pranay somayajula 🇵🇸
@p_somayajula
Followers
1,227
Following
1,362
Media
95
Statuses
1,767
writer, researcher, cultural critic. director of organizing + advocacy @Hindus4HR words in @thedrift_mag @thenation @jacobin + more views expressed are my own!
washington, dc
Joined January 2021
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
Biden
• 1609352 Tweets
Biden
• 1609352 Tweets
Bolivia
• 697503 Tweets
#MusicianLISAisBACK
• 676191 Tweets
Bronny
• 431114 Tweets
Lakers
• 338377 Tweets
nino
• 113434 Tweets
Dana
• 82048 Tweets
Panama
• 80851 Tweets
Rumble
• 67364 Tweets
Uruguay
• 62769 Tweets
Tapper
• 52271 Tweets
Brandon
• 49985 Tweets
Vitória
• 47934 Tweets
Aida
• 47064 Tweets
Nepotism
• 46615 Tweets
#BenditaFuria
• 42549 Tweets
#SVAllStarsGala2
• 35712 Tweets
Tractor Supply
• 29540 Tweets
Medicare
• 27125 Tweets
Roe v Wade
• 27053 Tweets
troye
• 25050 Tweets
Gavin Newsom
• 20760 Tweets
O Fluminense
• 20688 Tweets
Bryce
• 19685 Tweets
ross lynch
• 18734 Tweets
Rich Paul
• 17700 Tweets
Darwin
• 16389 Tweets
Weah
• 15827 Tweets
Jandrei
• 15491 Tweets
Steamサマーセール
• 11581 Tweets
#ReadyMVOutNow
• 11438 Tweets
Balogun
• 10986 Tweets
#USMNT
• 10941 Tweets
Sleepy Joe
• 10519 Tweets
Berhalter
• 10353 Tweets
#あさイチ
• 10178 Tweets
Pinned Tweet
some writerly news—my
@SubstackInc
blog, formerly called 'no more mangoes', will be called 'culture shock' going forward!
i wrote in this latest post about why i decided to make the change:
5
0
3
incredible scenes
nothing like a university named after a slaveowner hanging a cartoonishly large american flag to intimidate students protesting a US-funded genocide. absolute loser shit, shame on you
@GWtweets
56
519
4K
150
7K
31K
it gets BETTER
28
5K
25K
nothing like a university named after a slaveowner hanging a cartoonishly large american flag to intimidate students protesting a US-funded genocide. absolute loser shit, shame on you
@GWtweets
GW staff hung a giant American flag from Lisner Hall overlooking the encampment
251
717
7K
56
519
4K
As a Hindu-American I stand in firm solidarity with
@AudreyTruschke
against this baseless smear campaign, and I am so thankful to her for her courage in speaking out against the vile ideology that is Hindutva.
24
91
676
@elizamclamb
i'm gonna go outside and light myself on fire. what are we doing to our beautiful kings
2
8
437
The weaponization of spurious accusations of "Hinduphobia" to discredit anti-Hindutva activists is terrifying, and mirrors what we have seen done time and time again to Palestinian advocates and anti-Zionist Jews under the guise of "fighting antisemitism".
BREAKING: More than 2,000+ students, faculty, alumni and 50+ student organizations have signed on to our open letter, publicly expressing concerns over Prof Audrey Truschke’s conduct. Will post details soon.
106
2K
9K
29
86
280
as a hindu, my dharma is the dharma of inquilab and intifada—the dharma of the bhagavad gita, which teaches us of the moral righteousness of struggle and resistance against the forces of oppression, by any means necessary
5
41
211
"In both India and Israel, the far-right regimes that govern the two countries share a common vision of a ethnic-majoritarian apartheid state, and are willing to go to extreme lengths to realize that vision."
Read my latest in
@thenation
:
9
108
193
absolutely disgusted to be an alum of this real estate corporation masquerading as a university.
@PresidentofGW
@GWtweets
i hope you never know a day of peace in your life, shame on you
OFFICERS SPRAY STUDENTS WITH PEPPER SPRAY, BRANDISH BATONS
21
66
162
14
42
162
I'm an international student, paying full tuition for my master's degree at LSE.
I know my education will be disrupted by these strikes.
I still support them unconditionally, because my teachers' working conditions are my learning conditions.
#ucuRISING
🚨BREAKING🚨
EVERY SINGLE UK UNIVERSITY WILL BE SHUT DOWN WITH 18 DAYS OF STRIKE ACTION ACROSS FEBRUARY AND MARCH
RT if you support our members.
#ucuRISING
995
7K
15K
3
17
132
Mainstream media coverage of the threat posed by Hindu extremism is direly needed right now, which is why articles like this latest in
@HuffPost
are so important.
Solidarity to
@AudreyTruschke
@Hindus4HR
@IAMCouncil
and others whose stories are shared in this powerful piece ✊🏾
Hindutva, an extremist ideology, takes many cues from white nationalism — and it’s endangering millions of Muslims and other religious minorities.
46
109
218
5
44
123
this shit from a school where campus tour guides brag to prospective students about the time anti-apartheid student activists wrote “free mandela” on a slab of wet concrete. shame on you
@GWtweets
BREAKING: GW suspended Students for Justice in Palestine at GWU from organizing or participating in campus events for at least 90 days after four of its members projected anti-Israel and anti-GW messages onto the side of Gelman Library last month
79
170
637
0
25
86
I am a proud Hindu, and it is precisely because of my cultural background and faith tradition that I stand firmly opposed to Hindutva's hateful doctrine. I refuse to allow my identity to be weaponized to silence those who speak out against fascism and hate.
37
8
59
raise tf HIGH!!!!
More than 30 students have set up tents in the Universiry Yard calling on GW to divest financial ties with Israel, joining a mobilization of encampments at more than a dozen universities nationwide.
@gwhatchet
19
218
1K
0
2
63
As someone who's written for
@thenation
on no fewer than 3 occasions, I'm ashamed to share space in its pages with this shameless garbage.
@thenation
should issue a retraction and an apology for publishing these blatant and malicious lies about
@DemSocialists
.
0
8
61
bro lives in the paris commune
always make sure to check the dumpsters in your neighborhood, got a lot of goodies today 🙏🏽
10
6
277
0
0
45
received my absolutely gorgeous copy of
@thedrift_mag
issue 9 today!! feels pretty wild to see my name in print for the first time :)
1
3
41
This group explicitly models itself off of a page that routinely uses the same tactics to discredit, invalidate, and smear advocates of Palestinian human rights on college campuses—including Jewish students who do not identify with Zionism—as antisemites.
We would like to thank
@jewishoncampus
for their page as it inspired many Hindus in the diaspora to speak out for their communities in a similar manner.
5
107
403
2
8
36
the idea that "hinduphobia" is pervasive in the US is a manufactured narrative by a few sanghis, right-wing hindus, and useful non-indian idiots who have never seen a fascist talking point they could say no to
“The idea that caste discrimination is pervasive in the US is a manufactured narrative by a few activists, woke Indians, and useful non-Indian idiots who have never seen a social justice cause they could say no to”
A classic
@razibkhan
analysis!
20
144
422
7
11
36
@WSJopinion
@SuhagAShukla
The claims in this op-ed by
@HinduAmerican
's exec director are both patently false and intellectually dishonest.
As
@nikhiletc
I wrote in
@RDispatches
in March, the idea that caste protections discriminate against South Asians has no basis in reality:
2
10
37
I wrote about the
#Kohinoor
, Rishi Sunak, and anticolonial aesthetics for
@thedrift_mag
. Check it out:
Yesterday, Buckingham Palace announced that the Koh-i-noor diamond, surrendered from the maharajah of Lahore to the queen of England in 1849, won’t be a part of its May coronation. In a new Issue Nine preview essay,
@p_somayajula
asks: so what?
0
15
28
1
10
33
The claims in this op-ed by
@HinduAmerican
's exec director are both patently false and intellectually dishonest.
As
@nikhiletc
and I wrote in
@RDispatches
in March, the idea that caste protections discriminate against South Asians has no basis in reality:
In adding a specific category to its nondiscrimination policy—one that categorically and uniquely applies to a single ethnic group, Brown has created a policy that is discriminatory on its face, writes
@SuhagAShukla
9
38
97
3
14
34
"Regardless of whether the liberated zone is reclaimed by those in power and fenced off (literally or metaphorically) once again, nothing will ever change the fact that there was a moment, however brief, when it was in fact liberated."
Despite the use of pepper spray, clashes between protesters and police and more than 30 arrests, GW released a statement Wednesday saying local police conducted an “orderly and safe” operation to clear the U-Yard encampment early Wednesday
2
66
206
0
6
31
@HinduAmerican
claims to be the voice of the Hindu American community, and has denied accusations of Hindu nationalist ties.
So why is it proudly sponsoring an event featuring the leader of what is essentially a Hindu nationalist terrorist organization?
4
17
27
guy sitting across from me in the library has a septum piercing and an idf sticker on his laptop. feels just like i'm back at GW again ❤️
1
0
29
I have seen the face of God
Can’t stop thinking about this fantasy Metro map that someone posted in the D.C. subreddit.
298
1K
9K
1
0
27
wrote some reflections on the student encampments for gaza, and the glimpse they offer us into the possibility of another world:
1
11
28
@j3wess
has made an incredible thread on why @/jewishoncampus is toxic and harmful, and hurts the cause of fighting antisemitism. The fact that this group is modeling themselves off of JOC is extremely concerning.
2
1
24
@Krishan_A_Patel
@gwhatchet
they were talking about palestinian civilians murdered by israeli bombs, you absolute fucking ghoul
1
0
27
Powerful words from
@AudreyTruschke
about the Hindu Right's chilling attempts to silence free speech and erode academic freedom in the name of a vile, genocidal ideology. As always, full solidarity with Dr. Truschke as she continues to expose Hindutva and speak truth to power ✊🏾
2
12
25
y'all know what this means right. it means THEE barbara smith read my essay...crying and shaking and throwing up
When I opened the box with my copies of
@thedrift_mag
! Check out this elegant, innovative, publication that combines literature, politics & wit!
@kfzbarrow
@rmpanovka
@smithcaringcirc
@blkwomenradical
@smithcaringcirc
@StrugIsEternal
@wellreadblkgirl
@guidetoglo
@ChrisBurkeShay
4
18
153
1
0
24
THREAD:
As part of their "Hindu Heritage Month" initiative, the
@HinduAmerican
Foundation alongside other groups is hosting an inaugural event featuring the general secretary of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
Why does that matter?
4
14
22
This op-ed by
@ColumbusState
professor Ramesh Rao is rife with anti-Arab and Islamophobic bigotry—at times closely resembling neo-Nazi talking points about Jews.
How can Muslim students at CSU feel safe when their own professors spew this kind of hate?
5
6
22
"If we are going to argue that Hinduism is a faith of compassion at its core, then it is time that we acknowledge that its marginalising scaffolding needs to be dismantled if we are to experience that inner sensibility." -
@tmkrishna
0
10
22
this isn't "eating up" this is just bullying
1
0
22
many are saying this
Pranay epitomizes the diaspora "revolutionary" larper.
- He unironically refers himself a "comrade"
- He actually tattooed the word "Azadi" on his arm
- Never had made a video on Hinduism aside from drive-by ill-informed comments about Hindutva
5
17
72
1
0
21
and that's a wrap on day 1 of my writing retreat at
@gladlib
! so excited to see where this week takes me creatively :)
0
0
20
just learning that apparently it is NOT in fact normal to live in constant paralyzing terror of your own feelings and every single thought that enters your head
2
0
20
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out ❤️
BREAKING: Thomas LeBlanc will retire as the 17th president of The George Washington University next year, ending a tumultuous tenure that sparked increasing tensions with members of the University community, who ultimately pushed for his exit.
0
9
71
1
0
20
Excited to announce the launch of my Substack, no more mangoes, where I'll be posting short essays on migration, diaspora, and immigrant identity from a critical left perspective!
Check out my first post, and subscribe if you're so inclined:
1
2
18
"When we all wake up – and we will – we’ll realize how much we have to learn from Cuba."
Major thanks to
@CallaWalsh
for this incredible and sorely-needed analysis:
1
4
17
damn it must really suck to have someone overstay their welcome in your home huh
0
1
18
the parrot community stands with the palestinian people in their struggle for liberation
0
1
17
"The Hindu right’s insidious deniability politics is straight out of the authoritarian playbook, with echoes of the racist dog-whistles and thinly-veiled incitements of violence employed by former U.S. president throughout his term in office."
Read my latest in
@proteanmag
:
Pranay Somayajula (
@p_somayajula
) interrogates the insidious rhetorical tactics of far-right Hindutva ideologues like Indian PM Narendra Modi and the BJP and RSS, who tacitly sanction pogroms while staying at arm's length from the violence.
0
12
12
1
8
16
A genocide is happening in Gaza, and it's being fueled by hateful online disinformation—much of which is coming out of India.
As Indian Americans, we can't afford to stand idly by.
To all Indian Americans: please join me in calling for a
#CeasefireNow
!
3
17
17
pro tip: never submit your thesis to present virtually at a conference in helsinki because you will forget about time zones and will have to get up at 3:45am to talk about the ideological foundations of indian and israeli ethnic democracy
1
0
16
wattpad ass line
how did one silly little gay film deliever one of the most heartbreaking lines in cinema history?
81
5K
39K
0
0
16
in the colleged quad. straight up “liberating it.” and by “it”, haha, well. let’s justr say. my campus
1
1
14
this guy has clearly never been to a desi function
dude i am sorry you cannot have a large party at your house with a "shoes off" policy just fucking mop the next day
912
1K
44K
0
1
15
"To refer to
#Partition
’s legacies as “scars” is to wrongly assume that its wounds have since healed."
I wrote about the legacies of
#Partition1947
for my Substack, no more mangoes:
1
5
15
@RoKhanna
this doesn't explain why you felt compelled to repost a photo of the two of you smiling together and say that you appreciated this bigot's "insights about the US India relationship".
would you do the same if you met with a white supremacist in the US?
0
1
13
@senatormachaela
please become the first politician in us history to read the full bee movie script while filibustering
0
0
14
fixed it for you
I have never been to a local DC restaurant (not a chain) that is good. This city has no charm.
374
27
637
0
0
14
considering she had a "welcome to israel" poster on her wall, probably not
Do you think if Rory Gilmore was at Yale today she'd be part of the protests?
92
27
599
0
1
14
good friend is mid-40s. in shape, runs a lucrative waste management business, lives in a beautiful house in suburban new jersey.
but he gets consistently ghosted, ignored for days, or told he never had the makings of a varsity athlete.
modern women are broken.
1
1
14
in college i once flew out to spend a long weekend with my then-gf who went to school in massachusetts, she broke up with me on my second day there and we then proceeded to spend the rest of the weekend together bc i didnt know what else to do ❤️
0
0
14
"We have all been shaped by a world over which we never had any real control, by people and places and cultural artifacts that may have dark sides as well as nurturing ones."
I wrote about the limitations and pitfalls of childhood nostalgia for
@ElectricLit
. Check it out:
Pranay Somayajula (
@p_somayajula
) on the complicated feelings that come with discovering ugly truths about your favorite childhood author.
0
2
6
0
6
13
Very conspicuous failure to simply condemn and disavow the RSS in this long thread, I wonder why 🤔
Audrey Truschke Hindus4HR
@IAMCouncil
are already in court for conspiracy to defame HAF, yet today are unleashing an online mob against us claiming HAF is affiliated with a speaker at an online event. HAF will not bow to this mob, nor eschew its commitment to free speech.🧵
28
549
2K
1
1
14
just submitted my dissertation for my master's degree 🤠
0
0
13
mom can you come pick me up the hindu diaspora is doing swastika discourse again
0
0
11
"Far from being a capitulation to liberal sentimentalism, a politics rooted in love may in fact be a revolutionary weapon as powerful as any bomb or barricade."
I wrote about reading bell hooks through an anarchist lens for
@strange_matters
! Check it out:
0
5
13
don't make me tap the sign
🇮🇳 India will wage a diplomatic campaign to reclaim the Koh-i-Noor diamond and thousands of other treasures from Britain in a “reckoning” with the colonial past, the Telegraph can reveal.
Read more from
@Craig_Simpson_
here ⬇️
30
18
51
0
1
13
@WUSTLmed
glad to know that these are the kind of ghouls who you've got training the next generation of doctors
0
0
13
Send a letter to
@HinduAmerican
calling on them to reject the RSS and violent Hindu extremism:
1
5
11
many are clowning on the congresswoman for this, but in fact she is the only one who understands that the old gods of The Market demand a regular sacrifice of human fingers in order to spare us from their wrath. this is the only thing stopping us from becoming Venezuela
A new rule mandating finger-detection technology in table saws could raise costs by hundreds of dollars and result in a government-mandated monopoly.
I introduced a bipartisan bill to protect consumer choice and block this mandate until the patents for this tech are made public.
2K
110
2K
0
1
13
she anthony on my bourdain till her parts are no longer unknown
2
0
12
omg gleep is becoming glorp! snoop is becoming sneep! plout is becoming pling!
1
1
11
in my tom and jerry era (developing a love/hate relationship with the mouse in my kitchen who has cunningly avoided my attempts to catch him and who i see on a daily basis)
0
0
12
Damn that's crazy, by the way where do American license plates come from?
Russia's planning to revive the Soviet-era practice of putting convicts to work. Just don’t call it a Gulag.
1K
170
633
0
0
10
just found out that bell hooks was a landlord...don't text
1
0
11
thank you to the porn bot with 3 followers and an account created in march 2023 who retweeted my drift essay about the aesthetics of anticolonialism. you're doing the lord's work
0
0
11
she socialism on my trains till i fresh mozzarella
0
1
10
Absolutely critical insight from the brilliant
@tmkrishna
:
"There are many people who believe that you are claiming to fight Hindutva, but actually you are just trying to save Savarna Hinduism. We have to take this question seriously."
4
9
19
0
4
11
So excited to be appearing in this upcoming issue of
@thedrift_mag
!
🚨🚨 Issue Nine approaches! To receive a print copy, subscribe by Thursday.
Feat.
@jameson_rich
@nancykorifera
@tbfxdonnelly
@loracorkelley
@p_somayajula
@bentarnoff
@MagogodiMakhene
@anniierau
@zaintkhalid
@GifGordon
@organizejs
@davidrkadler
2
23
89
0
1
11
As a writer, I am proud to sign this open letter and join the boycott of
@PoetryFound
@poetrymagazine
. We deserve literary and cultural institutions that are not complicit in genocide.
Join the boycott:
~2000 writers boycott the Poetry Foundation for refusing to take a stand against the genocide of Palestinian people + for censoring anti-zionist Jewish writers (PoFo asserts this is "misinformation")
Notably, 3 events have been canceled
Join the boycott:
6
426
955
0
3
10
a second kid has hit our friendship
Our friendship survived bad dates, illness, marriage, fights. Why can’t it survive your baby?
For our latest cover story,
@AllisonPDavis
writes about how nothing threatens adult relationships like when some friends have kids and others don’t
60
44
256
0
2
10
babe wake up marianne is birdposting again
0
1
10
the judaean people's front is proud to announce that it is now independent from the people's front of judaea
Class Unity is proud to announce that it is now independent from the Democratic Socialists of America.
132
47
344
0
0
10
More on this shameful history:
5
0
9
Global vaccine apartheid is a crime against humanity.
0
0
9
This tweet is a masterclass in how to coat a fascist political agenda in a veneer of pseudo-intellectualism by co-opting and bastardizing the language of decolonization and post-colonial scholarship in order to distort history and appease the sensibilities of Western liberals.
#dghconference
is talking caste.
There is copious academic scholarship about the "caste system" that engages decoloniality and challenges orientalism, modernism, and the privileging of Western over indigenous knowledge systems.
Here's an intro.
2
30
113
1
5
10
race mixing
I believe in peace, love, equity, LGBTQ rights, abortion rights, animal rights, race mixing, assault weapon ban, sharing the wealth, Green New Deal, Black Lives Matter, Prison reform and good rock ‘n’ roll. Join the John Hinckley Community.
2K
3K
29K
0
0
10
Right-wingers are jumping to paint this attack as a "psyop" just because the perpetrator happens to be Indian, when in reality there's nothing surprising about this—the Indian far-right and Western white nationalists/Nazis have always been closely connected.
This is Sai Varshith Kandula, the Missouri man who drove a U-Haul into the White House gates
The media is referring to him as a “white supremacist” after authorities found a Nazi flag in the vehicle
Just wanted to share his driver’s license photo
PC:
@karol
2K
5K
14K
1
0
9
philz went from playing the most atrocious cover of somebody else by the 1975 to silk chiffon...it's called range luv xx
1
0
9
here we have the executive director of
@HinduAmerican
promoting a writer who's written for holocaust-denying alt-right publications. totally normal behavior from the voice of the hindu american community
0
1
9
@TheBarbaraSmith
@smithcaringcirc
@blkwomenradical
@StrugIsEternal
@orianah8sithere
@emahlee
thank you so much for the kind words and for sharing my essay! this means so much coming from you :)
0
0
10
this is genuinely the most evil thing i have ever seen
If you come to the UK illegally:
➡️ You can’t claim asylum
➡️ You can’t benefit from our modern slavery protections
➡️ You can’t make spurious human rights claims
➡️ You can’t stay
16K
3K
20K
0
0
10