Let us discuss Indian Literature

[Anonymous No.12564820]

[Anonymous No.12564827]

lets not.

[Anonymous No.12565162]

>>12564827
Based

[Anonymous No.12565236]

>>12564820
indians don't have books, retard

[Anonymous No.12565242]

>>12564820
Well since all of you are uneducated /pol/acks wearing the facade of a /lit/ poster i guess i'l post an indian book that i liked.

[Anonymous No.12565245]

>>12564820
these threads never go well. always a vicious discussion. sry op, i won't be stepping into these waters, not again. but anyway, that girl is pretty and i wish she would take care of me. do indian girls like indian guys? or am i just unwanted by everyone, including my own kind? probably the latter. ah well, it's okay.

[Anonymous No.12565262]

>>12565242
imagine reading this

[Anonymous No.12565303]

>>12565245
Indian, Black, White, Asian -> white men
Black, white, hispanic -> black men
Asian, white -> asian men
Hispanic, black -> hispanic men

[Anonymous No.12565337]

>>12564820

I liked the following:
Imaginary Maps - Devi
Cracking India - Sidhwa
Shadow Lines - Ghosh
And despite being kind of corny and not really strictly Indian, I like Jhumpa Lahiri pretty well.
Do not like Rushdie at all.

[Anonymous No.12565409]

>>12565236
imagine being this retarded

[Anonymous No.12565432]

>>12565303
i'm aware that indian men are not wanted by anyone. no need to highlight the fact

[Anonymous No.12565441]

>>12564820
she's super pretty

[Anonymous No.12565453]

>>12565432
Don't be like this dude.
I'm a quarter Indian and I'm dating an Indian girl.
Just be patient. Improve yourself. And don't be fucking creepy.

[Anonymous No.12565472]

>>12565453
thank you. it just sucks bc i've never rly been wanted "like that" before by any girl, and it's really hit my self esteem. i'm not tall, my face isn't great, i have certain cognitive dysfunctions (i think i might be slightly retarded), and i'm not the greatest socialite. but don't worry, i don't feel bitter, and i don't feel selfpity either. just acknowledge what i feel are honest realities to my person

[Anonymous No.12565486]

>>12565453
Are Indian girls nice? Never really encountered one before. Any traits I should know of, before pursuing them?

[Anonymous No.12565518]

The Bhagavad Gita is on my list of ancient classics to read.

[Anonymous No.12565553]

>>12565432
>1.4 billion indians

they want each other just fine

[Anonymous No.12565555]

Sanskrit is much more beautifully structured as a language than Greek or even Latin. I have as yet not much knowledge of the literature actually, but i have been reading selections of the Mahabharata and Ramayana. I think they can stand up perfectly well to Homer, frankly.

[Anonymous No.12565592]

>>12565518
What translation do you have?

[Anonymous No.12565606]

>>12564820
I hear they write on tablets made of poo. Is this true?

[Anonymous No.12565610]

>>12565486
They're nice.
Idk what you mean by pursue. They're not like Western girls at all. Not really traditional but a lot closer to it than girls in the west.

[Anonymous No.12565618]

>>12565606
Only Pakistanis.

[Anonymous No.12565621]

>>12564820
>OP posts an image more interesting than the subject
this thread was doomed from the beginning

[Anonymous No.12565636]

>>12565621
but that's half of /lit/, anon

but yeah, she's quite pretty uwu

[Anonymous No.12565648]

>>12565555
Languagelet here, how can a language be beautifully structured? Care to provide any examples, because I've heard people praising Sanskrit like you have, but I haven't looked into and seen what it's like.

[Anonymous No.12565654]

>>12565648
>I've heard people praising Sanskrit like you have
Nationalism

[Anonymous No.12565700]

>>12565592
it's on my list; i haven't started reading it. pic related recommends Easwaran

[Anonymous No.12565717]

>>12565700
Get reading, anon. May your focus improve as much as your knowledge grows.

[Anonymous No.12565751]

>>12564820
Has anyone here read "Na Hanyate" by Maitreyi Devi? Is she actually responding to pic related?

Also, on another notice, what the f*ck did Vatsyayana mean with the "sit"-sound in the Kamasutra? Was he autistic?

Anyone read Kalidasa? Is it actually good or too artificial?

[Anonymous No.12565993]

>>12565751
>Anyone read Kalidasa
Kālidāsa's plays are some of the best works to come out of the Indian subcontinent. I am not much fan of his poem, though.

[Anonymous No.12566033]

>>12564820
It looks like that she is married, she hasSindoor in her hair, Bindi on her forehead and Mangal Sutra on her neck. She is someone else's.

[Anonymous No.12566081]

>>12565472
It never occurred to me that Indians were unwanted before I found out through the internet. I think it's attitude before anything. If Pakistani guys don't have the same problem why Indian guys? You're both the same people, just different cultures. It makes me question if Hinduism emphasizes meekness compared to Islam, which attracts the violent and depraved. Maybe some lit could shed the light on this.

[Anonymous No.12566102]

>>12565648
I do not praise it out of nationalism. I’m just a rootless white American who wants to get as broad a view as possible of the different sorts of beauty realizable in the world’s literatures. There are a few things that make the structure of Sanskrit cool.

First of all, almost every word in the language (and, according to the traditional grammarians, every word without exception) can be derived from a set of a few hundred verbal roots called dhātavah (singular dhātu). For instance, there is an enormous cluster of ideas all spawned from the root yuj, meaning “join” (cognate with our word “yoke”). The word yoga is derived from it (by a metaphor of “putting things together in the mind”), and also yukti, meaning a plot or stratagem, and yojanam, which is a measure of distance based on how far one goes in plowing a field without unyoking the oxen. So there is a certain philosophy encoded in the language itself: that everything in the world can be derived from a set of fundamental actions.

The grammar of the language is also rigorously structured, with approximately twice as many inflections as Latin. This minimizes the need for the ungainlier aspects of a language, such as prepositions and circumlocutory phrases.

The Sanskrit tradition is very aware of the merits of the language, to such an extent that certain schools of philosophy believed that the surest way to God was in the enjoyment of sonorous speech. I can’t help but be charmed by such conceptions. And Sanskrit is, I think, on the level of phonology also very sonorous once one gets past how different it sounds from European languages. The Sanskrit alphabet (or syllabary depending on your perspective) itself represents a sort of primitive IPA.

And finally, the body of work in Sanskrit is far more diverse even than that of Latin: it was India’s Greek, Latin and Hebrew all at once, and then some. It ensures access to an immense diversity of thought and art, all of which will be different from what you know.

[Anonymous No.12566103]

>>12564820
You mean smeared cow shit on a slab of rock?

[Anonymous No.12566167]

>>12566103
That's nordic and african literature

[Anonymous No.12566189]

>>12566103
Just so you know, cowdung has antiseptic properties. Smearing it on a wall actually cleanses it

[Anonymous No.12566203]

>>12565245
indian girls mostly date indian guys although sometimes date white guys

[Plague No.12566597]

>>12566033
That doesn't mean an affair is not possible. You should consider every aspects. Surface level details can be accounted by every normal person; in your tongue; normie.

[Anonymous No.12566639]

>>12566102
What an absolutely based comment. You should save this, for you've written something very nice, and worth restating in future discussions that may happen on the subject. Thank you for taking the time to give me such an extensive summary of the language's merits.

[Anonymous No.12566655]

>>12566102
Same anon. You are such a good writer. I hope you're putting that skill to work, in some or the other project of literature.

[Anonymous No.12566688]

>>12566081
the bhgvad gita is literately about the hindu god trying to convince some prince to go fight in a battle and kill people instead of being a bitch

[Anonymous No.12566711]

>>12565993
Which plays should I read? Shakuntala, presumably? Goethe's beloved jewel. Do you have specific translations, ideally?

[Anonymous No.12566757]

itt poos

[Anonymous No.12566770]

>>12564820
Do they have any good scat litterature? Poop eating etc

[Anonymous No.12566778]

>>12566102
Same anon, lol. What does it mean to be "rootless"? That you have no stable nation you live in? That you wander the world, without attachment to any place?

Who are you, anon? What is it that you seek in this life?

[Anonymous No.12567114]

LMFAO india is fucking stinky dude. smells like curry and cigarettes lmaooooo. you want me to read philosophy from a stinky country lmfao. ill read their "vedas" after theyll learn how to use the toilet lol. what wisdom is to be gained from india bro? how to cook disgusting overly spicie food that comes out faster than it came in? LOL. im smirking so hard right now lmfao. what wisdom is to be gained from india bro? how to not step in shit when you go for a walk? LOOOOL how to worship the cows? lmfao get real

[Anonymous No.12567251]

>>12565432
then why the fuck is there so many of you shitters?

[Anonymous No.12567296]

>>12567114
Imagine having an underdeveloped western palette that can't register complex flavors and just writes them off as being "overly spicie"

[Anonymous No.12567301]

>>12566081
>Hinduism emphasizes meekness
you have to realize that most everyday indians do not know a whole lot about their religion
so it's not the religion that emphasizes confusion and dumb-foundry but the society which itself is a caricature of western values mixed with an air of empathy towards islam
hindus are persecuted almost everyday in india on a daily basis

[Anonymous No.12567347]

>>12566102
Thanks for this post.
BASED

[Anonymous No.12568238]

does /lit/ have any favourite odes to the diety (stotrams)?

[Anonymous No.12568455]

>>12564820
>tfw no qt Indian princess gf
just destroy me already, Shiva

[Anonymous No.12568516]

>>12566081
Eh, well, in person I've definitely been stereotyped against by groups around me, so it's definitely not just an "internet" thing. I don't know, it's whatever. I don't dwell on these experiences. I just wonder if I'm wasting my time by even trying to groom (not literally, but in my character as a whole) myself enough to get a girlfriend in the future, and that maybe I'm "just not meant for it". Perhaps I'm letting my own negativity write my own narratives of what I am, and should stop being so down towards myself.

[Anonymous No.12568646]

>>12568516
>in person I've definitely been stereotyped against by groups around me

How so? I can relate to you man. I'm an asian mutt with jewish and possible malay ancestry, though I identify as an asian and look like one with a beard, although pass as hispanic at times. However, I've had a couple of girls like me and I'm sure you've had some who like you too but you don't know it.

As cliched as it may sound, be yourself but get rid of the negative qualities to your personality if there are any like low self esteem, being unfit, or shyness.

[Anonymous No.12568702]

>>12568646
I mean... I'm Indian, barely 5'7" and with average looks and I've had a lot of girls of all races interested in me and I've gone on many dates. So...while I can understand what that guy means and can empathize since I've been exposed to people talking about and accusing me of various negative Indian stereotypes, I really think this whole Asian men are less desirable meme exists only in the internet and is not really true.

[Anonymous No.12568807]

>>12568702
It's not that asian guys are less desirable, it's how nerdy men are unappealing. I've browsed /r/amiugly and /r/incelselfies and the main problem most of them have, besides weight issues, is nerdy, feminine features.

[Anonymous No.12568874]

>>12568702
I don't know about having had ones that liked me, I'm pretty sure that's never been true since I passed puberty. But thanks for the advice, friend.

>>12568702
Maybe I'm just sulking, and my sulking is sullying my view of how reality objectively is. Perhaps I should try to put myself out there more, and by doing so, would see more success akin to what you yourself have experienced. I don't know, I'm just a bit dejected is all. I just want a sweetheart girlfriend whose neck I can lay my head against at night, feeling safe with, and the solace of knowing myself to be dearly loved by. For me to be able to hug and hold her so sincerely after she and I have returned home from work, and not be judged for my need to have her beside me. To spend the evening on our bed, listening to lovely, peaceful music, while holding hands. For her to sing us soft lullabies once the lights are off, as we then drift into sleep. These are just a few of my stupid, unattainable fantasies.

[Anonymous No.12568895]

>>12568874
Why not join some clubs that fit your interests and meet some?

[Anonymous No.12568971]

>>12568238
The Sri Rudram Namakam. I listen to it at least once a week and can recite the first anuvaka

[Anonymous No.12569157]

>>12568895
I've never been successful at finding friends through clubs. Forget about a girlfriend - friends in general have never been made by me going to any of the clubs I've been to. I just...can't seem to connect with the people around me. Not sure why. A defect of my own, surely.

[Anonymous No.12569177]

>>12565700
It's a quick read. I read the Barbara Stole Miller translation.

I want to get deeper into Indian classic literature, but don't know where to go.

[Anonymous No.12569344]

>>12566688
>the bhgvad gita is literately about the hindu god trying to convince some prince to go fight in a battle and kill people instead of being a bitch
this sounds like a fun read desuphampai

[Anonymous No.12569351]

>>12566081
>It makes me question if Hinduism emphasizes meekness compared to Islam

i guess u dont know much about about hindu nationalism then

[Anonymous No.12569359]

>>12565245
one of my old roommates was an indian chad with a hot white gf, dont be melodramatic

[Anonymous No.12569423]

>>12565242
>very moving
sounds pretty great

[Anonymous No.12569426]

>>12564820
Am I weak, for desiring to submit myself over to women like this? They have such a power to themselves, and I have not a bone of dominance within me. Does this make me a failure of a male, even if it does not translate towards being humiliated, penetrated, or c*ckolded? Is it wrong for a young adult man to find such power in many women, that causes me to want to be subservient to them? For that is exactly what I desire in life, and am reminded of in seeing pictures like the lovely one by OP.

[Anonymous No.12569438]

>>12569351
Those people are mean, I don't like many of them. They spread hatred. They ruin the name of the authentic Indian spiritual traditions they represent.

>>12569359
Yes, but sadly I'm no Chad.

[Anonymous No.12569613]

>>12569438
>They spread hatred. They ruin the name of the authentic Indian spiritual traditions they represent.
you mean the same traditions which are already half dead because of muslim and british invasions
if anything hinduism should have a 65th artform on how to keep low lives out of your country

[Anonymous No.12569626]

>>12564820
More pictures of brown girls, please.

[Anonymous No.12569649]

>>12568702
Where do you live? If it's somewhere like California or New Jersey I can see this being the case

[Anonymous No.12569674]

>>12569613
A bitter irony is that, at the same time Hindu nationalists boast about all this cultural wealth and how it is the source and peak of all civilisation on the globe, they aren't actually studying or preserving it.

[Anonymous No.12569769]

>>12565648
If I had a dollar every time I heard "_____ language is perfect/most ancient/divine/sweetest/beautiful", I'd be a very rich man.

[Anonymous No.12569856]

>>12569177
Upanashids, Mahabharata, Ramayana

[Anonymous No.12569945]

>>12564820
i'm a white guy married to an indian woman (yeah fuck you)
she has no clue about any indian literature
she went to a private school and all they read was british and american stuff
i've got a couple of books by indians like aravind adiga and she's never heard of them

[Anonymous No.12569953]

>>12569945
p.s. she is a hindu so of course she has a bhagavad gita but that's about it

>>12569626
ok

[Anonymous No.12569964]

>>12564820
You can't just post a pic of a woman and not give her name.

[Anonymous No.12569977]

>>12565242
I still think about this book all the time years later.
One of the few novels that really changed my worldview as a kid.

[Anonymous No.12569980]

>>12569945
The White Tiger falls prey to “inauthenticity”: Adiga – a well-read Indian author who writes in English, having been educated at Oxford and Columbia – errs on the side of an unconvincing colloquialism by making his characters speak a language of the Indian underground, which he himself masters only to a certain extent.
The novel is best described as a novel about “the Darkness” (which reminds us of Dickens’s London) and a fascinating success story about the overnight rise of one character from rags to riches, but also about India’s development as a global market economy. In this there is a certain artificiality, cleverly masked by irony, and remarks the “‘cardboard cut-out’ title character equipped with an inauthentic voice that ultimately undermines issues of class politics”.

[Anonymous No.12569998]

>>12569626

[Anonymous No.12570014]

>>12569626
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqvc1U5haes

[Anonymous No.12570138]

>>12569980
thanks mr wikipedia
adiga sells tons of books to middle class indians and doesn't give a fuck about your postcolonial whining

>>12570014
oh my god

[Ciskwanja No.12570342]

>>12564820
Loved this one ... Always post about it on /v/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruba41fF1Ag

[Anonymous No.12570377]

>>12565242
This was terrible.

[Anonymous No.12570513]

V.S. Naipul my dudes

A House for Mr. Biswas is great

[Anonymous No.12570526]

>>12570014
Wow

[Anonymous No.12570551]

>>12564820
Name?

[Anonymous No.12570767]

>>12565751
this is very accurate

[Anonymous No.12570850]

Indian here.

You must read the Upanishads, the Bhagavada Gita & some of the bhasyas (commentaries) by Adi Sankara, Madhavacharya & Nagarjuna.

Once you do, write your own commentary and discuss with people who you trust & respect. Repeat.

Do not read anything written by modern Novelists.

[Anonymous No.12570894]

>>12570850
>Do not read anything written by modern Novelists.
Why so? Isn't authors like Munshi Premchand and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, good?

[Anonymous No.12570901]

>>12565453
You are "QUARTER" indian, that kinda tells it all..

[Anonymous No.12570905]

>>12570850
>Do not read anything written by modern Novelists.
Why so? Are authors like Munshi Premchand and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, not good?

[Anonymous No.12570986]

>discussing literature
wrong board mate

[Anonymous No.12571073]

>>12570850
>Modern Indian English(language) literature.
FTFY. You can read books written by Indian authors who write them in their own native language. Modern India had some of the best poets.

[Anonymous No.12571138]

>>12569674
Sounds like any sort of nationalist desu

[Anonymous No.12571140]

[Anonymous No.12571151]

Why are indians the least attractive race? They're even uglier than asians, and that's saying something.

[Anonymous No.12571158]

>>12571151
How can you say >>12571140 is unattractive?

[Anonymous No.12571160]

How is one to acquire knowledge? How is one to attain liberation? And how is one to reach dispassion? Tell me this, sir. 1.1
Ashtavakra said:

If you are seeking liberation, my son, avoid the objects of the senses like poison and cultivate tolerance, sincerity, compassion, contentment, and truthfulness as the antidote. 1.2

You do not consist of any of the elements — earth, water, fire, air, or even ether. To be liberated, know yourself as consisting of consciousness, the witness of these. 1.3

If only you will remain resting in consciousness, seeing yourself as distinct from the body, then even now you will become happy, peaceful and free from bonds. 1.4

You do not belong to the brahmin or any other caste, you are not at any stage, nor are you anything that the eye can see. You are unattached and formless, the witness of everything — so be happy. 1.5

Righteousness and unrighteousness, pleasure and pain are purely of the mind and are no concern of yours. You are neither the doer nor the reaper of the consequences, so you are always free. 1.6

You are the one witness of everything and are always completely free. The cause of your bondage is that you see the witness as something other than this. 1.7

Since you have been bitten by the black snake, the opinion about yourself that “I am the doer,” drink the antidote of faith in the fact that “I am not the doer,” and be happy. 1.8

Burn down the forest of ignorance with the fire of the understanding that “I am the one pure awareness,” and be happy and free from distress. 1.9

That in which all this — imagined like the snake in a rope — appears: that joy, supreme joy, and awareness is what you are, so be happy. 1.10

If one thinks of oneself as free, one is free, and if one thinks of oneself as bound, one is bound. Here this saying is true, “Thinking makes it so.” 1.11

Your real nature is as the one perfect, free, and actionless consciousness, the all-pervading witness — unattached to anything, desireless and at peace. It is from illusion that you seem to be involved in samsara. 1.12

Meditate on yourself as motionless awareness, free from any dualism, giving up the mistaken idea that you are just a derivative consciousness or anything external or internal. 1.13

You have long been trapped in the snare of identification with the body. Sever it with the knife of knowledge that “I am awareness,” and be happy, my son. 1.14

[Anonymous No.12571286]

The only Indian lit nowadays is postcolonial lit lmao
>>12571151
You forgot that Abos exist.

[Anonymous No.12571296]

>>12567296
>replying to obvious pasta

[Anonymous No.12571305]

HOW CAN SHE SLAP

[Anonymous No.12571398]

>>12565555
>more beautifully structured
read Greek, senpai?
Sanskrit does generally speaking have a more lush (sensuous) vocabulary, but this has little to do with structure. How then structurally speaking is Sanskrit superior? I'm curious.

[Anonymous No.12571454]

Is there ANY good Indian porn website?

[Anonymous No.12571564]

>>12569613
What previous eras of Muslims and Brits have done to the culture is terrible. But anyone who spreads violence and vitriol in modern times because of past actions, has only made themselves part of the problem. India does need to preserve its culture better, and I wish it would take the measures to do so. I wish it would abandon secularism and recognize itself to be the only nation of the world where its own culture can be found, and officially become a Hindu or Dharmic nation. I wish predatory missionaries would no longer be allowed to enter the country. I wish many other things. All that said, there should be absolutely no hatred or harm done to Muslims or Christians or other parties in India, unlike what Hindutva can be presently found to be doing. Modern Muslims or Christians in India are not responsible for their ancestors actions, and neither are the British, living overseas in their own land. Anyone who spreads division, vitriol, and violence towards these or other groups in the present day, regardless of cause, is in the wrong and needs to be stopped. Hindutva happens to fit that bill, at present. It's also irritating seeing their comments online, and how stupid and closed-minded they make Indians look as a whole.

[Anonymous No.12571569]

>>12571454
well, there was
but as far as i can tell she closed down the site years ago
you can still find some of the pictures by googling "jayde hotindianbabe"

[Anonymous No.12571595]

>>12566203
>>12565303

Indian girls date white guys, but they marry Indians. Same for other Asians.

[Anonymous No.12571612]

>>12569649
I grew up in Virginia and now I'm going to grad school in a fairly big school in the Midwest. I have had similar experiences in both places, as well as most of the places I've traveled to. Though you might have something there since generally I tend to build up better rapport with girls from California and the east coast.

[Anonymous No.12571938]

>>12564820
Are Indian girls kind, and sweet? Are they loving towards their boyfriends?

[Anonymous No.12571944]

Bible - Bi + Able

That which at its core is able to be bisexual.

Father, Son & the Holy ghost.

The Holy ghost in Mary and the Father a part of the Holy ghost.

Mary getting DPed by Father & the ghost.

Father & ghost indulging in their own consummation.

Bisexuality is at the core of the biblical theology.

[Anonymous No.12572052]

bump

[Anonymous No.12572078]

>>12571938
mine is
she's a fucking good cook too. after we got married i put on about 20 pounds from eating her food. i'm still trying to get it off

[Anonymous No.12572106]

>>12572078
You're so lucky. Does she hold you, and kiss you on the cheek? Does she speak softly to you?

[Anonymous No.12572154]

Posting Pakistani literature, because Pakistan is still India whether they like it, or not.

[Anonymous No.12573683]

>>12564820
Pretty sure their "literature" has a similar level of appeal to Western audiences as their films and music so pretty much none.

[Anonymous No.12573690]

>>12565242
>muh /pol/
Every time

[Anonymous No.12573920]

>>12565700
I'm a fan of Easwaran's translation.

[Anonymous No.12573930]

>>12564820
indian girls are literal goddesses

[Anonymous No.12574060]

>>12565337
>Ghosh
based

[Anonymous No.12574079]

>>12573930