ITS NEARLY NAVRATRI SEASON BROOSSSSS

Hii you are a dancer too?! What form do you practice?

hiii! firstly i love your writing so much!! and yeee, I've learnt a few styles and danced for a lot of my life, but would mostly consider myself a freestyle/street kinda person:D I'm also comfortable with e.g. bollywood as it's kind of similar to that... ive had a little bit of practice in contemporary and bharatnatyam asw, but I haven't been formally trained in a specific style to a really advanced level. I've found im most comfortable with freestyle/bollywood/street and love to challenge myself!! in the future I aspire to learn kathak:)

and how about you? :)))

*Ram sees Hanuman's curly thick hair*

Ram: I think I should get a perm

Sita: Not in this lifetime you're not

*one reincarnation later*

Radha: Ok, fine I admit it's cute

OK TELL ME IF I AM LITERALLY DELULU BUT a reel of kanhu to the song "heart throb" from rocky aur rani? 🥺🥺🥺🤡

( @raven-with-swords u are amazing lajawaab ples 🙏 )

dadi (and me): *does bhakti by doing stotrams and shuddhi*

also me: *hyping up radhe and kanhu in my head* HAYE JHUMKA HAYE JHUMKA HAYE JHUMKA JHUMKA -- WHAT JHUMKA ?

still don't understand how i can properly respect kanha as literal origin of everything ever but still say wassup bro to him in my head

THIS IS AMAZING FAM!!!!!! IM SO HAPPY FOR YOU!!!!! 🥹🥹💙💙💙💙💙

After seeing @stardustkrishnaverse 's post about how our Kanha shares our grief and helps us to overcome them, I just wanna share this incident where this EXACT thing happened with me.

So, many of you may be aware that I've gotten into the Western dance society of my college. Soooo yeah. It was time to contribute to the funds. After doing so, you become official members of the society.

Now, here's a thing about my family: Dancing is not seen as something deserving of respect. Especially Western dance forms.

Sooo yeah, naturally my mom revolted. Like, how I'd spoil my academics for something insignificant, how I'd side-line my academics for my passion and stuff. I don't blame her. But then again, the fact that she just assumed I wouldn't be able to juggle the two things together hurt me.

In my childhood, I was barred from learning to dance at the age of eight because my father hated dancing (He still does). Since then till now, I have never asked them to let me dance professionally. And now when I had this golden opportunity, I was being asked to just let it go.

It may not seem like a big deal, but it WAS a VERY big deal for me.

I tried making my mom understand, but then she threw the final weapon, "Talk to your father".

And I knew it was impossible to make him understand. So, I just considered all my paths leading me to dead ends. I felt so freaking lost, I just cried my heart out. Then I legit called for Keshav. I requested him, more like begged him, from all my heart to help me through this mess. Like, I just simply surrendered.

And help he did. I texted my father about the situation. He called me the next day and talked to me about how I would handle both academics and dance and then he agreed for me to join the society officially.

A man who is simply repulsed at the idea of dancing agrees for his daughter to join a Western dance society.

Now tell me my Keshav isn't right beside me 24/7, listening to all my problems and waiting for me to ask for his help. From that day on, I feel more than reassured and loved knowing that my sakha is there for me every single moment <3

So I was just a little sad couple of days ago and all of a sudden I had this one thought and it changed my mood completely. And now it does everytime whenever I'm down.

I was sad and then I thought that this is the same earth on which shree krishan came with Radha Rani. Idk and idc whether you understand what I'm trying to say but thinking of it like this just makes me feel so privileged. That I'm on same earth where Shree Krishan came, we are here now where Shree Krishan had already been. And since we have got this life as humans it's already a miracle because we are so privileged that we got to know about Shree Krishan "the karta dharta of this universe" it's magical. And the another thing is knowing the fact that shree Hanuman ji is also here around us somewhere. I mean like these thoughts just change my whole mood. I automatically feel blessed thinking about all this.

HI GOPIBLR SO I JUST HEARD THE BEST BHAJAN

"shyama hridaya kamala so pragatyo

aur shyama hridaya ko bhaye~

vrindavan pyaro vrindavan"

✨️

please listen if you can, like my heart is soooo full listening to it 😭😭💙💙🦚🦚✨️✨️

The year was 1555. Portuguese colonial power was at its peak in the 1500’s. They destroyed Zamorins of Calicut. Defeated the Sultan of Bijapur. Took away Daman from the Sultan of Gujarat, Established a colony in Mylapore, Captured Bombay and made Goa as their headquarters. And while they were at it, pretty much unchallenged, they even ruined the ancient Kapaleeswarar Temple to build a Church over it.

Their next target, the super profitable port of Mangalore.

Their only bad luck, just 14 kilometers south of Mangalore was the small settlement of Ullal - ruled then by a feisty 30 year old woman - RANI ABBAKKA CHOWTA

Initially, they took her lightly and sent a few boats and soldiers to capture and bring her back to Goa - Those boats never came back.

Shocked and enraged, they sent a huge fleet of ships this time, under the command of much celebrated Admiral Dom Álvaro da Silveira - The admiral soon returned, badly injured and empty handed.

Thereafter, another Portuguese fleet was sent - only a few injured from the crew managed to make it back.

Then the Portuguese went on to capture the Mangalore port and the fort anyways, perhaps planning to tackle Rani Abbakka Chowta from the convenient distance of the Mangalore fort.

After the successful capture of Mangalore, a huge army under João Peixoto, an experienced Portuguese General was sent to Ullal.

The brief was simple: Subjugate Ullal and capture Abbakka Chowta.

The plan was foolproof- there was no way a 30 year old lady with a few men could withstand the might of an army of thousands with advanced weapons.

The Portuguese reached Ullal and found it deserted. Abbakka was nowhere in sight.

They roamed around, relaxed and thanked their stars - Just when they were about to call it a victory - Mrs Chowta attacked with 200 of her chosen men - there was chaos all around and many portuguese lost their lives even without a fight

General João Peixoto was assassinated, 70 Portuguese were captured and the rest just ran away.

So if you’re Abbakka Chowta, who’s just defeated a large army of aggressors, killed a general, captured fighters and defended her city - What will you do?

- Rest and enjoy the moment right?

- Right?

- No!

Rani Abbakka Chowta, rode with her men towards Mangalore that same night, and laid a siege of the Mangalore fort - She not just broke inside the fort successfully - but assassinated Admiral Mascarenhas the Chief of the Portuguese power there and forced the remaining Portuguese to vacate the fort.

She didn’t just stop at this but went on to even capture the Portuguese settlement at Kundapura, a full 100 kms, north of Mangalore - Just to make a point.

The Portuguese finally managed to get back at Abbakka Chowta by convincing her estranged husband, to betray for money. She was arrested and put in the prison where she revolted again and was killed while trying to escape.

Abbakka Chowta was a Jain who fought against the Portuguese for four decades, with an army comprising of both Hindus and Muslims, a full 300 years before the First War of Indian Independence in 1857.

What did we Indians do to her, as a mark of our respect and gratitude? - We just forgot her.

We didn’t name our girls after her. We didn’t even teach her stories to our kids.

Yes we did release a Postal Stamp in her name, named a boat after her and erected 2 statues - yes just 2 statues in the whole of India for someone who should be our national hero.

The Indian Coast Guard ship ICGS Rani Abbakka the 1st of a series of five inshore patrol vessels built at Hindustan Shipyard Ltd is named after Abbakka Mahadevi.

We might have got to read a chapter about her in our text books, had she been a European or an American.

Many talk about her being the last Indian to have the power of the agni-ban. In all this cacophony, our generation has lost a great hero - a great source of inspiration.

Still wondering why you’ve not heard about her yet?

Modern MB headcanons

(Aka the sequel)

1. Arjun is a high ranking navy officer, but later on retires, to travel the world and teach kids dance.

2. Yudhishthira now has his own civil firm, a joint venture with Draupadi, and he is respected for his honesty and kindness for others.

3. Bhima is a celebrity chef, with a chain of restaurants, still known as Bhima ka Chulha.

4. Nakul is an A lister model and actor, who is very famous among the general public for his genuine nature, and zero involvement in scandals.

5. Sahadeva is a neurosurgeon, and has started his own chain of hospitals, with Nakul being an investor.

6. Balaram remains a teacher, but a very famous one, because of his chain of schools which teach underprivileged kids for free. He has also entered politics as an analyst as of now.

7. Draupadi is a criminal lawyer, and joint head with Yudhishthira. She is known to never lose a single case, and always get justice delivered to the victims.

8. Subhadra has her own practice, aside from which she works in Sahadeva's hospital, and has free camps in even the most remote parts of India.

9. Krishna never joins a political party, he is an independent candidate, but the public loves him, for he is the only politician who has genuine love for the people, selfless love, where he doesn't want anything in return. He is in the run for Member of Parliament from Mathura though, will you vote for him?

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