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Mar 29 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I can neither confirm nor deny the rumors that I'm under consideration for US Ambassador to the Republic of Maharashtra.
So many Indians having full meltdown over a kid from Bangladesh playing around with a map! 😂😂

How fragile is your idea of nationhood that 20 seconds on an image app is enough to shake it to it's core! 🙄🤷🏽‍♂️

Stratospheric insecurity, this!

Is it just me or was Indian Twitter not this touchy back in the day? Something like this in blogging days would not have brought an avalanche of hate in the comments, but jokes in response and different maps of our own. Somehow India seemed less insecure then.
For years, @NadjaNadika @aadisht & I made elaborate plans to divide India into a Greater Punjab, Maratha Federation, and Dravida Republic. Negotiations broke down over Gujarat. No one wanted it. Then in a stunning twist, I married a Gujju. So it had to be me. 😭😭
This screaming sectarian 70 years old insults at each other was limited to Yahoo chat and YouTube comments. #NewIndia means it is everywhere! The speed with which India lost its republican bearings is still hard to believe! Less than 8 years it took.

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Today's pre dawn walk 🧵 is about this phenomenon I've experienced in recent years that maybe you've experienced too. I call it Ideological Catfishing! Fell for it a couple of times and I know a few others have too.
Not actual catfishing tho that happens too, without success.
Catfishing is when someone pretends to be romantically interested in you or sexually attracted to you online using a fake persona. It's been happening for ages.
I've gotten those attempts for years. But those are useless against me cos I'm just not catfishable! Happily married!
Since Rupal & I got together, I've really truly genuinely not been interested in another woman (or man) at all! So when I get random flirty messages, genuine or not, I just do well left. Most are obviously catfishing attempts to metoo me or something. I'm not that attractive 🤭.
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There's a quote in the Smithsonian Holocaust Museum that I don't exactly recall but goes something like -

"For years we thought if we let ourselves be nudged slightly on this one thing, maybe they'll leave us alone, until we found ourselves nudged into Dachau". Image
Don't you dare be gaslit into putting the onus on the women. They already chose education. That's why they are in college. It's the college not actually doing the educating. And the government and courts not doing their jobs. Or rather instigating it.
Do not try to rationalize what is a clear Nazi type move and is even causing anti hijab hate crimes from Hindus in Bahrain!
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I'm feeling major FOMO about not having been on the Pune Metro. You have no idea how much it means to someone from my generation who grew up in Vanaz and went to school in Erandwane & Deccan. You have no idea what a tiny crappy road Paud Road was well into the 90s!
I'm from the generation that was gaslit into thinking that the tiny टेंगूळ (bump) at Paud Phata was a "flyover". I remember my generally laconic civil engineer dad telling everyone he met, "that is so not a flyover! What is it flying over? Just one intersection! 😡"
I've taken PMT buses, bicycles, motor bikes, cars on that road in my young days. I can picture the road from 1987 until now in a video of sorts, time lagged. I remember the huge banyan trees, the original Dashbhuja Temple. And the suffocating exhaust throughout post 2000.
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Mar 29
Sharing a request from someone in the Bay Area. If you have suggestions for a therapist who fits the bill, please reply here or DM me.
A well meaning friend politely DMed "to say the therapist must be brahmin itself sounds subconsciously casteist".

I did wonder about that for a second. But knowing how much of a role context plays in therapy, I'm pretty sure it's about getting to the pain point quicker.
My therapist is awesome and I wouldn't change her out for anyone, but sometimes it does take me a lot of the session just giving a history lesson to fully explain why news from India bothers me and sometimes guilt trips me. I don't mind it. Helps me process it myself.
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Mar 29
The hours and hours and hours I've spent telling fellow bommin boys the full story of Savarkar. In his own words! His bigotry and fascism were in his own words as was his hatred for ritualistic Hinduism of the kind BJP pushes today.

And they still won't see it!!
Literally, they minimize the one good thing about the man, his scientific temperament re things like beef and temples and rituals, and embrace his bigotry and shallow exclusivit ideas of nationhood full scale!
It makes an impact on some. Those who genuinely didn't know the full story. And they change their minds.

You can identify the sleeper bhakts by whether they still try to argue that it's okay to deify him and he was a great man and what not. Nothing will change their mind.
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People searching & screenshotting evidence of my past problematic opinions, such as Vajpayee stanning, hot takes on Islam, reservations, bahujan politics, feminism, climate change, tax cuts, healthcare etc, just reply here and I'll find them and tweet them myself. Way easier.
I post a LOT! There's a lot of stuff over 20 years on my blog and Twitter account. You'll waste too much time combing through them.

I have good search tools and skills and a good memory, especially about my past mistakes and horrible takes. I can find them for you faster.
For the first 30 years or so of my life, I was in denial about my ingrained prejudices. I thought just because I had never explicitly discriminated against anyone, "all people are the same to me". That not wanting to be bigoted makes you non bigoted automatically.
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