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2 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
An unexpected source of joy in 2021 has been my 4/5 AM walks on Saturdays. I pass so many young couples or small groups of friends returning, happily drunk and giggling after a night painting the town red. I like this version of Manhattan way more than a year ago. 😍😍🗽
Reminds me of my 1st visits to NYC 15 years ago and one of the reasons why I fell in love with the city so instantly. The very central and non judgmental role that night life plays in NYC. Drunk happy young people in the streets in the middle of the night is a feature not a bug.
Also why I fell in love with New Orleans instantly. Any city where young people, especially women, feel comfortable being themselves publicly in the middle of the night, with a general sense of safety, is a city I'm always going to love.
Also, vaccinations work. It's now a couple of months since NYC implemented vaccination proof for going to bars and restaurants.
- People are complying
- Restaurants & bars are packed at pre covid levels
- There is no Delta surge in the city among the vaccinated

#VaccinesWork

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2 Oct
He was basically like a big frog in small pond type macho wannabe cop, a quasi Hoover more interested in carjackings and kidnappings than real crime. But he liked his billionaire lifestyle too much to really commit to vigilantism. So put on a mask to have his cake and eat it too.
Superman, Wonderwoman etc were saving the world, the universe, fighting global catastrophes. Lil Bruce used his toys to be a foot soldier for Nixon and Reagan.
Rethinking Batman in the context of police militarization, prison-industrial complex, war on drugs, and of course, BLM, is quite an interesting party game.
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2 Oct
He was a 37 year old who shot an 80 year old pacifist at point blank range pretending to touch his feet respectfully. He's your hero?
Gandhi, whatever his other flaws, lived nonviolence and pacifism to the fullest. Anyone could have assassinated Gandhi before Nathyaa did. Even the British. Literally anyone.
Nathyaa was the first person deranged enough to try. And he succeeded. That's not heroism. That's evil.
Like literally, everyone else in the world who hated Gandhi thought that assassinating him would be a bit too evil. Except Sanghis. They lean into it and celebrate it even today. Disgusting.
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1 Oct
Punishing British citizens of Indian origin so these people can make WhatsApp forwards.
Bhakts are so divorced from reality that they probably believe there are throngs of blue eyed rose cheeked Britishers lined up to visit the dazzling new Uttar Pradesh for some cow tourism, and this reciprocal measure punishes Britain by disappointing them.
Only punished UK desis.
Fascism's oxygen is a constant supply of enemies, real or imagined. There usually are few or no real enemies of a democracy. So they have to keep imagining new ones or designating some of their own as the newest enemies. Today's enemy is British Indians.
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1 Oct
One of the most American things about America is that a penny costs the government almost 2 cents to produce and distribute, and a nickel costs 7.5 cents. And yet we keep making these inconsequential useless expensive coins cos the Copper Lobby is very rich & powerful.
So if you look at the jar of useless annoying pennies and nickels in your house and wonder, what is even the point of these when neither you nor the cashier likes small change, the point is to make rich people richer at taxpayer expense. While they gut social services.
Literally the best way to use up your loose change in the US is to hand it all over to a homeless or cash strapped person asking for change. Instead of sitting forgotten in a corner as objects made just for billionaires to get richer, you will at least help someone out, slightly.
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1 Oct
Grandparents once told me how wheat was rare in their Marathi household as a kid. It was mostly rice, bajri, jwari, naachni. Wheat wasn't unheard of, but not a daily staple. And that many elders avoided it because of "apachan"(indigestion). Looking back, gluten sensitivity?
It was "dushkaal, mag tya Kennedy Cha Laal gahu aani mag ti hareet kraanti, gahu tyaanantar evdha vaadhla"

(There were famines, then that Kennedy's red wheat, and then the green revolution, this wheat became a big thing in our lives only then)
My favorite thing about 21st century Pune is how ubiquitous bhakris have become in nice restaurants. And on delivery services. Wasn't so in my childhood. You had to seek out places for bhakris.
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1 Oct
Lol, my autocorrect signoff to students was once Garibaldi Sabnis and one student very cutely and earnestly asked if that was my "Sanskrit name". They reallllllly don't teach much world history in US schools.
The actual conversation was so Abbott and Costello like. Obviously, I didn't know for a while about the autocorrect. Most students might not have noticed. This one did.

Student: Prof, I was curious, is that name in your signature your Sanskrit name?

I think he means Gaurav...
Me: Yes, my first name is Sanskrit
Student: What does it mean?
Me: Prestige, pride
Student: And how is it pronounced?
Me: You've heard me say my name often. Gaurav.
Student: No, the other one
Me: Oh Sabnis, that's not Sanskrit. That's an anglicized farsi name.
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