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Aranyaka Verma

@AranyakaV

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Just making tings happen in the music industry | Manager - @ewillmyth | Founder, Of the Wilderness | Ex - Deloitte, Gully Gang | Sings too

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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
Been in my feelings about the relentless invisibilization of women in most spaces in India and then I rediscovered this gem of a line from Cardi, "I got enough bras, y'all ain't gotta support me"
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 months
My hope is that one day South Asians will stop dragging their own people down when they achieve something. Even if it was paid, not every song is making it on to these pages n the artist has every right to put himself on the shelf to be discovered. The work is stellar.
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2 months
I just realised. Ye dono post paid hai. 😐
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@AranyakaV
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2 years
Diss-gusting morning. 🫥
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
Man. Half the time you get into a regular conversation with men in India, they're trying so hard to prove that they know more that it just sucks the fun out of life. Like why you got such a chip on your shoulder dawg? I know shit too but I just wanna laugh a lil.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
1 year
Hey rappers in DHH! Just wanted to let u know that ur producers are composers too because you don't have a song without the musical notations and arrangement that are part of that beat. So unless you wrote all those chords n got your producer to program only, credit them right.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
Pink Blue just hit a 14k streams a day. Nearly 2x day one streams. It's also a reminder that all your little ideas do add up n create a ripple effect. And that you should def comb thru your YT, Apple & Spotify analytics on the regular. If you missed it:
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
3 years
Did I really just say, “Bhai yeh Sarojini Nagar toh hai ni” to someone trying to BARGAIN with me for booking artists I manage? Yes.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
Well shit, I'm officially the person who comes back home to West Delhi to find relief and comfort in Momos and Soya Chaap :O
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
Artists, your team will meet your work with the energy you meet your team and work with. Your work's not done with just writing and recording the song. None of us will care about how it reaches the public if you don't show any enthusiasm.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
We made 200 pieces, 199 remain on this planet and a couple XLs are still up for sale. DM me to cop yours. 💀
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
1 year
Super productive day today. I think I may have just done the BEST Hindi + Haryanvi to English translation DHH has seen. Watch out for the subtitles (if we stick to these) on this upcoming Raga EP lmao @EwillMyth
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
1 year
Got to shout “Language!” at my mom cos she said, “what an asshole!” In front of my 8 yr old cousin. Most satisfying moment of the day. Loved every second. How the turntables have turned. Like, all of that 🥹
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
1 year
Nothing like seeing something you worked on thrive like this ✨🙏🏽 #GullyGang
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
8 months
This force is undeniable. @EwillMyth at Simba Uproar in Pune last night. 48 hours since we dropped #MidtownMadness and the crowd came prepared with all the songs. #dhh #hiphop
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
8 months
A reminder to take chances and take your cold emails seriously. Gasoline by Apashe and Raga is in the trailer for the new Dev Patel and Jordan Peele movie, ‘Monkey Man’ 🦋
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
Yeah for real. Fuck not enjoying music festivals and experiencing joy cos it’s just “usual”. Seek joy, spread joy and don’t let anyone try and tell you that actualising your ambition will entail killing joy. They’re doing it wrong then.
@drewcurator
Drew de Leon 🇵🇭
2 years
Don’t let the industry jade your love for music. Go back to why you started and surround yourself around people that genuinely support you.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
People in the entertainment and advertising industries really need to stop behaving like mankind will end if their influencer and advertising campaigns don’t go live within 24 hours of their conceptualising them.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
1 year
Privileged to see my friends and I bringing our individual passion projects to life little by little and being able to make our careers in what gives us purpose 🌕 🧿
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
That "Tu chota bhai hai mera yaar, paison ki baat mat kar" energy
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
1 year
Hiii. I put out this little Punjabi song I made with @BhargKale . Adding a dash of R&B to the indie and DHH space ✨ #newmusic #punjabi #dhh #punjabimusic #rnb
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
My leadership coach called me a "Ball-busting Ice Princess' recently. First off, it should be 'Queen'. Second, why hasn't this been my Twitter bio like always?
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
10 months
🤙🏾✌🏾
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
Artists need to realize that a vibe, some fame and money in hand and within reach today are not equal to having a long-term VISION for yourself.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
Don't fall into the trap of running your organization based on start up founders' tweets.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
1 year
None of the reasons you all are coming up with justify the terrible quality of life in a city.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
1 year
I'm not simply trying to shit on Mumbai here. I'm genuinely asking why it's acceptable.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
The indie scene in India really needs to stop rewarding weak songwriting. Just cos it’s in English and has some guitar picking thrown in, doesn’t mean it’s good.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
The DHH community truly does love their moms and the women in their lives. The amount of “fuck your mom” and derivatives they constantly use is surely a testament to it.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
8 months
Should get royalties for every time someone uses “Raga bhai ka aaya phone” when I hit them up for work related to him. I’d be a millionaire by next week 🥲
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
1 year
Shoot, I think I forgot to announce on Twitter that my debut single with @BhargKale is coming out next week!!
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
Mahadev Thakur and I finally got to work together!
@gullygangindia
GULLY GANG
2 years
Pink Blue by @YokiMafia @BhargKale Official video out now!💗💙 #YokiMafia #GullyGang 🎥 : @AranyakaV 🔗 :
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Aranyaka Verma
1 year
One of the big reasons we cant export our music is tht so many venues will demand DJs dnt play any Punjabi/Hindi music, irrespective of their genre. We will restrict our own music impacting innovation and audience creation for it due to post-colonialism and classism. It's so sad.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
@YungstaHipHop Love how this turned into a woman bashing thread so quick like all men in this country are listening to hip hop and not half your artist managers are women.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
3 years
You can give mediocre music as many playlist covers as you want across as many platforms as you want. The audience will not lap it up and it will only be detrimental to the growth of new soundscapes.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 months
@pallavicore The magnitude of difference in the vitriol towards my tweet and similar tweets by my male peers and artists is astounding fr
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
Say it louder for my desi rappers in the back constantly "inspired" by what's hot in America devoid of its cultural nuances.
@GabbbarSingh
Gabbar
2 years
Personal brand is built by doing something valuable in real life, not by curating content from other personal brands.
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Aranyaka Verma
2 years
One of the pillars of my master's thesis was the positive correlation between streaming and live music. Seeing these little jumps in streaming numbers on Spotify as my artists tour is such satisfying real-world validation 🌞
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
I was told a registry for housewarming gifts is a little excessive, so I'm sending out Pinterest boards according to what people have committed. I'm all about making my friends' lives easier. 😇
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
1 year
Good day 2 u 2
@BhargKale
Bharg
1 year
Produced this bar beast! Log puch rahe thhe, @realkrsna ke saath kuch. Yeh lo logo! Majje karna!
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
@aarushikoul Come to an RxB show. Will have these idiots schooled on stage if they bother you.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
Good morning. Reminder to stop talking on work groups like we’re in the army. Life is okay, just breathe. 🍃
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
More people need to talk about how much you can miss the regular supply of freshly cut fruit & fresh juice when living by yourself rather than making fun of brown parents for providing it 👀
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
1 year
I said I’ll be somewhere by 4:30 and I was actually there so obv the other person wasn’t. 🥲
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
Who tf decided that it's necessary to create over 40 water purifiers under one brand and then not add a comparative analysis option on the website? #Aquaguard 😩
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
3 years
With CBSE, an Indian engg degree, a couple years at Deloitte and grad school, I can safely say I have a PhD in Bullshitting and it is my greatest weapon.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
RAWAL x Bharg's first tour kicks off in Mumbai this Friday with some help from friends around the country. Come through. Tickets: #sabchahiye #rawalxbharg #desihiphop
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
But we live in a country where the State prefers teen pregnancies over access to safe sex so wanting folks to even acknowledge that clubs n music festivals exist as a legitimate part of the culture n encourage constructive reform to create safe spaces seems like a tall order 😞
@vridianmusic
VRIDIAN
2 years
I dream of a day where we can have legitimate Harm Reduction at Indian clubs and music festivals - instead of shoving it under the rug and giving it a dose of moral policing 🙏
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
1 year
I have a question for people in the Indian music industry that love using, “this is was one for the books”. Which books are these? 🤔
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
That constant urge to write, "That's not how it works..." when you're working in music publishing in India. I would've added a #iykyk but I know not enough know.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
Education has little value irl without vision.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
Reminder that the apparent confidence of people who are assholes off the bat in a new room/relationship is actually insecurity.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
Indian influencers using Neutrogena products need to stop acting like they’re SMEs on skincare 👀
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
1 year
Nothing prepares you for a career in the Indian Music Industry like Sarojini Nagar
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
Soooo, we're re-stocking that good good Sab Chahiye merch, but only on pre-orders. Pre-order yours now! #SabChahiyeMerch #SabChahiye #RawalxBharg
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
3 years
FINALLY got a chance to say, "You gotta dump his ass!" to my sister. My life is complete.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
8 months
Cannot wait to take this EP live!! Serving up a fresh fresh sound for Desi Hip-Hop this month 🌞
@EwillMyth
RAGA
8 months
KYA REPORT HAI?
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
1 year
Made a playlist of some of the releases that my roster and I have worked on since 2021. True to the name, Of the Wilderness doesn't stick to a genre. Save it! #indianindie #independentmusic
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
Started the day feeling meh and then a server at a Starbucks I’ve only been to once before remembered my name cos apparently the shirt I wore last time looked good on me and now I feel fucking radiant.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
1 year
I need Indian companies to understand that a person's socials are their mouthpiece and not an extended mouthpiece for the company till the individual wants them to be.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
3 years
Which part of 'Masters in Music Business' makes Indian technical recruiters still hit me up on LinkedIn?
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
3 years
Some days I wake up wanting the confidence of an Indian man who is persistent enough to send you video messages on IG despite radio silence from you for 3 weeks straight on a dozen of his messages.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
1 year
Apple Music coming through. Check out this song if you haven’t already.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
3 years
There should be a message scheduling feature on WhatsApp. All these things I remember to follow up on at 1 AM in a country where people love to work on WhatsApp. 🙃
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
3 years
Micromanagement should be a punishable offence.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
1 year
India would have been entirely dysfunctional for years at this point if they were canning things due to air quality with the same tenacity as NYC
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
1 year
If you’re negotiating with someone and your entire concentration is on highlighting what you think they won’t get in the market vs what you’re able bringing to the table, you’re not going to inspire too much confidence in yourself.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
The sense of security that the battery life of a new iPhone brings is unparalleled
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
If there's one training that should be mandatory in every organization irrespective of its size, it's implicit/unconscious bias training.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
4 months
Woke up at 5 AM through this week to work across time zones and I finally know what my mom meant when she said, “mera aadha din nikal gaya hai” at 10 AM all these years.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
1 year
Indian men on Twitter today defending a dude whose job offer apparently got revoked cos he posted something about all women in tech being diversity hires only and should not be taken seriously. Crazy to me that our culture is so deeply fractured.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
When you accept recruiters' connection requests on LinkedIn and they send you demos instead of a new job to turn down.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
1 year
Finally someone said what I’ve been saying for a minute. It’s an opt in world right now and the culture is shouting where it stands with women. Same goes for why a Beyoncé n Nicki will chart everywhere else cept India n Indian men will behave like Pusha T is dropping masterpieces
@Mittermaniac
Sohini M.
1 year
Why #Oppenheimer is outpacing #Barbie in India when it’s the reverse elsewhere
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
3 years
Pat on the back for men who do a decent of not being sexist themselves. Now please also start calling a spade a spade and point out sexism for what it is when you see the women in your life encounter it, especially in the workplace.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
3 years
I'm chill with people generally mispronouncing my name and coming across as idiots when they can't copy it from my email/social handles. But if the rest of your behavior don't work proper, then bitch you better practice and get my name right or things can get ugly. #saymyname
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
<3
@ahummingheart
A Humming Heart
2 years
That’s a wrap on AHH Backstage #2 ! Full conversation out soon on our YouTube channel ⏰ Thank you @mrdhruvv @TanmayaBhatnag3 and @BhargKale for sharing your stories, and @Depot_48 for giving space for hese stories to be told 🙌🏽
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
1 year
Why is Mumbai obsessed with loudspeakers? Bhakti chillane se badh nahi jaati.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
also the music industry
@BiedermanRob
Rob Biederman
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VC is the first industry I’ve found where just being a normal person is somewhat of a competitive advantage
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
Having said that, I am very lucky and grateful to have found a few great people to work with who are open to having conversations about these issues. ✨
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
1 year
This video with that sick F1 x Punjabi Music crossover. SICK.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
3 years
Just a reminder that the adjectives people use for you are more often that not, a reflection of their biases, weaknesses and strengths than of you.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
3 years
Every couple weeks my dad sends me an Afrobeats song he found on social media and I was obsessed with in the past week saying it's a good song. If that's not a wholesome relationship with your dad, idk what is 😭
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
9 months
my dad's cool like man sends me reddit threads to pick a health plan
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
1 year
I'm looking for other people in India who listen to Victoria Monet and recognize her genius. Please hang with me.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
9 months
Took the Mumbai Metro today. Apparently, to change lines, you have to get off and buy a new ticket for your new destination on that line?! Mumbaikars you surely know that this is ridiculous n not normal?
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
Paid for that pre-order yet? You've got 6 days to go. #SabChahiye #Merch
@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
Soooo, we're re-stocking that good good Sab Chahiye merch, but only on pre-orders. Pre-order yours now! #SabChahiyeMerch #SabChahiye #RawalxBharg
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
When random people call you for work and quotes at 11:30 pm on Saturday night.
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
8 months
☄️☄️☄️
@ckataria_
Chaitanya Kataria
8 months
.Street Dreams charting in 34+ countries on Apple Music in less than 36 hours of release @VivianDivine 👑 @GeetanDiMachine 👑
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
2 years
And of course that ONE cabinet I want from Ikea is out of stock 😡
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@AranyakaV
Aranyaka Verma
1 year
Had my first Bombay mango and I'm okay with the city now.
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