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Writer. Fierce Atheist. "Busted Models" ( @nodearmagazine ). Writer @jamunkaped . 📚 rep’d by @daniellechiotti & @kan_writersside
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BIG NEWS:
@goswami_mayukh
and I got a book deal for our graphic novel
Part-surrealist horror, part-political rallying cry, A TOWN LIKE EVERY OTHER is forthcoming from
@HachetteIndia
Thank you
@kan_writersside
,
@suchitrav
,
@kiccovich
,
@project_polis
for your continued support
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Nobody doing tacky rich like Nita Ambani who insists on inviting the most beautiful, famous celebrities only so they can be audience to her deer-caught-in-headlights garba dancing on stage.
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Rupi Kaur supported the anti-CAA protests & farmers protests in India in 2019-20. She is also the only diaspora celebrity to publicly identify Narendra Modi as a tyrant (as I wrote for
@bethejuggernaut
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I received an invite from the Biden administration for a Diwali event being held by the VP on nov 8. I decline any invitation from an institution that supports the collective punishment of a trapped civilian population—50% of whom are children.
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I turn 28 today. And my mother 56. We share the same birthday. She was exactly my years old when she had me. I'm living a wildly divergent life from hers. She doesn't understand me. But the umbilical cord, no matter how stressed, is still here.
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For many urban Indians, modernism is a consumerist identity. It begins & ends at status acquisition: speaking English, global brands, opining on global pop culture. When it comes to shedding regressive practices & reimagining community, they’re as traditional as their parents.
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When I planned my trip to the Taj Mahal earlier this year, quite a few friends chimed in to say it is overrated.
Madams and Sirs, I and my pentax film camera respectfully disagree! I have seen few sights this beautiful —
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To those calling on Amit Shah to resign, you know he's simply the hypervisible bad cop responsible for protecting the (inarticulate) Modi from the media and the public, right? They both have to go. BJP has to go.
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You're an idiot. As a student on visa in America, I've been to several anti-Trump protests, and was never asked to leave.
I know activists will get all agitated over this but the fact is in no country can you join political protests if you are on a student or any kind of temporary visa. No-not even in citadel of free speech- USA. But then no one takes such liberties in the US.
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The mob is in our home. They’re your aunts who can’t stand to be around women in burqas, they’re your uncles who gleefully imagine violence, they’re your parents and grandparents who believe India is the land of Hindus alone, they’re YOU if you do nothing to challenge it.
Many middle class Indians felt quite safe in 1992, 2002, that "the mob" were those other people: thugs, lafangas, goondas etc.
Little knowing that iin 2024, the middle class would become "the mob".
Modi ji hain tho mumkin hain.
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I'm confused. Are we eulogising the same Sushma Swaraj who stood shoulder to shoulder with Advani and his Rath Yatra during the Ram Janmabhoomi Movement, who called the riots in the aftermath of Ayodhya "water in the Ganges?" I swear Liberals are the jokes they hate.
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Indra Nooyi’s laughably bad NYT interview is hilarious but this might be the bit that took me out
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This man turned himself in so those detained, including MINORS and women, would be released. That's a true leader. Not the thugs orchestrating this.
Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad taken in police custody
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people who watched saawariya and om shaanti om in one day, walking out of one screen and into another, are very much prepared for the Barbie x Oppenheimer showdown
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Here you go Twitter: Arundhati Roy saying WHO DA FUCK so y'all can have a collective orgasm.
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Arjun Reddy isn't an anomaly in Telugu Cinema. In fact, it's one in a long line of films, where toxic, unruly, misogynistic behaviour is painted as a male ideal. Telugu audience love it, because they're misogynistic assholes, who strive to with the swagger of an Arjun Reddy.
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The very same people who have a collective panic attack when the US government so much as makes one small change to the H-1B visa.
Indian-Americans hold rallies in support of CAA, NRC in several US cities
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Here’s what will happen if we privatize railways: fare manipulation during national crises, astronomical fares during peak travel periods, and a majority of Indians will lose their only mode of transport across state lines. We need clean, safe, subsidized public railways.
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Pallu is okay but god forbid she wear a hijab, you won’t even let her appear for a college exam
Nice traditional family ,you won't see many w0man in public life with pallu over head, especially from the cricket world.
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“It’s Modi or Who? Whooo 🦉? Tell me whoooo 🦉? Aap naam batao, pehle aap naam batao?” 🤭🤭🤭
This is the state of journalism in our country — no discourse, no nuance, just pigs writhing about in mud. Degenerates the whole lot.
Yet another delightful watch where the key BJP propagandist masquerading as a journalist is being taken to the cleaners.
This time by
@KTRBRS
🔥
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In Rajahmundry today evening with nothing much to do, I found a small local movie theater playing a re-run of MAYABAZAR and spent the most delightful 3 hours.
It’s insane that this movie, so ingenious, clever, charming, potent was achieved 10 years into India’s independence!
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All That Breathes losing, white people dancing to naatu naatu, Guneet Monga getting played off, cocaine bear attacking Malala, and Harshvarrdhan Kapoor’s nightmares: rough day for south asians.
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Never ever let Indian nouveau riche pass unsubstantiated claims that the working class is unhygienic. It's them who are filthy, self-serving, and who will be culpable for spreading COVID-19 in India.
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The thing with celebrities jumping on the Hindutva bandwagon for easy money and publicity is that ultimately, puritanical beliefs are inconsistent with the free market liberalism of popular culture — so trust you will be shamed, corrected, shunned in the bargain.
#Adipurush
: Controversies continue to haunt the Team! While such a send-off gesture is quite common amongst the celebrities, it was inappropriate at the Tirumala.
#KrithiSanon
#OmRaut
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I’m sorry what the fuck was this shot on Indian Matchmaking all about
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TIL that mathematician Shakuntala Devi wrote a book titled "The World of Homosexuals" in 1977 urging for greater compassion toward the queer community. This came after her marriage with a gay man fell apart.
I really hope her biopic touches on this.
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I'm sorry I've watched this at least 5 times it's soo funny.
When she says: "maine paneer tikka sandwich order kiya tha because I'm a health conscious person," I fully lose it!
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Lmao goes to show how vapid, insecure, and, frankly, culturally illiterate the average Indian content creator is — because that’s what Karishma of Humans of Bombay is, a person peddling content for capital and clout. Storyteller, my ass.
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Fuck outta here with this nonsense. What happened in Delhi was a calculated pogrom against Muslims. What's been happening for the last several months is a Hindutva campaign against Indian Muslims.
Tulsi is a shill for the Nazi-inspired RSS. That's all.
Unfortunately, Hinduphobia is very real. I've experienced it directly in each of my campaigns for Congress & in this presidential race. Here's just one example of what Hindus face every day in our country. Sadly, our political leaders & media not only tolerate it, but foment it.
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I think making fun of Rupi Kaur is stale and easy. Let’s make fun of immigrant poets who’ve made their racialised identities in the US the MO of their entire oeuvre while being cagey as fuck about their class and social privilege back home.
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Toxic characters onscreen don't exist in a vacuum. Next time you watch a movie, and see a hero do something toxic or unethical, watch how the audience reacts. If they laugh, and celebrate, then the lens is glorifying the character. Simple.
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A Godman famous for giving devotees prasaad laced with his saliva just died of COVID. Modi called him a noble man who "worked hard to alleviate human suffering." Not a single news channel calling this an act of bioterrorism like they did with Tablighi Jamaat.
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3 things. 1) Anupama understands too little about film criticism to have this kind of access 2) Vijay Sethupathi & Parvathy have measured responses about their craft while producing superior work, compared to their Hindi counterparts 3) DP & Ranveer are exhausting & ill-informed.
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The Hindu Victim Complex: co-opt the language of social justice, especially Black Liberation movements, to derail attention from Hindutva's systemic casteism & hatred of the other (Muslims). Because no Hindu is being bullied for going to a temple and praying to their Gods, lbr.
What do Hindu students want? 💭
Listen to Hindu youth represented from 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇦🇺 & in
@HinduYUVAUSA
@HinduStudentsC
@nhsf_uk
@KOAYouth
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I'm sorry. I don't care about "strong women" who occupied positions of power and enabled communal and fascist politics.
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Correction: the book was co-written by the 14-year-old kid and her father who workz in the Ministry of Defense. This is a book of fiction that was released by a Union Minister. So this is healthy propaganda on Kashmir, per usual.
ANI, how about some journalism for once?
Delhi: Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh today released a book on Article 370 written by Ayanna Kohli, a 14-year school girl, says, "In last two months, I've travelled across the country, I can say the decision to abrogate Article 370 has been celebrated by each Indian. "
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Arguably the Indian Railways is one of the best connected travel pathways across the country — if not the best — accessible from the remotest corners. We are not prepared for the dangers of handing over the reins of its operation to a private for-profit corporation.
If Modi wins 2024, two things are certain to happen viz a viz India’s public sector. Banks & Railway privatization. This is the reason why public sector banks & railways are deliberately being run down. Their privatization at throwaway prices will eclipse all corruption scandals
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this is the modus operandi in new India: the managed spectacle of ostentatious wealth and indulgence from the country's baron-baronness duo is peddled as culture and heritage, while we look mutely on as passive spectators.
VIDEO | Nita Ambani, founder and chairperson of
#RelianceFoundation
, speaks on the pre-wedding function of her son Anant Ambani with Radhika Merchant at Jamnagar,
#Gujarat
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No dignity of life, love, labour, individuality, or pluralism. So drunk on its imagined rich history and tradition and whatever, that it is gleefully trampling all over the present and the future.
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The way P*dma L**shm* emerges so predictably every time there’s a bad food take by a ypipo but has nothing to say about Kashmir, caste atrocities, or the rise of Hindutva.
How are y’all going to decolonize food if you cannot decolonize your minds, my brethren?
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Woke up to people calling Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro overacted without an understanding of how it gamely takes on the delight, exaggeration, & minstrelsy of street theater to lay on the satire. A comedy with a generation-defining climax. Please learn how to watch movies. 😭
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Do you ever start typing a response to someone's annoying social media take, and midway through realise you don't even care, and delete the whole message and go back to your life. Because yes, I am that person 90% of the time.
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How I went from a confident, independent person to someone who invariably has at least two anxiety attacks before doing anything, even something with remotely low stakes, is a mystery I’d like to solve one day.
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He is an Assistant Professor at DU it seems. So tell me Professor, do you teach your students critical thinking & questioning skills, or do you encourage in them herd mentality to absorb and follow everything passed down by authority?
What do you peddle to your students?
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The last thing that the majoritarian Hindu-victimhood complex needs is a bunch of baby NRI writers shelling out soft-Sanghi pieces which a bunch of white editors rush to publish in the name of inclusion without any understanding of the larger cultural and political context.
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"whenever you're done ranting" she says to a woman whose mic was snatched off a few seconds ago.
Trash! I don't believe any celebrities to be authentic voices on anything, they're all branded toys, but the level of insouciance Priyanka displays here is appalling!
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Cigarette kharidne ke liye chillar nahi hei, land kharidne chale hei sab.
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@BeeBabs
What I also love is that ol school celebrity gossip is very girl-centered and the internet said no, we want the boys to wrestle also
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The biggest marketing scam of this past decade is peddling Modi’s kindergarten-level simple-headedness as intelligence.
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Just loved the fact that Rocky aur Rani gave us a lead pair that flirt like adults and sell the fuck out of the fact that they want to devour each other from their first second marriage together. No delulu childish nonsense.
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Whatever happened to Davinder Singh? You sanghis don't have the same energy to demand an investigation into his shady dealings as you do baying for Sharjeel Imam's head?
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Hilarious that The White Tiger received a nomination for the worst thing about the film — its screenplay.
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Why do you want to buy land in Kashmir? Do your dreams include locals? Their bodies? Their interference? Their antipathy? Or do you just want a beautiful land that has erased all its own people, that offers its hills, waters, bounty to you? How are you different than a coloniser?
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Struck by The Romantics constantly framing the YRF women barring Sridevi as placeholders. The deserved adulation for SRK aside, there is zero mention of Aishwarya, Madhuri, or Kareena, with even Rani sacrificed in admiration of Saif the metrosexual and the Dhoom men.
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Quite something to see Rajamouli paint himself as woefully apolitical in his New Yorker interview when in fact not knowing one’s caste is the greatest mark of caste privilege.
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When India's public intellectuals, writers, and grassroot activists are getting arrested even in a time of pandemic, when the saffronisation of the country feels imminent and close, when all critique of the regime is met with hate and abuse, then everything feels irrelevant.
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It's bizarre — farmers want a simple policy change. If you're not a farmer, this has nothing to do with you. But the BJP expertly twisted this simple ask of a protest into a damning national conspiracy, with national and antinational sides. All criticism is antinational now.
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Show me a movie poster you have hanging in your house
(This original 1983 poster of Kamal’s Sagarasangamam)
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BAN THE RSS
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Jawan takes the “Shah Rukh Khan belongs to the women” reading of his star-persona to satisfying narrative lengths, which fascinatingly, no Hindi director has broached in his post-romantic career. After his hits with Vijay, it is abundantly clear: few understand stardom like Atlee
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The number of rich, fully funded by mommy and daddy newbie writers I’ve seen hog space in POC lit circles centered on political literature, jeez.
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What does the country learn from Dipa Karmakar - a success that came from sheer talent and perseverance, with no help from the government.
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In C’mon C’mon Gaby Hoffman says, “You were raised by a mother who adored you. I was raised by a mother who failed to understand me.” You best believe I shivered and sobbed.
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Do you realise how long PhD programs take? Do you understand how fresh data can offset research by years? Do you realise merit is nothing but an elitist construction.
Public education should be free and accessible to all. Without constraints.
@subindennis
@meherness
I agree with your view. As long as there is an Age Limit and Hostel Facilities available for merit students, not the ones whos are 30+ yrs old who exploit the facility
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Both side-ism can go rot. When one side is unarmed students taking their right of protest to the streets, and the other side is police militia with their arms, police vans, batons, and tear gas weapons, then there is no argument about which side has the power to hurt, maim, kill.
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Guess who? This "kind" lady who was taught by her parents to not criticise the dead thinks it completely okay to call a brave 15 year-old girl irritating.
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Question for desi film Twitter: what is your favorite Bollywood masala film that hits all the notes for you and you unironically enjoy and find brilliant.
No ironic faves like K3G please. No so-bad-so-goods either.
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Once, India commanded moral authority — in principled support of Bangladesh and decolonizing efforts in Palestine and Vietnam, leading the Non-Aligned Movement during the Cold War. Today, Indians are making fake Palestinian accounts to shill for a colonizer. What a decline.
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Hi Hi! Any Kashmiri poets / fiction / essay writers here who'd like to connect for a creative project? I'm thinking of collaborative ways that the world at large can get informed about what India is doing in Kashmir. Please DM / reply to this.
Twitter, do your thing!
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Don't waste your energies on the Ranvir Shoreys, Suresh Menons, Payal Rohatgis & ilk. They're pathetic foot-soldiers that Modi-Shah will happily sacrifice when the time comes. We're at a dangerous precipice, fighting forces far more powerful, let's reserve our energies for that.
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The one strongest credit to
@JuddApatow
's
#Love
is how unabashedly it unpacks the 'nice guy' sham that Hollywood rom-coms have been selling us for years. On the surface, Gus is good and Mickey seems a screwup, but scratch it and you'll see how whiny, entitled, judgmental Gus is.
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😂😂😂 wait till you find out the entire Telugu industry is run by 5 families and 2 castes lmao
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Nobody is set to have a more stressful weekend than the average IITian who must reconcile his Hindutva-core politics with his unvarying Nolan obsession
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Two years since Modi and co abrogated
#Article370
in Kashmir and bifurcated the state after decades of India denying Kashmiris their agency and enacting free violence upon the region.
We should never stop saying this. Never stop countering their attempts to rewrite history.
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As a South Indian, someone pay me to write about everything that was frustrating about this video, their banter, and that masala dosa.
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Reducing cultural appropriation to artifacts & symbols has resulted in this soft Sanghi hit piece. Interesting how the writer doesn't elaborate on the farmers' protests that Rihanna shared, just claims Rihanna did this as a clap back to the abusive RW ???
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Honestly, the two best trailers of the year and it’s just Merry Christmas in Hindi and Tamil
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@BeeBabs
Every time I watch this I think how dense and corrupt you have to be that Jerry Seinfeld ??? comes off as the sensible one in the room
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We need to address foreign policy when talking of Sanders and Warren. As an Indian in the US, whose home country is crumbling, Sanders is the only person I remotely trust to making sure the Indian government is held accountable for human rights violations.
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The images and videos coming out of Mira Road are absolutely terrifying. First they make it impossible for Muslims to rent or buy homes in most societies, then they ransack and demolish Muslim-owned businesses and disturb peace in Muslim-societies.
In
#Maharashtra
's
#Mumbai
, An elderly
#Muslim
shopkeeper are pleading while mob ransacking his shop at
#MiraRoad
. One man behind the camera is inciting to hit him hard while using abusive words.
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the agnes callard new yorker profile is all kind of hilarious mostly because it takes great pains to intellectualize and literalize relationship experiments that teenagers have far easier words for on tiktok like this graph took me out i'm sorry
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Would you look at this biryani I whipped up today!!
(Yes, it is vegetarian. Please don't attack me by calling it pulao 😭)
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the rupi kaur discourse is so tired and boring. yes she is almost always insipid but what does it say about you all that you share the same tedious joke between all your big, learned brains?
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To even imply that Salman looks young compared to Madhuri, Tabu, Aish, is such a laughably bad take. The dude literally looks like furniture tossed on the curb, turned dank under heavy rainfall.
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The release of "A Suitable Boy" on
@BBC
is a good time to repeat this. Publications, pay an Indian writer to review works by Indians / on India.
Otherwise, you'll end up with this! If you don't get what's wrong with this para, you shouldn't be reviewing Desi art.
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The day Tulsi Gabbard turned into a full RSS uncle.
#TulsiGabbard
: “Yes,
#Modi
is accused of sanctioning 3-day pogrom against Muslims in which over 2000 men, women & children were slaughtered by members of his fascist paramilitary & political party, including elected officials, but what instigated it?”
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@HarshKapoor_
A pr campaign around race doesn’t secure awards — if it were so easy, past records would be littered with actors of color nominees and wins. Moreover, Oscar nominations and wins have never been about excellence, but about lobbying.
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Is this a new format for moral posturing cause I got a few of those "my mother taught me" takes.
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wow girlbossed all over the indigenous narratives at the center of the documentary with ease.
My heart is full of love and excitement, most of it imbibed from everyone in India cheering for our win.
So grateful to the visionary filmmaker
@EarthSpectrum
and to
@netflix
who gave us the biggest stage in the world. This is for my beautiful, diverse country, India.
#Oscar
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Laughed at every single joke but I absolutely lost it at Jaya’s “Ghajini aur Sajni” line. Hilarious, so, so tender, and assuredly progressive, easily the best Kjo (and Dharma) film and my fav onscreen pair in years. I already can’t wait to watch Rocky aur Rani again.
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