akhivae trad society is a cope, it's just failure of Indian govt to bring urban women into workforce even after losing out on industrialization growth phase as a economy.

Irish guy who lives in Delhi visits Kerala to understand the Malayali migration to Ireland phenomenon; got convinced about "Kerala exceptionalism" but left wondering why Malayalis migrate out of the country when life is so good in Kerala.

Malcolm X, 1964: "I go for Mao Zedong much more than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's role. […] Though the West doesn't love China, the West respects China. Now, the West doesn’t respect India, but it loves India."

Timothée Chalamet is under fire for calling cave painting a “dying” art form. “Aargh. Cave art not dead. Bison stay on cave forever. Motion cave painting gone after flop at box office.”

Incredible piece of literatue. Hitherto unimaginable level of discourse.

Rishi | ഋഷി | 🌐🗽🥥🔰🏙 She wants India to be a destitute and poor country, so she can sell her poverty porn to “eat, pray, love” westerners. Can’t believe I admired this loonie toons once.

Pakistani Nationalists have crossed the limits supporting IDF and Israel openly on social media. They’re openly supporting the killing of Palestinians, Afghan people and Balochis. I’ve never seen humans stooping this low.

Pakistani airstrikes on Addicts treatment hospital in Kabul kills 400.

If india did this NYT, Washington Post and Al-Jazeera would be sitting think-pieces out like diarrhoea

I’ve rarely seen clearer evidence that BBC News (UK) has been captured Reports say 400+ killed in a Pakistan airstrike on a Kabul hospital. BBC headline? No Pakistan mentioned. “400+” becomes an unattributed “dozens”. The word hospital is nowhere. Compare it to the others...

1) On Operation Sindoor: Al Jazeera — India killed 2 civilians in Pakistan. 2) On the killing of 400 civilians in Pakistan's strike on a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul: Al Jazeera — Afghanistan "accuses" Pakistan.

What I learned by posting this is that a massive subset of online progressives think the basic logic underpinning all sorts of bigotry and prejudice is perfectly rational and good, and they just want to quibble over the premises rather than throw out the logic

Twitter is less fun because you can no longer tell who is naturally dumb and who is trying to make rent from ragebait

Indian leftism is class identifier. Most imminent leftist intellectuals come from affluent, anglicised elite backgrounds. To identify as leftist means you're part of that upper class club and more distinguished than the "natives" you seek enlighten with wisdom of Marx

This is what our universities were doing when the US and the Soviet Union were raising engineers that could build stealth bombers.

interestingly the habit of mentioning 'india' to get payouts is not a new habit of anglo saxons actually

After folks laughed at AOC for not knowing vaquero history, I knew Wikipedia would alter their meaning to fit hers, so I took a screenshot, and they finally did rewrite it. Wiki removed vaquero from 'The origins of the vaquero tradition come from Spain...'