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[SMSpeaks @RigelB8la]

Someone said that when you're a teenager you want a Mr. Darcy but when you grow up you realize you ARE a Mr. Darcy, and I felt that.

#PrideAndPrejudice

[SMSpeaks @RigelB8la]

@trash_rom_lover Congratulations! You look stunning 😍

[DiziFriends @Dizi_Friends]

This week, we have a lovely chat with @dizilah founder Haley, the woman behind our favorite content. 🧿 Make sure you tune in this Sunday at 7 PM to kick off season 3 of #DiziFriendsPodcast. Join us for interesting dizi facts and lots of laughter! 🥰

[SMSpeaks @RigelB8la]

@shanxeditss Honestly I find that hand soap and a little elbow grease to scrub is a great stain remover (if the fabric isn’t too delicate of course)

[Eda @edsavaseri]

You might be able to spot yours truly in these photos. I am super proud to be part of this team. We are working non stop to make something magical and I can’t wait to be able to share more. 😍✨🙏🏻 #BirMasaldi #HalilİbrahimCeyhan #HandeSubaşı

[SMSpeaks @RigelB8la]

@ErendilTam @EstJanina 💜 me tooo, domestic goddess Demir and his love-hate relationship with Sakız 😂

[David Josef Volodzko @davidvolodzko]

"Defaming whole country?" I literally wrote, "I love India. It is and always will be one of my favorite places in the world" and she accuses me of defaming India for addressing the plight of women in the country.

I also wrote, after someone who read my post made nasty remarks about India:

"Respectfully, you should be ashamed of yourself, sir. Yes, the situation for women is egregious. But let’s walk and chew gum for a step. The culture is one of the most richly beautiful and philosophically insightful of any I have ever seen. And I’ve seen most of them. Few cultures offer such bewildering depth or captivating beauty. It’s almost no wonder that enlightenment itself was conceptually conceived in these lands. And the food? And the music? And the nature? And, best of all, the people. Problems exist. I’m the last person you have to tell because I’m a strident critic of India’s flaws. As I am of Gaza, Korea, Israel, China, the US, Peru, and other places that I love. The places I do not love, I care less if they improve. Yes, problems exist. But so do the charms, and if you don’t know them, you don’t know India. In fact, I will tell you something more. I have already shared some of the awful stories of sexual assault in India, but of the many women I have met and come to know as friends in India, all of whom had such experiences in one way or another, not one ever concluded that India was a shithole worth nothing. To the great credit of these wise women, they saw the horror more directly than you or I, and the beauty. None became bigots. None walked away despising Indian people on the whole. None determined to snort at their entire culture. And thank god, because it would have been their loss, not India’s. The issues regarding treatment of women are only the tip of the iceberg, to be frank. There’s a lot of ugly to discuss of India. This contradiction seems to be confusing many people in my replies. Welcome to India. But although some countries are perhaps as beautiful, none are more so."

And yet @sharmarekha says I am "defaming" the whole country.

This is what you get from NCW types. I am not Indian, so take my view for whatever it is worth, but my Indian friends do not seem to have much respect, if any, for NCW and one reason for this is because it has a deplorable habit of blaming women when they are attacked, raped or even murdered. NCW makes India less safe for women when it does these things.

Sharma herself has faced criticism for failure to respond to complaints filed by women's rights groups over credible allegations of women being publicly stripped naked, beaten by mobs and raped in public.

And yet here she is with the gall to accuse me of defaming India. Ms. Sharma, it is you who defame India by presiding over a group called the National Commission for Women and doing nothing about the issue noted above, and then criticizing people like me for drawing attention to this important matter.

I love India. I don't have enough heart to hold all the love I have for India, nor enough words to express it. But do you?

[Hardik Rajgor @Hardism]

Large parts of India are dirty. Large parts of India are unsafe.

People like to post random videos of homeless people on the streets in America. And then claim it's the same everywhere (no it isn't). Or cherrypick statics about crimes against women, and claim that things aren't "that bad". That there is a "foreign agenda" to malign India.

Random tourists don't have "agendas" against your country. In fact they could have gone to many better parts of the world, but chose to come to India, to experience the rich culture that they've probably been told of.

These are all "copes". It is lying to yourself about your country.

If you have ever talked to any female friend, or your mother, sister, or wife, you know exactly how unsafe India is for women. If you've travelled around the country, you know for a fact that India is dirty across large parts. Deep down, every Indian knows these facts are true.

Yes, we are building shiny IT parks and great sea-bridges, and have stellar digital public goods, but you cannot build a happy society without safety and dignity of living. If there is garbage around everywhere, and you're always anxious while travelling, many of the other things really don't matter.

At the society level, we have moved ahead on many fronts but the progress on cleanliness and safety hasn't been as sharp as we would have liked. We need to do a lot more, and a lot quickly.

If we want people to come to India, and Indians to not move out, we must make an India which they would love to visit and live in.

[Sofía @starkcanarie]

mr. darcy doing a double take when he sees elizabeth to later say she's not handsome enough to tempt him

[Janina 🌻🇪🇪 @EstJanina]

I have not enjoyed a dizi as much as I do #ŞahaneHayatım for some time. 🔥It's naughty, nice and witty, well written, minimum violence & yelling. Not too intense ship-wise 😅.
I hope they have the good sense to end it while still good 🙈

[hannah @stateofkissy]

the awkwardness in the air, the yearning in mr. darcy‘s eyes, the "yes! yes i know"

[SMSpeaks @RigelB8la]

@edsavaseri I’ve been meaning to check out Kara, glad to hear you’re enjoying it! Şahane Hayatim is funny and wicked and very enjoyable 😬

[SMSpeaks @RigelB8la]

@m_ensaturno Girl math is real 🥳

[SMSpeaks @RigelB8la]

@m_ensaturno Oh don’t get me wrong, I’m absolutely going to watch it tonight as I PMS my heart out 😭

[SMSpeaks @RigelB8la]

@ErendilTam It’s a classic 🤩

[SMSpeaks @RigelB8la]

Your most used GIF is your reaction when WWIII breaks out.

[Edgar Allan Poeha @bhanilaessence]

Your most used GIF is your reaction when WWIII breaks out.

[SMSpeaks @RigelB8la]

@Shwetsusa @m_ensaturno

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@m_ensaturno @Shwetsusa

[Sophie Hall @SophLouiseHall]

It was the best of times (dipping bread into soup) it was the worst of times (finishing the bread and then being stuck with just soup)