There are other causes too. Coercion by various means - relentless brainwashing about marriage, covert , overt threats - "will affect your parents' health" , "you ll end up a bitter lonely woman" etc etc
a lot of indian women get married coz they are so suffocated in their parental homes that they think marriage is an out not realising bigger abuses await her. a life of an indian woman is realising that she won’t find home in anyone else. coz everyone’s out to exploit her
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‘Sunday Morning’
Wrong day, but what a lovely warm homely piece of art by
Kaoru Yamada
The quality we expect abd always receive from this young artist
When something breaks, most of us replace it. At this Brooklyn repair cafe, volunteers are helping neighbors fix everything from lamps and jeans to vintage fans and old smartwatches for free. The events are part of a growing global movement to reduce waste, save money and bring back repair skills that many people say have been lost.
I say this with no ill will or animosity: if you hate the Democratic Party, then please don’t run for our nomination.
Don’t use our resources. Don’t rely on our volunteers. Don’t use our infrastructure. Don’t ask Democrats to invest their time, money, and energy in your campaign.
Focus on building the party you actually support.
Political parties aren’t perfect, but they’re built by millions of people who knock doors, make calls, organize meetings, and fight for the values they believe in. If you don’t believe in the party, then don’t ask its members to carry you across the finish line.
Self date ideas in Bangalore:
- Go to cubbon and read a book, stare at the trees or sky
- Church street: book shopping at blossoms or bookworm
- Church street: grab a beer at easy tiger and sit towards the road side and people watch
- museums: MAP, ngma, govt museum, there’s also music, HMT, and a few more that I haven’t been to.
- movies, standup shows, or a sports bar
- hiking - ton of bettas (hills) around Bangalore. And folks that organize hikes
- pick an event happening in the city (there are literally a bazillion)
- sports with strangers - playo
- communities- cubbon reads, HSR reads, Blr slack and flow, run clubs (there are a ton)
- learn something new- pottery, bouldering, swimming
- take a bike/ car and go somewhere. A bunch of places within 100 kms. do this only early mornings otherwise traffic will make it not fun very fast.
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Building community in your 40s/midlife can be hard but I also feel like folk severely underestimate the massive impact of just showing up at the same place repeatedly until you become a regular. That’s how I rebuilt community after my parents died and my life collapsed.
Don’t mind me. I am jumping at the opportunity to plug this ghazal written in 1971 during Bangladesh Independence War by Naseer Turabi after the Fall of Dhaka on companions / humsafar that is proof that partitions can feel like lovers separating