यम आयेगा साकी बनकर साथ लिए काली हाला पी न होश में फ़िर आएगा सुरा- विसुध यह मतवाला यह अंतिम बेहोशी, अंतिम साकी, अंतिम प्याला है पथिक, प्यार से पीना इसको पथिक, प्यार से पीना इसको फ़िर न मिलेगी मधुशाला फ़िर न मिलेगी मधुशाला - Harivansh Rai bacchan...
Disillusionment
There is a certain kind of cognitive dissonance when I read western literature or even anything that isn't in relation with our culture. I enjoy them thoroughly but most do not remain relavent in relation to my daily life due to how different the cir...
heestory n shie
hello anons. i am historically illiterate, and am here for two things. >1 need recommendations on books about indian history, ancient and modern (post '47). this goes w/o saying, but please make sure the sources are as unbiased as possible. >2...
want to understand history and spirituality better
hi anons, i’ve been wanting to learn about hinduism and indian history in an unbiased way. i don’t follow any left or right ideologies, and i’m not really active politically (or socially xP). i just want to understand the lore and the ideologies (lik...
Why do the Indian elites communicate only in English?
Temple of the Golden Pavilion
>Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer >Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone until he becomes an acolyte at a famous temp...
melancholy recommendations
hello /lit/bros, i am currently going thru it, and would like to milk the fuck out of it by reading some raskolnikov-esque supersadboy books. ples drop thy recommendations beelo.
chart thread
post your favorite charts
Is it reals
Pls tell
Bihari Pyscho
I wake up at 5:00 A.M. sharp, feeling the crisp northern air kiss my face. The ceiling fan whirs above me, the rhythmic hum a soundtrack to my awakening. My mattress is firm, just the way I like it—any softer, and the body decays. I sit up, exhale sl...
This month's reads
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/lit/ bros, help me
Need some good book full of vitality and life I’m in a bad phase in my life, even suicidal.
Why do women love him?
I can’t fathom what does these tier-1 living pajeetas and foids who never had any trouble in their life find so relatable in Dostoevsky. Every woman I meet is like “much dostovesky 🎀” “he’s my everything” “he’s a pookie” “he would have loved Tayl...
GUYS IM GOING TO READ DOSTOVISKY for the first time
Got the book online, LETS GET READING!
Gāndhâra Mahäjanapāda
ARYAVART WILL BE ONE AGAIN
Muhammad bin Tughlaq: the scizho king.
~~anon from bdchan here!!~~ >Moved the capital 1500km south on a random Tuesday >Forced everyone to walk from Delhi to Daulatabad, many died on the journey. (Why????) >Later changed his mind and moved it back. (?????) >Invented token currency ma...
>2025 >Still hasn’t read picrel NGMI
Despair and the last man
This is something that came up to me quite a while ago. Der letzter mensch, or the 'last man' is unequivocal opposite to the over-man in Nietzsche's work. But what is interesting is that he doesn't expound upon the last man as much as he does about t...
/MSART/ - Mega Sāhitya & Itihāsa Resources Thread
Post links for downloading ebooks, megadumps, internet libraries, docrels to spoonfeed other /sa/folks.
Passages
Man, the bravest of animals and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he even seeks it out, provided he is shown a meaning for it, a purpose of suffering. The meaninglessness of suffering, not suff...
Based Wittgenstein
>Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics and the philosophy of mind. >Was born in one of the wealthiest family in Europe at that time >Gave away all of his wealth and...
Brutal Cuckoldry in Karnataka’s Lingyat religion
I decided to read the Vacanas of southies and this is what I found kek. Southies been cucks since centuries
My favorite book
How many of you have read it? If you read this and the book "determined" it is kind of the ultimate blackpill(can't think of a better word, sorry), you will never see the world in the same way.
When baji rao had delhi just for fun
sf
Post Science Fiction anons have read, I recently read PKD's Ubik
Were temples back in the day also painted
This question was lingering in my mind after i saw some pics on twitter then i went to wiki of Kailasha temple at Ellora caves built in 8th century CE. You can see the faided paints, some sections which retain paint. That made me question - w...
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
>he reads fiction
Kino psychology book thread
Drop psychology book recommendations. You can also post philosophy related book but mention it explicitly
>I'm a sick man,im a spiteful man.Im an unattractive man
Use Hardcover instead of GoodReads to track and review your boox https://hardcover.app/ Their manifesto: Frustrated by inconsistencies every time we used Goodreads, and out of spite for Amazon, we decided to do something about it. We set out...
Brahmi Script General - /BSG/
I want to create a font for brahmi, a custom keyboard map or something which can be used to type in brahmi. Anyway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gupta_script pic related is gupta brahmi script. Goated. Brahmi script is the origin of all indic...
Kino
Delhi (1938) - Jack Cardiff https://youtu.be/hiSFxKMO_2Q?si=Q0WNz-dazDD6RMeT
It has begun….
Billions must read
Me
>I am a sick man. ... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about my disease, and do not know for certain what ails me. I don't consult a doctor for it, and never have, though I ...
Doomer reading bucketlist
I’m gonna destroy myself
cool
If you read philosophy and all these thoughts doesn't come naturally to you, it just never began for you. Reading scientific literature or religious literature is much superior than any of this Nietzscheslop
Kino Read
Came across this wonderful book. Instead of looking at China from the ITcelliya's lens, we should start observing the Chinese way of life from raw and organic interactions Hindu society has had with the proponents of Chinese tenets.
Which book should i read next
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Sylvia Path…
>be born in a rich family >be extremely good looking (in the 50s) >be tall (5’8) >go to bestest of best kallej in America >date multiple chads >gets pumped and dumped by them >suffering.mp4 >write shit ton of poetry on “true pain and suffering...
Does anyone here read just to feel less lonley? I feel like I have company when I read, the thought of being alone goes away from my mind.
Maratha Spirit - Faustian Spirit
Kanhoji Angre was the only naval commander to have not lost to the British in the time period intermitting from the 17th century till the first world war. Overall, he is just one of three commanders of naval fleets to have never lost to the British N...
virginty gone of this board by my bdl