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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.
Now in 2022, as the tiny section is finished years and years behind schedule (it was behind schedule even before the pandemic), Modi shows up for a photo op. The only thing he is good for. Show up for the photos and pretend it's all because of him. Though it's despite him.
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Gaurav Sabnis ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Profile picture
Mar 7
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. ๐Ÿคญ๐Ÿคญ
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.
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Mar 7
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.
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Mar 7
Exactly. Why isn't it required reading in every Indian school? India would be so much better if it were, instead of forcing students to listen to modi
I have a spring break coming up.

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.

But they read transphobe Rowling.
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Mar 7
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.
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Mar 7
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.

My first job is to try to rid them of anxiety.
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Gaurav Sabnis ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Profile picture
Mar 7
Sanghi bigots get so upset that I'm mean to them ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

PSA for sanghi cell. My Hindi and Marathi are very good.
Also this

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