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Sep 13, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
#ProTip if you are considering buying a #Subaru (or any) SUV to sleep in with a car tent like in this pic. Do NOT buy a car with a powered/automated trunk door. You have to leave it open all night. It can drain the battery unless disabled. And disabling it is a pain.
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A very random condition I had for my new car was it NOT have an automated trunk. Reason was memories of the 2005 Bombay Flood and how cars with all powered doors became coffins. Turns out it helps with this issue too. We can just use a carabineer to trick a manual door.
But if you have an automated trunk, you'll have to dig into the relays to disable the power drain and it might void your warranty. Even if not, most of us aren't competent enough to play around with electronics of a modern SUV. Just get an SUV with a manual trunk.

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Jul 1
Declaration of Independence 250 yrs ago was more of a military strategy step than an ideological one. Revolutionaries were losing badly & needed help from France. And France said it wouldn't help without a declaration of independence cuz otherwise it's internal British matter. 🧵
The idea of being a completely new nation was not something sweeping the colonies. It was mainly about avoiding taxes & getting a bigger piece of the trade pie than a widespread idea that the 13 colonies were a different nation. But Britain was too strong and rich.
Without help from France, the revolution might have ended in a few months with sustained British campaigns from all sides. France said, rightly, that if you don't declare independence, then why should we send military & supplies to you? Negotiations went on like this.
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May 19
Cast iron seasoning myth busting 🧵

1. Slidey eggs or "non-stick" cooking aren't about seasoning but about temperature control & choosing the right oil or fats. Your can make slidey eggs on an unseasoned cast iron. And make food stick on a perfectly seasoned cast iron.
2. Seasoning isn't something to be "preserved" like some magical patina. Seasoning is something to be maintained. Best maintenance is using it regularly for dry cooking. You use cast iron as regularly as I do, that's the seasoning process. Daily use makes things easiest.
A lot of the insta tiktok food vlogger gyaan about cast iron grossly misrepresents what seasoning is or what it is for. And it's meant for people who use their cast iron once in months. What happens in those months is physics & chemistry. Air eventually breaks down polymers.
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Mar 21
Gives me no pleasure to write this 🧵 but @k_rupal @prichills can verify every detail.

Went for a Boat Safari where they take you under Iguaçu falls. To get to the boat, you have to change 3 vehicles & stand in line multiple times.

There was an Indian tour group with INAIR. /1
It was some 50 or so people, a lot of them Maruti Suzuki employees. And some families. Most of them were nice well behaved people. One particular sub group, from Delhi, seemed intent on winning the Delhi stereotype bingo.

It started with a European guy behind us getting heated.
We were standing in like to board a keep for a drive through the forest to the boat landing. This guy argued with the staff there & they put him on a jeep. Then another guy also had some such argument. We were still riding the blissful high of seeing the half. And were chill.
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Feb 3
Students were fascinated to learn how ICC, then Imperial Cricket Council, was the main force in limiting growth of cricket as a global sport in 1900s by defining test cricket as only matches between Commonwealth members.

Holland, Argentina, US had good teams too. But the ICC...
But ICC, literally an Imperial body, actively chose to exclude the Dutch, Americans, & Argentinians (1910s were golden are of ARG cricket), fearful of losing control of the sport.

Cricket in those countries never really recovered from this. It stays a Commonwealth heavy game.
Even in 1900s & 1910s, cricket was popular enough in the US to fill stadiums in many cities. Level of play & interest was high.

But just as World Series started in 1903 & baseball was taking off, ICC in 1909 actively refused an opportunity to bring US into the cricket fold.
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Dec 31, 2025
Did you know Manhattan means the same thing as Girgaum?

Smol 🧵 of random connects I've noticed for NYC & Bombay.

Manhatta in Lenape means a place with many hills. Exactly what Girgaum in Mumbai means in Marathi.

And that's not all!

Take Goregaon & The Bronx! /1
North of the island city of New York was a large village owned by a guy named Bronck so it was called Bronck's Village.

North of the island city of Bombay was a large village owned by a guy named Gore so it was called Gorgegaon.
There's a direct history connection also.

You may know Brits got Bombay as part of a Queen's dowry.

You know there's a borough in NYC called Queens named for the then queen.

Did you know it was the same queen? Catherine of Braganza!
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Nov 9, 2025
This will set many unkil hair on fire but when you read the full multi sided history of the 1962 India China war, there isn't much to blame Nehru about, except using hindsight and weirdly high standards and expectations of clairvoyance. And Cuban missile crisis is minimized. 🧵
First of all, Indian defeat in the 1962 skirmish is overblown for Nehru bashing purposes. And it really was a skirmish not a war. How many wars have zero civilian casualties?

India lost 1300 soldiers. Not great. But not exactly Vietnam War numbers. We lost half those in Kargil.
Losing territory is never great but Aksai Chin was and is mostly uninhabited territory more useful for strategic and logistical purposes than losing actual people inhabited territory.

China didn't march on and take Leh or Srinagar, did they? It was a very opportunistic skirmish.
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