Abhilasha Purwar
@AbhilashaPurwar
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a liberal conservative or a conservative liberal, whichever you prefer !! 🙃
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@chiragarora Manmohan was a class apart of a Prime Minister & finance minister. We all are what we are, the whole national economy because of the transformation he led in 1993. Everything that is being built around us, is being built on foundation Manmohan Singh laid. ❤️.
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Overheard in Bali - an Indian guy asking a European girl, how did you get the idea to travel around the world for a year. Real Answer - my government gives me unemployment benefit, so I can leverage my currency arbitrage & travel the “world” aka cheap counties.
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@SayaniBh Next time I visit my family, I also ask my didi, Bhabhi, chachi, mummy to carry my luggage up and down. Come and pick me up from airport/ train station at odd hours sacrificing their sleep. Contain entire mapping information to guide me when driving through new roads ?.
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Today morning I flew from Ahmedabad to Mumbai. My to-be mother-in-law woke me up, father-in-law & brother-in-law carried my luggage, drove me to the airport. The feminist would have me taking cab/carrying my own luggage. But fam doing these things makes me feel so mushy & good 😍.
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Pathan is a love letter from India to Shahrukh khan. Behind every ticket purchase is an apology for what the state did to him & his family. And behind every clap is immense respect for the grace with which he fought back & won.
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Since the air pollution season has begun, there will be endless tweets, gyaan, debate, omg price of development, cars, apocalypse, etc. Some straight up facts -.
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I don’t understand how/why people hated #Animal or found it misogynist or demeaning women . I don’t understand the uproar around the movie, calling Sandeep Venga Reddy mentally unwell, toxic masculinity. Animal would go down in history as an iconic Indian movie. Thread.
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New York City is suffering from singlehood pandemic. Everyone I know in NYC is good looking, makes lots of money, is smart, and is single for 5+ years. 😑.
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The new Bengaluru airport, OMG !!! .You may like it or not, and I am neither a Modi supporter or Bhakt, but 80-90% people who pass through this airport will vote Modi in 2024.
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I think 32 is a good age to come on Twitter and be vocal about your opinions. 18 year old me was too socialist .25 years old me was way too capitalist .2 years of Yale later, 27 years old me was crazy woke .And now I have found myself, good old Indian Aunty with good English 😜.
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Why do more talented and young people want to become VC analysts rather than build actual stuff in Startups ?.
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The whole chacha chachi nana Nani chai luggage pick me debate. Ho Gaya mera. Good to meet Indian Nazi feminist. Accha likes aur retweets kar ke popular Kar diya. Main chali airport, looking forward to my Bhaiyya picking me up & bhabhi making me tea ❤️🤣.
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I found, setup, maintained a home in DLF phase 1 for 5 years. From 2018 to 2023, and one thing I learnt is that only women can make home, and homemaker is the most thankless job ever. (A thread).
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What a decline of culture & society we are living. This is my ancestral home, which my great great grand father made. The grand arch of the door that opens into the courtyard. And now we are so happy living in matchbox apartments instead of reviving these wonders of our ancestry.
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@devinamehra @SayaniBh Men don’t do once in a while jobs. I can also argue than in the household of a construction labor, who is building your and mine house in city working 10 hours a day, his wife in village is doing a few once or twice a day job.
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After hiring and firing many people, a small thing I have learnt, 1 smart, diligent, honest, and focused person can do the tasks of 4 people. And 4 overqualified, overprivileged, dishonest people will keep telling how they are overworked and request to hire 4 more people. 😒.
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Yaar yeh toh kuch jaada hi popular ho Gaya. I toh responded to a bizzare senseless logic in hurry at the airport. But koi ni, good discussion. 🤣. Happy sensible feminism everyone. Respect/ appreciate both genders. Balance your masculine/ feminine energy. Take care of your family.
@SayaniBh Next time I visit my family, I also ask my didi, Bhabhi, chachi, mummy to carry my luggage up and down. Come and pick me up from airport/ train station at odd hours sacrificing their sleep. Contain entire mapping information to guide me when driving through new roads ?.
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Feminism is stretched so far and so pointless by many of us who grew up in tiny nuclear singular families & have no inkling of what family really is 🙃😑.
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@debarghya_das Actually greatly disagree. Hundreds of factories in India are semi abandoned because most kids think like above. Billions of $ of value loss. It is what you make of taking over Papa’s business, as a burden, a privilege, or an opportunity.
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Meeting Kailash Nadh of @zerodhaonline is like a reality check on state of the world. The rationality of the individual in the blind madness of Bangalore startup chaos is refreshing. If more of us became technologists like K, we would truly solve many problems of our planet.
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The single biggest contributer in jump from 3 weeks ago of an AQI around 100 to now 600-700 is crop burning in Punjab & Haryana.
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Next time they are visiting my place, I now want to make them chai. Actually fun fact, couple weeks ago I everyone was home and I made chai for my nana and my to be father in law & both the men were like what a delicious chai beta. (The chai was real bad 😑).
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@DivyaRawat07 @SayaniBh Yes, I so love when my bf, dad, brother, cousin, bf’s dad, Brothers’s gf’s sister, brother’s gf’s dad, mama, nana, nephew, nieces “pick me” from airport or train stations. Love it SO damn much. So pick me of me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.
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Air quality in villages 100-200 miles outside Delhi is more or less same with maybe 10% difference. If Delhi AQI is 750+, villages with like 10 cars lots of greens are at 700.
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Crop burning in PB/HR leading to air pollution in all of North India is a big problem, but has much limited to do with traffic, development, construction, or state of economy/culture/society in North India at large.
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Singapore is 100000x better than any western modern city of same type/ size that I have been to. NYC, London, SF, Berlin, Miami - it’s far cleaner, well designed, polite, helpful, cultural. 🤯. Why is east so much less popular than west when so many more folks live here.
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There will be lot of tweets on myriad of blames/topics, corruption, this that, but again very little relationship. You burn millions of tonnes of biomass in a low windspeed weather condition, what do ya expect ?
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4 months ago, I was flying Amsterdam-London & half my flight was a 10-12 aged boys soccer team flying prolly for some match, and I thought, would be cool, when that happens in India; flying Delhi-Chennai today and a 12-15 boys soccer team is in the security line ahead of me. 🤟❤️.
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More I look at global economies. More I am going long on India. Quality of life and ability to build that $5000 a month gives me in India is incomparable to any other economy.
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Build a system to get about 30-50 million tonnes of rice husk out of farmers fields so they don't have to burn it. 1. you can make briquettes & put em in power plants with coal.2. you can make biomass to energy power plants .3. you can make furniture clothing outta it.
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Pick me by whom ? . Just coz I am defending my mami making chai & mama carrying my bags up the flights of stairs, I have become a pick me ? . Get a hold of yourselves feminists 😑.
You have won the award for the Pick-Me of the day.
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Let’s unpack Ranbir’s character, he is not shown as a NOT toxic person. His father is a toxic person, his childhood is toxic, so why would his character not have elements of toxic masculinity. It’s NOT shown in good light/ inspiring, it’s shown as intriguing.
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@gua958 Definitely. Its a complimentary note for my favorite actor, not the value of Adani stock :P . In some places Hyperboles are alright, like a tweet. In some places its not, like National Statistics.
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Delhi has the strictest vehicular pollution standards, while Bangalore autos even today operate on terrible quality diesel leading to high NOx, SOx, not PM2.5. NOx & SOx are chemical pollutants .PM2.5 more of a physical pollutant.
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@devinamehra @SayaniBh This whole labor narrative, omg women did this so men must do this or men do this so women have to do this, has no outcome except for destruction of core fabric of our society & family; where men & women both do lot of work all the time for each other & folks around us.
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Big distinction - North Indian plains due to Himalayas + Humidity in Oct-Jan is inherently foggy. Fog is amazing, wonderful. Smog not so much. Typically this emissions/"pollution" dissipates but due to fog it gets trapped. & 00 million folks in this belt are forced to breathe it.
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Does toxic masculinity or toxic femininity for that matter, not deserve to be shown on screen, should we not unpack it, should we not make honest attempts to understand it ?? How do we do it without going to roots of it ??.
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@0xgaut I don’t want either 😑😒. Wealth is these things : .- your living room is filled with people who love you .- you have dozens of folks caring for you if/when you fall asleep .- your loved ones pick you from airport .- you get 10 kisses and 20 hugs per day.
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The world is gone so ultra woke, so liberal, so trigger happy, that literally a normal balanced mildly liberal mildly conservative fact based person who points to “matters as is” instead of the “hightened over virtuous over libel” version is unacceptable !!.
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Only in Delhi, and also only when you are an extrovert like me, you go from meeting tech founder, investors, to lawyers, politician, National level athletes, artist, musicians, filmmakers, writers - all in just one Saturday 🤟.
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Aka big problem, Delhi/ North India will face some of the worst health outcomes in coming months, lot of damage to kids - brain development, lifelong lung capacity, list is endless. But identify your villians properly & honestly come together to solve it.
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@debarghya_das Tech layoffs affect immigrants the most, many of these H1B holders being Indians. 10+ tips to move back -.
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What does education have to do with this. I have 2 masters 1 bachelors from IIT & Yale, I have drank plenty in life & I have no clue of which glass to hold wine. Tbh it’s his etiquetes to not slap back at Biden with some witty remark.
This is why Nation needs an educated Prime Minister. Laughing is absurd when get schooled on etiquettes of holding wine glass
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And you gotta build a system to get 30 million of it into these streams. Its not very complicated, it would be a few 100 million of investment into new types of power plants, furniture manufacturing, clothing manufacturing + supply chain. Easy peezy !!.
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@devinamehra @SayaniBh This split of labour narrative that women work more or less or whatever is so flawed. No feminist talks about how 90% construction labor working in summer heat with heavy machinery is men. Or how 100% sewage workers are men.
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@PrasadAsmita @SayaniBh Behan get out of a major city. Also I don’t know, if my papa, nana, mama, chacha are chatting with me on the pretext of giving me directions, I don’t mind. I don’t need a man to find my way. But having men or women be there for you just in case, is a damn nice 😑.
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All in all, big problem, but Know your Facts, as much as cars/ traffic is big problem, little to do with Air Pollution Crisis in North India. In fact, ironically, cars do lead to horrible air pollution in Bangalore & much of Southern India due to very poor standards.
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Big problem, but if we took all the cars away, all the construction & industries away, it would take AQI from 700 to maybe 450-500, the typical baseline of 100-250 we experience throughout rest of the year.
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@rajivtalreja I think everyone considering buying Mamaearth stocks should first buy and use Mamaearth products. If you can finish the whole bottle and still have a positive judgement, sure go ahead and buy that stock.
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Duck, I did it again. Started working post dinner around 11 pm and its 5:40 am. 😑 . Does this happen to other people that they go in deep work zone and time just flows away.
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Sometimes I think biggest value add of IITs (in my era) was that, they picked the smartest kids in the country, gave them high speed internet, and left them alone for 5 years. Apna aap hi padh likh kar jugaad se engineering etc seekh liya !!.
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Why the whole narrative around vegan/vegetarian is good for climate is ultra-flawed. A thread. The problem is not eating meat, but the sheer industrial mad ultra-capitalism hyper-consumption around it, supplemented with overwoke self righteous not backed by any stats combo
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Once upon a time when I was writing my SOP for Yale, I wanted to work at the prestigious elite American Environmental Non profits. Now I see what a scam American environmentalism is.
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@_david_ho_ Check @blueskylab, need senior software engineers to make sure every time a tree is cut, or river polluted, we monitor it using satellite data and inform global customers.
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Why does our dog have “paanch betiyon ki shaadi ki Chinta on his face” 😑
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@SandeepVangaa has executed the childhood traumas & its lifelong implications in an absolutely impeccable manner. Forget father-son bond, mother-daughter bonds of similar nature also have fairly terrible outcomes, and for a whole adult Indian/ global generation,.
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Temples made by illiterate people, no engineers, no “modern technology” standing test of time while countless roads, bridges, tunnels are collapsing left right and Centre. Not preaching anything but something worth thinking, reviewing.
10 years back it was the Kedarnath Temple that stood the wrath of time today it is Mahadev’s Temple in Mandi, #HimachalPradesh. सदा शिव निराकार शंकर शिवोहम 🙏🏻
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Won a award at COP28. People’s choice award for the best pitch & most innovative climate tech startup. Thanks to the audience for voting for me & thanks to my grandmom who against my wishes placed me in front of audience in grade 2 to make speeches 🙃
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A different approach could be Entrepreneur in house with specialized skills in marketing, social media, accounting, tech, design, PR where analyst/ associates instead of merely hearing 100 pitches a week actually work with 5 portfolio companies and add some value.
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@desiCityPlanner So I need to read research papers to thoroughly read about feminism; instead of look at the world around me and understand it. 🤔😵. And what makes the research paper written in some Ivy League by some disconnected academic the ultimate source of truth ? 🙃😑.
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@0xashesonchain Bit of fact correction. You were never “very lower middle class Indian family” but always in top 5-10%ile of Indian population, which means you were always very upper Indian class. Check more at
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@SandeepVangaa I forgot Anil Kapoor was Anil Kapoor and not Balbir. Ranbir wasn’t Ranvijay. Rashmika not Geetanjali. Unlike Alia in 2 states, Geetanjali had perfect authentic South Indian accent.
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@tripta_bhatia @SayaniBh It’s scary to pick someone up as a woman in the dead of night coz I will need to get up from my delicious soft bed, and if my brother or boyfriend can do that instead of me, yay !!! . It’s not always about “safety” or “feminism” . Sometimes it’s “lazy” & “convenient”.
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The key, and absolutely mind blowing potrayal of toxic parenting, which honestly so many of us are victims of. Including yours truly. Children expect love & care from their parents, & when they don’t get it - it does leave them fairly traumatized for life, in whatever format.
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Genuine question for older rich Indians, 40+ . Unlike western folks at same income level, why do y’all not spend on leisure activities ? . Kayak, SUP, Ski, Dive, Sail, Bike, Hike, Camp, Fish, Farm, Music, Dance ? . You already hustled from 20-40, if not living from 40-60, then?.
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Everyone wants fundamental sense of physical security, not being in a war; basic economic consistency, basic emotional comfort, some hobbies, recreation, a sense of purpose, a sense of belonging with society, and that's about it.
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@petergyang Many PMs were never really performing in Tech. I don’t know what does a PM learn in an MBA & most MBAs over time were replacing tech PMs. Best PMs are founders themselves, because product is their baby & no one can take care of it better than them. 2nd best PM - failed founders.
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@SandeepVangaa I can’t think of any other movie which even puts in words, what a grown up child feels about their parents neglect in their childhood. A million love stories are made in Hollywood/Bollywood, rare parent-child relationship dramas.
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@SandeepVangaa The acting by every single actor and the music was absolutely out of the world. In fact, I might have to watch the movie again to relish it truly coz first time I was just looking for places to get offended.
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@nuts2406 Damn, I’ll be trolled again, but Chuck it. How come cooking food for kids & families not “something meaningful that women do with their lives”. Like why. Let women be a models, athlete, CEO, whatever if they want. Or do housework, cook, feed kids, if that’s what they want.
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India has executed a next level super feminist soft power move with Droupadi Murmu inviting like who’s who of the world for state dinner, in a saree, no/ minimal makeup, just being an amazing Indian lady.
Indian President Murmu hosts Saudi Arabia's crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman for a state dinner at Rashtrapati bhawan . Vdo ctsy: Rashtrapati Bhawan
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@udayan10 Because a founder is also a human who can watch a movie & have opinions & articulate them & tweet them !!! 🙃. Next you’d tweet, wondering why a founder watches a movie.
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Analyst/Associate gig is kinda okay for 1 year or so, but grossly repetitive beyond a point with no serious learning, but due to unequal power dynamics with pitching founders across all age, skills, etc; that dopamine hit is too big to lose.
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Let’s unpack the elements of domestic violence against Rashmita. As a victim of DV when I was 19-20, does it help any victim to just NOT talk about it, or does it help whole society - both men & women, to understand how we reached there, what happened, how to pause/stop it.
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@srishti183 @SayaniBh Women in my house drive plenty. But we like beauty sleep so when someone needs to be picked or dropped at 4 am, like I needed to be dropped at the airport at 6:30 am, the men went coz women were sleeping 🙃😐🤣.
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@SandeepVangaa Lot of people commented on limited role of actresses, to romance/marriage/childbirth/sex - the role of Bobby Deol was far shorter, limited to violence. Those asking/empathizing for more role/screen time for actresses never asked/empathized for same for Bobby Deol.
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@Ajaxjacksss There are two types of people - one who understand parental neglect & associate trauma, and the other privileged lot which comes from relatively perfect families/parents. The former understands the pain/ agony/ movie & latter doesn’t understand that & finds it crap.
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Went to my first airport lounge on credit card points. Got crappy free coffee, unhealthy free food that I can’t / won’t eat even if you paid me to eat it. Only thing that made sense was comfortable couches with charging points next to it. But finally understood Cred biz model.
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@SandeepVangaa Let’s talk about Ranbir’s violence towards his wife, what else do we expect from a character who murdered 100+ people ? Would it make any sense for that character to not face some spillover of that remnant violence/adrenaline towards his family/loved ones ?.
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@1ArijitD That support is known as currency arbitrage. Also 40 year old single unmarried men/women with no families. FYI digital nomadism is a little overrated. After a point, all cities all beaches all cute towns all mountains are same 😑😄.
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Being very unique, free, independent is a nice illusion for your 20s. Its the teenage angst to be different from your parents extended into adulthood. More you live, you find similarities in struggles, desires, hopes, values, dreams, wishes (aka "abhilasha") across spectrum.
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Who am I ? .What my mom is. What my grand mother was all her life. What my great grandmom was. A typical Baniya Indian woman who wants Chai, Samosa, & Jalebi, and my big fat family on my couch on every Sunday.
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For all of my dad’s flaws, he took the courage to move out of his town, find my school, send me their, pay the tuition, I mean we gotta control our hyper feminism girls, put it in some balance/ perspective.
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@BloodyStree Too scared to be independent ? . What letting my dad carry my bag and letting my bf pick me from airport is hindering my independence after I just came back frolicking & businessing in 5 countries thanks to the education provided by same man y’all like to call sexist ! Kuch bhi.
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One of the most unsaid truth of the overliberal overtherapized world is that often the therapy, meditation, "healed" people are the most toxic self righteous humans ever.
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@debarghya_das 1. Start moving your savings back to India in slow consistent chunks. 2. Cost of living in a Tier 1 city for a family of 3 for is approximately $3000 .3. Depending on skill /experience level, ample of jobs in the range of 25 to 70 lpa, even 1 cr+ are available in market.
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It’s so amazing to see one institute support other, one girl support other, one religion support other. Love @CafeSSC.
JNU is not a college.
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Okay, I just came to Noida and maybe my dreams of India are a bit too over ambitious. Actually, I don’t know, Noida is confusing AF. It is sígnificantly more run down, poor, distraught, less ambitious, than Gurgaon. And both cities are only 50 kms to each other 😑.
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@banana_peep @SayaniBh Haan kar sakte hai. But karna Nahi chahte hai. Isko bolte hain papa ki gudiya. 😑. Too anti feminist ??.
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@poonamkachanddd Trudeau publicly called out GOI coz his popularity in Canada has nosedived. Elections are next year, he and his party is bound to loose big time. Poor man just got divorced. He needs to point fingers to someone to take all negative attention away from him.
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@debarghya_das 10. And remember, India is almost 5x US population, 12x American history, its vast, from Vizag to Guwahati, Puri to Kochi, Ludhiana to Baroda, Manali to Goa - the opportunities are endless.
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I used to think mindless endless construction was happening in Gurgaon, till I visited parts of Bangalore. Like 40-50 towers coming up on this single stretch of road. How will the city sustain the people who’s live in these towers. How in the world will that population commute ?.
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Jyaada I am man so can’t do this or I am a woman hence won’t do this Nahi karo. Go above and beyond to care for people, pick bags, make chai, make bed, make love, make kids. Don’t weight I did x kg work so you do y kg now else whole life you’d be weighing only.
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Today morning I had the great luck of meeting a Mr. VIkram Singh as my uber driver. A Rajput from a village on Haryana-RJ border, a so deemed “illiterate” 5th pass, but complete master of all vedas, shastras, general knowledge, car mechanics, construction engineering, agriculture.
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Finally someone got my point. Thanks @detectivegal_ ❤️.
They women are seething on this .She meant stop acting like other gender is always the wrong and they do contribute . Girls calling her out as "pick me" don't deserve to be called a feminist.
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But sometimes we gotta sit in peace and self look at those receipts. Historically men go to war, die earlier, build homes that they rarely get to live inside, all uber/ ola/ Swiggy drivers roaming around in sun are men.
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Controversial question, don't kill the messenger, but just want to get general opinion about whole vaccine & heartstroke saga. I lost 3 friends under age of 32 in 2022 from sudden heart strokes, all at peak health/ fitness & I am midly worried. Would love to have more info.
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ChatGPT is going to take away so many jobs. Man. It is drafting better emails than literally 5-6 of employees I have worked in last 4 years have been able to. I can take the draft and edit and send forward. Blogs, mails, post were the biggest bottleneck for me, game changed.
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@cognitoprofound @arjunbirsahi I was already branded Sanghi/Modi lover few weeks ago for appreciating new Bengaluru airport & for saying its alright if women make tea at home because typically men are doing other tasks like lugging bags, picking people 🤷🏻♀️.
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