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Apr 20 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
If there's only one tweet you can read in this long thread, make it this one. #StopBulldozingMuslimHouses #StopMuslimGenocideInIndia
If reading that doesn't send a chill up your spine, nothing will. It is EXACTLY describing India. But it's a 2018 article about the Holocaust
Feeling this very despondent clarity that comes with reading too much history. As that line in BSG said, all of this has happened before, all of this will happen again.

But PhD's need dissertations defended and papers need to be peer reviewed. Usually I don't have to force work.
I love my job! I've never had to work at working iykwim. But what's happening in India these days really takes its toll on some days. Like today. Where I wish I could just immerse myself in some optimistic sci fi. But deadlines.

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Apr 21
I'm a Pune boy who is glad that no violence happened during gudhipadwa processions in Maharashtra.

But also a Pune boy asking why the FUCK are there gudhipadwa processions in the first place? What part of gudhipadwa tradition involves processions?

Nothing. Zero. Image
There is nothing in Hindu canon or even Hindu traditions that requires processions or parades for Gudhipadwa, Ramnavmi, Hanuman Jayanti, Mahashivratri etc.

Those exercises are a purely political or rather a purely sanghinazi show of strength. And being weaponized every festival.
That screenshot is from this piece by @SanjayJha Image
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Apr 21
This is one of those things that makes fascism like BJP & AAP's so hard to fight. They get us so involved in factchecking their peripheral deliberate lies that few of us say the moral truth which is "so that if they are Bangladeshi or Rohingya? They are still human beings!" Image
The moment we redirect our attention to just fact checking them, they win, because they deliberately plant lies everywhere to keep us distracted.

They will never run out of lies and we will never run out of facts. But the core humanist issues get sidelined.
I'm not saying don't fact check. Do fact check. But don't keep it limited to that, because it suggests that it's okay to treat undocumented immigrants as sub human. Make sure every factcheck is accompanied by "even if they are Bangladeshi/Rohingya, you can't do this to them."
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Apr 21
Agree at least from my 2019 travels. I'm an upma connoisseur and that indigo upma was most legit for something that came from a budget airline food cart.
Sigh, now I'm thinking of the dude who won Top Chef Champion of Champions making an "upma polenta" in a way that was very eye-opening for me as a home chef. How simple techniques can elevate the most mundane food item.

Sigh, covid took him early. NYC misses Floyd Cardoz. 😭😭
I hope all the Semmas and Dhamakas and Indian Accents and aRoqas in NYC have a Floyd Cardoz memorial corner. That man did so much in America and in NYC (and even Bombay) to expand the definitions of Indian food. He was poised for the new decade when covid took him from us.
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Apr 21
The nakedly pro-rich nature of the libertarian deregulation movement in the US was exposed during Trump's deregulation bonanza. For all their talk of standing for Joe Sixpack, they kept in place the laws making it illegal for ranchers to butcher their own cattle. Cos Big Meat!
It is law in the US that you can't butcher the cattle you raise! For all their talk of economic freedom, Republicans oppose getting rid of this law. Whereas Democrats want to change the law and put in place a regulatory mechanism to allow ranchers to butcher their own cattle.
Because Republicans are basically working for rich people. Industrial meat calls the shots. The law in place protects their stranglehold over the meat market. It forces an extra couple of steps for a rancher wanting to sell meat locally, without the extra carbon footprint.
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Apr 21
"You say you're no longer a libertarian, but also say you're not a leftist, so aren't you by definition a centrist?"

I don't know. I've stopped trying to define myself by labels, and instead define myself by my ideals and principles. So this 🧵 is my politics. You decide labels.
I believe in inalienable human rights first and foremost, that I can derive from evolution and common sense. Rights to free speech, freedom of religion, freedom to make a living, freedom of movement in public, and freedom from arbitrary arrest, and of course freedom to live.
Each of these should be unrestricted for an individual as long as they don't infringe on one of the rights of others. Your freedom of religion for example can't interfere with the rights of others, the way right wingers do.

There are two more rights that are derived from these
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Apr 20
"Sabnis sir, quiz question for your followers. Guess the cartoonist. 🫣"

Ram is saying - you've ruined the country and are now screaming my name! People had asked you for Ramrajya not Ram Mandir.

The signature is right there to identify the cartoonist, hehe. Image
Of course it is this guy. Image
What is Raj Thackeray's current position on whether the sun rises in the east or not?
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