Today my best friend's 11 year old asked "what was the first Superbowl #HalftimeShow you saw?"

Prince!

Twas 2007. I didn't understand the sport at all. I was told one Peyton fellow would win and he did. But I was watching it mostly for Prince.

That silhouette!! 🥰
Hehe, I watched that super bowl as a first year marketing PhD student home alone, sitting on the carpeted floor of an apartment I shared with 2 other dudes. I was randomly supporting Chicago cos Home Alone. 😂😂

Today I can't imagine every supporting the Bears!
But yeah, I still remember that cold 2007 day in State College, when none of my Desi friends wanted to watch the game with me. Maybe @ProfMaterial or @pratik_mutha would have been available. But I watched that game alone.

And loved it!

The spectacle. The ads. The Prince!
If you had told 2007 Gaurav that 2023 Gaurav would be a jaded tragic 🏈 fan instead of a sneering skeptic, he would have asked you what you're smoking.

And yet here I am. Saying 🏈 is the real football. 😂
I was such a dork! I was writing down notes about the super bowl ads to discuss with my advisor on Monday.

YouTube was very new in 2007 and ads weren't automatically posted there like they are now.

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Feb 21
The more sanghis and HAF types whine against caste being covered by discrimination statutes in more and more jurisdictions, we will see more and more jurisdictions cover caste in their discrimination statutes.😁

Sanghis have a fundamental blind spot on how civil rights work.
All the whines being put forth by almost exclusively savarna HAF types against the #Seattle ordinance are remarkably identical to the objections raised against ANY anti discrimination statutes in the almost 60 years since the Civil Rights Act was passed. All empty sophistry.
It is telling that the HAF & sanghi objections to the Seattle ordinance or California policy change on including caste in the statutes almost exactly mirror what Strom Thurmond types said in the 50s & 60s in opposing laws against racist or gender discrimination.
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Feb 21
Today is my Naturalization anniversary. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
My mom and my wife both laugh when I say "India is my mother and America is my wife".
But that is the essence of my dual identity.

India is what I was born into, America is what I fell in love with. And at least so far, the two identities are compatible. No contradictions needed. Beyond a point.
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Feb 21
This.

A couple of years ago, a family I know had to move back to India after a decade in the US. Their son is clearly on the spectrum, most likely Asperger's, where he's really brilliant at some stuff and really not great at other "normal" stuff. His NY teachers got it....
There is at least some real systemic awareness in the US of learning disabilities in young kids, late bloomers etc. I remember this kid's dad was himself a late bloomer, cognitively speaking. Has had a great career and life post age 10, but like @pjux, still mindful of it.
This kid moving back to India was so much cause for anxiety for us all, because we didn't want him to end up in the India we grew up in. Especially moving from the very nice tri state area schools.

His parents were able to find a compatible school thankfully.
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Feb 21
I wonder how long @d_jaishankar will be able to just ignore his father's unhinged bluster that keeps growing. SJ has made a career out of personal attacks. And gets more batshit.

I wonder if he's actively sabotaging his children's careers for moving to America.
If their fields of work were unrelated, it's one thing. But @d_jaishankar very much works in domains where his father has clear influence. Textbook conflict of interest questions arise.

And unlike the Reagan kids, Dhruv doesn't admit to disagreements with his father, if any.
I've been following Dhruva's work since well before his father became the EAM. For a long time after, I didn't know they were related.

But this is not something that you can just stay silent on and hope goes away.

And when you lampoon all other despots but one, it's noticed.
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Feb 21
Oh those kinda bros know no border when it comes to crying about wokism. They will go seek out outrage.

A few years ago, Desi bros were OUTRAGED that NYU removed watermelon & fried chicken from a black history month cafeteria menu after protests from some black students...
Living very close to the university and having read more US history than the bros, I tried to tell em why the watermelon imagery, the fried chicken fetishizing, grape soda etc have very real horrific connotations tied to lynching. Even have biryani dog whistle parallels.
They would have none of it. It was all, to them, a case of "wokes" run riot, brainwashed college students "performatively" vilifying harmless watermelon yaar! Just watermelon!

Once a bro gets in that wokephobe mindset, borders don't matter to them.
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Feb 21
Let's end #PresidentsDay weekend with a few fun facts about the Chester Arthur presidency, because there's very little known about it and very little records survive. Which was by old Chet's design. His nickname, seriously, is The Dude President. And he was very Dudeish! Image
Chet Arthur, as he went by, was probably our first President who never actually wanted to be President. He was an old school "machine" politician from New York, part of the powerful Conkling faction of the Republican Party (which remember, was the anti slavery party then).
But as James Garfield secured the nomination for President, the infighting in the party after the graft filled Grant and Hayes presidencies threatened to tear it apart enough to cost them the election. The first couple of VP choices turned down the offer thinking they'd lose.
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