Gaurav Sabnis
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A frankie in a world of burritos, a taco in a world of parathas, a bhakri in a world of muffins, a sourdough in a world of fulkas.
Joined March 2009
Nope, this is not like 1930s Germany at all. At all!.
Chhaya Sharma from Greater Noida ordered veg biryani from Swiggy during Navratri, but claims that she received chicken biryani. Noida police arrested Rahul Rajvanshi, owner of Lucknowi Kabab Paratha restaurant who allegedly sent chicken biryani instead of veg biryani.
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Most famous student I've had! Marques is still such a sweetheart.
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Flex your lowest academic low score. To remind us that almost everyone fails at some point in life but it isn't the end of the road. Just a memory in the end. Mine was 27/100 in Engineering Math 2, just a year after I'd scored 99 in 12th boards. Much needed kick in my butt.
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My 4 year old nephew grew taller in the last year whereas my 20 year old nephew is the same height lol.
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The guy is getting off a jumbo jet made exclusively for him. He eats catered food of his choice and sleeps on a nice big bed in the 777. But every time he travels, these lemmings talk like he just came after a shift at a coal mine in 36 hour ST bus ride.
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Muslims are so strange! . They don't celebrate the beginning of Ramzan or Eid by gathering in front of Hindu temples or Christian churches!. Our Hindu brethren can't celebrate a Hindu festival without going to a mosque these days. Especially Ram Navmi & Hanuman jayanti.
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Until an Indian leaves India and sees the rest of the world, the Indian doesn't realize how exceptionally bad India is in terms of littering and bad driving. No other country on the planet sees wrong side driving like we see in India. Nor trash fortresses like we see in gujarat.
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A Britisher posted this on Reddit about his years in India and I'd like to be outraged at him but where's the lie?
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Bookmark this. One day soon, Abhishek Asthana aka gabbbarsingh will find himself in a position exactly like beerbiceps. I know the guy. He is too much of a bohemian rangeela ratan to stay in the good graces of joyless people who deny even eggs to poor children.
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Bro your useless son runs Indian cricket.
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China is sitting in Indian territory and laughing at this tweet
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Ugh, here comes Modi to bask in borrowed glory. His face will be next to the moon landing now. 🤦🤦 No other world leader does this to space missions. Why can't the man just let these scientists have their glory without always trying to get footage? . #Chandrayaan3
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He was a 37 year old who shot an 80 year old pacifist at point blank range pretending to touch his feet respectfully. He's your hero?.
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When I was younger, India used to do a census every 10 years.
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Those who start with beef and eggs will eventually come for onion garlic as well. It's the simple Newtonian physics of Brahminism.
In UP's Muzaffarnagar, Kanwariyas resorted to vandalism at a dhaba after they were served food with onion and garlic in it.
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Our Delhi Bros will learn Dutch, French, German, Spanish in six months for those citizenship tests. But same bros will say Kannada Tamil Marathi are too complicated to learn even after years choosing to live in Kannada Tamil Marathi lands.
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A muslim female friend in Pune got this email from her landlord last year that she just shared with us. All landlords should be like this. 😍😍🤗🤗
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Wasting cow milk by pouring it over stones and drinking cow urine is such a strange belief system to champion and live by.
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Bro you are running a Desi knockoff of an American app built on squeezing drivers, not exactly building the next Chandrayan, so sit down.
Totally agree with Mr Murthy’s views. It’s not our moment to work less and entertain ourselves. Rather it’s our moment to go all in and build in 1 generation what other countries have built over many generations!.
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"When athletes from poor countries compete with rich countries, no one raises questions on advantage. Even in men's sports, some are taller, bigger, no one raises questions on advantage. Only with us women do these unjust questions come up. Too tall, too fast etc". - Dutee Chand.
VIDEO | Here's what Indian athlete Dutee Chand said on Imene Khelif vs Angela Carini controversy. "In 2014, I challenged the IOC's rule that a person with a higher testosterone level should not participate in the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland. It was noted
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"India is first and foremost a Hindu nation". Incorrect!. India is first and foremost an Adivasi nation. I mean if you're interested in actual real history and anthropology and sociology and suchlike. First and foremost Indians are the Adivasis. They settled here first.
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Notice that every single survivor of the Pahalgam terrorist attack is speaking in terms of love from and of Kashmir is, of Hindu Muslim unity. The folks who actually faced the bullets are talking unity. It is faraway bigots turning this into a Muslim bashing opportunity. Ugly.
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Boss how can you claim vegetarianism as a default virtue in Hinduism when LITERALLY every single myth of ours involves folks hunting. Unless you think Ram or Shantanu were into taxidermy, what do you think they were hunting for? To eat!! That's the whole damn basis of Ramayana!.
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What was eaten in ancient India in Chanankya's time: eggs, chicken, mutton, beef, pork, fish. What was NOT eaten in ancient India: potato, tomato, chili, rajma, pumpkin, corn.
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Jay Shah always looks like he's been photoshopped into whatever stage he's on. It's just hard to believe that such a useless person is the face of Indian cricket administration tho he does little more than converting oxygen into carbon dioxide.
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What pathetic nonsense. No one mocked or blamed ISRO for the failure. What we mocked was Modi, making it all about himself, changing multiple clothes, throwing tantrums in public at the scientists. No previous PM was thirsty and unaccomplished enough to piggyback ISRO.
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Riddle me this, sanghis. If Bose hated Gandhi Nehru but loved Savarkar, why did the Indian National Army have Gandhi brigade, Nehru brigade, Maulana Azad brigade, but no Savarkar brigade? 🤔🤔.
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Still can't get over this ersatz chappal garland that AajTak put on our dear leader. 🤭
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Only in India can cutting thousands of trees and replacing them with a helipad and hotels and parking be called "beautification".
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Don't be surprised if the Spanish woman who was gangraped finds her Instagram posts describing her rape withheld or her account blocked in India. The system's priority response is always PR damage control, not empathy or justice for the person raped.
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I'm Indian. I eat beef pork snails sea cucumber and some insects. Ant chutney is a delicacy for Bhils. Stop defining Indian diet based on your own Brahminical orthodoxy.
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That she said this wearing a garment made from the product of 10,000 worms boiled alive says everything about the innate hypocrisy of Brahminical "pure veg" concepts. We also have a ritual of giving babies the regurgitations of 30 bees.
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The reason there isn't any trash seen in Sri Lanka, even if it is economically imploding, is that Sri Lankans don't litter. It isn't exceptional. Most peoples in the world don't litter. India is kinda exceptional in terms of littering habits. It's because of caste system.
Just look at the quality of road and air quality and not a single minutest piece of trash seen around,a country who is apparently finished economically atleast compared to ours. And now compare that with the quality we get here despite all those henious taxes.
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It's horrifying to me how Modi has just completely normalized economic boycott of Muslims during Hindu festivals to the extent that they now pass legislation to make that boycott easier. And Hindus feel it is completely justifiable. Sanghism is rotting Indian character fast.
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The most exhausting thing about my India trip was meeting people of whom 95% saw nothing wrong with the government imposing curfews, cutting off communications, arresting people without charges, perpetual military presence. Not a shred of empathy for Kashmiris or introspection.
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Lived in Bangalore only 4 mths when at IBM. Just keeping my ears open & taking the initiative to speak it with ppl while carrying a Eng-Kan pocket dictionary, I got by easily. Nanu svalpa Kannada matanabadalle. Nanage kelavu padagalu.🙏. Curiosity. Respect. That's all they ask.
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Basically no movies can be made in India that even politely push back against the Brahmin patriarchy. There was nothing "offensive" in this movie unless you believe in birth caste determinism aka casteism. Plus unless you hate Muslims.
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A lot of Indians like the idea of living in a "developed" country as long as it means big highways and digital payments but hate the idea of living in a "developed" country when it means paying labor a decent living wage. They want Manhattan social life with 3 cheap maids.
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As a Marathi, i feel compelled to add that traditionally, Gudi Padwa is absolutely NOT celebrated in public or on roads. It is celebrated at home with family. Each home puts up a Gudi. And eats together. That's it. These marches & rallies are brand new public flexes by Sanghis.
CM Yogi says "Offering namaz on roads causes traffic issues & I won't allow it". Meanwhile people were allowed to celebrate Gudi Padwa on road in Nagpur causing traffic. Either allow everyone to celebrate on road or ban both of them. Why do Hindu-Muslim?
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Someone I know was a lecturer in India, getting PhD on the side for years. Used to complain about advisor making her & others do random household chores, slowing down thesis. Few years later, she got PhD, promotion. I then saw her PhD student babysitting her kids. 🤦🤦.
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Every Olympics, I think about a food court waitress at Vermont ski resort 2014ish. She overheard us talk about Olympics & shyly said "by the way, I have an Olympic bronze ☺️". Me: Excuse me?😳. Her: I got a medal in Barcelona in my younger days. Can I clear those plates?.
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Fun "debate" coupla years ago with a soft sanghi. "Mughals killed a lot of Hindus.". "So did Marathas.". "What nonsense? Marathas didn't kill anyone!". "Really? Did we build an empire by doing haldi kunku all over the country?". Others around: 😂😂😂😂😂. Ended the debate.
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When I was a kid. Or even 34 years old. ISRO depended on physics not prayers. We Indians knew our ISRO scientists were scientists who did science. But this is #NewIndia.
VIDEO | “Chandrayaan-3 will start its journey tomorrow. We are hoping that everything goes right and it lands on the moon on August 23,” said ISRO Chairman S Somanath after offering prayers at Sri Chengalamma Temple in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh earlier today.
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Umar Khalid has been in jail without charges for longer than Indira's emergency lasted. And he's not alone.
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Random Australia memory. We were at a sports bar at MCG where I ordered a snack."Name?"."Gaurav"."Ga. How do you spell it?"."You know Saurav Ganguly?"."Yeah. "."Like his name but with a G".He nods. Five minutes later he calls out."Meat pies for Gachin? Gachin?".😂😂😂.
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"My grandmother was shot 32 times and my father was blown to bits. I know this country more than you.". That emotion in his voice. Too often we forget that before becoming a politician, he was a kid & a youth who has faced more horrifying personal tragedies than we can imagine.
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Can you imagine any indian media channel covering a pakistani victory this way? Indians really need to introspect about how we've gone from the Chennai applause years to this current naked jingoism.
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Today from Dystopian India, a judge basically says statutory rape of a 14 year old is okay as long as the 14 year old says she offers consent.
14 Y/O Girl Had 'Sufficient Knowledge & Capacity' To Understand Her Actions: Bombay HC Grants Bail To POCSO Accused | @ISparshUpadhyay . #BombayHighCourt.
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Shekhar, you should move to Gujarat, because it has had BJP rule for over 25 years so the "quality of life" must be exceptionally excellent there.
What’s unfolding in Delhi is a ‘quality of life’ election. Clean air, river and clearing of garbage mountains have pushed aside the politics of free this and free that….
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Has a single minister in India in 11 years been fired for incompetence?.
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💪💪 Nice!!. The guy was speaking in English. Passengers could have stuck to English. They tried their extra kadibaaj Hindi nonsense. He was right to kick them out.
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Grad students Amit & Mita (names changed) drove to finger lakes for their anniversary. Mita was driving when they hit unusual traffic. Due to some escaped convicts, cops had set up a check post to eyeball every passing car. Cops looked at their car, said please pull aside! /1.
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Indian govt asked me to list countries visited in last 10 yrs. I diligently looked up passport stamps & emails to make sure I listed them all. There were 24. Indian govt says "Maximum 20 countries can be selected". So I have to randomly choose 4 countries to exclude. 🤷🤦🏽
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You are proving Rahul Gandhi right when he said BJP only knows hate violence and fear. Your party's tantrums are point by point validating his assessment.
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At my US citizenship interview a dozen years ago, the officer opened a thick file. The said to me,. "No red flags in your file. So this will just be a chat. The only small note is one speeding ticket. Wow, you got pulled over only once in 9 years?". They had that data even then!.
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Using "Cow Vigilantes" instead of "Hindutva Terrorists" in media coverage is a big reason these incidents keep growing in frequency and cruelty.
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The more I travel the world, the more I realize that India is quite the outlier in terms of how bad & apathetic its government AND most of its people are about its historic sites. Even the tiniest poor Caribbean islands preserve & present their history better than India.
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Arguably the stupidest self-goal the BJP has inflicted on India is treating Urdu as a foreign language. Urdu is an Indian language!.
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Mention a systemic flaw in India. "It's 1.4 billion people that's why". But it doesn't happen in China. "They are richer". But they weren't richer 40 years ago. "India was held back by socialism". China is still socialist . "That's different". How?. "Yaar politics chhod!".
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Hahaha, Bloomberg headlines are brutally honest. Bloomberg India employees, expect a raid.
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When you're chasing random cars you suspect to be full of Muslim strangers and open fire at them, killing someone, that is not "vigilantism". That is terrorism. Literally terrorism. Cows have nothing to do with it.
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Chandrachud's legacy will be that Umar Khalid and Elgar Seven are stil in jail but Jaggi & Ram Rahim are not. The latter gets so much parole that he's not really in jail.
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In English, you smoke a cigarette. In Hindi, you drink a cigarette. In Marathi, you pull a cigarette. In Bengali, you eat a cigarette.
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Most elite Indians (primarily savarna white collar urban english medium educated folks like me) land on Western shores convinced that we are just as advanced and developed as these countries as a people. It's just "corruption" in India holding us back. Then reality hits. /1.
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I've attended more graduations than I can count & no surprise that @MKBHD gave THE best keynote speech I have ever heard. By far . It was quintessentially him, the way he used to present in my class too. Packing unassuming wisdom in very few words in a soothing friendly way.🧵
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If you're a parent in North India, please sit your children down and tell them that Hindi is NOT THE NATIONAL LANGUAGE/RASHTRABHASHA of India. It is just one of over a dozen national languages that happens to be spoken by a plurality of Indians. Please explain the difference.
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Same feels.
'He's in a bad place': Expert says Netanyahu 'emotionally shattered' by war.
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Lemme put it another way. A petrol pump attendant in NJ makes $15/hr. 1 hour pay can buy 4 liters milk, 500g chicken/pork/beef, 1 kg onion, 1/2 kg tomato. What can 1 hour pay of a petrol pump attendant in Gurgaon buy?. Understand this & you understand Dunki migration.
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The more Modi remains Prime Minister, the more I realize how historically awesome Jawaharlal Nehru was!.
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"What is your problem if Ambanis have a lavish wedding?". Who said I have a problem? Go for it!. But when you turn a family wedding into a public reality show then we will treat you like reality show contestants.🤷. Why are you, Champu Janardan, getting upset on behalf of them?🙄.
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If you had told the 2004 me that twenty years later I would be celebrating the electoral successes of the sons of Bal Thackeray and Mulayam Singh Yadav, I would have laughed so hard!.
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The middle aged Indian uncle screaming something hateful is fast becoming the global face of Indians worldwide.
Hindus start yelling at Peel Regional Police officers who are trying to block the crowd from reaching a Sikh gurdwara.
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Kher and Shorey in real life are crueller today than the villains in the movie.
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Nehru was so brilliant! This is his first ever TV interview! This is all real time, without any advanced questions, scripts, cuts, edits etc. This is unedited Nehru single handedly lecturing 3 smarmy Brits! ❤️. Hear his passion in talking about Africa! . India peaked with Nehru!
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A reminder that India for 10 years has been ruled by an organization whose idea of a Hero is a 37 year old man who took 3 attempts to shoot dead a feeble 80 year old pacifist named Gandhi and then tried to frame Muslims for it. That's the gang looking for a third term.
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Have you noticed that ISRO hasn't really had a big win in the Modi years? The Mars Orbiter was the last big success, and though it was planned and launched in UPA days, Modi showed up for the accolades. Since then ISRO seems more about Modi than about space, if you've noticed.
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If I accidentally touch a book or magazine with my foot, I touch it with my fingers and bring them to my head and chest as if to apologize to goddess saraswati. 3 decades of being an out and out atheist, but I still have to do it.
What is a South Asian tradition you continue to follow?.
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Made me cry. How can you treat people this way? What possible endgame is there to this hate? What future are you creating for your children by dehumanizing a community that is literally part of India's soil. There are more Muslims in India than people in Brazil.
We need to talk more about the psychological impact of BJP's ugly anti-Muslim campaign on ordinary Muslim citizens.
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"White House created this drama by choosing her just cos she's Pakistani. Should have chosen someone prominent.". Me: instead if they'd picked #1 selling US newspaper's chief white house correspondent?. "Yes, someone like that would be better". Me: That's Sabrina Siddiqui. 🤷🏼.
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You should see the stuff he's said about Italian women. 🫣.
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This is what happens when a whatsapp forward becomes prime minister.
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A friend returned from a trip across Central & South America and also noted how toilets all over, even smallest shacks in tiny villages, are always clean. And that filthy toilets in India are not cos poverty but caste based society that doesn't teach us basic "toilet courtesy".
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This should be a movie!. A 19 year old college student writes a paper for his Poli Sci class arguing that an arcane forgotten amendment from almost 200 years ago is technically still live & can still be ratified. He gets a C grade from the TA. The student appeals to the Prof. .
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Mita did as told. Asked for an online hearing. In the zoom hearing which the cop also attended, case was dismissed without any fine. Just a friendly warning to always put opened booze bottles in the trunk. Last week, Mita was told her student visa is revoked. Cos this 👆🏽.
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In Indian colloquial, what the rest of the world calls a "dirty joke" or "adult joke" is called a "nonveg joke". That's how deeply Brahminism is in our cultural DNA.
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I miss the India where right after a terrorist attack, the government and voices in the media would push for unity and standing as one against evil killers. The Pahalgam attack is being used to stoke anti Muslim sentiment. It's something India's enemies will celebrate!.
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So Aakash is shocked by visuals from a holiday destination he did NOT visit but not shocked by visuals from the country he lives in. 🤨 #ManipurBurning.
Shocking visuals coming in from France. It was one of our holiday destinations this summer…including the city of Marseille. We were regretting that it couldn’t happen (for personal reasons)…now, quite relieved that it didn’t happen. Hopefully sanity and peace will prevail soon.
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Exactly. The killer didn't say to the boy's father, "I'm sorry, I thought he was smuggling cows". He said, "I'm sorry, I thought he was a Muslim.". That's open and shut terrorism. Cows have nothing to do with it. It's a distraction narrative.
@gauravsabnis There's no way a cow can fit into the car. They were shooting to kill a perfect stranger thinking he's a minority.
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You know how Elaine in Seinfeld had the idea of a store just selling muffin tops? I want to start selling just samosa bottoms.
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One thing Rajnath Singh said in LS that stuck with me . "Such schemes are there even in US and they don't complain so why do you complain?". That made me sit up. What?. Surely someone would fact check this cos what is he even talking about?. US military agnipath?. So I checked.
Many have pointed out that that 'Rs 90 lakh' paid to Ajay Kumar's family was government insurance and bank insurance cover. This means that only an amount of Rs 39,000 has been paid by the Army yet. #Governance.
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Be it 1993 serial blasts, 2001 Parliament attack, 26/11 or German Bakery, Indian govt identified perpetrators and laid out details of how they happened very soon. But we still have no answers or details on Uri all these years later. Public was satisfied with Balakot alone.
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As a kid from a fish eating family from Maharashtra, I was always puzzled when teachers referred to a chaotic classroom as a "fish market". Cos I went to fish markets often and they were very peaceful and chill. Only later did I realize, it's yet another casteist insult.
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In New York and New Jersey, a majority of liquor stores are now owned by Gujaratis. While Gujarat has prohibition. Gujaratis also run a majority of motels which serve eggs & sausages every morning. While Gujarat bans eggs and meat from streets.
’You eat fish and meat’: A dispute erupted in Mumbai's Sambhav Darshan society between Marathi and Gujarati communities over non-vegetarian food after a resident allegedly called Marathis "dirty" for eating “fish and meat.” The police had to intervene after the dispute escalated
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Modi has been selling Indian forests to Adani like it's a Buy वन Get वन Free scheme.
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