I deleted my post since I’m just going to put these tweets out there; it will make for a good podcast though.
I suspect in a 100 years we will still have Coloniser Experts opining on South Asian Nationhood and then being feted like white deities in the Desh..
I find the Indian government’s ability to own-goal itself and its own citizens to be simply astounding.
In India, you have to be heterosexual, infertile and married to pay someone else to bear your child. This is how surrogacy works around the world. 🐣 pic.twitter.com/q9wd31pR0y
— Brut India (@BrutIndia) October 16, 2018
Amit Shah calls Bangladeshis termites, but he forgets:
1. Per capita income of B'desh growing 3 times more than India
2. B'deshis (72.5) live longer than India (68.6)
3. Infant mortality less in B'desh (28.2) than India (34.6)
4. More poverty in India (58%) than B'desh (56.8%)— Ashok (@ashoswai) December 17, 2018
I thought this was an important post to share and reflect on.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10159575761895532&set=a.10153345678710532&type=3
I don’t see the point of highlighting India’s “relatively lower wage rate” (a snarky reference to poverty) and a comparison to HRH’s wedding. As though Brown people’s weddings cannot eclipse that of White Royals.
This is the subtle racism when a country leaps out of its stereotypes.
I know this is quite unpc to say this but @theresa_may needs to be more @realDonaldTrump when dealing with Europe. Britain only has to gain from Brexit https://t.co/wbLxOKqbMt
— Zac X (@XerxestheMagian) December 14, 2018
Brexit is such a contentious matter that I don’t know where to start.
My Arch-Tory tribal instincts have overridden my normal active Social Justice Ghazi mode and I don’t like to see Britain humiliated in such a manner.
Theresa needs to channel her Trump and signal a collective fuck off to the EU. The lecherous manner in which Juncker was handling her earlier today was simply shameful:
NEW – Two expert lipreaders tell 5 News that Theresa May accuses Jean-Claude Juncker of describing her as nebulous.
This is how the conversation went, according to the lipreaders: pic.twitter.com/IuP99fJiXG
— Channel 5 News (@5_News) December 14, 2018
Since there are some that insist that Hindu nationalists are as bad as Islamists, I want to share this tweet I stole from Omar:
The Orakzai blast, which killed many, also claimed the lives of three Hindu men#Orakzai #KP #SamaaDigital https://t.co/PveuBpkUXl
— Samaa News (@SamaaEnglish) December 12, 2018
Tiny communities tend to understand powerlessness. So when three dirt poor Hindu families arrived in lower Orakzai nearly two decades ago because they couldn’t make ends meet in Peshawar, the Shias decided to provide some shelter. The custodians of the imambargah in Kalaya Bazaar gave them some space outside to set up their secondhand winter clothing stall and charged them just fifty rupees in rent.
It was outside this very imambargah that a suicide bomber blew himself up on November 23, killing 34 people, mostly Shias, and injuring 56 others. Among the dead were also the heads of the three Hindu families, Mannat Lal, Amrat Lal and Saram Chand, who were selling socks and sweaters at their stall at the time.
Their families are doubly devastated, not just because of the deaths, but because they were all related. Amar Kumar has lost his father Mannat Lal, his paternal grandfather Amrat Lal and maternal grandfather Saram Chand. “What else can we do but leave,” he says. “There’s just my mother and grandmother left.”
I am sharing this important talk by Dr. Jain of Indus University:
The first 10minutes are about the humiliation and destruction of Multan’s Sun Temple, which till the 1000AD was one of the two most important Hindu sites in the Subcontinent.
The idol was covered in meat by the Arab invaders, held as hostage and desecrated (and is now in the British museum).
I relayed to LV the video and told her that she should never forget the Hindu blood spilt in the last millennia. Considering the parlous situation all religious minorities have in Pakistan; India must protect herself at all costs. I hope Congress don’t sell out India’s Hindu majority identity in their quest for power.
Stunned by almost every aspect of this High Court judgement. https://t.co/C3vzaWCGsZ
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) December 12, 2018
https://twitter.com/sameerakhan/status/1072677985252192256?s=21
The Ambani wedding has jumped the sharked.
No taste, no class and no intimacy..
The elements are all in place but it just feels everyone’s been *paid* to attend and seems more an obligation than anything else. The form of a grand wedding is there but not the essence.
It’s telling they got Hillary & Kerry but not the Obamas; actually President (Bill & Barrack) didn’t bother to attend..
https://twitter.com/journonitten/status/1071778759919919104?s=21
I have seen this countless times on Twitter and facebook; Brahmins almost always need to “humble brag” their caste. It really is in poor taste..
https://twitter.com/iyervval/status/1071301552680255489?s=21
Related: Oh to be a Gaud Saraswat Brahmin
https://twitter.com/anushkasharma/status/1072359108274081797?s=21
Trigger Warning: This is quite a “Desi post”; I’m assuming basic knowledge of the Indian cultural landscape (who’s who in Bollywood etc).
https://twitter.com/ExSecular/status/1071854448006246400
There have been 5 “Royal Weddings” this year in India in contrast to the 2 we had in Britain (Prince Harry & Princess Eugenie).
India does many things well but weddings is a particularly South Asian boon. Desis take our weddings very seriously and Pakistan recurrently tries to cap “grand weddings.”
There is a high-octane mix of money, Westernisation and liberalisation galvanising the Indian elite to ever more convention defying customs. Continue reading The Ambanis got it so wrong with their Wedding Celebration.
