Xavierite~ Bibliophile~ Doctoral Fellow:King’s College~ Accidental Professor~ Leftist~ Malayali Achayan with a twist. RTs don't (necessarily) mean endorsements.
Jul 16, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Raise your sons right.
"Stop crying like a girl" is the first step towards teaching your boys patriarchy, teaching them to belittle women. From then on, they slowly snowball into misogynistic monsters we see today.
I think it’s time that we looked a bit more seriously at Modi’s foolery and idiocies. Many of the worst events in world history were not because of one man, rather caused by parade of sycophantic idiots and lunatics, who incoherently cheered for a narcissistic megalomaniac... 1
I’m more worried about the adulation that Modi is receiving; he has tapped into a primal human instinct- to fear the other. To think that you’re under constant threat from something that you don’t understand. 2
Apr 12, 2019 • 17 tweets • 10 min read
My fellow Indians, (I’m not talking to you sanghis and bhakts). Let me offer you a glimpse of what urban India has turned into
Context: a packed local train in Bombay.I enter,lackadaisical as usual, with my earphones stuffed into my ears: believe you me,you need to read this (1)
I suddenly realise that the compartment is more raucous and rowdy than usual.. I ignore it like a true blue Bombay-ite... but suddenly I can’t.. I pause my music to hear what’s happening..
Chants of ‘har har modi...’
4 urban youth not out of place in a corporate office.. (2)
