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Mar 24 10 tweets 4 min read
This dude put it so well! The anchor was stunned by the truths.

Non-sanghi Indians have been saying this for years now. Every such tantrum makes India look weak. Petulant. Not vishwaguru but more like insecure Russia, whose GDP is the size of America's defense budget.
The idea that protestor vandalism must be treated like terrorism is so bizarre to someone in London or New York or Paris or really anywhere in the West, that this whole high commission tantrum is just showing India as petty and weak.

Indian embassies have faced actual terrorism!
Indian embassies and consulates in Afghanistan were routinely targeted by terrorists and India's response was dignified and strong.

Here a couple of dozen protestors pulled down a flag and broke a window. In London. Which is protest central. And this tantrum? Ugh.
A big part of being a global superpower is that you need to be ready for your flag to be desecrated by those who don't like you. 🤷🏽🤷🏽

I mean if your skin is too thin to not even stomach one dude taking down one flag, you're really not ready for the big leagues.
An actual superpower would respond to this with "badey badey deshon mein..🤷🏽" cos they know they want the London cops and the security establishment to respond seriously if there is an actual terrorist threat or serious attack.

This is boy crying wolf over a few vandals.
A couple of dozen protestors making a lot of noise and trying publicity stunts outside an embassy in London isn't cause for extra security. By equating it with IEDs and terrorism, you're destroying India's credibility.
Abey sanghi philaavar-pot, why are y'all just asking questions. Go there & support #FreeScotland

Btw this is a pic of the Queen's house in Scotland after she died. Notice the Scottish flag there?

Unfurling a Scottish flag on a British building isn't the flex you think it is. ImageImage
At the very least, since the barricades are gone, at least go spray paint a Scottish flag on the British HC wall. What goes of whose father if you do that? You know the blue in the union jack is the Scottish flag, right? Of course you don't!

So seriously, go! Do it!
All that will happen if sanghis hold #FreeScotland or Free Northern Ireland protests outside the British embassy is British will say tut tut pip pip and move on.

Scotland has its own parliament. You really wanna compare Khalistan to Scotland? You really wanna go there? 🤦🏽‍♂️ ImageImage
Cos #FreeScotland is an inevitability. That the British government is theoretically open to. There was even a referendum. And there will be one eventually, despite the court blocking it.

You want to put the Khalistan movement on par with the Scottish movement? Really?

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Senator is getting full attention of the Sanghi IT cell. Look at his replies and QTs. Such ridiculous attacks on him too. "You have a Pakistani friend and have been to Pakistan ergo you aren't a friend of India".

Great strategy, sanghis, alienate people who want to be friends.
Exactly! What possibly can the BJP gain from flooding the Twitter account of the sitting senator from Maryland who is on the powerful foreign relations committee, just for him expressing a very understandable opinion?

Just reflective ₹2 tweeting.

Malware Malviya has created this ugly mercenary troll machine that just goes hammer and tongs after anyone and everyone saying anything critical of the BJP. Might work on individual who get sick of the hate. It's not gonna work on a US Senator. 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️ His staff will notice, is all.
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No?

Well, I have and today, I will find out.

Marinated bone-in drumstick and thigh pieces in yogurt, minced ginger garlic, and my favorite Jamaican jerk sauce.

We shall return to it in 2 hours. Image
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Hmm, given that jerk chicken is roasted, I need Mailard action.
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There are so many sanghi society sockpupppet accounts on Twitter that are obviously tasked with trolling and continuously insulting specific women. This account for example is primarily to troll @minicnair & @Sanginamby. Very similar repetitive bigoted comments. ImageImageImageImage
And even when the account is not trolling Mini or Sangita, it is almost obsessively trolling women accounts.

It's an example of how the sangh weaponizes misogyny online. There are many accounts solely dedicated to trolling Rana, Shehla, Swara.

It's beyond dystopian.
Oh yes, big time. And it also helps rally the incel energy to their side.

From my analysis, I've seen that any outspoken progressive Indian woman on Twitter with more than 20K followers has a bunch of dedicated sockpupppet accounts just chipping away.

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You know, you can draw a line from American Desi to Mindy Kaling receiving the National Medal of the Arts.

A couple of years ago, I had recommended the movie to Gen Z American Desi students who watched it and had so many fascinating thoughts!
The first reaction was "OMG how is it that my parents and cousins showed me so many crappy Bollywood movies but never showed me this! 😭😭"

It's a fairly standard college rom com template but was applied very well to the Indian American community. Mostly still holds up.
We first discussed parts where it doesn't hold up. Many jokes that make you cringe in the 2020s. But were normal in 2000.

Kal Penn's wannabe black guy character that drops the n-word a lot, probably wouldn't be written today.

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TIL that Waiting for a Visa by Dr. Ambedkar is used as a text book in Columbia!

Good!

It's one of things I only read when I was 30 or so and wondered why it was not required reading for me in school in India.

Do read it. It's fairly short.

columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pri…
Really, read it. Especially if you're a brahmin or brahmin adjacent. Just read it. Won't take more than half an hour.

columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pri… ImageImageImageImage
"My five years of staying in Europe and America had completely wiped out of my mind any consciousness that I was an untouchable, and that an untouchable wherever he went in India was a problem to himself and to others."

This is such powerful and crisp writing!
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That bright green and that orange and that scene in the trailer.

Literally the second I saw it, I was like, oh, this is very tactical chum for the sanghi sharks. And they'll only only threaten srk and deepika. They never threaten producers. Chopra's rake in the money.
How could anyone in 2023 India who was putting that trailer together, with at least a few hundred grey cells in their head, not see that scene and instantly predict IT cell hate & sanghi outrage?

They bet on the majority of Indians, who are not sanghi, to rally in support. 🤷🏽
Have y'all forgotten the Padmavat template? That was 5 years ago. A politician openly put out a bounty for beheading Deepika. Over a film that isn't even remotely insulting of a queen WHO NEVER EVEN EXISTED!

Sanghi hate is always good for box office business.
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