Does anybody know where I can donate books in Chennai? I have 18 novels to donate. Libraries or kilo book fairs: how to approach them?

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Restaurant is Avartana at the Grand Chola ITC.
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#2 Single origin chocolates
Food and Drinks in #Chennai #MadrasSky

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Island on Adyar Estuary is now home to a new mangrove belt Tamil Nadu Forest Department plants mangroves along Adyar Estuary for coastal protection and ecosystem restoration.

#EcologySky Restoration #MadrasSky
“Around 5,000 mangrove saplings have been planted at the site ” Battle of Adyar Island
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“ Adyar Estuary near Broken Bridge, the #Chennai Forest Division has created a fishbone with three main canals and 62 distribution canals.. ”

Dancing pose of Sivakarthikeyan and Hansika Motwani in a promotional poster for the 2014 Tamil-language film Maan Karate, a story about a carefree guy who becomes a boxer to win his lover.

I should've known better
than to cheat a friend
And waste the chance
that I'd been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you

Andrew Ridgeley, 20th century

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Tibetan Buddhist monk dressed in a red robe and meditatively carrying a silver-plated bowl with one hand, surrounded by birds eating on the ground at Boudhanath Stupa, Kathmandu, Nepal.

In the middle of
the journey of our life
I came to myself
within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Dante, 14th century

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Two headless white terracotta horses decorated with coloured clay garlands. Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India.

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you ...

Rudyard Kipling, 20th century

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Indian Trans History #10

Mohini: Men In Saris, 2019

Actress Sharmila Rajaram Shinde takes us into the lives of the crossdresser male lavni dancers of Maharashtra.

youtu.be/cbZY8xHpMEo

#India #IndiaSky #MadrasSky #Hijra #Trans #LGBTQI #LGBT #SpeirGorm #Ireland #IrishSky

Nine transgender people come together to share their truth in a vital, sensitively drawn-out portrait of the challenges they face in modern India.

youtu.be/mjbbPcLubHg

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Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India. A man on a steers a bullock with painted horns and a flatbed cart through busy traffic.

We are the driving ones.
Ah, but the step of time:
think of it as a dream
in what forever remains.

All that is hurrying
soon will be over with;
only what lasts can bring
us to the truth.

Rainer Maria Rilke, 20th c.

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Indian Trans History #9

Demigods, 2019

Dutch transgender author and model Valentijn De Hingh links her personal experience to the struggle for acknowledgment of two million hijras and transgender people in modern India.

youtu.be/YxL5qfbtKqg

#India #IndiaSky #MadrasSky #Hijra #Trans #LGBTQI #LGBT

Manifesting a life like this 🥺👉🏻👈🏻
#tamilsonglyrics #tamilsongs #girlies #madrassky

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Charlie Mariano first came to my attention as one of the only non-Indian players of the nadaswaram, the double-reed South Indian woodwind with a piercing, haunting, almost martial tone. It gives title to this track, "Madras"

#jazzsky #waylt #madrassky
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Photo of trans women Atri Kar and Shirin Shaw in dialogue.

Indian Trans History #8

Her-Story, 2019

A documentary film revolving around the dialogue between Atri Kar and Shirin Shaw, two highly-articulate trans women full of hopes and dreams.

youtu.be/Jusugb5Mayc

#India #IndiaSky #MadrasSky #Hijra #Trans #LGBTQI #LGBT

Indian Trans History #7

Please Mind The Gap, 2018

Passengers board the 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗵𝗶 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗼 from different places and head in several directions. One such is 𝗔𝗻𝘀𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻, 𝗮 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗻, and we see the journey from his perspective.

youtu.be/0N9h88x7rNY

#India #IndiaSky #MadrasSky #Hijra #Trans #LGBTQI #LGBT

Cover of 'Hullabaloo In The Guava Orchard' by Kiran Desai. A scantily clad man sits with three monkeys in the branches of a tree. Five people in traditional Indian clothing are joined at the bottom of the tree by four more monkeys.

Books I Never Wanted To End - #7

Fed up with life, Sampath goes to a guava orchard and settles himself in a tree, using gossip from his previous job to convince people he is clairvoyant and becoming a popular holy man.

Based on a true story!

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Indian Trans History #6

Nirvana, 2018

For eighteen days of the year in Chitrai (April/May), the small village of Villipurgam in Tamil Nadu is transformed into ‘Koovagam’, Asia's largest gathering of transgender women.

youtu.be/mIxbcNG_qb0

#India #IndiaSky #MadrasSky #Hijra #Trans #LGBTQI #LGBT

Cover of the spiritual classic 'I Am That: Talks With Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj'.

Books I Never Wanted To End - #6

"My teacher told me to hold onto the sense ‘I am’ tenaciously and not to swerve from it even for a moment. ... This brought an end to the mind; in the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am — un- bound."

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I used to complain a lot until I realised I have the privilege of having warm sambar rice in this rain while some people's roofs have been blown off.

POV matters :)

#chennai #fengal #madrassky

Just discovered #AddMadrasSky and it just feels right that it's #MadrasSky and not Chennai Sky.

Has the right feel to it ✨

I don't know why I am like this 😶 #relatable #madrassky

This blissful playlist has been on shuffle since the last 2 hours as I'm going about my house chores and the cyclone is thrashing outside ☔✨

#NowPlaying #MusicSky #MadrasSky #IndianMusic

Indian Trans History #5

Transindia, 2015

Takes you on a journey of Ahmedabad hijra lifestyles, their beliefs and cultures and how they struggle to find a place in the Indian society.

youtu.be/XD2Af1X6XVE

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#India #IndiaSky #MadrasSky #Hijra #Trans #LGBTQI #LGBT

my rain vibes Playlist · Kavya Janani · 65 items · 4 saves

Come on, Chennai folks! ☔ Listen to this multilingual playlist and stay safe.

#NowPlaying #IndianMusic #MusicSky #MadrasSky

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Indian Trans History #4

Main Mona Ahmed, 2013

Mona Ahmed was 75 at the time of this documentary, having left her community and lived in a graveyard in Daryaganj, Old Delhi for 20+ years before her death in 2018.

youtu.be/PhkyMgwB-xY

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Bringing my aesthetic food pics from Instagramam to paravai to neelavaanam

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