Anahita Mukherji
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Journalist @ Silicon Valley. @aajasf board 2020. Former Asst Editor, The Times of India. SOAS (Univ of London) Xaviers, Sophia alum.
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Thread: Many Indian immigrants to Silicon Valley struggle with the language of Big Tech. The language in question is not English, or for that matter, Python.
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A journalist’s job is to tell you when the emperor has no clothes.
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If you’re an Indian who spoke up for
#GeorgeFloyd
but are deafeningly silent on Uttar Pradesh, you didn’t give a $!!@& about George Floyd to begin with.
#hathras
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Am I the only one who still has recurring dreams about being unprepared for a maths exam?
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Guys, you know what it means when a woman is out late at night, drinking with you? It means she trusts you.
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Journalism is not meant to reflect any country/religious identity. It’s meant to tell the truth. The awards you’re thinking of are for public relations.
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Thread: Dalits in US tech companies say caste discrimination from upper castes at work is rampant. I explore the manifestation of India’s centuries-old caste system in US MNCs, in the wake of California’s historic lawsuit against Cisco.
@thewire_in
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I recall tonnes of WhatsApp forwards last year on the science of thaali banging and how it prevents COVID. Haven’t received them in a while.
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If you want to revisit the India of the 1980s/90s, just walk into an Indian restaurant in Silicon Valley. You can tell the precise year in which the owners left India. Because that’s the year they’re still living in. Replete with Shemaroo videos & Mithun songs.
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There was a time when any mention of the massacre of Muslims in the 2002 pogrom in Gujarat was met with “What about 1984?” Haven’t heard that in a while now. The pseudo concern for the massacre of Sikhs seems to have rapidly evaporated.
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What exactly did the cycling federation think Jyoti was doing? Practising for Tour de France?
‘Bicycle girl’ Jyoti turns down offer from Cycling Federation, to focus on studies.
“I also feel physically weak now after such a long arduous journey.”
कोई मंत्री Jyoti से भी पूछेगा की वो क्या चाहती है या सिर्फ social media पर वाह वाही बटोरेगा!
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A desi friend in America is shocked by
#GeorgeFloyd
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#nowords
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And unlike leaders in US and some European counties, the PM of India is lucky that journalists don’t ask him to hold a press conference.
Advantage of having a leader who has a high belief score is that citizens take what he takes seriously. Unlike US & some European countries where leaders have waffled, PM
@narendramodi
has been crystal clear in his messaging. He's been able to get masses to rally to his message.
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By this logic, would you call domestic violence an internal matter?
India’s sovereignty cannot be compromised. External forces can be spectators but not participants.
Indians know India and should decide for India. Let's remain united as a nation.
#IndiaTogether
#IndiaAgainstPropaganda
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Note to Indian men. D’you ever joke about how badly you’re doing at work?How you’re about to be fired or demoted? No? Don’t find that funny? Then make sure you never joke about how the only thing you can cook is chai. Your incompetence in the kitchen isn’t funny either.
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So I get a WhatsApp forward from a desi in Silicon Valley on how, if your spiritual vibration is higher than the vibration of corona virus, you won’t get infected.
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A large number of Americans I’ve met had no idea India’s prime minister was once banned from entering the US on religious freedom grounds, for riots in his state as chief minister. And that, on being elected PM, the ban was lifted—by Obama.
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Thread: Google cancelled a talk on caste discrimination by
@dalitdiva
for Dalit history month. The same month, it launched an initiative with Harvard professor Ellis Monk to train its AI to identify a wide range of skin tones to improve user experience for darker skinned people.
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This isn’t the Nero who fiddled while Rome burned. This is the Nero who lights the first match.
#indiacovid
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I was surprised by reports that pressure from Muslim groups stopped ads of the Ram Temple from being aired at Times Square. Those protesting the ads whom I spoke to were from civil rights groups across all religions, including Hindus for Human Rights.
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I spent the last few months interviewing a bunch of very bright Indians in coveted US companies & was surprised by the fear & anxiety that plagued them. I write on the professional struggles & private lives of Indian H-1B visa holders.
@MorningContext
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I’ve met many wonderful Indians in America. Just want to reassure you that all spelling bee kids don’t end up like this.
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Thread: Saale cha*** tumhari kismat badi tez hai, America pahunch gaye. (You cha*** – a slur against low castes – you’re lucky to make it to America.) Dalit students in the US suffer insults, isolation & broken friendships without knowing where to complain
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A popular Indian cartoonist tells me that no Indian newspaper will carry cartoons about the Indian prime minister.
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Narendra Modi makes Donald Trump look like an amateur: Salman Rushdie in San Francisco
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It’s such a strange feeling being in a part of the US that is seeing a rapid decline in Covid cases, and watching the world around me gradually open up, while friends and family in India tell me of horrific stories of loved ones suffering as COVID explodes in the country.
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Friends, I’m an independent journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area (California), looking for a job after a break to look after my son. I’ve had a 14-year career with extensive experience in news reporting, feature writing, investigations and social commentary. (1/3)
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Every time anybody of Indian origin achieves anything of any significance in America, it is widely celebrated with pride back home in India. Now it’s time for us to be ashamed of some of our exports.
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Some of the best love stories in history have the power to change the world. Congratulations
@MenakaGuruswamy
and
@arundhatikatju
❤️❤️
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So glad I’ve been blocked by a man who threatens to flash other people’s mothers. I must have done something right.
He's a columnist at
@ThePrintIndia
. Talks about flashing at mothers and spitting on them. A proud moment for the investors, owners and employees of
@ThePrintIndia
, who continue their association with this individual without protest.
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An Indian-American teen suffered severe brain injuries after a man drove his car through pedestrians in Silicon Valley as he thought they were Muslim. My opinion piece on why it’s time Indians in America speak up against a climate of hate and Islamophobia.
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When you say
#AllLivesMatters
in response to
#BlackLiveMatter
or
#DalitLivesMatter
, it isn’t a sign of universal compassion. It’s a sign of blindness to structural violence and oppression.
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All of a sudden, bang in the middle of a violent world, a moment of great beauty.
“I really do not want my pictures in your offices, for the President is not an icon or an idol. Hang your children's photos instead, and look at them each time you are making a decision”. — Zelenskiy, Ukraine's New President
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I don’t think I ever really understood the meaning of the word individualism before living in America.
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Incredibly liberal and secular of the BJP to erect a statue of a Congress leader who banned the RSS.
The Statue of Unity, which stands 182-metres tall, dwarfs New York’s Statue of Liberty by twice its size and almost four times the height of Brazil’s Christ the Redeemer.
Read more facts about the
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Deeply moved by this journalist’s commitment to end open defecation in her village. Particularly since she once refused to clean her dog’s poop on Mumbai’s poshest seafront.
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I examine California’s case against Cisco, where 2 Brahmins are accused of discriminating against a Dalit colleague. Civil rights groups & a religious org have intervened. What’s at stake is the recognition of caste as a discriminatory category in the US.
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I hear Canada and Mexico are building very tall walls....
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Summary of the preamble. The rest of the world is in a mess. India is doing great. Thanks to my awesome leadership. In other words, I’m great.
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What I admire most about the US; mainstream media owners with balls...
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When you’re living in Nazi Germany and a publishing house withdraws a book blaming Jews for the holocaust, it’s not an attack on free speech.
#justsaying
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I say Silicon Valley. They hear Indian techie.
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Is Signal the messaging app Indians are migrating to, in order to escape good morning messages?
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My next film is also a pan-india film.
@ssrajamouli
#harvardindiaconference
#harvardindiaconference2019
@indiaconf2019
#bahubali
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Thread: Bengaluru is often called India’s Silicon Valley, in an aspirational sort of way. But maybe Silicon Valley should be a cautionary tale for India’s tech hub.
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Unlike race, caste is not obvious from a person’s face or skin colour, so Dalit techies say they are constantly subjected to inquisitions from fellow Indians to figure their caste. Like the casual, seemingly innocent pat on the back to see if they’re wearing a Janaeu
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Once the Ram Mandir is built you can stop demanding accountability from Yogi Adityanath and directly take your grievances to Lord Ram.
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Dalits students facing caste-based discrimination often feel US colleges won’t understand India’s caste system, so they don’t speak out. South Asians discriminating among themselves escapes American society. It doesn’t fit categories like race & gender that are better understood.
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My county, with the highest no. of
#coronavirus
cases in California, heads for lockdown at midnight. Grappling with anxiety & dread. As I stare at weeks of near-total social distancing, prayers for all health workers, world-over, treating
#coronavirus
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I am unable to understand the sort of people who use one set of human rights violations to justify another.
#StopLynchings
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Dalits are outnumbered by upper castes at work. 90% of Indian immigrants to the US are upper caste. The complainant in the case against Cisco was the only Dalit in an upper caste team.
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While artificial intelligence is being used to spotlight the needs of marginalised racial groups, AI is yet to detect caste, a form of inequality that goes beyond skin tones. And human intelligence at tech companies often fails to keep pace.
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A Dalit techie who was a top performer in an America tech company once expressed his views on the Indian caste system and found his ratings at work dropped, he was increasingly isolated and finally transferred out of the country.
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It’s unlikely that tech companies headquartered in liberal California, would cancel a talk on racism by a Black speaker on grounds that white people would feel threatened by race.
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“The Indian diaspora is very diverse and comes from many different religions and walks of life. We will not allow Hindutva groups to speak on behalf of all Indians or all Hindus,” Raja Swamy of India Civil Watch tells me.
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Thread: When I first moved from Mumbai to Silicon Valley 7 years ago, I recall stopping by a Sunnyvale chaat shop that played a Shemaroo tape of an ’80s Mithun Chakraborty movie, a reminder that immigrants sometimes live in a bygone era. I thought that would never happen to me.
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While in India, they were used to people directly asking them which caste they belonged to, in America, the questions are often less direct. Like asking a person if they are vegetarian. (Vegetarianism has long been associated with upper caste purity).
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Black students supported Dalit students, saying they knew what oppression felt like.
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I do hope all actors begin promoting their films by standing up for human rights while taking huge personal risks. I promise to watch every film promoted in this manner.
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First you tell me how you got away with it and then I’ll tell you how I did.
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Unlike the assumption made by many social media users, Akshaya Patra doesn’t serve mid-day meals for free. According to a report in Business Today, the org’s annual report showed that 52% of its funding, about Rs 205 crore, came from 10 state governments..
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After a year-long campaign by students, teachers and civil rights groups, California State University (CSU)—the largest 4-year public uni in the US with 23 campuses and over 480,000 students, has included caste in its anti-discrimination policy.
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Dalits who faced caste-based oppression, including torture, in South Asian countries told me of the deep disappointment they felt when encountering casteism on US campuses. It was a sort of re-traumatisation, a feeling that they could never escape their caste.
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With 4 degrees in hand, Sunil Yadav still cleans Mumbai's garbage. My story for
@timesofindia
http://t.co/08w9yiN1Er
http://t.co/Tdnye4t3Oq
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While America has no law against caste discrimination, the California Govt lawsuit against Cisco used a section of the historic Civil Rights Act, the outcome of African Americans’ struggle for equality in the 1960s. Dalits in the US owe a debt to African Americans says
@dalitdiva
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I deeply regret ever correcting my son’s delightful mispronunciations. I will now refrain from telling him it’s vehicle not weedicle.
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Around the world, domestic violence has spiked due to lockdowns during
#coronavirus
. Immigrants find it particularly hard to seek help. I write for
@thewire_in
on how South Asian domestic violence survivors in Silicon Valley grapple with the
#CovidLockdown
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.
@dalitdiva
of
@EqualityLabs
tells me caste discrimination doesn’t comprise isolated cases of 1 employee being harassed by 1 supervisor. Dalits are up against an entire upper caste network spanning several companies. Complaining could severely affect a person’s career prospects.
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If a Dalit is raped, it has nothing to do with caste. If a Muslim is raped, a list will be drawn of all Muslims in the world who have ever committed a crime, and liberals will be asked to comment on them all before they are allowed to speak up for a Muslim rape victim.
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Hello
@Ogilvy_India
, here’s a tweet where your Brand Manager/Creative director shows the middle finger to women he disagrees with online. I do hope this isn’t how he treats women in the office. As a woman, I sure would not like to share an office with him.
@Ogilvy
@Pri_Borpujari
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The prime minister of India can very well discontinue Mann Ki Baat as the Indian media is doing an excellent job of reading his mind.
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Stupidity is the most contagious virus
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Dr Ambedkar, chief architect of India’s constitution, called caste a system of graded inequality. He described Hindu society as a tower which had several storeys without a ladder or an entrance. One was to die in the storey in which one was born
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Remember the good old days when we’d say, in horror, that the pandemic could last all the way till September.
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Never mind if you weren’t born during the Emergency. Vivek Agnihotri is here to show you how to suspend democracy.
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A growing number of American institutions, including Harvard University and California’s Democratic Party, have begun recognising caste as a protected category,
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Google’s adoption of the Monk scale was unveiled by its India-born senior VP Prabhakar Raghavan. Ironically he & CEO Sundar Pichai, both raised in India, launched an initiative on skin tones during Dalit History Month, while their Co. cancelled an internal talk by a Dalit woman.
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The lawsuit reminded a Dalit techie I spoke to, of all the cases of caste discrimination he had faced over 20 years in the US. “I never documented these instances, because I never thought caste discrimination would be taken seriously,” he says.
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Nor for that matter would a tech company cancel a talk by an LGBT speaker over complaints that the talk would endanger straight people. Such a view would be dismissed as absurd, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area, a region that has long championed gay rights in America.
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The Silicon Valley Park I’m at with my son is so full of Indian aunties and uncles discussing recipes and watching cricket that I totally feel like I’m in India right now. Just in case anyone’s wondering why Sunnyvale is called Suraj Nagari.
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Here’s what Narendra Modi had to say about the Delhi government after the Delhi gangrape. Now awaiting his comments on the U.P. government.
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What do you do with a book you once loved, whose author now disgusts you
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The ease with which caste has been overlooked in Silicon Valley has much to do with America’s ignorance about South Asia’s caste system, one that is hierarchical in nature and divides society into four main castes within which there are countless sub castes.
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The Indian Prime Minister is set to lay the foundation stone of the Ram Temple on the site where a Hindu mob destroyed a historic mosque 30 years ago. None of us will forget the riots that followed, riots whose scars have yet to heal.
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And this is for the folks who're celebrating declining corruption over the last 3 years.
Adani Group moved Rs 1,500 crore to offshore haven, alleges customs report
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Despite 2 HR investigations into the case, Cisco closed the investigations saying they had no evidence to prove caste discrimination, even after Iyer confessed to outing his colleague’s caste. The lawsuit calls Cisco’s actions fraudulent and malicious.
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While America may be a land of opportunity, Indians on an H-1B find themselves living the abridged version of the American dream, or as one engineer put it, “the American dream through the H-1B wall.”
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The story of Hemant & Kavita Karkare is amongst the most tragic I've heard. A man who fought terrorists and a woman who fought the system
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Shailaja Paik, history prof at the University of Cincinnati likens the transnationalisation of caste to the mutation of a virus.
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At the centre of the Cisco lawsuit are 2 men who were classmates at IIT-Bombay over 20 years ago. The upper caste student discovered his classmate was Dalit, and had made it to IIT via India’s affirmative action program, when he didn’t see his name on the “main merit list.”
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