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@amritaIQ
Amrita
3 years
i'll block you sooner than look at you and i don't give a shit how that makes you feel - crow about it, cry about it, i don't care 😘
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2 months
I just want you to know that every single woman you know is still unharmed, alive, in one piece in this country through sheer luck.
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7 months
SRK with Paneer Tikka Masala, Paneer Pasanda, Paneer Jalfrezi, Shahi Paneer, and Paneer Lababdar.
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He is Bollywood, and Bollywood is him @iamsrk .
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As a South Indian who grew up in north India, just because you commit a racism with a smile on your face, it doesn’t make the racism more palatable
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1 year
Since returning to India this has been my no. 1 observation - North Indians who don’t realize that they essentially grew up in ghettos, move down South and meet people who exist in a pluralistic society and feeling some type of way about it.
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3 years
if you don't understand that Lakshwadeep is a scaled down experiment of what is to become national policy soon, I don't know what to tell you.
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1 year
I can’t believe y’all bullied that man into taking Indian citizenship 😭😂
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3 years
it took these many people who get paid in lakhs per hour to get bail for someone who had no drugs on him. Imagine where you'd be if the police decided to give you a tough time for any reason.
@LiveLawIndia
Live Law
3 years
Shah Rukh Khan poses with Senior Advocate Amit Desai, Advocate Satish Maneshinde and the legal team of his son #AryanKhan , who was granted bail by the Bombay High Court today. #AryanKhanBail #AryanKhanCase @iamsrk
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@amritaIQ
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10 months
Death threats and chants of treason, probably
@SarcasticRofl
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10 months
Amir Khan earned Crores in the name of Female wrestlers, what’s stopping him now from taking stand for them like he used to do during UPA Government, just like the way he during IAC movement ?
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9 months
The truly hilarious thing about that Rani Mukherjee quote from the roundtable is that her prime example was Satyajit Ray, a man who had nothing but contempt for the kind of Indian cinema Rani makes 😂
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11 months
They actually did say that. There was an entire class of British (not biracial) folks who identified as “Anglo Indian” and were very upset that Indians didn’t appreciate the nuances.
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Sarayu Pani
11 months
Imagine it’s 1942 and some tearful white British woman on camera saying “don’t you see when they say “quit India” they’re calling for my genocide sob” That’s how ridiculous this is.
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This was when I got on the Nonnie train. No equivocation, no excuses, no lies. A man old enough to know better put her on the spot and she said pffft. And don’t tell me that’s a low bar. Women are conditioned to lie to ensure male feathers don’t ruffle. She didn’t even stutter.
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10 months
I don’t want to hear a single Vanga fanboi weep & wail about the trash Animal reviews. If his game - his ONLY game - is to be offensive, then he’s gonna get it back too. Man up and take it on the chin like an “alpha” bro.
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2 months
The story of Santhi Soundarajan is what radicalised me on this issue 20 years ago. To this day I can’t imagine the pain and suffering that poor woman was put through. In one week her entire life was upended under pretty much the same circumstances.
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This has happened to us before where our women were told they aren’t women enough to compete. The procedure for these tests are inhumane. This is just biological racism. Dutee Chand, Santhi Soundarajan are those two women from our country.
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Y’all will love Mujhse Dosti Karoge
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4 months
In hindsight this really was such a wild way to stop the wedding (that no one wanted anyway). “Allow me” and he bends down to retrieve the bangle from his bride’s veil?! “ALLOW ME”?!?! 🫠🫠🫠 Honestly, television at its absolute best. My heart was in my mouth the entire time😱
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I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. If a Muslim person living in India wants to criticise SRK or any of the other Khans for how they navigate the present political climate, that’s absolutely fair. The rest of you with your saffron voting families can just STFU.
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9 months
Karan, for the love of god, if Sharmila Tagore is talking - SHUT THE FUCK UP and listen.
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3 years
twitter just informed me that those tweets sharing the contact info of minor children didn't violate their terms 🤡🤡🤡
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Amrita
9 months
I see a lot of these and here’s my perspective — I did my masters at 35 and it was one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done. As an older student, I knew why I was doing the course and how it related to my interests and I absolutely killed it. 1/
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moodengist 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸
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Is it too late to do a Master's and then possibly a PhD? (I'm turning 28 this year)
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5 years
well, the idea of India was nice while it lasted
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5 years
Sarah Treem gaslighting Ruth Wilson to save her own reputation is a whole lot of steaming bullshit. I can only hope this somehow violates Ruth's NDA terms and now she can advocate for herself.
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6 months
I love a good “Bollywood to the rescue” story. Friend found herself at an Iraqi checkpoint without her passport on her and fully expected to end up in prison — when the soldier turned out to be a Bollywood and Shahrukh Khan fan and she was sent on her way with a warning.
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Amrita
3 months
Fuck cancer, man. That Vishal Bharadwaj movie would have been legendary, I just know it.
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Amrita
4 months
The worst thing about this video is the number of desis in the comments jacking off to the absolutely unnecessary police violence
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4 months
The fan who breached the field and hugged Rohit Sharma was taken down by the USA police. - Rohit requested the officers to go easy on them.
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1 year
For the love of God, Zoya, it’d be easier to just give her credit than do these cartwheels
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Amrita
5 years
hey non-Indians folks on the TL - pls know that the Narendra Modi government is currently carrying out extremely violent attacks on college students via armed third party goons in their employ
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1 year
People looking at The Archies trailer and getting mad that it isn’t some historical documentary about India in the 60s is some classic worms in brains content
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1 year
Twitter is gonna terrify an entire generation of Bollywood heroes into getting their face slapped by hair 🤣
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3 years
i love this movie so much and i'm so bitter we'll never see these two in another project
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Irrfan Khan & Deepika Padukone (Piku, 2015)
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1 year
Poor srk putting ha ha after every second line because dumbfucks can’t see a joke
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1 year
What I love about this genre is that she saves them by simply existing, sharing her space with them for a moment, being her. Just coming into contact with her changes the entire course of their lives.
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Kareena Kapoor rescuing men.
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Mind you, the South is hardly some paradise of equality and bhaichaara. It’s just as bigoted. But it’s not as crudely practiced as up North I think. And in recent years Southerners have picked up on this and made it a point to grandstand off it.
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9 months
Destroying their husbands one “cute” story at a time: Simone Biles 🤝 Alia Bhatt
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5 years
Man, even Indira Gandhi had more shame
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Korah Abraham
5 years
Pic 1: Sitaram Yechury as a student leader in JNU reading the memorandum presented by students on September 5, 1977 to Indira Gandhi, demanding her resignation as chancellor of the university. She resigned after this. Pic 2: Being arrested in #CAAProtest today.
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During the Kerala floods, it was the fishermen who went out and saved entire families. Every time I’m about to lose my faith in this country, I remember the poorest of us are often the best of us and to no reward at that.
@patralekha2011
 @Patralekha2011 পত্রলেখা চ্যাটার্জী
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They risked their lives. They are among the poorest in the land. They must be rewarded. If they don’t want cash, why not give them work commensurate with their skills and courage, in a non-hazardous space?
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1 year
If there’s anything more tiresome than militant SRK fans, it’s mopey leftists who heap all hope for praxis on his oblivious shoulders and then get super bitter and jaded when he doesn’t perform as expected. At least the former acknowledge their parasocial fixation.
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1 year
Lmao @ “what has she done to deserve this” discourse. It’s fucking Maybelline, not a Nobel Prize. They’re looking for high profile young women who can sell makeup and look, y’all can’t stop talking about it. Mission accomplished.
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4 years
how come there are no supernatural stories about peacocks? if i saw a silk skirt like that floating away with that haunting cry and i didn't know wtf it was, i'd be pooping my pants
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1 year
I’m very sorry to other Bengalis but Sharmila in this movie is the most Bengali a Bengali has ever Bengali’d. 🥰
@mubiindia
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"Ashi, dhonnyobaad." 🙏
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3 years
this is what happens when you invite real people into bullshit situations 🤣😭🤣
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Ok I can’t take it anymore - @iamsrk you gotta stop with those filters, dude. We love your face! It’s iconique! Not a single fan of yours has ever complained about a single wrinkle! Stop with the janky filters. And hire someone who knows about hair extensions while you’re at it
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4 years
When you think "Bollywood dance", whether you know it or not, the person you're thinking about was Saroj Khan. An appreciation thread:
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1 year
It’s this friction between the Northerners’ bafflement and the Southerners’ condescension that erupts in things like the often viral anti-Bangalore screeds. Instead of making each other better, we seem to be making each other worse in new and saddening ways.
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reminder for the TL : the Bajrang Dal BURNT ALIVE Graham Staines and his little boys, took full "credit", and didn't get banned. Nothing is gonna happen to them for their actions tonight either. These are the people some of you are "both sides"ing about. DIA fucking F.
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I know it feels like something that is happening somewhere far away, to another people, but I promise you this blood will wash up at all our gates and drown our children. It’s on us.
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And since critical thinking is RIP, let me spell it out — no one cared then, and no one should care now about those folks.
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4 years
I’ve been saying this about SRK for years
The number one thing a man in a romcom needs, TV or movie, is the ability to look at their love interest REALLY WELL. The man barely even needs to speak if he just knows how LOOK at a person.
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the levels of fuck you in this pic are off the charts skskskjskdsk
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i have learned that his jacket is also lined in the same green
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Lex Luthor SRK with an all woman army? Ok I definitely did not have that on my bingo card.
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Going back to school is great but you have to understand you’re making a financial decision too. And that can be tough. It’s not just tuition fees or other costs you’re paying out of pocket but the income you’re giving up to take that sabbatical. /fin
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I need fewer photos of and info about that poor French woman and more photos of her rapists. Plaster them around the internet. Slap them on lampposts. Put out a little booklet with their names, photos, and personal information.
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Amrita
2 years
Does nail biting have another meaning coz a 90% margin isn’t your traditional definition 🤔
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In nail-biting finish, Mallikarjun Kharge wins 7,897 votes, becomes new President of the Congress Party. Tharoor won 1072, concedes defeat.
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3 years
was i hallucinating last night or did someone call out alia for nepotism for landing a movie co-starring... checks notes... ram charan and ntr jr??
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We wuz ROBBED 😭 they should have been in at least 10 movies together as romantic leads
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they're the proof that real chemistry once it's there, it lasts forever
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@fardareismai2 @audreyii_fic @men_write_women do you remember the guy that once invented vagina glue so we could glue it closed during periods and then expel all the period blood in one go? and how mad he was that women were completely ungrateful? 😂
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Just watched DDLJ in a fairly full theatre on a weekday night almost 30 years after I first watched it. The crowd hooted, hollered, sang along, and even said the dialogues.
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Amrita
5 years
"Source pls?" waalon ke liye ek khaas message - Google kar, chutiye.
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Amrita
2 years
Pls RT. Pushu, a sweet little pup is looking for her forever home. You need to go pick her up in Cochin. She and her siblings are rescues but they also rescued my friend at the worst time of her life. Story time! (1/?)
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Here’s 99% of the Bollywood Blinds Reddit in one image.
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All of them under the same roof,Ambani pulled it off 😭😭
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It’s finally here! @KhandaanPodcast have been working on a @MadhuriDixit essay for a while now and it’s all about an underrated quality in a Bollywood heroine — sheer, unbridled rage. 🥰 Meet Bollywood’s Angriest Leading Lady:
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The problem however is that if you’re the kind of person who waits to do their second or third degrees, then you’re also the kind of person who’s done other things in the meanwhile that were likely paid. And the older you get the more accustomed you are to a certain lifestyle 2/
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Amrita
5 years
Violence did not in fact break out. Violence was perpetrated on students by armed goons of the government.
@ndtv
NDTV
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JNUSU president attacked on campus, violence breaks out. Here's latest from the campus.
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Amrita
10 months
Every time Zoya Akhtar releases a new movie, a whole new generation of Twitter users discovers that she’s a rich lady from Bombay.
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Amrita
5 years
This is India House in London. My school was right behind it and I walked past it every day to and from class. There’s always some kind of protest in front of it: Kahsmiris, Sikhs, etc. This is the largest, loudest crowd I’ve ever seen.
@RohitThayyil
Rohit Thayyil
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#Malayalam sloganeering in front of the Indian Embassy, London. The agitators are protesting against the controversial #CAA_NRC #CAAProtest #KeralaLeads
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Amrita
3 years
FYI: arguing that a successful Muslim actor bears extra responsibility to somehow save India from its entrenched majoritarian instincts is not the flex you think it is. 🙄
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Amrita
1 year
Why are y’all so bothered about film collections? Some guy made a movie with Not Your Money and now he’s made or lost Not Your Money. Get a job and obsess over how much you’re not getting paid if you want to obsess over money.
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9 months
@asimburney How else will we know they’re Pakistanis Asim?
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Amrita
3 years
Watching Piku and DP's wardrobe hasn't aged a minute. Also I neeeeeeeeeeeeed all her shawls
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Amrita
4 years
remember how we were all so mad that none of the celebrities had anything to say about the protests in India? honestly, that might have been for the best.
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1 year
@Shrabonti It’s a piece of Americana set in India, there are bound to be Americanisms because it is literally part of the story and aesthetic. If you want to watch the Archies without the Americanisms, I suggest watching Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.
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1 year
It’s been a while since we had a Hindi party song with hero-heroine taking a defiant stance against disapproving parents
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4 years
@enthahotness okay but that opening shot where he's just lying on his tummy, sucking his thumb, and minding his own business tho 😭🥰
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Amrita
3 years
excited as an Indian woman to see actual brown skinned Indian women in Bridgerton who're presented as desirable and beautiful. Look at that skin! 🔥🥺😍
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1 year
@Salandthebadpun Justice for Ken! He would never!
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5 years
"LABIAL RUCHING" 💀😂💀
@AyoCaesar
Ash Sarkar
5 years
I don’t love the outfits, but the Jenner sisters were giving me Cristal Connors realness. On brief. Whereas Kim K is just serving up the same boobs and labial ruching as ever. Could be in the upper end of the BooHoo dot com price range. Not a lick of camp in sight.
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3 years
@bankeratlarge I think they want us to believe that it is inevitable. Yet so many so called inevitable things have been reversed by the will and effort of common people. I struggle to remember that but remember it we must.
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A whole bunch of people are discovering that there’s a difference between being wealthy and upper class thanks to RARKPK I see
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1 year
It’s no less than a crime that most Indians haven’t seen a single performance by Madhabi Mukherjee
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"To have not seen the films of Satyajit Ray is to have lived in the world without ever having seen the moon and the sun." --- Akira Kurosawa Charulata (1964) Director: Satyajit Ray
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3 years
a great FICTIONAL read ripe with all sort of dumbass patriarchal shit. Madhur Jaffrey was born into a very Hindu Delhi family, graduated from Miranda House, worked with Merchant Ivory, dated Saeed for years & he moved to London to marry her while she was studying at freaking RADA
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Amrita
4 years
I 💯 did not expect Priya Ramani to get any justice today which A. Makes me delighted by her win B. Makes me realise what I think of justice in my country.
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Amrita
5 years
talk about impossible standards
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5 years
in the midst of all the "tHiNk oF iRaNiAn wOmEn, sO oPpReSsEd" war drumbeats, please remember what Saudi Arabia, friend and ally to the USA, does to its women. If one deserves condemnation, so does the other.
@monaeltahawy
Mona Eltahawy
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#Saudi feminist Loujain Al-Hathloul has been in solitary confinement for more than 8 months. The #Saudi regime detained her in 2018 for her fight to end the ban on women driving & male guardianship. We remember you, Loujain
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Amrita
3 months
Abhishek Bachchan was *right* there #Kalki2898AD
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Amrita
3 years
@skinnylatte I once heard Gordon Ramsay say this with great confidence as well. And then the next shot was him eating beef fry in a Kerala toddy shop and getting his mouth burned off. 🤣
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Amrita
4 months
I’m just HOWLING reading her responses to all the people mad she called this song ancient 😂😂😂
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entha
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A whole generation of American kids now obsessed with this ancient song because of a TikTok makeup challenge.
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Amrita
10 months
Maybe an entire generation shouldn’t have made it their entire personality to shit all over them for no good reason if you wanted more like them.
@krownnist
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watching old bollywood song videos and everyone was GIVING. hrithik. kareena. katrina. bipasha. aishwarya. srk. kajol. saif. john. these people looked like stars. the energy, the charisma. nobody GIVES anymore.
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Halfway through #Tiger3 and I’m pleasantly surprised by how Zoya centric it is
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Amrita
3 years
back in the olden days, when i was physically and mentally exhausted, i'd want to just climb into bed and dissociate for a bit. Now I live in my bed so where the fuck am I supposed to go?
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Amrita
2 months
I want to say something really unkind about Barkha Dutt but I’m trying to be a better person.
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Amrita
5 years
giggling to myself that dumbass ben affleck cheated on jlo with a stripper and 20 years later, she made a movie as the hottest stripper ever and is getting oscar buzz for it.
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Amrita
6 years
OMFG somebody graphed out Leo's shady dating habits 😂😂😂
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Amrita
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@Aditya14raj I actually wrote about her when it happened, that’s how I know about it. Choke on a bag of dicks, you piece of shit.
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5 years
🥁 🥁 🥁 congratulations to all the fuckwits who voted for his idea of India
@suchitrav
Suchitra Vijayan 🇵🇸
5 years
At NHRC, Amit Shah says don’t apply western norms of rights to India.
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Amrita
3 years
People keep asking “where are we headed” with each new story about violence (physical / societal) against minorities. We’re already there.
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Amrita
5 years
Amrita’s Guide to Winning at Life: 1. Book vacation 2. Parents freak out coz virus 3. Fight w/parents 4. Airline cancels flight 5. ... 6. Tell parents you’ve taken their advice for first time in life 7. Bask in approval 😌😌😌
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Amrita
3 years
Lata Mangeshkar's voice was and continues to be the soundtrack of my life.
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Amrita
6 years
I'm just awestruck by how on brand it is for Sonam to have become a reader because the image of it was aesthetically pleasing to her. 😂
@ELLEINDIA
ELLE India
6 years
"My mum is a reader. You always want to be like your mum. My mother is beautiful. She used to model. I was like, ‘Oh my God, this beautiful woman with big glasses is reading all the time. Maybe I should read, too.’ That's how I started,” says our March cover star @sonamakapoor
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Amrita
2 years
LMAO those designs
@Advaidism
Advaid അദ്വൈത്
2 years
Both flags proposed by Mountbatten were rejected. The British wanted to keep the last symbol of colonialism behind in both nations.
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Amrita
5 years
@_GoneNative "I not scared" WHAT LIES 😂😂😂
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