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Mar 24 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Waking up to pictures from all over North America of Aurora Borealis 🥰🥰🥰

I didn't get to see them from NYC but large swathes of the country saw northern lights on the horizon in places where northern lights are never seen.

They're gonna light up your insta feeds.
Wow! Wowww!!!

Kp above 6 and even 7!!!

Oh to be in #Lapland right now!

We were there in Inari in Finland one March when the Kp was close to 5 and we got all night auroras.

Above 6 and 7 means wowwww! Image
From this month 5 years ago when our #Lapland visit coincided with a Kp 4-5 solar storm.

What's happening currently is 6 and 7 plus! That's like virtual reality setting level high northern lights activity!

Of course!

Apparently this solar storm is so big that auroras were even seen in Perth Australia! And brighter in Hobart than ever before.
Yeah, looking at the Kp index data, we are probably going to have more aurora pictures on social media today than the entire history of social media combined. Huge swathes of populations saw lights last night, northern and southern. And may continue.

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Mar 26
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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Mar 25
Have you ever wondered how a Jamaican Jerk Chicken Biryani would taste?

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
As it marinates, wondering whether to make it Dum Pukht style, chicken slow cooked with the rice like in Hyderabad or Maharashtra. Or Awadhi style, where the chicken is fully cooked before mixing with the rice.

Hmm, given that jerk chicken is roasted, I need Mailard action.
I think I'm gonna do a hybrid of the two methods.

To get the high temperature reactions from the jerk sauce and get the chicken skins brown, I'll fry it on high heat until the outsides are nice, crisp, jerky looking. And at half cooked, put it in a dum pukht in the oven. 💡
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Mar 25
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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Mar 25
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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Mar 25
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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Mar 24
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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