Tag: indian

reasons i think harry potter is indian

shakspaeree:

  • harry could be anglicised form of hari, which is another name for the indian god vishnu who reincarnates on earth to restore justice
  • potter could be anglicised potdar or potluri
  • the night he died, james was making pretty-colored lights for harry 31 october 1981 was deepavali, the indian festival of lights
  • fleamont potter making money through potions after coming from india as a first gen. immigrant
  • fleamont potter made hair potions which was really just charmed coconut oil
  • people would notice harry’s green eyes all the time if he was half desi
  • when harry has visions through voldemorts eyes that he always distances himself using voldemort’s whiteness or how pale the hand was or something to that effect
  • unlikely couple james and lily potter prophesied to have a world-saving baby is literally the motif of the indian epic kumarasambhava
  • harry flying on buckbeak is god vishnu on garuda iconography
  • i am indian
  • and i like harry potter
  • he’s my sweet sunflower child

s4karuna:

scribblesafterdark:

gaanamela:

michelottos:

stardusted:

astroprojection:

asheathes:

WIZARDING SCHOOLS AROUND THE WORLD: INDIA

India’s Academy of Sorcery boasts an impressive display of flashy colours, from enchanted saris that shift colours sporadically throughout the day, to the lavishly painted exterior of the academy which is situated in a nondescript location along Ganges River. Due to the frightening rate at which the school’s ancient mango tree (jokingly nicknamed “Mammoth Mango Machine”) produces mangoes, students have to endure the perpetually evolving art of mango cuisine at least five days a week. Every year, to the students’ great enjoyment, classes are halted for Diwali to make time for various competitions that take place: firework flourishes and charms for upper-year students (bonus points if it doesn’t set any part of the school on fire), and lantern designing for lower-year students (use of animals, alive or dead, is forbidden).

#is tabu the headmistress bc i’m here for this

#yes!#and there is a gurudwara and a mosque on different parts of campus as well

#you forgot the myriad other festivals which dot the indian calender#lasjdalkjs this would be so fucking cool though#on holi students throw enchanted fluorescent colours which stick on each other#and magically enchant buckets to douse dry people w coloured water#and the HARVEST FESTIVALS#JANMASHTAMI!!#enchanted baby footprints that walk to the shrine !!!!#alsjdlajlk this would be so fucking beautiful kill me#i love this

#you don’t know how much i love this#how many times i’ve thought about this growing up#wondering if my culture was included#I LOVE IT

#INTERNATIONAL WIZARDS GIVE ME THEM ALL#MIDDLE EASTERN WARLOCKS AND EAST ASIAN MAGES ANFNSJSMFJWKA

#I WANT MORE OF THE MAGICAL WORLD#I WANT IT LIKE THIS#I WANT MORE CULTURES#this makes me so happy because we have expanded the world into our own creational ideas#into our own lives and cultures and beliefs#and that’s really amazing

faineemae:

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indypendenthistory:

On Sep 13, 1944, a princess from India lay dead at Dachau concentration camp. She had been tortured by the Nazis, then shot in the head. Her name was Noor Inayat Khan. The Germans knew her only as Nora Baker, a British spy who had gone into occupied France using the code name Madeline. She carried her transmitter from safe house to safe house with the Gestapo trailing her, providing communications for her Resistance unit.

Oh my God, yes. Let’s talk about Noor Inayat Khan.

  • Wireless operators in France had a life expectancy of six weeks. Noor was actively transmitting for over three times as long.
  • While she was in France, every other wireless operator in her network was slowly picked off until she was the last radio link between London and Paris. It was “the most dangerous and important post in France”.  
  • She was offered a way back to Britain and refused.
  • In fact, in her transmissions to London, she once said that she was having the time of her life, and thanked them for giving her the opportunity to do this.
  • She was captured by the Gestapo, but never gave up: she made three attempt escapes. One involved asking to take a bath, insisting on being allowed to close the door to preserve her modesty, and then clambering onto the roof of the Gestapo HQ in Paris.
  • Her last word before being shot was, “Liberté!”

The term BAMF was coined for such persons. 

Her entire life, and her mother’s life as well, are FASCINATING. A Royal, Muslim, Anglo-Indian woman in WWII… Could we have a sweeping FACTUAL movie please. Like now?

Yet another story I would like to read.

You guys! There IS A MOVIE!

Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2nM12xbAUM