General rules for my spaces going forward (to avoid repeating):

A space is not a democracy. It is made with my personal account and as such, runs by my wishes regarding who may speak, what the subject is and so on.

If you want democratic rights, ask a sarkari account to host.
The spaces will almost never be without an agenda. There will be a subject for discussion and it is not likely to be whatever the knee jerk discussions are. Don't even.

I do tend to moderate to stay on topic. and don't hesitate to mute people if need be.
Chances of my spaces being anti-BJP are extremely high. As in, not just the political ones. If BJP supporters can slip in with sane views on non-political subjects, hey super.

I am not likely to EVER hold debates on whether BJP is right or wrong. No point expecting.
I spot bhakti and one of two things will happen - like in my mentions, you'll get used for general entertainment or if the discussion is serious, you'll simply vanish from speakers. I don't owe you explanations. Default explanation : My space, my WHIM.
With that out of the way, I generally let whoever asks for the mic have it for as long as they can stay on topic. However in recent discussions (and chances are in today's god discussion) there are often MANY requests waiting and indefinite time to 10 speakers may not be fair.
So there is a test policy today - people I perceive to have got "enough" time to talk, will be moved to listeners to help clear the pending wait for the mic.

Of course you can immediately apply for mic again. My intent is not to deny you, but avoid very long waits for anyone.
Finally, avoid insulting anyone unless you are very certain I will enjoy it, because if I don't, I'll kick you out.

Finally finally, always assume good faith. If there is any chance of something you find offensive having a non-offensive explanation, assume that. By order.
Oh wait. Not yet done.

Avoid repeating yourself. A brilliant argument simply gets irritating if two people keep repeating the same things to each other or disguised as more and more examples of the same thing.

Don't worry. We'll help you become aware if this loop starts :p

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23 May
This is getting thought provoking.

- god as the sum total of human experience and always evolving
- god is fiction
- god as the bogeyman enforcing desired behaviour and punishing undesired behaviour
- god does not exist. morality must evolve with times.
- god as someone who has appeared before humanity in various times to inspire them and trigger social evolution. Someone who appears/is human but influences lives profoundly.
- god as powers/forces beyond our control/comprehension that do influence our lives, but not necessarily benevolent or even aware of individuals or that can be controlled by humans.
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23 May
So this #Covid19India second wave thing. Some thoughts.

Disclaimer: Not a doctor.

Many things are different about the second wave. The sudden surge for one. One day we had things under control, suddenly we were flooded.
We have vaccines this time around, but it doesn't reassure as much as we'd imagined when we wished there were vaccines we could take but there weren't.

Apart from inadequate vaccines, we first realized we could still be infected. Then discovered people could also die anyway.
Many people are drawing parallels between vaccines and the second wave. I don't understand enough about viruses to say if this is "linked" to vaccine, but at least in several cases we have seen inadequate crowd control at vaccination centers. This is definitely a problem.
Read 18 tweets
22 May
One day on spaces, we should try tag teaming this song. Low pitch people sing the low notes, high pitch people sing the high notes. Like a relay race chasing the notes :p

What could possibly go wrong...

cc @flyingfire9 @mdarifkhan87 @mdabdullah4318
@flyingfire9 @mdarifkhan87 @mdabdullah4318 (context for above, I told him about the discussion on pitch - he's a pretty good singer and told me that any song could be sung by anyone as long as you sing it in your own range. I was like some try to escape anyway and gave this example, which he wasn't familiar with)
@flyingfire9 @mdarifkhan87 @mdabdullah4318 Begin as low as you want, by the time you're done with the intro para, you've gone from the lowest you've ever sung to the highest. You go well, that escalated fast, but ok.

Nope. Song basically wants you to die and go to heaven if you deserve it and continue from there.
Read 5 tweets
22 May
"You have a very low voice"

Yes

"It is like a man's"

Only if your ears are very wonky.
"Don't you find it a disadvantage?"

Disadvantage? for what?

"Singing"

Does it sound like I feel disadvantaged when I sing?

"But you can't sing Lata songs"

Of course I can. I sing them all the time.

"Like original"

Few can

"But same notes"

I can sing along to Rafi ;)
I don't get our fixation with high pitched voices. As along as a person sings, where's the problem?
Read 4 tweets
20 May
Bad mood. Messaged to ask a seller something.That was the format for years. He'd reply with info. No chitchat

His cousin replied. He died 2 months ago. Covid. Never talked to him, paid online, he shipped. Didn't even register as a human till someoe else answered his messages.
Every day some weird aspect of how the world has changed hits. Neighbours nosy kids invading home without masks becomes a threat. "Cylinder needed" is no longer a cooking gas cylinder by default. More likely oxygen cylinder. Read someone died in one tab, crack joke in another.
i don't feel bad about the seller as a person. I legit didn't know him. I'm unnerved by random people vanishing and what will be left by the time the pandemic is done. Much humor these days is just shock and denial I think. Traumatized people pretending everything is normal.
Read 4 tweets
20 May
Hindu Rashtra was ALWAYS a myth. India was never one country till independence and it was not a country based on a religious identity.

All those "natives" of Hindu Rashtra grew up in good old Congress ruled secular India now trying to demolish their origins for a fantasy.
Before the British, India was a whole bunch of separate kingdoms, none of which suffered from religious xenophobia with Muslim rulers having trusted Hindu senior officials and vice versa.

If India "belongs" to the religion that ruled it most, that would be Buddhism in any case.
Hindu Rashtra is little more than an imaginary concept that at times was about all the land ever ruled by a Hindu ruler being one country, at other times going by Hindu as a regional identity rather than religious and at still other times, as upper caste Hindu supremacy.
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