#harry potter and mahabharat

[hinsaa-paramo-dharma]

Mahabharat fic likhni hai ab bus kanha mujhe writing skills dede 😭

[ginevra11]

hi are you part of other fandoms besides Harry Potter?

Hi. Yes, I am into some other fandoms.

Mostly it is lotr and Hobbit, Agents of shield, Daredevil and Batman

Other than that, I am greatly invested in exploring folktales and mythologies.

Not sure if it counts as a fandom or not, but as an Indian, I definitely recommend Mahabharat, tale of lord Krishna and the entire Shiva family to anyone interested. They have been my favourite since childhood

[hunterartemis]

Mahabharat and Harry Potter Crossover: Hufflepuff

From The Top: Pitamah Bhisma, Queen Gandhari, Emperor Yudhisthir and Chief Minister VIdur

Quote: 

“धर्म एव हतो हन्ति धर्मो रक्षति रक्षितः तस्माद्धर्मो न हन्तव्यो मा नो धर्मो हतोऽवधीत्”

Translit: “dharma eva hato hanti dharmo rakṣati rakṣitaḥ tasmād dharmo na hantavyo mā no dharmo hato'vadhīt”-- Manusmriti

Meaning:  Justice, blighted, blights; and justice, preserved, preserves; hence justice should not be blighted, lest blighted justice blight us.

The quote is also a part of Mahabharat OST: Listen it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-ij5DEfgEQ

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[human-calcifer]

Devdutt Patnaik is Desi version of

J K Rowling. Try to change my mind.

Stop seeking validation from his work. Some of you all are half baked intellectual in this country to the point it's beyond embarrassing.

[callonpeevesie]

'Antagonist tries to stop prophecy about being defeated by protagonist from coming true but accidentally makes it come true whereas it wouldn't have come true if they didn't do anything' is one of my favourite fantasy tropes.

[id1367]

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[moon-rapunzel]

I headcanon Harry Potter as half Indian. So here are some headcanons I have. Hopefully they become as special to you as they are to me. (idk if these count as one or multiple, you can decide) I may add on to this as time goes. 

- He was originally named Hari, but once he was left with the Dursleys it was quickly forgotten and changed into Harry. Because they didn’t know how to pronounce it and quite frankly, didn’t care. 

- His father was Hindu, and hence there were a lot of traditions and celebrations. Sirius got to be part of these celebrations when he lived with the Potters and he tries to tell Harry as much as he can about it but he can’t seem to remember many details because of how blurry Azkaban made his memory (and he curses himself for not writing in a diary)

- But he does reconnect with some of the Potters’ family and family friends, and he relearns what he can and he remembers more and more details. He writes it all down this time in a diary and wants to tell Harry everything about it over chai (which he also relearned how to make and remembered how James liked it with Elaichi and add it in) but doesn’t get the chance because of his unfortunate death. (But Harry does find the diary and reads through it, and by the end he’s sobbing)

- He reaches out to the Patil twins to learn more about Hindu festivals and culture and they are quite willing to teach him about it. He becomes really fascinated by it and major events. He becomes really interested in the Mahabharat particularly (and he watches the Television series with them) 

- Him and Parvati become particularly close and have a sibling-like bond and Parvati officially ‘makes’ him her brother on Rakshabandhan(spelling may vary) when she ties a rakhi on his wrist. Needless to say it’s a very sentimental moment and the next minute Parvati’s mother is making Parvati pretend she’s tying the rakhi on his hand for a picture (while Parvati rolls her eyes and Harry just smiles)

(there could also be headcanons like this with Padma but I have romantic headcanons about her and Harry on dates so I won’t) 

- After the war Harry legally changes his name back to Hari 

- Padma drags him to this street in town that sells traditional Indian clothing, food (sweets included), paan (which Padma makes him try, though I don’t think he’d be the biggest fan but Padma definitely is)

- They eat at an Indian restaurant and Padma’s about to order him Mild food but Hari wants to impress Padma a bit and orders the spicy one and once he eats it he immediately goes red (because who tf doesn’t, I very much do) and regrets his decision but for the sake of impressing Padma claims that it’s not at all spicy and Padma herself has ordered the Medium one. 

[gryffindordaughterofathena]

Hello loveliest Dri! So, I wanted to ask, what genre of books do you like the most? Do you have any favs that you frequently go back and read? Are you more of a hard cover person or e-book person? And, and, and, Do you listen to podcasts?

Thank you 💕

Hiii Manamee! Thanks for the ask.

Okay so I am that person who pretty much devours anything that she comes across, because I am ✨bored✨ but if I have to choose a genre, it's fantasy, even before I got obsessed with Harry Potter, I could be found reading some sort of fantasy or fairy tales, be it Narnia or fairy tales from all around the world. Another one of my favorite genres is adventure/mystery, for as long as I remember, I have been a Feluda fanatic and also once I read Dan Brown there was no turning back.

I do, I'd always return to my Harry Potter books or Pride and Prejudice or my copy of Ved Vyas Mahabharat whenever I feel the need of comfort books kicking in.

I am a hardcover person through and through. E-books are great when I really want to read a book and can't buy it just yet but nothing will compare to the smell of pages (new or old) and the rush of happiness at seeing my Library fill a little bit more.

I don't really get the time to listen to podcasts, but at times I do listen to Devdutt Patnaik's mythology podcasts, but if you do, pretty please suggest a few.

ASK ME ANYTHING YOU'RE CURIOUS ABOUT

[iamnotthat]

Tagged by @allegoriesinmediasres thanks love!

Rules: List your 10 favorite female characters, one per fandom, then tag 10 people.

1. Sita (Ramayan) 

2. Carol Danvers (Marvel)

3. Draupadi (Mahabharat)

4. Izumi Curtis/Riza Hawkeye (Full metal alchemist, two because this story has so many good female characters!!)

5. Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)

6. Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation)

7. Kashaf Murtaza ( Zindagi Gulzar Hai)

8. Gauri Kumari Ssssssarma (Ishqbaaz/DBO)

9. Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)

10. Veronica Mars (Veronica Mars)

Honorable mention to Buffy (Buffy the vampire slayer) and Blair Waldorf (Gossip girl) only for her bitchin’ style (she was a bit thick that one)

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[hirakdesherrani]

Apart from Tellywood, what are you interested in?

Hi anon!

Believe me, Tellywood is the least of my interest, if it all something I’m interested in. I know, this blog looks primarily like a Tellywood blog at best (and IB blog at worst), but really I’m not that invested in Hindi serials. In fact, the serials that really influenced my thought process a lot like Mahabharat or Dharmaskhetra or Stories By Rabindranath Tagore; I’ve hardly written about them, if ever. I’ve been really random with this blog, but I’m going to remedy that pretty soon. 

I’m actually way, way, way more invested in Hindi cinema/Bollywood (even Bengali cinema, to some extent). Like to the extent that my hostel room back in my college days was plastered with movie posters (I used to literally wake up everyday to the sight of Madhubala being her classy best), I was/am a ferocious Antaakshari player, people wrote papers on Dark Knight and Anarchy or Harry Potter and Discrimination for our Pop Culture elective while I wrote on DDLJ and how it changed romance in 90′s, and if I really had the talent to write, I would have loved to be a film historian. 

Since I belong to the Humanities stream, naturally, I’m interested in History, Politics, sociology and mythology (esp. Mahabharat).

I’m a Bengali, so love for food, music and tea is in my blood. 

Ever since my cousin’s wedding last year, and also ‘cos I’m a Delhite, I guess, I’ve become more invested in fitness and weight loss as well (So if any of you have advice on how to tone one’s body, please do share). 

[Also, it maybe ‘cos Delhi is a really unsafe city and that has affected my psyche, I really like to beat up guys if I can. I’ve these sudden violent urges where I want to just eradicate ‘man’kind, but well, of course that’s unrealistic. Though I have elaborate conspiracies on how to cripple them. *evil laugh*]

So, yeah, I’ve not been serious about this place, but I’ll change it pretty soon to reflect what I really like. 

[hinsaa-paramo-dharma]

I saw cool, studious people making a list of books they have read and I want to be cool too, so here's mine:

Girl who drank the moon (don't remember the author but this is absolutely amazing)

The secret Garden ( a classic that I didn't understood most of the time kyunki I was 12 and the angrezi here was difficult for me)

A wrinkle in time (hated it because didn't met kid me's high expectations)

Nevermoor, wundersmith and Hollowpox (love them, haven't gotten around on reading silverborne but I know that I will love that too)

Keeper of the Lost Cities (Liked the series at first but romance ki itni shaukeen nhi hu so, it got a bit annoying. My favourite part was Fitz and Keefe's friendship aur vo hi saala love triangle ki vajah se kharab ho gyi 😔)

Harry Potter (Didn't read Deathly Hallows because I got bored, loved it only because of Lupin, Fred and George)

The Pandava Quintet (read it just after watching Mahabharat in lockdown, didn't liked it at all-)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Heroes of Olympus (LOVE LOVE LOVE IT, specifically pjo! Hoo was good but the ending felt a bit too rushed, love Grover, love nico, love Percy)

Miss peregrine home for peculiar children (only read it a bit but I liked it, time milega toh puri series read karungi)

Coraline, the graphic novel (go read it, it's amazing)

Iske baad se I turned into a teenager and had a creepypasta phase-

Abhigyanam Shakuntala (love it, go read it everyone)

Mrcchkatika (LOVE IT, maitreya is baby)

Picture of Dorian Gray (it broke me)

Dr. Jackyll and Mr. Hyde (I read a children's version of this but loved it nonetheless)

Jane Eyre (thoda read Kiya, dekha it's wayyy too long for me and then left it)

Hamlet (I am reading it right now, Act 1 finished.)

Sherlock Holmes (bhool gyi thi ki a study in scarlet' padhi Hui hai maine-)

Byomkesh Bakshi (I have only read a few stories but accha lga)

Guide (Time milega toh puri khatam kar dungi I promise 😭)

The adventures of Gopi and Bagha (childhood favourite which I had apparently forgotten about)

[aseemdhru]

Shades of Grey

16th January 2017. Monday.

I want to be the villain, I reasoned as a child. It did sound logical. In the whole movie the poor Hero sweated it out at the hands of the evil, rich and powerful man. In the climax, the usual car chase followed by the hand to hand dual in an industrial godown with tin drums filled with spilling oil from bullets that missed their mark and crates and barrels rolling on the floor amidst hoists and pulleys and conveyor belts our hero is being beaten up until there is blood from the side of his mouth. As it reaches his jawline, he wipes it off, takes the name of his lord or mom and in the last five minutes the balance of power reverses. He gets no joy of finish as at that precise moment when the Hero is about to finish the villain once and for all, the police arrive. “ विजय, क़ानून को अपने हाथों में मत लो”, says the gun toting inspector and the hero throws the gun away while the police constables are hand-cuffing the fallen villain. Move over Scotland Yard, the Mumbai police I was convinced did a fab job of timing.

Now, you please tell me wasn’t the reasoning right. 150 minutes of the movie covered the villain going from middle aged to old. 145 minutes he generally had a good time and the hero suffered and last 4 minutes this reverses but for all the sufferings he went through, he still doesn’t get the joy of finish. Harry Potter suffers through eight books until Voldemort is finally slayed. Am giving you mounting evidence that it does pay to be bad mathematically atleast.

In the Ramayan, Mahabharat, most of our mythological tales, in fiction books, in our movies the world comprised of just two colours. Black and White.

Ram and Raavan. Pandavs and Kauravs or even Harry Potter and Voldemort. Our superheroes- Spider-Man and Superman and Batman, James Bond and countless others. Good vs Evil. Pure, simple and uncomplicated. Evil is Goliath and good is David. In the entire story, good boy suffers unfairly at the hand of the evil boy without losing his goodness and when continuously provoked, he always vanquishes evil, not for himself, but in the interest of humanity.

Real life is so different, isn’t it ? You don’t meet too many people black or white. We all are different shades of grey. Human beings belong to the entire spectrum of the grey color palette. In different lights, at different points of time and viewed from different angles we may appear from very light grey to darker shades.

ना कोई मुकम्मल अच्छा ना कोई मुकम्मल बुरा तक़दीर, वक़्त और हालात और अपने नज़रिए से कोई अच्छा कोई बुरा

[hunterartemis]

Harry Potter and Mahabharat Crossover: Gryffindor

From the Top: Pandav Bheemsen, Veer Abhimanyu, Empress Draupadi and Maharathi Arjun

 Quote:

परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् । धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे

Translit:  Paritranaya sadhunang vinashay cha dushkritam. Dharmasang sthapanarthay sambhabami yuge yuge. -- Bhagavat Geeta (Chapter 4: verse 8)

Meaning:  For the protection of the good, for the destruction of evil-doers, For the sake of firmly establishing righteousness, I am possible in every age.

This Shlok is a part of Mahabharat OST. Listen to it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS3u9wUu8vY

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[hunterartemis]

Mahabharat and Harry Potter crossover: Ravenclaw

From the top: Pandava Sahadev, Pandava Nakul, Karnapatni Vrushali and Dwaraka Nath Shri Krishna

Quote:

यथैधांसि समिद्धोऽग्निर्भस्मसात्कुरुतेऽर्जुन | ज्ञानाग्नि: सर्वकर्माणि भस्मसात्कुरुते तथा

Translit:  “yathaidhānsi samiddho ’gnir bhasma-sāt kuruterjuna jñānāgniḥ sarva-karmāṇi bhasma-sāt kurute tathā” 

---(Bhagavat Geeta Chapter 4: Verse 37)

Meaning:  “ Just as a burning flame turns fuel into ashes, O Arjuna, so does the fire of knowledge turn all actions into ashes.”

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[hunterartemis]

Mahabharat and Harry Potter crossover: Slytherin

From the top: Maharathi Karna, Queen Mother Satyavati, Guru Dronacharya and Gandhar Raj Shakuni

Quote:

य एव धर्मः सोऽधर्मोऽदेशकाले प्रतिष्ठितः। आदानमनृतं हिंसा धर्मो ह्यावस्थिकः स्मृतः॥

Translit:  ya eva dharmaḥ so'dharmo’deśakāle pratiṣṭhitaḥ. ādānamanṛtaṃ hiṃsā dharmo hyāvasthikaḥ smṛtaḥ

Meaning:  “According to differing time and place, the meaning of dharma is established. If situations become adverse then dharma becomes adharma and adharma such as lying, violence are (also) considered dharma”. --Mahabharat (Shantiparva)

This shlok is a part of Mahabharat OST. Listen to it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICZsr3sMIZk

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