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Gaurav Sabnis 🇮🇳🇺🇸

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18 May

Are you also from a generation that as a little kid, was often given raw eggs mixed with milk? Because for many years, the world seemed to believe it was an amazing healthy breakfast for growing children. Literally the worst way to have an egg. 🤣🤣🤣

Btw THE main reason people mistakenly think raw eggs are a great healthy thing is this scene. Funnily, cooked eggs are in fact a BETTER source of protein for the body. But public still remembers this scene and pounds raw eggs. 🤣🤣🤣

This is pretty old science. But people love gimmicky myths over science.

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Gaurav Sabnis 🇮🇳🇺🇸

@gauravsabnis

18 May

It's a Bhadang Breakfast type morning.

Cast iron elevates bhadang, chivda etc to a whole other level. But it does take a little practice, especially to know when to turn the stove off and just use the copious residual heat. Or it can burn easily. However once you calibrate it, no other chivda matches up.

https://twitter.com/girishmallya/status/1394633046289047552?s=19

Indeed, I am gonna fill it in a popcorn style paper bag, take some chai and a book and sit under a maple reading till lunch on this perfect spring day. First day without a work to-do in ages! 😎

https://twitter.com/girishmallya/status/1394633046289047552?s=19

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Gaurav Sabnis 🇮🇳🇺🇸

@gauravsabnis

17 May

I still haven't done my taxes and they are due at midnight. Flashbacks to MBA days when even with extended deadlines, one procrastinated. I will conveniently blame covid cos until then, I was done in February.

Thankfully, we have no property or kids or any deductions. It's just about uploading W-2s and doing federal, NYS, NYC, NJ at a stretch with the standard deduction. Rarely takes over an hour.

Finished well in time, filing returns with 4 tax agencies!

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Gaurav Sabnis 🇮🇳🇺🇸

@gauravsabnis

17 May

https://twitter.com/Manisha_Awasthi/status/1394398411902836741

From childhood, very nonchalantly. Not one iota of pushback. Their only grumble was that they started having a home ganpati only cos 7 year old me insisted on it. And then by 12 I'm like, I don't believe in god. But they do, so they had to do a home ganpati every year since. 🙈

https://twitter.com/Manisha_Awasthi/status/1394398411902836741

I'm super lucky to have grown up in an ecosystem where my atheist impulses were never ever questioned or treated as wrong. By parents, grandparents, teachers, anyone.
It helped that one grandma was an atheist herself who never hid her atheism while also doing the rituals.

Grandpa Sabnis was a cool dude. Personally, super religious. But never, not once, did he impose it on his grandkids. When I said I don't believe in god, he just shrugged & said, god believes in you. Dad is same. His daily pooja is very important to him. But it's just his thing.

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Gaurav Sabnis 🇮🇳🇺🇸

@gauravsabnis

17 May

https://twitter.com/zigzackly/status/1394379594023596032

Ah yes, so here goes. Wife & I are both atheists, as are most of our desi friends here. So there is no real diwali celebration for us other than maybe going for a nice dinner or a dinner party. But no laxmi pooja or other rituals, that were a standard in my home growing up.

https://twitter.com/zigzackly/status/1394379594023596032

India trips usually happen in summer or december. For my first decade in the US, parents only visited during the summer. But then parents decided to visit in Fall, to check out fall colors. Which meant that for the first time in almost 15 years, Diwali was with parents!

Although parents aren't outwardly very religious, I know the diwali pooja means something to them. So I set about gathering stuff for the pooja. Printed out a pic of Laxmi, got everything together. Mom said go get pooja flowers. Something regular in my childhood.

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Gaurav Sabnis 🇮🇳🇺🇸

@gauravsabnis

17 May

Every year at the start of lawn lounging weather, I observe this. All POC are in shade. Every melanoma enthusiast voluntarily soaking in hours of UV light thinking spf200 or whatever protects them is white. I'm like, what's the point of having these awesome maples & oaks then?

Pro-tip. Unless you're a melanoma enthusiast, when relaxing outdoors in warm weather, always choose a maple. The canopy is so wide that no matter where the sun moves, you'll always be in shade. Having grown up in dry hot indian peninsula, I don't understand sun-bathing.

I love this perpetual ubiquitous canopy of tall trees in the northeast US in summers. Tree cover in the NE-US has more than doubled since the 1920s! Something like 85% land here is woods and trees.

But it does make summer kinda hard for star gazing while camping. 😂