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22 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I hope more people start thinking this way because I'm seeing an amazingly high amount of schadenfreude against privileged brats thinking when this is downright fascism.
A republic without habeas corpus is no longer a republic. That's the issue at stake here. Not your personal dislikes in Bollywood.
This is also fundamentally different from the thousands if not lakhs of detainees around India who most often don't get their day in court or can't afford good legal representation.

This is the best help money can buy. Court dates. But still, dude is in jail. It's not about SRK.
It is a shot across the bow to pretty much all public figures in India. Be effusive in your praise and support of us, or else.

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Gaurav Sabnis 🇮🇳🇺🇸 Profile picture
23 Oct
Ugh, it's another weekend where this artificially created scarcity of an #INDvPAK "cricket" match at an ICC event is hyped, elevated, fetishized to disgusting levels.

The last real cricket match between India & Pakistan was played in 2007. When the rivalry was a real rivalry.
The last time India and Pakistan played a real cricket match, Sourav Ganguly scored a double century (and then wisely retired). Today, he is the figurehead president of Indian cricket (as Pappu Shah makes real decisions).

That's how long ago it's been. In real terms.
I'm not saying "real cricket" means just test cricket. I consider the epic bilateral ODI series played between India and Pakistan in the late 90s and early to mid 00s as real cricket too. Because they were part of the natural cricket cycle, the normal calendar. Real rivalry.
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23 Oct
It is kinda like the phantom of the opera. A woman is tormented for 3 hours between never ending songs by a psychopath who thinks he owns her.
This is true. Until DDLJ, parental approval was not glamorized or put on a pedestal as something to be sought out in choosing your life partner. And foisted North India specific patriarchy on all India & even otherwise progressive diaspora.

Until DDLJ came along, parental objection was almost universally treated like something the parents were wrong in insisting on. From offering "blank cheque" to hiring thugs to threatening self harm.

DDLJ said even a London couple should get parents' permission in everything.
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22 Oct
I miss the old Subnis Wada in Indore. It was a bit like Winterfell meets Belvedere Castle. As a kid, running around exploring it during the vacations was so much fun. Then came the mid-90s and the family sold it to a developer. Now an ugly shopping complex stands there.
I don't care that a shopping complex stands there. That's how the world works. My dad's generation moved out of Indore to growing urban centers like Bombay, Pune, Delhi, Bangalore, and some abroad. The wada had to be sold.

I just hate how ugly the complex is.
I lived mainly in highway construction site temporary apartments or then urban apartments, to this day. So the seemingly infinite passages and stairways and storage rooms and trees and backlanes of the old Subnis Wada are memories from 30 years ago that are still vivid.
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22 Oct
"What does Sabnis mean"

"Anglicization of Sabnavis."

"Why did it have to be anglicized?"

"Ancestors worked for Holkars so dealt with Brits a lot. Like how Scindia was easier to say than Shinde."

"Wait, Scindia are Shinde?"

"Yes!"

"Shinde!?"

I'm amazed how many don't know!
Also Dubey, Chaubey etc. Some Brit sahib went, croikey, Dwee-way-dee, that's a mouthful! I'm just gonna call you... Dubey, you Chaubey, that's much easier, don't you agree Lieutenant Archibald Thingletonberry-Postlethwaite?

Quite right, sir!
Do CBSE textbooks refer to Mahadji from the 18th century as Scindia or Shinde? Growing up in Maharashtra at least, it was written as Shinde. And Marathi newspapers like Sakal still make it a point of writing it as Shinde.
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21 Oct
In which @cricketingview uses simple objective data to make a great observation, but people hate it because it doesn't gel with the dramatic sports media and sports social media narrative.

Our failing as a species is that we value drama above facts.

cricketingview.substack.com/p/all-captains…
A culture so deeply into hero worship is bound to react testily when someone just uses simple numbers and facts to show that their heroes were perhaps not as exceptional as generally thought. Image
This bit by @cricketingview reminds me of when I try to explain the Nash Equilibrium to students.

But the simple fact is that if most cricket fans truly got what Kartikeya is saying, there would not be much cricket analysis. Or any sports analysis. Cos no drama. Image
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21 Oct
If you're a non-Indian who follows me, Indian democracy is at that stage where the govt continues to jail a 23 year old son of the biggest Bollywood superstar for attending a party with drugs hoping that his being Muslim will distract their masses from a 3 metric tons drug bust.
Let me put it in terms my American liberal friends will understand. The Indian govt is currently doing everything Trump would, if he could do whatever he wanted.
The Indian Parliament or the Indian Supreme Court should just make it explicit that there is no habeas corpus in India anymore.
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