#pooja box

[zishtatraditions]

Handcrafted Brass Pooja Box | Navratri Gifts | Zishta Home Decor

Explore Zishta Brass Pooja Box, a finely crafted sanctuary for your spiritual essentials. Brass Pooja Box are commonly given as gifts during religious ceremonies, festivals, weddings, and other auspicious occasions.

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Buy Beautiful Pooja Box for Puja Ceremonies

Make your event more memorable as this Lustrous Pooja Box with intricate design is made of the finest material, adding elegance and charm to your everyday spiritual items & other elements of worship.

[richdadpoor]

What Ananya Panday Felt When Ayushmann Khurana Cross-dressed On Dream Girl 2 Sets

Dream Girl 2 was released on August 25. Apart from Ananya and Ayushmann, Dream Girl 2 also stars Paresh Rawal, Rajpal Yadav, Annu Kapoor, Manjot Singh, Seema Pahwa, Abhishek Banerjee and Vijay Raaz. Ananya Panday is currently revelling in praise for her performance in her recently released film Dream Girl 2. The actress has essayed the love interest of Ayushmann Khurrana’s character in the…

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[gallerialohiyas]

Decor Your Home With Silver Home Decor Items

If four walls make a house, then four decorative walls make it a home. Home is not only a place where we live, but we create memories here. where we grow, where we learn, where we spend our whole life. An ideal home can be built, can not be bought, whether it is small or big. Actually, your home shows what you are, so it should be majestic. The first thing which comes after building up a home and done with a whitewash, or after choosing furniture fit in their choices, then people put their attention on decoration items.

 When it comes to the most splendid Silver home decor items, nothing can better than silver home decor items. Whether it is a festival occasion or a normal day, silver home decor items always increase the glory of your home. It gives your home a fascinating and royal look. You can decorate your home with so many trendy silver decorative products including God's statue, wall decor, garden, table decor, lamps, clocks, silver frames, vintage clocks, musical instruments, and more.

Not only silver home decor products enhance the beauty of your home, but they also could be a perfect gift for your dear ones. Yes, you can gift it to your family members & friends as a present on any special occasion.

 Silver Pooja Articles - Silver pooja article considered a perfect gift for any auspicious occasion, festival & pooja. You can gift your dear ones silver pooja articles like God & Goddess idols, Silver Kalash, Lords Singhasan, Aarti Thali, Shivalay, Pooja Ghanti, Akhand Deepak, and Jal Dhara, etc.

 Silver Coins - Most people prefer the silver coin as a gift at the wedding. If you don’t want to go with plain silver coins, you can make it special by personalizing the silver coin with an engraving option. You can engrave a photo of a newly Weds couple on a side and on the other side, you can prefer to write wedding wishes, name and wedding date. There are various types of weight options available in markets like 10gms,20gms, and 50gms and customize as per your wish. You can also gift Silver Coins & Bars to anyone in your family as a token of remembrance.

 Silver candles stand - A beautiful silver candle stand is a great gifting option, It is something that one can place as a decorative item, and also use it when the need arises. here is a unique idea for you- gifting your guests the beautiful silver candle stand. These candles stands have beautiful carving designs on them.

 Silver Jewellery boxes

Women are never short on jewellery. They always need boxes to keep their ornaments at one place for easy access. So, why not gift them something they truly need? These boxes are available in different designs and shapes. You can opt for boxes with silver carving, silver oxidised, and vintage designs.

 Silver Dinner Set - Silver dinner set is a traditional yet very popular gift item on Wedding. It could be a perfect wedding gift for your friends & family members. Silver is a symbol of purity. Gifting silver item on Wedding is continuing as tradition living till today.

 Silver Frames - Silver Photo frames are a great wedding gift that also lets your friends & relatives know that you care about them. It is also perfect as festivals gift (especially Diwali), and corporate gift. Customized Silver frames are also easy to make or order and they can deliver a personal sentiment with the great of ease. Today, you can easily order silver photo frames from any online stores or websites.

 How can I buy silver decor items online?

Nowadays, online shopping is the most convenient option of shopping and people are quite relaxed when they know their best of the home decor will be delivered to their doorstep. There are thousands of websites available on the internet where you can easily buy silver home decor items. If you like vintage & Antique Silver decor Items, then you can buy it from vintage home decor online stores. Most websites provide a special section of vintage silver home decor products. From where you can choose the best product for you. We are not saying that you can buy silver products only online. You can also buy it from any Jewelry showroom or silver products manufacturer nearby your home.

[ramblingsfromthytruly]

10th September 2024, Tuesday

day 16/50 productivity challenge

💤: 5hrs

🕒 6:30 a.m. - turned off my alarm at 5.30 and thought just one second but that's never really the case now is it lmao

took bath

morning skincare

scrolled on pinterest :(

🕒 8 a.m. - left for school. if i was even a minute later i would've had to pay the fine yikes

made an origami box with a random sticky note (so cute !!)

read some pages of the ballad of never after (i want to finish this book by the weekend and borrow the last one of the series from my friend on monday)

also we got the dates for the practical exams !! luckily studying for them won't disrupt my plans because they start next week (mon - bio, tue - chem)

🕒 1 p.m. - back home

made 3 origami boxes for my friend for no fucking reason

extended duolingo streak

practiced playing keyboard

did some research for college entrance tests

went down to the pooja with plates to get the prasad hehe

read newspaper

night skincare

folded laundry

completed chemistry lab record

🕒 1:30 a.m. - planned, planned and PLANNED but beneficial plans and not the plans made while procrastinating. i yapped about my plans to my mom and she literally said that i have the potential to easily get all i'm aiming for with these plans and all i need to do is execute them, like apparently my planning skills are amazing not to brag and they have lots of balance and effort and ughhhh i just need execution. also iisc isn't an option for me because i don't take math but i'll still have to study it anyway for the iat exam :( ugh the things we do for ridiculous passions, but at least i know this is smth i genuinely want to pursue

[all pics from pinterest]

[daydreaming-en-pointe]

Rangoli Lessons 🪔

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A Hobie oneshot

Pairing: Hobie Brown (Spider-Punk) x Indian!Reader

Word count: 990

Warnings: Reader is implied to be female bc of the mention of a dupatta(?), use of pet names (luv, my love) me turning this into a cultural infodump 😅

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“Whatcha doin’ there, luv?”

You jumped in surprise at the interruption, almost knocking over the plates full of rangoli powder next to you.

“Hobie, you could’ve given me a warning,” You complained, rising to your feet and dusting off the powder that you had spilled on your clothes. “Honestly, you just pop out of nowhere here into Mumbattan expect me not to get a mini heart attack.”

Hobie just laughed, grabbing your waist and pulling you into a hug and carefully rearranging your dupatta to dip evenly along your neck and rest on your shoulders. “C’mon, loosen up a little. Happy Diwali, by the way. Diwali? Am I saying tha’ right?”

“Well, not quite,” You giggled at his pronunciation of the name of the festival, sounding foreign and strange in his accented voice. “But thank you for remembering. Happy Diwali to you too.”

He gave you a small pout. “Stop laughin’, ‘m tryin’ my best.”

You tapped his nose with your pinky finger, giving him a small smile. “I’m sure you are. Well done for that. Hats off to you. Do you want mithai?”

His confused glance had you chuckling again as you gently extricated yourself from his grasp. “Mithai, mera pyaar. Sweets. Here, try some, you’ll love it.”

You grabbed a rather large box of sweets that you had kept on a plate next to you, handing it to Hobie. Your neighbours, a sweet old couple with a tiny but temperamental cat named Kaccha Aam had given it to you.

“What’s this?” Hobie asked, holding up a silvery diamond-shaped sweet and staring at it curiously.

“That’s kaju katli.”

“Well, I’ve learnt enough to know tha’ it’s be’er not questionin’ the name, much less tryin’ to pronounce it,” Hobie shot you a playful glare as he popped the sweet into his mouth. His eyes widened as he tasted it, eliciting another giggle from you at his reaction. “Bloody ‘ell, thas’ good.”

“Right? It’s one of my favourites.” You crouched down to finish your rangoli, pulling the plates of coloured powder closer to you. You skilfully took some blue powder between your index finger and thumb, drizzling it steadily inside the spaces of the pattern you had drawn in the dirt with other colours.

Hobie knelt next to you, sitting cross-legged in the dirt. “What’s tha’ now? No, wait, lemme guess. It’s, uh… something with an ‘i’. There’s kaju katli and mithai, so it’s…”

He trailed off and you looked up from your work to give him an amused smile. “My god, Hobie, your pronunciations are horrible.”

You let out a giggle and leaned over to kiss his cheek as he let out a dramatic wounded gasp. “Oh, no, my heart can’t take this kind o’ betrayal! My love, how could you be so cruel?”

“It’s called a rangoli, drama queen. Now shush and let me finish this.” You crouched to drop the last bits of powder into place, completing your rangoli and standing up. “Now for the diyas.”

You got out the earthen lamps and placed the cotton wicks into them, pouring oil over it to fuel the fire. Being careful not to smudge any of the painstakingly-arranged powder of the rangoli, you stepped over it and placed the lit diyas around, lining a path to your front door.

“What’s tha’ on your forehead? The red dot thing.”

You turned to face Hobie fully, tilting your head slightly. “Oh, that’s a tilak. Or a teeka. They’re both the same thing. We just finished the pooja, the teeka is just something we wear after it to signify purity and respect to the Gods.”

You angled your gaze downward to your rangoli again, your eyes narrowing as you examined it critically. “It looks empty, doesn’t it?”

Hobie came over to stand next to you, draping a hand across your shoulders. “Well… a li’l bit? S’not empty as much as it is… minimalistic. You could add somethin’ around the corners, maybe?”

You hummed in approval as you tilted your head to calculate how much space you could use up. “Oh, yeah. That’s actually a really good idea. Hey, you wanna try?”

Hobie looked at you in surprise, letting out a small laugh. “I’d prob’ly mess it up, luv. Easier for you to do it how you wan’ it.”

“Noooo, it’ll be fun. Besides, anything you do looks amazing to me.”

Hobie considered it for a second before giving a shrug and crouching down next to the rangoli powder. You stood a few inches behind him, watching him with a soft smile on your face. His tongue slipped between his lips, poking out slightly as he tried to copy the drizzling motion you had done with the powder, his eyes narrowing in intense concentration.

“Luv, y’know I can feel you tryin’ to do tha’. I’m Spider-Man, remember?”

You pouted slightly, sitting back with your legs folded beneath you after being caught in the act of trying to sneak up behind him. “Aw, you’re no fun. Can’t even scare you.”

“That’s… kinda the point o’ spider-senses.” He scooted over so you could come and kneel next to him. “Could you show me how you did tha’ sprinkle thing? ‘ve tried but nothing’s workin’. Keeps spillin’.”

“Oh, sure. Here.” You leaned over to take a pinch of the powder between your fingers. “Here, the trick is to keep the powder in between your thumb and the space of your second knuckle on your index finger. That way the excess doesn’t escape but you also have the freedom to decide where the trail forms. See?”

You turned to face him. “Hobie?”

He was staring at you in wonder, his eyes so soft and loving that you couldn’t help but giggle, getting more flustered by the minute. “Hellooooo, Earth to Hobie. You didn’t hear a word of what I just said, did you?”

“Can’t help it. You’re too pretty”

You rolled your eyes affectionately. “Focus, mera pyaar.”

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Mera pyaar means my love :)

Diwali is the Hindu festival of lights, with variations celebrated in other Indian religions. It symbolises the spiritual "victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance".

Rangoli is an art form that originates from in the Indian subcontinent, in which patterns are created on the floor or a tabletop using materials such as powdered lime stone, red ochre, dry rice flour, coloured sand, quartz powder, flower petals, and coloured rocks.

A teeka/tilak/tilaka is a mark (generally a red dot in this context) worn on the forehead, usually after a pooja. The teeka may be worn daily for decorative purposes, as a symbol for sectarian affiliation, for rites of passage or for special spiritual and religious occasions, depending on regional customs. It is also used as an expression of honour or to welcome someone upon arrival.

Mithai (sweets) are the confectionery and desserts of the Indian subcontinent.

Kaju katli, also known as kaju barfi, is an Indian dessert, originating in the Deccan, and is popularly consumed throughout north India. Kaju means cashew; barfi is often made by thickening milk with sugar and other ingredients.

A dupatta is a length of material worn arranged in two folds over the chest and thrown back around the shoulders, typically with a salwar kameez, worn by women from South Asia.

A diya is an earthen lamp, with the fire usually fueled by a wick dipped in oil coiled in the centre.

[aajjks]

Tpol Jk Why wouldn’t you? C’mon I’m dying to know. Pleaseee?

lol take your time 😂😂 I want to know the range of women he’s dated

“Chaeyoung the stupid obsessive bitch

Marina Lockhart an American model who was way too much of a chatter box

Freya levine a British socialite who was way too fake

Pooja awasti was an Indian actress there was too much cultural difference, I guess. She wanted marriage and I wasn’t ready.

Vicky Kim another K-pop idol

Min s-ua a Korean actress

Amira was an Arab actress but then she and I broke up because of schedule differences.

I can’t remember anymore right now”

[damodar-hd]

Pooja Room Work At Hyderabd

Pooja room design work at Beeramguda, Hyderabad - Moderate ganapati structure cutting and bells as per the customer request. Work done with Plywood and Takewood colour decolam.

Fully closer box type open floor pooja room design at Pragati nagar, Kukatpally. Two doored hand cutting designery work at nuwood. Inside one shelf, two drawer's to keep pooja items seperatly.

Pooja room desing work at Bachupally, Hyderabad. Customer intrested to keep swastik, Om and poorna kumbham's on it. Meterial used white decolam, plywood.

Pooja room design work at Lingampally, Hyderabad.Full Ganesha, Om with Marwadi design. Plywood with Chocolate colour decolam.

Pooja room design Ameenpur, Beeramguda Hyderabad. Two Ganesha CNC Cutting designery doors with flower designs. Used plywood and chocolate colour decolam

Pooja Shelf designery work at Borabanda, Hyderabad. Swastik and Om Machine cutting, Used Pink colured decolam and plywood.

Pooja Shelf design at Kukatpally Housing Board Colony, Hyderabad. CNC cutting ganesha on plywood covered with takewood decolam.

Small Pooja box doors design work on takewood done at Jalavayu vihar colony, JNTU Kukatpally, Hyderabad.

Full size pooja room doors work at sainagar colony, Pragatinagar, Kukatpally, Hyderabad. CNC cutting on Gurjan plywood pasted white decolam.

Full sized pooja room doors Tamil Om (lord murugan emblem), Swasthik, lotus flower on top bells gold coloured. CNC cutting on nuwood matt finish black and gold colour used.

Box type pooja room design work at Rainbow vista villas, Kukatpally, Hyderabad. Chain with bells, Om, Swasthik, Ganesha, Poorna kumbham and Pooja lamps work done on Plywood and red decolam.

Pooja room and arch design at SR Nagar, Ameerpet, Hyderabad. Wall sides covered with plywood and doors added, chain bells, two sides ganesha and poorna kumbham.

Pooja room doors work at Srinagar colony, Ameerpet, Hyderabad. Chain bells, ganesha, Om and poorna kumbham. Used ash colour decolam greenply plywood.

Pooja room design cnc cutting on century plywood with half white decolam work at Chintal, Balanagar, Hyderabad.

Pooja room work at Motinagar , Hyderabad. Chain bells, ganesha, Om and poorna kumbham. Used back blue lighting ash colour decolam greenply plywood.

Pooja room doors at Beeramguda, Lingampally, Hyderabad. CNC cutting flowewrs, bells ganesha's. Used Gurjan 710 plywood rose wood colour decolam.

Pooja room design raw map to design ganesha, om, chain bells and poorna kumbham for cnc cutting.

Full box pooja room design work at Ameerpet. Open floor room design four sides covered with greenply plywood,Top side temple top design. Chain bells, Ganesha, Om, Poorna kumbhams and two draws for pooja essencials to keep. Used plywood and maroon colour decolam.

Takewood Carving full sized doors with arch work at Balanagar. Pooja lamps, Ganesha and Bells design carved on takewood used spray polish for shining.

Home Decode - Wardrobe | Cubboards Designs Hyderabad

Cub board work at Bollaram Alwal. Gurjan plywood with decolam white and yellow combination to match room colours.

Bedroom wardrobes work at Bollaram, Alwal. White decolam with white and pink rainbow line to match room colours as per customer interested.

Bed room wardrobe work at Alwal. Gurjan plywood with red and white decolam for white background room.

Bed room Wordrobe with middle dressing included with drawers at Alwal. Greenply plywood with red decolam and stainless steel handles. Customer special interest on red due to her flore marble are white ceiling white.

Bedroom Wordrobe work at Kompally. Gurjan plywood with takewood and chocolate colored decolam at first floor.

Bed room Cubboard work at Suchtra circle Hyderabad. 18mm plywood with white and chocolate colored decolam y shaped design and stainless steel handles with openeble two mirrors almara type.

Bedroom Cubboard work at Banjara Hills. Customer most enthusiast on music, we Disigned for him a Seperate cool design with white glowsy finish decolam and light blue matching for their bed with dressing table incuded with 2 drawers.

Wordrobe work at Banjara hills, Customer is a doctor he wanted a glowsy finish work. we used High glosy orage decolam with panther strikes, Moderated small doors with sqare shaped knobs, bottom stainless steel long handles.

Bedroom cubboard work at Kalyan nagar, Motinagar Hyderabad. White decolam with chocolate colour strips.

Master Bedroom Wordrobe work at Beeramguda, Hyderabad. White and chocolate coloured decolam as per the customer interest.

Sliding Wordrobe work near TV9, Banjarahills, Hyderabad. Blue and White decolam with dressing table included. Stainless stell sliding handles and master strokes at bottom and top with middle round white design.

Bed Room Cubboard work at Godavarikhani, Telangana. Gurjan plywood Pink Structred and white decolam combination 12" stainless steel handles 6 mm Grue Model.

Bed room wardrobe work at Banjarahills, Hyderabad. 18 mm Gurjan plywood with two Almarahs white and Meroon coloured decolam doors, included cnc edge cutting edge for dressing table with two drawers with copper colour handles.

Crockery unit design Nizampet Hyderabad. Ceiling flap with cubboards, side shelf doors, microwave oven placement. Takewood with cholate mix, White and cream colour high glossy decolam for dining hall.

Master bedroom sliding door wardrobe work at Nizampet Hyderabad. Takewood with cholate mix, White and cream colour high glossy decolam for light yellow background wall coloured bed room.

crockery unit design work nizampet Hyderabad. Sajja with cubboards, side shelf doors, microwave oven placement. Takewood with cholate mix, White and cream colour high glossy decolam for dining hall.

Master Bedroom Sliding wardrobe design work at Nizampet Hyderabad. Ceiling flap with cubboards, Takewood with cholate mix, White and cream colour high glossy decolam for bedroom with sliding handles.

Sliding wardrobe work for children bedroom at Hanamkonda. Sliding doors with takewood meroon shade decolam .

Children Bedroom wardrobe work at Balaji Hills, Nizampet, Hyderabad. Digital decolam with white background, blue flowers, butterflies and ash shades.

Multi colour sliding wardrobe work at Yousufguda. On Greenply Plywood Orange, Green and Pink decolam with sliding handles with soft close channels.

Master bedroom cubboard design work at Chintal, Hyderabad. Black and white decolam as per the customer believe's Astrology.

Master bedroom sliding doors with soft closer wardrobe work at Sanathnagar, Hyderabad. Century plywood with White and takewood decolam.

Master bedroom cubboard with sliding and soft closer work at Cherlapally, Hyderabad. White and rose wood decolam.

Sliding Wardrobe design at Vinayaka Nagar, ECIL, Hyderabad. Black and Digital decolam with soft close sliding.

Bedroom Profile Wardrobe Sliding soft closer work at Srinagar Colony, Hyderabad. Red rosewood, Glossy white Acrolic Sheets with Alluminium Borders.

Bedroom Wardrobe work at Banjrahills, Hyderabad. High glossy white and grey decolam with long wood handles.

Children bedroom cubboard work at Miyapur. High glow takewood and black mixing decolam with dressing room .

Master bedroom cubboard work at Lingampally, Bhel, Hyderabad. Sliding soft closer wardrobe with Takewood dark with Cream colour decolam.

Kitchen cubboard work at Bollaram, Alwal, Hyderabad. Kitchen grocery keeping cubboards with White and Grey coloured decolam.

[salmankhanholics]

★ Top Laxmi Pooja Day Box Office: Salman Khan looks to do the unthinkable with Tiger 3; Eyes Diwali Day record!

Nov 5, 2023

The Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif-led Tiger 3 is set to be the first event spectacle in the last 10 years to see a theatrical release on the day of Diwali. The decision has been strategically taken by YRF with the hope of getting a strong word of mouth in place before getting into the extended holiday period from Monday. Historically, Diwali Day has proved to be a weak day for the box office with Laxmi Pooja impacting the business prospects after the noon shows in North India.

Tiger 3 is ready to set a new record on Diwali Day

The record of the biggest collection on Laxmi Pooja to date stands with the Hrithik Roshan-led Krrish 3 (2013), which clocked Rs 15 crore on Diwali day. One must note that Krrish 3 was a pre-Diwali Friday release with Laxmi Pooja on Sunday and has held the record for 10 long years, showing its hype back in the day. Several other films have faced Diwali through its weekend right from Ra. One to Housefull 4, Jab Tak Hai, Son of Sardaar, Shivaay, and Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. 2012 saw a box office clash between Jab Tak Hai Jaan and Son Of Sardaar and the two films put together clocked Rs 22 crore on Diwali Day, which is a record aggregate number for the day. Come 2023, and Tiger 3 team has taken the bold decision of a Sunday release, and the early trends indicate that the decision will reap big returns by the day of release. It also proves that the YRF team has made a well-informed decision, knowing better than most others of what's the best for their product.

While a record Laxmi Pooja Day was always expected, Tiger 3 is headed to score new benchmarks on the day, and probably score a Diwali Day number that could stand tall in the history of record books for a while now. Salmania has started to grip the nation as the tickets are selling at a quick pace across the board – be it single screens or the national multiplex chains. India's leading national chain, PVRInox has sold almost 37,000 tickets for the opening day alone in less than 21 hours (as off 3 PM on Sunday), and there is already a movement in ticket sales for Monday & Tuesday. What’s encouraging is the fact that there are sales in evening and night shows too for Sunday, which is the earliest signal of something special happening on Sunday, though we are still a long way away. The strong markets of Salman Khan often come on board a feature film in big numbers on Sunday and expectedly so, these areas are showing great early signs.

The exhibitors from single screens are saying that the mass on-ground fan following of Salman Khan alongside the craze of Tiger Franchise & Spy Universe could eclipse the Diwali Impact to a certain extent, however, the biggest numbers will come in from Monday, when the holiday impact seeps in. The advance booking trend has indicated the arrival of a hot film during the Diwali period, which conventionally in the 90s and 2000s was the OG period of the film business, and what better than the OG Spy Tiger to bring back the light in the glorious festive period.

If everything goes as per the expectations, the advance booking of Tiger 3 for the Laxmi Pooja Day should be a record in itself as far as the film business on Laxmi Pooja is concerned.

[spell-cleaver]

The Protégé Chapter 6: I Need You To Trust Me

Luke and Sabé, as well as Luke and Leia, make a deal. Padmé has a mission for Pooja.

The skirt of the dress looked to be floor-length, with an exquisite red-purple colour to it. A shorter dress was layered over the top, a slightly bluer purple. The sleeves puffed at the wrists and the collar rose like a flower around the wearer's neck. Luke glanced into the box and drew out a scarf of the same colour, with several silver brooches to pin it in place.

Sabé stifled her cry, but not so quietly Luke didn't notice it. He glanced at where she was staring, her hand creeping towards her mouth, to see a silver headpiece still lying in the box. He lifted it up.

"It was one of my favourite dresses when I was a senator," Amidala said. "I wore it at the Proclamation of a New Order, and at Emperor Palpatine's coronation."

The headpiece, something between a disc and a crescent moon, burned in Luke's hands.

"'So this is how liberty dies,'" Sabé quoted, raising her eyes at Amidala, "'with thunderous applause'?"

Read the rest on AO3 or on FFN!

[dilli-vali-girlfriend]

I posted 700 times in 2022

That's 658 more posts than 2021!

307 posts created (44%)

393 posts reblogged (56%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@irisesforyoureyes

@chandalika-pdf

@navaratna

@torydarixs

I tagged 355 of my posts in 2022

Only 49% of my posts had no tags

#desiblr - 128 posts

#desi - 125 posts

#desi tag - 124 posts

#being desi - 114 posts

#desi memes - 104 posts

#desi meme - 102 posts

#indian - 99 posts

#indian memes - 96 posts

#desi dark academia - 88 posts

#desi stuff - 82 posts

Longest Tag: 137 characters

#also omg there was this trick that 0 pe bethna hai and jaan bujh ke that host would say 1 and half people would sit and djjfjsksnsk omhgg

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

*goes to any footwear shop*

Me: bhaiya isme mera size dikhao

The bhaiya: “HK55 mei 8 size de”

*a box falls from the hole in the ceiling*

918 notes - Posted May 9, 2022

#4

sad english songs might make you cry, but sad hindi songs will make you drop to the floor, bang your head against the wall and bawl your eyes out.

971 notes - Posted June 27, 2022

#3

feminine urge this, masculine urge that,

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE DESI URGE

to say "pooja what is this behaviour" at every given opportunity ???

1,001 notes - Posted January 17, 2022

#2

If desi people do not know your name they'll literally call you by the colour of your tshirt.

1,081 notes - Posted April 18, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

this post is for the girls who are academically smart, hold too high expectations of themselves, be serious when they shouldn't have been, regret being serious, regret being not serious, who text back too fast, who love getting dressed up but have no one to go somewhere with, who constantly feel everyone is disappointed in them, whose writing you would die for, who could never be the english teacher's favourite, who get all the gossip, who are friends with the popular people, who are near to invisible to most of the people, who are the life of their friend group, whom people admire but hesitate to approach, who love getting attention, who aren't loud enough to seek attention, who want to be left alone, who want to go out, who would turn around the world if they wanted to.

1,228 notes - Posted October 7, 2022

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[seeingandbeing]

Last week I committed to writing a substack post. I knew I wanted to write about the equinox. I have always loved fall and the rituals that go hand in hand. But I knew this year was going to be lowkey. With no job and limited funds, I couldn’t afford to host the harvest moon dinner I fantasized with friends about. I know we could have found a free activity to do together but I didn’t want to overextend myself, as I was still recovering from a bad spell.

The past few weeks have been difficult ones. I was rejected for a role that seemed all but guaranteed and it devastated me. The hope of returning to routine and normalcy was shattered. I didn’t leave my bed for 2 days.

I tried my best to give myself grace and compassion, but everything about the situation made me feel like a failure. I ordered takeout with money I didn’t have. I went to the beach for the first time this summer. I went to MoMA and cried. I got rejected from an entry-level job I applied to. Mostly, I was doing a lot of nothing.

Last week, I finally had a productive week. It wasn’t the week I wanted but it was a good week by any metric. I had more money than I expected, multiple leads on jobs, and woke up at a reasonable hour every day. It was the kind of week I regularly prayed for, but I found myself dismissing it because I didn’t make it to a talk I wanted to go to, I didn’t wake up at 7 AM to do my planning session, and I didn’t attend hot yoga as often as I would have liked.

Why wasn’t good enough, good enough? I sought guidance from the memoir I was reading, Wintering by Katherine May:

“Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but its crucible. Once we stop wishing it were summer, winter can be a glorious season in which the world takes on a sparse beauty and even the pavements sparkle. It’s a time for reflection and recuperation, for slow replenishment, for putting your house in order. Doing those deeply unfashionable things—slowing down, letting your spare time expand, getting enough sleep, resting—is a radical act now, but it is essential.”

I find it helpful to frame my time without work as a wintering. At first, I accepted winter with open arms. My health issues were at their worst and I finally accepted that I was a workaholic. I reveled in the time I spent taking care of myself. I treated nursing myself back to health like a full-time job. Eventually, I decided I was tired of wintering. Winter was a bore and I longed for summer. In fact, summer was approaching and being in a period of reflection and rest felt unseasonal. I love summer, spring be damned. Had I really done the work to transform myself? Sure, I could take care of myself when it was the only thing on the docket but when I inevitably return to work would I have the tools to commit to living sustainably? I wasn’t sure I knew what tools I even needed.

Serendipitously, I listened to a great podcast about a skill to add to the toolbox. Real self care. In the episode, Dr. Pooja Lakshmin describes real self care as “principle focused, inner decision-making work” while the faux self is the consumer-oriented bullshit we are all familiar with. I am a fan of Audre Lorde, who Lakshmin draws heavily on, so self-care being described this way was not surprising to me. What surprised me though, was categorizing productivity as faux self-care. Dr. Lakshmin argues that we turn to productivity for the illusion of control it gives us. As soon as I heard her say it, I knew it was true. I definitely believe I’m one bullet journal system away from changing my life. After a bit of reflection, I understood the reason I was unsatisfied with my week was that I failed to assert control over it. This is irrational of course. Deep down, I know I didn’t attend the talk because I had to finish a job application that a mentor sent my way. I didn’t go to yoga because I had a last-minute dinner with a friend. But I couldn’t help but think how satisfying it would be to check off those boxes.

When I think about last week and this new season, letting go is a theme that comes up over and over again. It’s odd although I love fall, I’ve never thought about it as a time to release. Autumn symbolizing a time to let go is cliche, but a cliche that never interested in me. Letting go is a fall ritual I haven’t considered, but I think I ought to. “There is no transformation without loss”. Man, do I hate to lose.

I don’t know when my winter will end. I don’t know what my next job will be, where it will be, or if it will make me happy. But there are benefits to uncertainty. In Wintering May writes: “Certainty is a dead space, in which there’s no more room to grow”. I want to embrace the uncertainty without merging with the chaos. There is something so seductive about ceding all control and letting disorder reign. Yet again, I received a serendipitous message from Chani that at its heart, the equinox is also about balance.

After researching rituals for the autumnal equinox and finding nothing that resonated with me, I begrudgingly decided to follow the ritual in the Chani app. It felt disappointing and ordinary as I regularly do some part of Chani’s weekly ritual suggestions. I wanted the equinox to be more momentous, more special, but I’m much too superstitious to let the equinox pass unobserved. So I lit my incense, sat in front of my altar, and opened the app. Chani asked, “What are you learning to release so that you can come into greater balance with your joy?” On Sunday I released my desire for a perfect equinox ritual and found a necessary one. It’s the beginning of an answer. It is good enough.

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CTS A | Week 1 What Is Critical Thinking?

Critical thinking to me is an ability to think outside the box. Critical thinking involves the ability to expand ideas from what is mainstream and making it into your own style. I was further inspired by the sharing of Pooja Nansi as she shared various key pointers that would help in my understanding and viewpoints towards critical thinking. Some of the advice that Pooja Nansi shared was that artists like myself should make use of any opportunity given and not take it for granted. Making use of opportunities given to us is a great platform for us to explore more ideas and connect with others. For example, going to LASALLE and meeting people from all over the world allows for better cultural exchange which can be implemented into our projects when we learn from one another. Furthermore, she also shared that Artists should work with thoughtfulness and empathy. For example, we could think of how our designs can impact the lives of others and those around us positively by innovating ideas that would bring convenience to communities like the disabled. Lastly, I also understood from Pooja Nansi’s sharing that critical thinking is being analytical and aware of what one is doing. The ability of being analytical can be used on a day to day basis. For example, before doing a task given at hand, we could look out for the best possible solution and the most efficient one. Therefore, I felt that Pooja Nansi’s sharing broadened my concept of critical thinking which I can use towards future projects and endeavours.

Furthermore, from Pooja Nansi’s sharing, I’ve learnt that mindfulness is effective in reducing stress and improving our focus. For example, when I am feeling stressed during my self-study sessions, I can take a 5-10 minute break to practise mindfulness by closing my eyes, controlling my breathing and emptying the thoughts that are currently on my mind. Furthermore, mindfulness helps one’s mental clarity when one observes his/her surroundings. Being mindful of what I do and what is happening around my surroundings allows me to focus on what I am doing and be aware of what is going on around me.

I was also very intrigued by what Pooja Nansi shared when she mentioned failure. I agree with her that failure is a necessary part of growth. When one fails, he or she would reflect on his or her work and grow in his or her mindset. Furthermore, she also shared that we should take failure as an opportunity to grow from our mistakes and it can be a way for us to test out new ideas and mediums. Therefore, failure is necessary to find out new ways of exploration and we could then grow from there. Through Pooja Nansi’s sharing, this was one of the key points which resonated well with me.

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References:

MB. “Critical Thinking Skills a Week 1 Film  Pooja Nansi.” YouTube, 15 Aug. 2021, www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAHqOIuCsUs.