Sharada

@sharada.bsky.social

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Chief thumb twiddler of The Netherlands. Countess of Rayalaseema. Here for Cats, dogs, natural history, south Asian history posts. Feminist. Anticasteist. Marxist. Indian. Mostly share music/cinema on here.

Aishwarya strikes a pose dancing on the lawns against the Taj in Poovukkul (Jeans, 1998).
A mural of slain politician and Falasteeni resistance leader, Sinwar.
Screenshot of a comment under Never Gonna Give You Up which says that a QR code from a math paper in the national board exams for clearing grade 12, led to getting Rick rolled. :D
My name is Hamed Ashour. A year ago, I shared the story of a kind, loyal dog who became my companion. What a lucky dog he turned out to be. Our story made headlines in both Arab and international magazines. More than 5 million people around the world read it. It was translated into seven different languages. Not long after, I was contacted by an animal rights organization in Dublin, Ireland. They wanted to check on the dog's health. They asked for photos of the tent we lived in and guarded together. I sent the photos. What followed was overwhelming. So much sympathy, so much concern-for the dog. They genuinely explored ways to evacuate him from Gaza through partner organizations. They wanted him to have a better life. A cleaner place. A wider sky.
Indian citizens turn up at the Iranian consulate in Delhi to extend condolences in light of Khameini's death.
I am feeding a tuxedo cat in a park in daytime, while a dog looks on at the scene.
Snow deepening over different days on a deck.
A tea light holder made of ceramic shaped like a little gingerbread house. in the background is a paper Christmas tree in red, and a blue tile with yellow lemons painted on.
A slab of dark date walnut cake. Paper decorations on toothpicks for extra jazz.
London specimen of the Archaeopteryx lithographica at the Natural History Museum.
Caitrona Balfe as Claire in Outlander. Seated at a mirror, wearing a white nightgown and robe made of a printed textile from the Sindh and Kutch regions of the Indian subcontinent, called Ajrakh.
Screenshot of the episode from SATC with an illustration of a woman scowling on a mural in an Indian restaurant.
The film poster of The Golden Spurtle. An illustration of the judge sat at a table sampling porridge, and various contestants standing behind holding up their bowls of porridge, while looking on. In the backdrop are the Scottish highlands.
Durga Puja Idols on a stage.
Durga Puja idols on stage surrounded by prayer material and offerings. Utrecht 2025.
Anand and Balya interact on the front porch of Anand’s home in Sabr Bonda. The subtitle says “when you fall in love, you must sing and dance like in the movies.”
A Malabar grey hornbill which is fruit eating, at a feeding table. The banana leaf plate has jackfruit pieces, and a papad.
A scene from Yojimbo. The lead character who plays a samurai stands in the middle of a desolate street with dust billowing around him.
Mia Threapleton as Sister Leisl (dressed in a nun's habit, smoking a pipe) in The Phoenician Scheme.
Rains around the corner. A muggy late noon. Tiny Red-ants huddled in formations around oil rings left by dispensers on the kitchen counter top. A swirl of Mustard oil. A brush of Sunflower Oil. A square of Olive Oil. Not a drop to be wasted. All resources are precious when one is a hard working ant. I suddenly remember the times I ate a crust of bread or rice left outside for awhile, and accidentally bit into an ant already feasting on the crumbs. My tongue numb from where the ant bit it, and a sharp tang breaking out.
Front cover of a copy of The Wild Robot by Peter Brown. An illustration of a grey coloured robot atop a crop of boulders adjacent to the sea. In the background are tall conifers.
Screen grab from Zohran for NYC campaign video.
B&W Scene from Persepolis with Marjane and her schoolmates standing in the morning assembly.
Paper bag from Bufala di fattorie garofalo.
Scene from Children of Heaven, with Mandegar on the running track with fellow competitors.
Van Gogh’s painting Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen, 1884.
A cascade of yellow flowers blooming on the Indian Laburnum tree.
still from the opening credits with four dogs running around, with Mon oncle written in chalk on a wall
A bowl of creamy date palm syrup rice pudding stands on a cork coaster, resting a kitchen counter.
A plate of chicken kababs and chai resting on red floral tablecloth.
A still from Black Dog. Eddy Peng sits drives through the rain on a black bike, and the titular black dog, his animal companion, rides in a sidecar.
Bronze artefacts from Benin on display in a museum case.
Gael Garcia Bernal and Rodrigo Alberto de la Serna as Che Guevara and Alberto Granada stand in a boat against snow clad peaks of Chile.
A b&w image of a South African woman boarding a bus in the 1970s with a sign on the rear entrance saying “non Europeans only.”
Bright orange and chocolate coated Conventual sweets using egg yolks and sugar rest in a refrigerator display at a market in Lisbon.
plates of cod and grilled tuna sit on a marble topped table. Flanked by a vino verde+gin+lemon, and a maracuja cocktail.
A bowl of cachupa (meat and lentil stew) and a plate of chicken and rice topped with spinach leaves sit on a folding wooden table. Next to it are a glass of ginger ale, and a glass of white wine.
Collage of two shots from the Indian film Katha (1982). Naseeruddin Shah stands at his end of the chawl and calls Deepti Naval standing at her end of the building, petting a cat over to his home for fresh samosas.
An image from the screening of No Other Land. In it a woman dressed in green and orange walks in distress over rubble where a bulldozer from the settler occupation is destroying her home.
A b&w image of Patrice Lumumba against a wall of books with a Flag of the Republic of Congo (Leopoldville 1960-63).
A man dressed in white climbs stairs leading to an altar with Mother Mary in a yellow and purple saree.
Lady Holding Flower Basket by S Katchadourian
An image of a series of book stalls with purple banners carrying store names and numbers. Green carpet lines the ground. People mill around browsing.
A view of the amphitheater like stage with the audience in the foreground, the cast on stage with the lights on them.
A small, scrawny calico cat drinks water pooled into the handle of a manhole cover. In the background is the building of the CSMVS museum.
Front elevation of Rajgruha, a white British era building with art deco influences and European colonnades.
It’s night time. A small collection of grey tabbies, calico kittens and a dog sit on a grey pavement. Behind them is a low wall.
A night time photo of a building with the lit up signage “Naval Dockyard Mumbai, estd 1735,” on it.
Four tabbies sit across from each other on the ground; perfectly placed in four directions. In the background is a yellow moulded plastic road divider with the letters BDI (standing for a company in India that specialises in moulded plastic manufacture) on it, and a parked scooter covered with tarp.
An orange cat lies on my tummy. I’m wrapped in a blue -white-black blanket and lying on a couch. I’m wearing a green hoodie with hearts on the neckline.
Apu, the lead character of the film Pather Panchali, looks at himself in a mirror wearing a moustache shaped out of foil.
Image of Aparajito playing on screen. In it Apu and his mother stand looking out of their courtyard at a passing train.
A red and white box with the print Pierre Herme printed on it. The inset image has four macarons, an ispahan (rose-raspberr-lychee), a raspberry, a salted butter caramel; and a pistachio.
Frost creeping fern like over glass.
Frost accumulated over brown, ochre, tan, yellow fallen leaves of varying sizes and species.
Photo of Mahanagar playing on the large screen. The black and white scene depicts Arati, her husband, and her sister in law scanning the newspaper for job vacancies.