ऐसी वाणी बोलिए,

एक दिन मेरा मुकद्दर तारों से लिखा जाएगा,

एक दिन मेरा इश्क मुकम्मल कहलाएगा।

जिसकी  खातिर हम फना हुए जा रहे हैं,

एक दिन वो बेदर्द भी वफ़ा निभाएगा I

अब तक जिसके महज़ साये से मुलाक़ात हुई थी,

एक दिन तो खुदा उसका दीदार करायेगा।

मेरे ख्यालों में पोशिदा जो अक्स है उसका,

एक दिन कागज़ पर उसकी तस्वीर सजायेगा।

how beautiful it is to find someone who has went through similar pain as you and you offer them the comfort you wished you had when you were in their position. its like gently taking off the armor, cleaning the blood wounds, keeping the sword to the side. and just being human. how tender it is to treat someone with love and kindness you wish you were treated with.

Do all desis have that one uncle who is queer enough that the pseudo-liberal half of the family is in denial about it and the conservative (proper) half is clueless??!

tomboyism is so funny to me. gender non-conformity for girls is acceptable for like two minutes between the ages of 8 and 10. beyond that it’s appalling and you’re a freak but for those two years…… they could’ve had it all

indian women are in a constant state of vigilance, like a country on terrorist alert. no democracy is a democracy when half its population lives in fear. the paradox is that women have protected men and their families by keeping quiet. this is honourable behaviour, a part of our "honour society. what rape statistics really reflect is a vicious cultural agreement that women have little value. which means in turn that girls must be trained to act as if they do not exist, to minimise their presence to survive, to serve men and not inconvenience them. this is how India treats women. rape culture does not begin with rape. rape is the most extreme form of it. until catcalling, stalking, harassment, groping, spark the same outrage as assault and murder, the problem will persist. it is unbelievable how low men can and have stooped, even after such a gruesome murder

in a medical institute no less they have the audacity to say “men aren't that bad”

Throughout our entire adolescence women will be adultified. Told that we are ‘more mature’ than our male peers. More responsible, more reliable. We’ll be given tasks and responsibilities that are not expected of our brothers and barely expected of our fathers. The oldest daughter will start to clean and cook and take on child care duties for siblings. We listen to mother’s emotional outbursts of pain because ‘we just get it.’

And when a sixteen year old starts dating a man who’s been out of high-school as long or longer than she’s been there, this rhetoric can be used as justification. “Well she’s actually more mature than he is” her mother titters with a laugh. “He’s the only boy on her level” her father says sagely.

And I ask; how is the sixteen year old girl ‘more mature’ than the adult man who has years worth of life experience, the right to vote, drive a car and purchase liquor? What experiences, privileges, rights or understandings does the high schooler have on this man?

The answer is nothing she is simply more mature by virtue of being female. And isn’t that just so convenient for predatory men.

Why do girls mature faster than boys?

We don’t

Men just need a reason to justify expecting and extracting more from us earlier on in our lives.

How tf does one get a B+ at 90/100 marks on a math test?????