When Covid hit the world, Americans parked their SUVs & Sedans and lined up to get food from free food trucks. Indians gleefully shared pictures of cuisines on Insta. Why Indians didn't feel anxious about food shortage? Because of the family system that The Print derides as TOXIC
In India, even if you are a 50 yr old you can ask your father for money. No shame in it. An ailing father or a amnesiac mother doesn't get tossed in old age homes, they live with their kids. That's the beauty of the toxic family system, listen you morons at The Print.
You can ask your siblings, your in-laws and your relatives for financial or any help without getting judged. That's the beauty of the toxic family system, listen you braindead zombies at The Print.
Typical toxic Indian families gift each other gold and cash Shaguns. That jewellery can be pawned at the times of extreme adversities. That's the kind of economics that Western world will never understand. Get it you dumb bufoons at The Print?
Toxic Indian familes light diyas together, spray color on each other, do Durga Pooja together, listen to Satyanarayan Katha together. That keeps them and their gods eternally connected to each other. Of course hippie morons at The Print won't get it.
Toxic Indian families don't wait for Mother's day to talk to their mothers or father's day for their fathers. They stay with them forever. Every Indian family has life size portraits of their ancestors. This level of toxicity is lethal for liberals like the ones at The Print.
And here is how my desktop looks. A typical toxic Bihari family. A typical toxic Indian family. Look at this “The Print”. This is something you sad people will never have.
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The Russia-Ukraine war, China, the world and the confusion – A thread
China is a civilization that tries too hard to be a country. China has had a tumultuous past.
It is riddled with the history of Mongolian invasion, Japanese conquest, the opium wars and the so called century of humiliation.
China of the modern world is of course different, very different from Qin, Sui or Tang Dynasty China. Former CCP Chairman (Chinese President) Den Xiaoping defined China as “a democracy with Chinese characteristics”, which in other way means a state controlled capitalist economy.
Modi haters are sharing this video with glee, calling Rahul Bajaj the only man with a spine.
I have an alternate take. Bajaj was everything that was wrong with India. Bajaj made substandard scooters that Indians rode with pride. Reason: There was no competition.
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Bajaj is a Private company with a sarkari attitude. It benefited greatly from closed Indian economy.
Bajaj alluded to the Bombay Club, a lobby of industrialists against removing trade barriers. Bajaj knew that once Indians get hooked to quality, it will be curtains for him.
It was Nehru who named Jamnalal Bajaj’s grandson, Rahul. He had reserved the name for Indira’s son who was then named Rajeev. When Rahul became a father, he named his son Rajeev.
Cute.
So Bajaj’s love for Indira’s license-permit raj was natural.
Remember those media reports that talked about the martial superiority of Chinese, both as a race and PLA as a warring unit. Every Chinese movie was about martial art and Indian dailies likened one PLA soldier to 5 Indian soldiers.
We couldn’t counter this untruth because as a nation we bear the collective shame of 1962 war and we didn’t have social media back then to counter the lies.
We are a Shruti and Smriti Sabhyata after all. Audiobooks are the future - a thread.
“There are many ways of reading a book, not telling others what you’re reading everyday is one of them”, I added this as a comment on a post of a certain highbrow female who would make it a point to share quotes from books thrice a day with a #NowReading tag.
I have always considered reading and writing, a solitary thing. And if your mind is pre-occupied with the thoughts of updating your social media feed, you can’t read. Or write.
Hijab Row: a biological/anthropological take - A thread.
Evolution has been most unkind to women. It’s evolution that gave males the advantage that they currently enjoy. The physical size, muscle strength and same energy levels on all days of the month made man what he became.
Pregnancy immobilised a woman for at least 6 months while the (pre-marriage era) male was free to impregnate as many women as he wanted. This led to men gaining more and more superiority at the expense of women.
Most anthropologists readily state that many ancient cultures have a matrilineal (not matriarchal) past. But barring a very few cultures today, almost every culture in patrilineal.
Due to my activities, my FB timeline almost always has a Ketto/Milap ad. Often the ads show a patient struggling to pay medical fees. It’s gut-wrenching to see their condition and heartwarming to see so many people pitching in to help the family
3 days back I saw an ad again. It shook me to the core. A Muslim man had half of his face distorted. The left side of his face had half feet long overgrowth just jutting out of everywhere.
The man painfully narrates his story about how people are scared of him and call him names. The ad video explains that it is a genetic disorder. A rare one at that. And it would need an enormous amount of money to make his face right again.