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BBC | Presenter | Radio | TV | DJ | In ❤ with #Global #World #SouthAsian #Desi & #BritishAsian Music. Obsessed with #Politics #Tech & #Space Insta @bobbyfricton
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This is how Sikhs roll. My undying admiration for all these groups & charities who spend time DOING rather than TALKING.🖤
The Sikh community in
#Gravesend
has come together to make fresh hot food for lorry drivers stuck on the
#M20
.
More than 1,450 lorries remain stuck in
#Kent
unable to leave Britain due to a travel ban imposed by France. Keep it up
@Khalsa_Aid
💕
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I had this racial slur thrown at me & got physical beats by racists for my entire childhood.
Genuinely upset that
@KSI
(a guy my children love) did this & thought it was funny. The rest of them laughing can go f**k themselves too.
People dehumanising brown people like it normal
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This video filmed at the Delhi Border during recent protests has my Sufi heart in tears of joy.
You'll never get a more perfect distillation of what Sikhism stands for. The crowd chants the multiple names that different religions have for God.
"Recognize the human race as one"
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Celebrated my Mum & Dads 50th Golden Anniversary tonight.
Can I get an "Oi Oi" for the first generation of immigrants who literally upended their lives, lived through racism stamping on them like a concrete block & are still my smiling, laughing optimistic role models & heroes!
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This guy is an embarrassment to all British Asians.
@jessphillips
is probably one of the best MPs in the house of commons, a true brummie & a massive friend to the entire Brit Asian community.
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Think of how many South Asian heritage people there are in th UK.
Think of how long we have been in the UK & the amount of blood, sweat & tears we've given.
Then look at your TV, listen to the radio & look at British Culture in 2020.
OUR STORIES & LIVES ARE INVISIBLE.
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"When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization."
- Daniel Webster
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Dear TV commissioners,
Can you stop spending MILLIONS on TV programmes about India where white people visit & talk about:-
1. The Raj/Colonialism
2. Railways
3. Yoga
4. A land of many extremes
5. Bollywood
The middle class euro centric narrative is just embarrassing now.
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Female ✔
Black ✔
South Asian ✔
Vice President of the USA ✔
#KamalaHarris
#KamalaHarrisVP
#USElection2020
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LOOK!
The faces, images & social class of the people I come from. My heritage & OUR COLLECTIVE BRITISH HISTORY. 🖤
Thank You
#SteveMcQueen
for this, tucked within your
#SmallAxe
series & opus.
#Mangrove
Ps. It's strong visual power is because we rarely see these images on TV
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Going to a Gurdwara for the 1st time since way before Covid.
Looking forward to the music & the calm feeling I always get sitting in one.
I might not be the best Sikh in the world but my heart already feels happy. ❤
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It's a wrap...for me at least. Massive thanks to
@RanveerOfficial
@FarOutAkhtar
@ZoyaAkhtarOff
for making me feel welcome in India. Great passion begets great art & the passion being put into
#GullyBoy
is f**king next level. Good Luck guys. ❤❤
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Cutting off the Internet? In a Democracy?
India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi
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**LISTEN** If you think
@RanveerOfficial
is one of the greatest actors in India...well wait till you hear him rap!
#RanveerTheRapper
#SpittingBars
#GullyBoy
#Truth
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36 years ago today me & my family cowered in a tiny locked room in New Delhi India whilst a crazed mob threw stones, set fire to the house & tried to break in to murder us.
They weren't successful that day & every day lived since has been in defiance of them.
#1984SikhGenocide
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💥ALERT💥
@iambohemia
LIVE on my show NOW!!!!
#NoFilter
with the OG DON DADDY of Desi Rap.
Listen on
@bbcasiannetwork
&
@BBCSounds
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💥DOWNLOAD & STREAM💥
My 'In The Studio' for
@bbcworldservice
on the legend
@arrahman
A 30 minute deep chat about music making & spirituality.
Download here👇🏾
Also check this clip of him talking about
@nusratofficial
&
@itspetergabriel
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Are we really having to explain that P*ki is a racist term!!!?? This is a joke right?? Do some white people need it spelled out?? Whats happening in the homes my white brothers & sisters are growing up in??
How can you grow up in the UK & not know this?? 🤯
The word p*ki has come back into the public eye, so we thought it might be useful to give a brief overview of the words racist history.
A THREAD 👇🏽🧵
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Sidhu Moose Wala shot dead.
The very definition of the word GAMECHANGER in the South Asian / Panjabi music world.
I'm honestly speechless & unbelievably sad 😔
#RipSidhuMooseWala
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Had a good cry yesterday. Feel great now. Never try to hold back your tears...especially if you're male. Depression can sometimes be unreleased tears poisoning you slowly from the inside.
#mentalhealth
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This is your daily reminder that if you are of British Asian/ South Asian heritage here in the UK there is almost no chance you'll end up in front of the screen/microphone in mainstream Radio, TV, the Music Industry, or Entertainment in general.
WE HAVE TO CHANGE THIS.
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I didn't know this guy like most of us...but i read his note below, posted before he took his life. 😔
Its a WORLDWIDE EMERGENCY!
Men need help, love, empathy & understanding. Please ask, feel, understand the men in your life & help them break out of their isolation
#ripdeepy
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We have lost a Titan.
A monumental figure in our musical cultures history.
A veritable Queen...In a culture that celebrates Kings.
Lata was, and will always be the voice of India.
#RIPLataji
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Massive Congratulations to
@rizwanahmed
for his 1st Oscar!!! 💥💥👏🏽
My British South Asian Brother winning an Oscar for a British South Asian story with a British South Asian cast!!
A seminal & emotional moment in our British Asian history.
#LongGoodbye
wins Best Short Movie.
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Paki Bashing/Racism in the 70s, being in India 1984 & nearly being murdered in the Sikh Genocide, coming of age during Prince's Purple Reign, Bhangra, Days Gigs, then Acid/Rave Culture, Indie, Hedonism, The Asian Underground, becoming a Radio 1 DJ
Ond day I'll tell you my story
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I couldn't make the wrap party
@RanveerOfficial
but I was there in spirit! Congrats & you keep spitting bars for the stars! ✊🔥💥
#GullyBoy
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INDIAN RAP X UK GRIME
This DESI movement ain't stopping anytime soon.💣💥
@VivianDivine
x
#Dutchavelli
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🚨🚨PUMP UP THE BHANGRA🚨🚨
👀
Watch this short trailer for my
#BritishAsian
documentary 'Pump Up The Bhangra: The Sound Of Asian Britain' >>
On this week, 10pm Friday 24th August on
@BBCFOUR
& 11.40pm Sunday 26th August on
@BBCTwo
!
Watch it & share widely!!!
@bbcasiannetwork
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Coming up on my
@bbcasiannetwork
show in a few mins, my TRACK OF THE WEEK 'Diamonds by
@VidyaVox
&
@ArjunArtist
> Vidya LIVE on my show too!
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This is your monthly reminder that even though people of South Asian heritage make up approx 7% (maybe more) of the UK population WE ARE ALMOST INVISIBLE IN ENTERTAINMENT, CULTURE, FILM, THEATRE, NON NEWS TV & RADIO.
Theres a reason for this & it's not because we aren't trying.
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In another timeline Prince played
#Glastonbury
in 2014 and did what came to be regarded as the greatest gig in the history of music.
Tonight we would've been watching him straight after
#Bowie
with tears of joy & sadness for both of them.
If only eh?
@emilyeavis
@laurenlaverne
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Why don't we have Desi food at our main rail hubs?
I want a freshly cooked Paratha & Anda Bhurji (Masala scrambled eggs) when I roll into Euston later on!!
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In 2017 I started playing So High by
@iSidhuMooseWala
& it was instantly obvious how radical he was & how he was essentially inventing a new form of Panjabi music.
At first many hated him, then he conquered them & they switched.
Mediocrity always wants to destroy Genius.
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My hearts breaking 💔
South Asian brothers & sisters, we are cut from the same cloth, same blood & same DNA.
Feel the ❤️ for one another within you. No future here if we don't unite.
Ignore the incels, angry men, politicians, priests, religious & community leaders.
Spread ❤️
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Mt parents have finally made it back home on a repatriation flight.x
The are now Quarantined.
I cant even begin to think how those of you still stuck (across the world) & your families here in the UK feel today. Keep the fight on!
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This had me in tears. 😥
I would do ANYTHING to see where both sides of my family came from in Pakistan & the houses my ancestors used to call their own.
I am the progeny of Sikhs from Jhelum & Gujranwala.x
Thank you so much mere pind Walio (chak 47 Mansoora PAKISTAN)🙏🙏
Iss pyar da den main kade vi nahi de sakda 🙏🙏🙏✊✊✊
#prayforpeace
@ImranKhanPTI
@sayedzbukhari
@sherryontopp
@capt_amarinder
@petervirdee
🙏🙏🙏
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I am one of Midnight's Children
Born on the Line Of Control
Looking for Peace
Fighting for survival.
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Minimum 20 years in jail for ANYONE who uses acid in an attack. Pass the law now.
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Won BEST RADIO SHOW at the
@asianmediaawards
2021 last night!!
Had a banging time surrounded by my peers, contemporaries & assorted loons.
Much love & respect to my super team of producers (pictured) & others who make magic happen & let me create in the chaos!
@bbcasiannetwork
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On
@bbcasiannetwork
NOW! I have the new
@asliyoyo
Honey Singh track plus some exciting
#AsianNetworkLive
news too!
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I'm the worst Sikh there is...most Sikhs wouldn't even class me as one & call me atheist....BUT my Father & Mother are 100%...as are my Ancestors.
I thank the universe daily that my family taught me early to "recognize the Human Race as one"
Words of Guru Gobind Singh.
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Its impossible in the 21st for ANY human to not "interfere in other countries matters".
We are a global village & i have seen people have a point of view on matters GLOBALLY for almost 2 decades.
The idea people shouldn't have a point of view on other countries politics is DEAD
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To all the South Asians refusing to take the vaccine because of a fake news forward on your WhatsApp/Facebook...
🤣
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@omarnawaz_
@KSI
Not just Pakistani. The slur is used by non South Asians in UK against anyone South Asian.x
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I want MORE South Asian Music on mainstream radio.
I want MORE South Asian Stories on mainstream TV.
I want MORE South Asian Books published & in bookshops.
My entire cultural life has only ever been spent looking through a WHITE MIDDLE CLASS PRISM.
#EndTheHegemony
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A vision of the future I hope to see within my lifetime.
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This is THE F**KING SHIT!
@humblethepoet
&
@IISuperwomanII
with
@sikhknowledge
on the beats! Watch
#IVIVI
now>>
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Amazing & seminal moment during the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony yesterday!!!
South Asian Club/Daytimer culture & Bhangra celebrated BRILLIANTLY!
@PanjabiMC1
💥💥
#Birmigham2022
#southasianheritagemonth
#britishasian
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These smart phones have created a generation of high blood pressure, overtly angry, quick to be offended, stressed out joyless bastards. These smart phones have also unified a generation globally with instant knowledge. Learn to chill out & you'll be the GREATEST GENERATION EVER!
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34 years ago today me & my family were in New Delhi when the
#SikhGenocide1984
started. We hid in a bathroom in mu Uncles house whilst a frenzied mob tried to break in & burn us alive. This is my story...and the story of my people.
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If you have kids, then they go to school where one of their friends has two mums or two dads (my kids have friends like this & they are in a state primary)...and you then call the parents of those kids "filth" or "abnormal" then I'm sorry BUT YOU SHOULD NOT BE HAVING KIDS.
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I'll tell my story about the P word one day...
For those who think
#AzeemRafiq
situation is an outlier just know that I've been called P*KI to my face thousands of times over the last 4 decades!
Thank You Azeem for speaking your truth on behalf of us all.
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Watched my Mum & Dad hug my kids today for the 1st time in nearly 10 months. Emotional...
Love is everything ❤
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My documentary about Bhangra, Day Timers & Southall/Hounslow/Birmingham in the 1980s is finished & ready for broadcast on
@BBCFOUR
in August!!! It's a celebration & a historical record. Spread the word..x
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The UK Asian/Desi music scene needs to learn about building up a scene themselves & not giving a fuck like grime did.
Do not think that White Privilege within the Euro-Centric music industry will EVER see you other than World Music or the soundtrack of a curry commercial.
#truth
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Get the vaccine my brown peoples.
Stop with the 5G, Bill Gates, Pork, Beef, Microchip Tutti! 💩
Its embarrassing now.x
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There are thousands of British citizens with South Asian heritage working in the UKs entertainment industry.
Where are they on air & on our TV screens?? WHERE ARE THEY?
(*Not talking about News reporters & presenters. For some reason the establishment LOVES us on news 🤷🏽♂️)
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**ALERT**
@Imrankhanworld
LIVE on my
@bbcasiannetwork
show tonight after 6pm! Up close & personal for an hour...SPREAD THE WORD!
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💥💥ALERT💥💥
I'm on
@bbcasiannetwork
RIGHT NOW!
My TRACK OF THE WEEK is
@SEVAQK
'How You Like It'
My LEGEND IN THE GAME is
@JasmineSandlas
& We are playing the new
@Its_Badshah
album in FULL!
#AllDesiEverything
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💥💥ALERT💥💥
🚨 I have the mighty
@Its_Badshah
on my show in the next 20 mins!!!
Listen LIVE on
@bbcasiannetwork
or later on
@BBCSounds
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@GuzKhanOfficial
@KSI
Praji! The laughter is very telling 😡😪 & I'm just gobsmacked. As so many are saying, that younger generation have all grown up together, so why are they all laughing like it ain't MASSIVELY RACIST.
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33 years ago today I went to my first live music gig. I was 15 years old & watched as the artist I adored broke through space & time with a performance that blew my teenage mind to smithereens. He showed me the future & taught me love. His name was
@prince
and to me he is God.x
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Omg! This video... ❤
It's the 73rd birth anniversary of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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"I came into the world charged with the duty to uphold the right in every place, to destroy sin and evil... the only reason I took birth was to see that righteousness may flourish, that good may live, and tyrants be torn out by their roots"
- Guru Gobind Singh Ji
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If
@munyachawawa
doesn't have his own series by the time Autumn comes I say we riot!
Also lost count of the amount of times people asked if I tan, or "well you must be used thr sun mate!"
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💥ALERT💥
#GullyBoy
The 1st movie about Indian Rap & Hip-Hop starring
@RanveerOfficial
&
@aliaa08
out 14th Feb!
I got a small cameo in it alongside most of Mumbais rap scene!
Based on
@VivianDivine
&
@NaezyTheBaA
life story
Respects to
@ritesh_sid
#ZoyaAkhtar
@FarOutAkhtar
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Think you might really like this
@RanveerOfficial
💥💣
#BohtHard
🚨 **ALERT**
'STRAIGHT OUTTA MUMBAI'
My documentary on the Indian/Bombay rap scene airs today/tonight 8pm UK time / 3pm New York time & 12.30am India time on
@bbcasiannetwork
. You can use
@bbciplayer
to hear it LIVE or for the next 30 days. SPREAD THE WORD!
#AllDesiEverything
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39 Years ago today I narrowly escaped with my life during the ANTI SIKH GENOCIDE / POGROM of 1984.
The trauma it unleashed within me still echos today. I made a documentary about those dark days & you can listen here.
#1984SikhGenocide
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💥💥BREAKING NEWS💥💥
I'm in a movie with
@RanveerOfficial
called
#Gullyboy
(It's a brief cameo)
A movie about the Indian Hip-Hop scene...erm....PRETTY FU*KING EXCITED!!!!!
Apna Time Aayega!
#GullyBoy
#14thFeb
#2019
@ritesh_sid
#ZoyaAkhtar
@FarOutAkhtar
@excelmovies
#TigerBaby
@aliaa08
@ZeeMusicCompany
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"When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization."
- Daniel Webster
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To Desi Auntys everywhere: NEVER, EVER THREATEN MY IZZAT & HONOUR AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. I AM NO LONGER A DESI MUNDA THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!
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@nazirafzal
Dearest Nazir. No Mother in this world could be as proud as she must have been of you. You've done more in one life than most could do in 10!! My condolences brother. 😢
Losing your Brother & Mother within a few months of each other must hurt so much. Sending you healing energy.
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South Asian Creatives
The system wants you at the fringes and/or invisible. The system cant deal with too many minority groups being fully beautiful, expressive & artistic.
The correct response to this is to push even harder, better, faster, stronger.
Scream your Desi truth!
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The Sufi atoms & vibrations that are embedded in Punjabs history are where my soul resides.
I am Hindu, I am Muslim & I am Sikh...I am also none of them.
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I'd like thank EVERYONE in media power who's looked at me during my career & decided that I'm the "Asian Man" who only does "Asian Music".
I will love South Asian music till I die BUT I AM SO MUCH MORE.
Fuck all the one dimensional MFs who cant see my multiplicity. You made me.
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"Tear down the mosque and temple too, break all that divides,
But do not break the human heart as it is there that God resides."
- Baba Bulleh Shah
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Currently making a documentary on the history of BHANGRA for the
@BBC
. Watching the archive footage of the pioneer generation settling in places like Southall & Smethwick has got me in floods of tears.
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I would just like to confirm that
#Hardeep
Singh Kohli
@misterhsk
does indeed kiss his male friends on their lips! He's kissed mine a few times in a purely friendly & loving way in the past & I think what
#SallyMorgan
is doing to him on
#CBB
is horrible.
#getsallyout
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It's taken me nearly 40 years to just begin to understand how my trauma from Delhi 1984 has had a profound negative impact on me
Watching scenes of people go through bombs, communal violence & genocide in 2021 has triggered me again.
Trauma keeps killing even after the event.
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I survived the Paki Bashing racism of the 70s, narrowly escaped losing my life in 1984 Anti-Sikh Genocide, & have smiled thru countless Religious & Political opponents wishing me harm for decades. Also many personal battles.
Ive cried an ocean of tears BUT I still practice LOVE.
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Off to the Science Museum with my twins today. All of us VERY excited.
My generation didn't get to do this stuff when we were young because
a) Our migrant parents didn't know what the science museum was.
b) They worked till they dropped & didn't have time.
My kids are lucky.x
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💥ALERT💥
Any woman/girl out there (whether underage or even 23 years old & above) who are under pressure from a patriarchal religious family/husband who disagree with their life choices that
@KNFMHBV
are here to help you.
Call Karma Nirvana in complete confidence on 08005999247
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British Asian peoples, South Asian Peoples, The Global Desi community...ya'll my muse & the love of my life.❤
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Stop trying to make any country a Hindu State, a Muslim State, a Sikh State, a Buddhist State, a Christian State etc etc.
Its a medieval idea. An idea where minorities or people who don't praise the main religion enough will always be oppressed.
End this backwardness.
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20 years in radio, 30 years in music, 40 + years living this life. You cant buy experience like that.x
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Just had homeschooling meltdown & told my twins that I wasnt a teacher....that teachers taught the best...then added "if you want to present a radio show then I'm probably the best there is!"
My daughter replied "no you're not...
@gregjames
is...& hes lots more famous than you!"
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Bhangra artists & directors stop making such "rapey" vids. Stalking a woman until she finally capitulates coz of your wallet or car is SHIT.
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This attitude to life is exactly how my Mum & Dad tried to bring me up. This & the notion that all humans are equal. ❤
"to show their contempt for death, some Sikhs had refused to hide themselves in the trenches."
- The Guardian, 12th November, 1914.
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"Sometimes the Asian voice has been lost in the anti-discrimination argument" - Gareth Southgate 2021
Will ya'll listen now that a great man like Mr Southgate has said it??
We've been saying this FOR YEARS but it's been like screaming into a void without ANYBODY listening.
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