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Actually vintage Indian actresses look far more beautiful and elegant as compared to Indian actresses these days.

I love love love this. She is so cute back then

I really really love Asha Parekh's interview. She is absolutely graceful and elegant. Something I never see with today's actors and actresses. I will never understand why older generation of people were so innocent and elegant and cute and respectful whereas these days people in the industry are so disrespectful, rogue and negative. She looks a tiny bit like my mom hehe.( Without big eyes.) My mom has tiny eyes.

RO is the best. I have a countertop RO since many years. You have to change its filters from time to time.

I exactly don't know how to describe mauveideas. It's like a combination of old and new. Because I really don't know where I'm stuck with respect to ancient/vintage tradition versus modern culture. I see modern culture as a source of sophistication yet whenever I hear whatever my mom says, I do see some truth to it and I feel like I can still resonate with old people from the 60s. It gets confusing. Because on one hand I really feel independent, modern and sophisticated. On the other, I feel like I don't want to lose touch with ancient Indian roots. It becomes like a struggle. How to incorporate old traditions and perceptions into a modern lifestyle. Recently I started doing Tulsi Pooja which is an old Indian traditional ritual that many Hindus do. I never looked at it with great importance growing up. My mom never did it. I mean she was kinda modern right from the get go. So one day I told her — "you never taught me how to do tulsi Pooja. Nevermind I'll learn it from the neighborhood old ladies." So i bought the plant, placed it in my garden and began doing tulsi Pooja. I felt a sort of relief, like a connection with old Indian roots. You reach a conundrum where you can relate to whatever your parents say yet your friends tell you it's all outdated. You're floating around new stuff yet you still relate to old stuff. How do you navigate around old and new together? At the same time I have outdated ideas around Sexuality like I don't like casual sex. Many of my friends in the age group of 24 - 27 don't like it either. I can see why. I think just like them. I mean we call ourselves modern generation yet we aren't still on board with the ideas of casual sex and other such things. We still believe in the concept of marriage. So when I was browsing through pictures of Sharmila Tagore and I came across a bikini pic. And I was like omg. How was a bikini accepted back then in the 80s? And it wasn't. She had to remove those pictures. And I was thinking to myself — what's the big deal in wearing a bikini? Why did people back then make such a big deal out of it? Of course now bikini is so common and I'm glad that I can wear whatever I want. I mean if your main criticism of an actress is that she appeared nude or in a bikini, sorry but that's a lazy excuse really and a lame critique. I mean there is absolutely nothing wrong with wearing a bikini or any form of nudity really. I don't see a problem. I had this kind of archetype in mind when I was observing Sharmila Tagore. Like she seemed pretty liberal to me Someone who is not exactly tethered to old tradition yet they are reasonably conservative enough to not throw out the baby with the bathwater. I mean she represented someone with open mindedness, something like support for LGBTQ, inter-racial marriages, Openness of opinion, leading your small life in a little way without being grand, doing little things yet having enough maturity, being positive in small ways, being superficial, shallow, slightly vain but not in a bad rude unempathetic kind of way, being shallow yet having an element of beauty and sophistication and easy-Ness to it that makes it positive, easy relaxing and calm. A certain vibe, an "easy" playful creative superficial candy vibe, yet not shallow to the point of narcissism and fakery. In a way it's a refreshing getaway from being serious, deep and emotional all the time.. I always see this vibe in her which is also visible in this interview.

Yesterday I was thinking about popular Indian celebrities Asha Bhosale, Rekha, Amitabh Bachchan, Sharmila Tagore etc. Meena Kumari of course.

There is nothing called success. It's a man made illusion.

Mauveideas will be about vintage bollywood. And the inspiration I derive from Hindu tradition.

Was thinking about #mauveideas.

Absence of love and compassion.

This is my prediction for this decade. Both left and right wing forces are gaining momentum in US politics. Neither will really occupy the terrain. It will be a cold war between the two. Most people will simply try to align with the middle out of frustration and misery. Right wing is getting gimmicky whereas the left is an echo chamber bubble. I see a clash of two egos.

Wow. That's actually not a good news. I wish the vaccines had lasted good many years.

I actually took it pretty seriously. If you took it the funny way, you shouldn't blame me.

Hun ask @Michael569 if it's safe to get booster shots. How many booster doses are okay? Are these without risks? Are too many boosters safe?

Why do you need a booster though? Isn't the first and the second vaccine supposed to solve all problems?

Lmao. Go get a 4th shot. Then a 5th. I didn't even get my first shot yet You seem like a good Guinea pig to me.

I'm still scared of this Covid thing. Now I'm thinking what I need to do next.

Five years ago I was a white Supremacist. I thought white race was the best race on planet earth. This is because I was (against my will and knowledge) brainwashed by a white supremacist (not knowing that he was one) into believing that white race was an endangered race. I don't even know how that made sense to me back then but apparently it did somehow. The brainwashing worked quite well on me as I signed up to be a part of that guy's group. Long story short, I finally abandoned that White Supremacist group on the insistence of my then American boyfriend (now ex), who is white ... And finally got rid of that evil curse of a group. How am I different from who I was back then? Radically different. I developed sensitivity to other races that I lacked back then. I became more aware of issues within different racial minority groups. It's a 180° degree shift. Back then I would have described myself as a typical American conservative hillbilly kind of a person. Today I'm more of a leftist liberal. I was also a Trump supporter back then and I had even contributed to the Trump campaign. Today i have great disdain for Trump and trump supporters because my values have radically changed and so have my perception of Trump and GOP, I am grateful that I woke up to the cancerous ideologies of the right. Although both are ideologically stubborn, I find my leftist sentiments and opinions far better, grounded, holistic than right wing mentality. I try to achieve a middle ground between conservative and liberal opinions. Big change from who I was 5 years ago.

I have my vaccine scheduled in the end of January. I'm still scared to go out because don't want to catch Omicron. Still thinking whether I should get the vaccine or simply wait for Omicron to go away. So confused about this vaccine. Also is the vaccine really useful if I take it now, isn't it supposed to be taken long ago to develop immunity? I'm honestly never been so confused in life. I had expected Corona to go away by the end of 2021 and I thought I'll simply escape it. But now what. It never stops.

Yea the interview with Amitabh Bachchan has been an eye opener. He really preserves old Hindu tradition in his everyday living which is a rarity these days. Even my mom never really raised me as a Hindu. But I want to dig my ancient roots and not lose touch with it.. Link to the interview. https://youtu.be/JouL9ZeHzsw

Someone said this not long ago. SRI AMITABH BACHCHAN IS TOO IMPORTANT FOR HINDUISM. THE LITTLE BIT OF RESPECT LEFT FOR HINDUISM IN BOLLYWOOD IS BECAUSE OF SRI AMITABH BACHCHAN JI AND TEAM. SO, I SINCERELY OFFER MY PRAYERS TO PARAMASHIVA FOR THE SPEEDY RECOVERY OF SRI AMITABH BACHCHAN JI AND SRI ABHISHEK BACHCHAN JI.

LOL this one.