This was the first day I met Vijay Sir, the day we had our pooja for ‘Master’. I was excited, nervous, and a little intimidated around him. We hardly got a chance to speak that day.
Little did I know that 6 months down the line he would become such an important part of my life. Adventurous, impulsive in the most fun ways possible, always up to trying new whacked out things, protective, caring, giving, lover of ‘thayir sadam’, amazing 4am friend except that he sleeps early(😋), the one who will point out the positive side to every situation..even if there’s an apocalypse happening 😋
He’s a man of few words, but never have I seen anyone who sticks to the words he’s uttered and the promises he’s made as mindfully as he does. Happy Birthday to the kind of man they don’t make anymore ♥️ Happy happy Birthday, Mr.Thalapathy.
#MasterOfAll
Some vivid red for a dull day 💋
@the.mad.hair.scientist ‘s mane game strong 😍 #throwback #hairlove #bohemianhair
A little bit of Marilyn and a whole lot of me 🤓
Internal mood: lady in that painting behind me
Isn’t @the.mad.hair.scientist the best hairstylist or what?! 😍 #throwback to this gorgeous hair we did to close the show for @padmaja_textiles_clothing at Lakmé fashion week. #hairlove #bohemianhair
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New puppy in the friend group! Welcome @moschino.singh.evrus 🐶♥️
Mountains + backpack = me happiest ♥️ #ThrowbackToMyLastPrePandemicTrip
We love you @kumohanan ♥️ Happy Father’s Day ♥️
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The moon and sleepless nights hold most of our secrets 🌒
When you’re trying to get a good picture with a hyper-active puppy whose only interest at that point is to chew on your hair 🙄 🐶
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When I was 14 yrs old, one of my closest friends at that point told me that his mother never let him drink tea because she had this weird belief that drinking tea darkened ones’ skin complexion, and when he asked for tea once she told him(referring to me) “If you drink tea, you will become dark like her”. He was a fair maharashtrian boy and I was a wheat-ish skinned malayalee girl. The complexion dissimilarity we had had never even occurred to me up until that point. This left me perplexed because it was the first time somebody had made a comment like that with a mean undertone about my skin colour.
So much casual racism and colourism exists in our own society. Calling a dark skinned person ‘kala’ is something we see on an everyday basis. The discriminatory behaviour against south-Indians and North-East Indians is also appalling. Dark skinned Indians are jokingly referred to as ‘madrasis’ because for some strange reason these ignorant people think all South Indians are only dark skinned. North-East Indians are almost exclusively only called ‘chinki’, all black people are casually referred to as ‘negros’ and fair people are equated as beautiful and dark skinned people are equated as ugly.
While we speak about global racism, we must also become aware about what’s happening around us, in our homes, our friend circles and our society, and do our part in thwarting the obvious as well as the subtle racism and colourism that exists all around us, in our everyday lives.
What makes you beautiful is being a good and kind person, and not the colour of your skin. ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
Majid Majidi • London 2018
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