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Jun 4 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
With parents here, we made our first bhelpuri at #OurWawar. No chutneys. Just lots of onion, tomato, chilies, raw mango, and lemon.

And it was extra satisfying making it and eating it off a newspaper like in Indian parks. 😋🤤
The mothership approves
Burnt off the bhelpuri calories with this landscaping workout. A big fallen tree (I think cedar) was a tripping hazard on a trail we made. Took the axe to it. Took an hour and about 200 strokes but finally got it done. 💪

Super hard wood too! Perfect for woodworking. #OurWawar
Feeling like a total Hacksaw Jim Duggan!

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Jun 6
Yes yes, as lakhs of Hindus in June plan their August flights to US to start grad school or new jobs, with Ukraine situation making the polar route difficult, they are TOTALLY going to boycott middle eastern airlines to stan the sangh. 🤭🤭🤭 Image
I mean why do will Indian Hindus still continue to overwhelmingly prefer middle eastern airlines with reasonable prices, layover airports with plenty of other desi people to help first timers, pretty good services when they can instead fly Air India? No sanghi will I'm sure. 😂
There are some WhatsApp and LinkedIn type sanghis actually genuinely earnestly arguing that this middle east v India war of press releases could be a great opportunity to revive Air India. Turning crisis into opportunity it seems. The level of delusion!
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Jun 6
Took 6 months but finally BJP office bearers pulled a Shishupal. Given the escalating anti Muslim and anti Islam rhetoric and actions from sanghis of all positions, this clash with some middle eastern countries and peoples was inevitable.
Oh absolutely no question. People are always secondary to old books and long dead dudes.

Yes, but you can't have one without the other. For the BJP to keep hounding Indian Muslims, who have generally not done anything wrong or anti national, they have to make it about Islam itself. Sanghis have many long anti Islam screeds in stock.

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Jun 5
Dad's food tastes tend towards simplicity. Just a few ingredients that taste well, that's all he wants. Was curious to see if he would enjoy Aroma & Thyme, where it's all about fresh local ingredients.

He loved the margarita, burrata, chickpea burger, Catskills whiskey. ImageImageImage
Dad totally blew my mind by telling me that his grandpa, my great grandpa Sabnis (d. 1959) absolutely despised RSS bigots and often berated them as "akkalshunya sanghi bhattus". Hehe, berating the sangh is in my blood! 😎

Akkalshunya literally means zero brain.
"Daji used to say there are two types of RSS people. Dishonest rich people who make of for the guilt of dishonesty in making money by being overly religious, like the Birlas. Or then spoiled middle class brahmins who feel each of them is Nana Fadnavis. Akkalshunya all!"
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Jun 4
Hehe @skinnylatte, the east coast Cookie is a chocolate lab with a discerning palate for ripe strawberries. 😂😂😂 Image
Evolution is so fascinating, no? This is an 18 month old labrador retriever raised entirely in suburbia, fed only kibble and *some* human food. Nothing in her short life has taught her to tell ripe strawberries as edible and unripe ones as inedible.
She's born with it!
I know there's some recent research showing that dog breeds don't really define personalities, human owners do.

So these anecdotes are just...anecdotal. But here's the stories of 2 different dogs who've spent a day at #OurWawar, a thickly wooded Catskills forest plot.
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Jun 4
Damn, I'm nodding along and agreeing vehemently with S Jaishankar! Because it is a position pretty much any Indian (or Chinese or Pakistani) government would take in this situation, not just the BJP. That war sucks, but this is between y'all. Keep your fence.
I think because for a change he was thinking and talking on behalf of India and not on behalf of the BJP.
America and Russia were
-Frosty during the Bolshevik years & red scare
- Pals when fighting Hitler
- Then enemies who built 1000s of nukes while lecturing others who tried
- Then friends for about 20 yrs
- Now frosty again

Can't blame Asia for sitting on the sidelines.
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Jun 4
It's weekend so it's #OurWawar time, for the first time, with parents who've been aching to see the first property a child of theirs bought hehe. They kept comparing the Catskills ecology, water, and general everfresh feel to the Kashmir Valley (which they visited in 2018). ImageImageImageImage
When I filled up a bottle with the stream water and they drank it, both instantly said, tastes like the stream water in Kashmir.

We got the fire going and Mom's first order was, of course, bhutta! What better way for Indian Americans on American Indian land to start camp? ImageImageImageImage
The bhutta is thought of as a quintessentially Indian snack. Fire roasted corn with salt, red chilli powder.

But it's originally an American Indian snack cos both corn and chilies originated in the American first nations.
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