#indory

[kafi-farigh-yusra]

اب کے اوس کی بوندوں نے دِل میں آگ لگائی ہے

دل پہ کس نے دستک دی ہے, تُم ہو یا تنہائی ہے؟

~راحت اندوری

Ab k o'os ki boondo'n ne dil mai aag lagai hai

Dil pe kis ne dastak di hai, tum ho ya tanhai hai?

~Rahat Indori

[mehreenkhan]

When Qateel Shifai wrote

Dur tak chaye the badal aur kahin saya na tha

Is tarah barsaat ka mausam kabhi aya na tha

When Parveen Shakir said

Kuch to tere mausam hi mujhe raas kam aye

Aur kuch meri miti main baghawat bhi buhat thi

And when Rahat Indori wrote

Main akhir konsa mausam tumhare naam kardeta

Yahan har ik mausam ko guzar jane ki jaldi thi

[tinysoultimetravel]

When Bonnie Tyler said, “once upon a time I was falling in love, now I’m only falling apart”

When Munir Niazi said, “mohabbat ab aur nahi hogi”

When Paloma Faith said, “only love can hurt like this”

When Jaun Elia said, “sau baar dil ko kaha chal bhul jaa usko”

And finally when Rahat Indori said, “tumse rishta ab kuch aisa hai, na nafrat hai na ishq pehle jaisa hai” and you felt nothing.

[thisis-matilda]

Not just "she has beautiful eyes", but

"उसकी कत्थई आँखों में हैं जंतर-मंतर सब

चाक़ू-वाक़ू, छुरियाँ-वुरियाँ, ख़ंजर-वंजर सब"

Not just "sorry", but

"जिस दिन से तुम रूठीं मुझ से रूठे-रूठे हैं

चादर-वादर, तकिया-वकिया, बिस्तर-विस्तर सब"

Not just "she's not the same without me", but

"मुझसे बिछड़ कर वह भी कहाँ अब पहले जैसी है

फीके पड़ गए कपड़े-वपड़े, ज़ेवर-वेवर सब"

- राहत इंदौरी

[mere-rashke-qamar]

रोज़ तारों को नुमाइश में ख़लल पड़ता है

चाँद पागल है अँधेरे में निकल पड़ता है |

[not-a-nice-man-to-know]

Apni pehachan mitane ko kaha jaata hain

Bastiyan chod kar jaane ko kaha jaata hain

Pattiyan roz gira jaati hain zehrili hawa

Aur humein pedh lagane ko kaha jaata hain

- Rahat Indori

[rajeevpradhan]

[aap-kaisi-ladhki-hain-kammo-ji]

नए किरदार आते जा रहे हैं

मगर नाटक पुराना चल रहा है

[gulzarkinazm]

mohabbat ki hatheli par aaj hum dono ka naam iss kadar likh du ki heer-ranjha ko bhi taqleef hone lage humare juda hone se

[getvalentined]

Very old and barely cleaned up art of the majority of the main cast of my unfinished fantasy novel, because I realized that these are all trapped over on my old compromised blog and I'd like to have them over here.

Tsh'ander Clan West | Verrim kil Hadir vi Amalathae | Myn

Relia Eidanri | Asforahl | Marashac

Riv | Tyalaskr | The Meli

Deidric Carnelian-19 | Cieni *high whistle/click sound* | Kortha VI

This is roughly the order of introduction, if I'm remembering correctly, although it gets a little muddied after Tyalaskr.

Random nonsense about these freaks under the cut.

Verrim was born missing one arm and about 30% of either lung in a deal his mother made with their patron god to make sure he inherited a specific magic that only presents in Amalathae women, without which he would have been taken from her at birth and raised up elsewhere.

Myn and Riv are members of a species born from the energetic aftershocks of the creation of the planet. They have a static population—when one dies, another is born to take their place and carry the energy that creates their equivalent of a soul. This is referred to as a "changeover," not reincarnation.

Asforahl and Marashac are the last survivors of the first generation born after the First made the planet and a manufactured species to populate it.

Tyalaskr is the result of a complex breeding experiment involving the murder of one of Riv and Myn's people, the changeover of which led to the birth of Riv. Tyal and Riv are best friends and share a birthday.

The Meli was accidentally created in a magical splicing accident that resulted in a couple people and at least one large feline getting fused together into a single living thing. It has two hearts, several extra ribs, too many vertebrae, and telescoping legs.

Deidric comes from a culture where hair color defines a person's role in society. She is, unfortunately, a genetic aberration who was born to parents with white hair (commoners, ~90% of the population) while she has black hair (nonperson labor, ~9.9% of the population); her teacher is a white-haired man who was born to black-haired parents ~50 year prior. Their culture is in shambles.

What would constitute the closest thing Cieni has to a surname is a series of sounds that literally can't be produced by most spoken or any written language, so that's what you get.

[aashufta-sar]

When Faiz Ahmed Faiz said "Raaz e ulfat chhupa ke dekh liya, dil bohat kuch jala ke dekh liya.. Aur kya dekhne ko baqi hai, Aap se dil laga ke dekh liya.." or when Rahat Indori said "Kis ne dastak di yeh dil par koun hai, Aap tou andar hain baahar koun hai?" and when Jawwad Sheikh said "Aap jaison ke liye is mein rakha kuch bhi nahi, aisa to na kahiye ke wafa kuch bhi nahi.. Aap kahiye to nibhate chale jayenge magar, iss talluq mein aziyat ke siwa kuch bhi nahi.." or when Mohsin Naqvi penned "Aap ki aankh se gehra hai meri rooh ka zakhm, Aap kya soch sakenge tanhayi ko.."

[kafi-farigh-yusra]

پہلی شرط جدائی ہے

عشق بڑا ہرجائی ہے

Pehli shart judaai hai

Ishq bara harjaai hai

[metamorfishes]

nothing comes close to this istg

“Yeh makhmoor aankhen jo badli hui hain

Kabhi hum ne inke the sadqe utare”

[observercamus]

bachpan mein dekha karta tha shringaar karte,

Phir to saari umar hi biti bachhon se pyaar karte

[ma-douce-souffrance]

Saanjh

I ordered a bowl of indori poha because it reminded me of you 🥺 let's hope it's not bad 🤌🏼

omgdmxjdjdjjdj you have no idea how happy that made me oml it will be good hopefully

[not-a-nice-man-to-know]

Kaun zaalim hain yahan?

Zulm hua hain kis par?

Kya khabar aayegi?

Akhbaar ko tay karna hain!

Apne ghar mein

Mujhe kya khana, pakhana kya hain?

Yeh mujhko nahi

Sarkaar ko tay karna hain!

- Rahat Indori