Was sent this by a friend today.

Wow. Just wow!! IIT, IIM, and also "Art of Living". Doing gaslighting.

Push back against such cruelty by pointing out that Indians in Ukraine are also taxpayers. Embassies exist exactly for situations like these, not to promote yoga and Modi. Image
Governments are answerable to people.
People are not answerable to governments.

If supposedly "highly educated" people are focused on stanning the Indian government than stanning innocent fellow Indians stranded overseas, then they are outright fascists. No empathy at all.
You can't shirk your most basic responsibility as an embassy and then make the citizens responsible for their own continued existence.

Why exactly do you think embassies exist? And why every embassy except India got most of their people out in time?
Hello, India
Remind this assume my asshole that getting Indians out of Ukraine is not some "humanitarian grounds" thing.

It is the fundamental right of an Indian. Image
How can Modi pretend to be Vishwaguru and then tell Indians stranded in Ukraine, you do you. And we will send @JM_Scindia to grope young women and start chants praising Modi.
Can you imagine the level of insecurity sanghis have to just randomly put Lekhi there for a photo op forcing sleepless students to thank her?

That's all modi knows. Put his lackeys in place where they get peer pressured thank you's.

Sanghis are stupid.

I'm old enough to remember when the government of India was into governing India. #acchedin #NewIndia
Question for @PMOIndia since you're acting like rescuing Indians from war zones is not your job. Then what is? What is the purpose of @narendramodi if he can't even do this basic governing duty right? Generating carbon dioxide and methane?

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Mar 6
True. I hope they go the way of Vietnam and become a legit peaceful destination where former enemies hang out and eat together. It is such a gorgeous country.
Not overnight, obviously. Taliban in go carts are still Taliban. Vietnam went through a rough internal war after the Americans left. But eventually the people sorted it out. Which countries tend to do if the superpowers leave them alone.
Look at South America. It was so extremely violent in the last century when soviets, CIA, DEA kept interfering in every possible country they could imagine.

Last 15 years or so, generally peaceful. Colombia, Chile are tourist destinations, unimaginable in the 90s.
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Mar 6
Sigh, my mind is also split like this. I've dreamed of visiting Vietnam for decades, for the nature, people, and of course food. But I've also dreamed of visiting the Galapagos since I read Origin of the Species.

Korea and Alaska are admittedly newer bucket list entries.
Both are teenage crushes.
It was during a late night rain break in some test cricket that I came across Full Metal Jacket on the local cable channel.
Omg, y'all remember that from the 90s? When local cable providers had there own "channel" with a schedule and all?
Anyway, this movie blew my mind. I had only seen "patriotic" war movies till then. I was like, whoa what is this? Then Alka or Vijay talkies had Platoon playing. Watched that. Really got into Vietnam. Scoured World Book, Britannica, etc. No internet in those days.
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Anyone else in the tri-state area notice that 90% liquor stores seem to be Desi owned nowadays even in the tiniest rural towns? Wonder what the structural back story here is. The Gujju domination of motels was very much because of informal community financing & networking. Image
And the Gujju motel domination isn't as widespread in the US as it was even a decade ago. Cos kids of motel owners, like our own @k_rupal, go for better paying white collar jobs. Running a motel is a very demanding job.

Lots of central American & African Americans now.
A motel is a great business to run for fresh off the plane working class immigrants without advanced degrees. You can do it as a family, get free housing, save money, and just manage the logistics and front office. Frugality is key because it's a low margin business.
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BJP will lose Uttar Pradesh
Lol so many 2 rupee troll bhakts going "TAKE SCREENSHOTS!!!"

So touchy! Over a simple opinion! Do they not even realize how thin skinned and petty they are getting to be so upset about me just saying their party will lose an election?

Utha le re, Uttar Pradesh
Can you imagine the state of the discourse in India if even saying something like a party will lose an election next week is enough send the ruling party's online goons into paroxysms of rage?

Do these people not get blood pressure tests regularly? Kitna rotlugiri!
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Mar 6
Did they at least get a Rajgira Laadu? That's what they used to give us in Pune in my childhood when we were forced to be props for politicians.
Fun fact about this Pune Metro. Mudizi and Fadvya announced it would be finished in 2019. Hoping that will help the extremely stupid and corrupt Fadvya win a second term.

But Gadkari diverted funds & attention to finish a small section of Nagpur Metro instead.
Remember that the true seat of sanghi power is Nagpur. Gadkari, hoping that if BJP didn't win clear majority in 2019, he'd be the consensus NDA PM candidate, went all in on that Nagpur Metro stretch that has barely any foot traffic.

As opposed to Kothrud, very bottlenecked.
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Switching modes from yelling at fascists to loving the Catskills and the new land, here's another glimpse. Mutuals will always have a free campsite here. And so much free firewood!
If I follow you on Twitter, all you need to do is DM me and I'll give you the address and the directions for free camping in the Catskills. 😌
Been thinking of giving Marathi names to different sections of our new land. And for the area we designated as a place where we will store all the fallen wood, I initially thought वडारवाडी.

Which literally just means lumber yard in English

But used as a pejorative in Marathi 😞
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