What Dark Academia would look like for Indians!

Dark Academia is all about knowledge, vintage emo, literature, history, classical studies, classical music and craftsmanship history. It is tied with romanticizing the sensation of being immersed in the beauty and aura of knowledge and the enthusiasm of being able to explore thyself and the world.

Here are few examples of how this aesthetic would look like for Indians-

• With reference to Architecture:

Astonishing forts, elaborate mosques, lavish palaces, luxurious castles, awe-inspiring temples and apexes canvassed in carvings, Buddhist monasteries, altars carved out of precipice faces, lively stone figures cut in dividers, shrines, sanctums.

Envision, walking through the circular hallway of a somber ancient monument.The jaw-dropping beauty and murmurs from the edifice stone figures usher you into the womb of the monument. You stand at the very centre of the belly gazing all around and admiring the magnificent aura.

• With reference to Wall Paintings, Decorations, Textiles:

Aesthetic synonyms here would include incarnations able to incite stories without locution, wall paintings, stone carvings, engraved figures, exquisite jewellery, bronze and copper sculptures, intricately embroidered garments, ceramics, elegant pots and vases, wood carvings. 

            Any paintings and decorations, be it belonging to some medieval culture or be it any old       family photograph, each has its own story to tell and the multitude of sentiments that arise are ineffably aesthetic.

• With reference to Music:

Imagine being lolled around the edge of a chamber, solo performers accompanied by drones and rhythm begin singing. Harmony that ascends from the sympathetic strings and notes explode euphoria all around. Ornamentations embellish melodic lines. The 

gradually increasing tempo pours like nectar over all ears. The esthetical vibe is alluring.

• With Reference to Literature:

Narratives and sagas of legends are imperative to the Indian culture and thus with reference to literature it would look like as such:

Beautiful long illustrated texts, holy texts such as Upnishads, Vedas and Manu Smriti, Philosophical verse in lingos as Avadhi and Brij or simply a poetic piece or abstract piece by any writer embark Indian aesthetic.

To sum it up here are a few more scenarios to paint a better picture of Indian aesthetic:

1. Strolling through the cloister of a palace draped in ivy-colored embellishments, pillars are carved astoundingly and stone cut figures are set around. A myriad of stories ooze out from the paintings hung on the wall. It’s calm yet a bedlam in itself.
2. Appreciating a Buddihist script or works of Rabindranath Tagore, citing and articulating sublime lovely pieces and detonating with sentiments.
3. Awakening up to chantings from a close by temple and being encircled by aroma mounting from incense sticks and oiled lamps.
4. Sitting in a seat by a window, pouring tea from an antiquated tea pot and from somewhere distant, hymns on veena strike your ears. You close your eyes and permit yourself to drench in raga and rhythm.

There is legit even more to Indian aesthetic for Dark Academia aficionados, but, I believe

This was able to stir a sense of belonging to dying fragments of Indian culture.