanely jingoistic,” he says. It describes, for instance, out-competing China. If that’s the framework, he argues, we’re doomed, “because US-China cooperation is vital”. Ultimately, rightwing climate realists know there will be “instability” and “they are preparing for it”. That they will be successful is not only “plausible and possible, but probable,” he says. That is why the second avenue of “doing something”, composed of “the rest of us”, is so important. Chaudhary advocates for “leftwing climate realism”, which accepts the science, not because it’s a discipline “beyond impugning” but because it’s quite clear that there are ecological limits on this planet. We need a slower life, he argues; a circular economic system, where firms compete for the same amount of finite profit and the state dominates certain sectors. This will be good for the planet and for people, producing “a world relieved from social, economic, and ecological despair and exhaustion”.

[somos-deseos]

Field Lavender.

Photo By: Indrajeet Choudhary.

[bluefiredesire]

I will never get over how Station 11 subverted the parent/child found family trope. They acknowledged resentment in a way I've never seen before. Jeevan literally told that kid to her face "I was only supposed to bring you home" implying that he didn't ask for this level of responsibility when her parents were nowhere to be found. Like he obviously loves her, but that scene was wild to me and so heartbreaking. I absolutely loved it.

[cordate-chordata]

Commission of Indra and Amashilama from Axiom Verge 2 :D

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[timesofwoods]

Meenakshi Chaudhary

[exoticmen]

Lakshay Chaudhary

[fangirlingintellectual]

Went looking for baba, found daddy.

[paperclipping4losers]

i love you art focused on the perseverance of art and love through the apocalypse and the insistence on community and care even in unimaginably awful situations. i love you art focused on the beautiful and enduring nature of theatre and music and their ability to bring people together. i love you art about the unifying nature of hope and perseverance. i love you art about the soft apocalypse, the one that isn't mccarthy-esque, the one that isn't infested with cannibals and dark skies and starvation and bloodlust. i love you art about an apocalypse of overgrown civilization, of plants overtaking train tracks and spilling out of broken windows. i love you art about found family, i love you found family that cares about each other and loves each other and will protect each other even if they don't like each other, even if they can't stand each other. i love you art about friendship, about holding your best friend's hand through the apocalypse and I wish this wasn't happening, but I'm glad it's happening with you. i love you art about art, art that loves art, art that loves artists. i love you art about grief- grief after death and divorce and separation and getting lost and not doing the right thing. i love you art about wishing you had known your friends when you were little, when things were still good, when you weren't hurt yet. i love you art about mourning people you never knew, or met, or even heard of. i love you art about trauma that you can't heal from but that you can learn to live with. i love you art about doing what you can for the people you love. i love you art about sacrifice and decisions and impossible choices. i love you art about being so full of love at the end of the world.

[fanta30]

Meenakshii Chaudhary

[gael-garcia]

Station Eleven ep 9: Dr. Chaudhary

directed by Jeremy Podeswa cinematography by Steve Cosens

[angelstills]

Om Shanti Om (Peace Be With You, 2007)

[exotic-indians]

[mercurysketches]

you should doodle your ocs. for like mental health or something

[justshahrukhkhan]

Pardes, 1997

Working my way through SRK's filmography...