Indeed. For a #90skid from India, no celebrity crush holds up as comprehensively as Sushmita Sen. Anyone else remember that event she held for underprivileged children in May 2014 & reporters instead asked her about Modi & marriage instead of her philanthropy? Lemme find it.
Can't find it, but here's how I remember it. Sush is there with a bunch of underprivileged kids, wanting to talk about them. But reporters are like what about Modi modi modi modi. She politely tries to steer them back to the point. Trying to get them to focus on the kids.
But when she does try to steer them to the point, next question is, why aren't you married and why don't you have biological children?
The restraint she showed in not screaming at that reporter. That itself is worth her being miss universe in all the universes. 😍
Ooh ooh found it! Goddess she is.
"during the event, sushmita talked about Narendra Modi and also her marriage plans" the anchor goes in true Godi media fashion.
Nope. She was randomly asked by Godi media about Modi and marriage. And she responded with admirable restraint.
Oh yes now I remember the full context!
It was an event to celebrate 20 years of her winning the crown. Which was a HUGE moment for India in 1994 for sure. Sush being Sush is trying to talk about actual causes and good work & kids.
Godi media is obsessed with Modi & marriage.
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Dude lived life on his own terms and knew he was lucky to get to do it. That's the lesson I take away from this. Always be grateful for your privilege every day because who knows when you die!
I still haven't fully processed Warne's untimely death. I was hoping to berate his often lazy commentary for decades trying to pressure him into being better than he was at commentary, because he was indeed better than he was at commentary.
And mate just dies?
Unfair!
As someone who obsessively watches test cricket, it was so hilariously obvious from his commentary when Warnie had a late night. 🤭🤭
He would just go to the same old wells & just rely on banter. Clearly just relying on his immense intellect to get through the day.
Followers sending requests on @LinkedIn, please don't.
I'm not logging in until they do something about how it's turned into a putrid swamp of Modi worshiping Hindu supremacist agenda without any moderation or oversight.
Students stranded in Ukraine are vilified there!
I refuse to log into @LinkedIn until they come up with an clear vision on what they are going to do about the hijacking of the platform by lackeys of Prime Minister Modi.
Can't log into LinkedIn these days without some sanghi bashing some minority.
On LinkedIn!
The bizarre transmogrification of @LinkedIn from a very plain vanilla business networking site into a vehicle for pushing fascist propaganda messages Facebook style is a great demonstration of how the "growth" instinct screws up things beyond a point.
How about I do a long thread of all of Annihilation of Caste, 280 characters at a time?
I seriously feel that if more Indians and even more human beings read Annihilation of Caste, the world would be a much much better place.
Even my closest most liberal friends haven't read Annihilation of Caste.
Bommins will read the randomest book but not Annihilation of Caste, even after agreeing superficially that reading Annihilation of Caste is integral to annihilating caste.
As a progressive Indian American, AOC means two very different entities that I love and that taught me a lot
Annihilation of Caste
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
The Congresswoman @AOC does remind me a bit of Babasaheb Ambedkar in terms of her intellectual and ideological clarity.
Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez is quite literally THE most influential member of the House in this century. And the simple empirical proof is how obsessed fox news types are with her.
She shows the importance of staking out ideological positions unabashedly. And she keeps winning.
Congresswoman AOC shows a prescient long-term understanding of political activism and "marketing" that is rare.
I know people love to hate her for not being as centrist as they would like.
But her job or her role is not to appease random centrists around the world.
I just finished a Zoom call with a group of grad students scheduled to lead a case study analysis in my Marketing Analytics class tomorrow, worth 15% of their eventual grade.
All from India. Mostly Maharashtra. Like me.
My main message to them was, first of all, chill.
I'm not here to "grade" you but to "educate" you, I said to them. And switched to colloquial Hindi,
"Main idhar D-akka F-akka dene nahin baithela. Main idhar tum sabko sikhaane ke liye baithela. Jo aata woh karo, jo nahin aata, bolo merko, Prof, samjhao na."
Real education
When teaching grad courses, especially at 600 levels, which are mostly full of Indian and Chinese students, my main focus before spring break is to stress on them that I was once like them. And I remember it and get it.
For some reason, these johnny come lately sanghis think that if they switch to Hindi or Marathi, it will be too their advantage cos I'm an nri and new York and all. And it always backfires on them. 😂😂
PSA for sanghi cell. My Hindi and Marathi are very good.