{"id":29061,"date":"2026-02-17T13:55:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/?p=29061"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:55:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:25:44","slug":"dasain-of-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/dasain-of-lovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Dasain of Lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The hill slowly falls<br>under wisps of mist and warm sun<br>Kancha is excited to meet Kanchi<br>Couple haru ko dasain is here \u2013<br>the festival of lovers.<br>Scrolling on his phone<br>Kancha stumbles on a reel \u2013<br>\u201cIf one loves their partner<br>they should buy them this\u2026\u201d<br>It is an aesthetic bouquet of flowers.<br>Kancha peers into his GPay account \u2013<br>he wonders if he is worthy of Kanchi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-small-font-size\"><em>Cover image by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@tobolenkoph\">Vladyslav Tobolenko <\/a>on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/a-forest-filled-with-lots-of-green-trees-ijJjecsuPL4\">Unsplash <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couple haru ko dasain is here  \u2013<br \/>\nthe festival of lovers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":603,"featured_media":29062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5151,3401],"tags":[66,5181,5160,5248,5245,2638,26,5247,1001,71,268,5242,48,99,349,25,2310,35,5244],"class_list":{"0":"post-29061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-digital-intimacies-and-sexuality","8":"category-fiction-poetry","9":"tag-desire","10":"tag-digital-culture","11":"tag-digital-intimacy","12":"tag-digital-validation","13":"tag-economic-pressure-in-love","14":"tag-emotional-labour","15":"tag-gender","16":"tag-influencer-marketing","17":"tag-lgbtqia","18":"tag-love","19":"tag-masculinity","20":"tag-online-relationships","21":"tag-pleasure","22":"tag-relationships","23":"tag-romance","24":"tag-sexualities","25":"tag-sisa-spaces","26":"tag-social-media","27":"tag-south-asian-relationships"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29065,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29061\/revisions\/29065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}