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minal

1 year

Standing in a South Bangalore voting queue is like being inside a WhatsApp forward. "In America, you know, Whites have formed a group. New joinees volunteer to go firing..." "Jews are the highest brains." "Indians are a farming people. Not like China. No innovation." /+

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@PPuzhu

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you can build glass clad buildings, sprinkle hipster cafes selling strawberry matcha lattes but scratch the surface and it's still a village where thakur ki haveli mein shaadi hai and everyone is expected to go 'ram ram chotte sarkar'

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Several offices at Mumbai's Bandra Kurla Complex, an upscale commercial hub, have asked their employees to work from home till July 15 due to traffic diversion and restriction on entry of general vehicles for the grand wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant.

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@PPuzhu

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Waiting for Made in Heaven season where the bride is having second thoughts so the rich groom's parents keep organizing pre wedding events to shock and awe her into saying yes. And she relents in the end because she really can't deal with this anymore.

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@PPuzhu

1 month

you can live in a Lake Geneva villa but you can't take out the Gurgaon Housing Society from inside you

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@PPuzhu

1 month

settler colonialism 🤝 Indian mysticism 🤝 artisanal cafes

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@PPuzhu

17 days

nobody will whine about these freebies though

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18 days

Maharashtra Chief minister Eknath Shinde announced 11 crores for Rohit, Surya, Dube & Jaiswal for winning the T20I World Cup 🏆

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@PPuzhu

5 months

So, I don't know how to put this but my TL is full of ppl going, "Kanan Gill is ageing like fine wine." Dude is 34! What ageing?

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@PPuzhu

5 months

An Iraqi shopkeeper in Cologne gave me a 6 pack container of this yogurt based drink popular in the Middle East because Amitabh Bachan and I were from the same country.

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@PPuzhu

3 months

So meat sales banned in Bangalore today. I'm confused - which one is the fascist party?

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@PPuzhu

11 months

I'm 45. I have been clinically depressed. I made my first attempt to kms at 18. I came close to another attempt at 38. When my mother died last Aug, I didn't expect to last the year and made financial arrangements just in case. But I'm still around, so that's there. Yay!

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I’m 22. Steve Jobs started Apple at 21. Pascal invented calculator at 19. Mr. Beast Hit 100M subscribers at 24. Kylie Jenner made a billion dollars at 21. Mark Zuckerberg was a billionaire at 23. And then there’s me. I’ve lived on earth for 8095 days. 1345 of which I’ve spent

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@PPuzhu

7 months

Ppl dunking on this are missing the point. Yes, the Nazis were educated. Yes, the bhakts in my irls have Master's at the minimum. Bigots will be bigots irrespective of education - that's a given. However, spreading education across large populations - /+

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the most powerful dialogue from 12th Fail

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@PPuzhu

1 month

Just landed at Kannur airport and it never ceases to amaze me how the 4 airports in Kerala are *all* officially named after the places they were built for. No long names of heroes with honorary titles or politicians or such. Just the name of the place.

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@PPuzhu

1 year

Re: that video of the bigoted lady harassing the bmtc bus conductor As a Mallu from Hyderabad moving to Bangalore in 2000, what really stood out for me was the casual bigotry. Within a few days of joining my first job, a fresher colleague in the cohort that year... /+

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@PPuzhu

3 months

Engineering is the dimwit who came up with the idea of segregated delivery riders. Humanities is the backlash that forced said dimwit to backtrack.

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@PPuzhu

3 months

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@litemeter

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What kind of horrible people devise such policies

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@PPuzhu

4 months

Check out this fabulously maintained Contessa on Church Street right now!

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@PPuzhu

3 months

@thlrstyhoe Yup... these city wide meat bans are usually like this. Local butcher livelihoods are put on hold, others can carry on as usual.

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@PPuzhu

3 months

- This delivery app takes away health insurance when workers don’t meet quotas - the Indian start up scene is the wild wild west

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NEW: Swiggy has gamified health insurance for its food delivery workers. Divided into gold, silver & bronze, their insurance changes weekly as per the category they fall under that week based on the points earned. My latest for @restofworld :

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@PPuzhu

2 months

The naive middle class belief that unions are somehow bad for them. In the IT space this has been nourished and sustained over the years chiefly by the 'Simple' couple and their coterie for their own benefit, and at the cost of the naive middle classes.

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This should be interesting.

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@PPuzhu

7 months

irrespective of their class / caste compositions - makes a significant difference to the kind of public services that they have access to. Visit a random small town in Kerala and compare the public services available there, with those in other places to get an idea.

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@PPuzhu

6 days

nobody does cringe like the uc dominated mainstream Indian media

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@PPuzhu

2 months

Thinking about all those UC NRIs who flew down to India to vote for char so paar. 🤡

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@PPuzhu

1 year

@AbbakkaHypatia The whole family just loves cosplaying 'middle class'.

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@PPuzhu

2 months

They are closed *exactly* for this reason. The 'middle classes' who live near these parks don't want these folks in those parks. Segregation in Bangalore - like in Apartheid era South Africa - is attained through regulation, not serendipity.

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@MongabayIndia

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The closure of public parks in Bengaluru during the afternoons is increasing the heat stress faced by outdoor workers, who use the park for resting during the hottest parts of the day. Story by @pragathi_r24 .

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@PPuzhu

1 year

That lady fits a pattern one sees in multiple cities these days - the kind of bigotry emboldened over the past few years. But when I saw the reaction of the others in that bus - everyone carrying on as if nothing happened, that for me was peakbangalore. /end

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@PPuzhu

4 months

Ppl tweeting about 'tasty South Indian dishes not seen in restaurants' and everything is so veg / UC coded. This Thalassery boy who grew up in Hyderabad is rolling my eyes! Anyways here goes: 1. the mutton and wheat porridge that my Hyderabadi friend's Mum would make... /+

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@PPuzhu

6 months

Indian liberals chanting how the structure wasn't ready and the inauguration is being rushed for the elections... wdym? would all this have been ok had it been ready?

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@PPuzhu

3 months

@Adionsaturn idk... maybe deal with those rabble rousers rather than ban livelihoods

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@PPuzhu

4 months

We have this shallow 'U' shaped space at our place between 2 doors and it has bothered me for awhile coz it always seemed like something could be done about it, instead of letting it remain a bare wall set a few inches deep. So, I checked out ike@ and this is the outcome. /+

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@PPuzhu

4 months

Such an unserious, clown city. The joke that keeps on giving 🤦🏻

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4 months

only in indiranagar

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@PPuzhu

7 months

.... probably less than Ulsoor. They didn't need to go to the state capital at the other end of the state. This isn't an educated, benevolent babu's largesse to a suffering population. It is an educated population demanding accountability from elected representatives.

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@PPuzhu

1 month

step outside that sanitized campus and there's no footpaths, traffic is piled up and when it rains - you are f*cked

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@sriharikaranth

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Night view of Eco World Tech Park, Bangalore #bengaluru #karnataka #SoftwarePark

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@PPuzhu

1 year

And it wasn't only my UC tech bro colleagues. This bigotry was everywhere - random shopkeepers, barbers, auto drivers. On a scale I had not seen in any of the other places I call home. Now ofcourse this bigotry has been incentivised, and it's a lot more overt. /+

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@PPuzhu

2 months

My cousin is a genius ❤️

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@PPuzhu

2 months

(re Mother's Day) My cousin gave this portrait of Mum some weeks after she passed, 2 years ago. This is Mum surrounded with all that she loved - her money plants, her temples, her favourite flower and her cats.

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@PPuzhu

1 year

Finally it happened! Ordered chicken nuggets and chicken burger from Swiggy / McD, and they sent somebody else's vegetarian order to us. How are we supposed to eat this! 😭😭😭

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@PPuzhu

1 year

took it upon himself to advise me to not have Muslim friends. Some days later a senior manager who passed us by at lunch told a friend to remove his goatie because it made him look like a Mullah. In later years I would see and hear a lot more. /+

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@PPuzhu

7 months

This hits home every time I visit Thalassery from Bangalore. Take public health services for example. My parent's housekeeper and my Mum's cousin, were both diagnosed for cancer and sought treatment at the govt cancer centre nearby. This is a town with a population... /+

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@PPuzhu

4 months

At a restaurant. Table near us has firangs and Indians (from Mumbai ig). The Indians are telling the firangs what to see in Mumbai. "It's a skyscraper but it's one man's home. It's beautiful." 🤦🏻

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@PPuzhu

5 months

Bread Nirachathu from Thalassery. Stuffed bread - freshly baked loaf, the insides are scooped out and a stuffing with meat, eggs and veggies is put in, the loaf is then coated with egg and fried. A Ramzan delicacy, friends would bring them over to Granny's place for Ramzan.

Valerian (every game simultaneously)

@Heretical_Ramza

5 months

Using only food, where are you from?

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@PPuzhu

8 months

Pick a lane. Nobody will buy cut - price Hindutva when the real deal is available at the same price.

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@PPuzhu

4 months

Baniya capital reinforcing India's caste hierarchy, as they have always done for centuries. This is India's startup reality - however we might want to paint it otherwise.

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@PPuzhu

7 months

re: the roti vs rice debate I'm guessing the men who love roti, don't actually make it themselves.

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@PPuzhu

1 month

@amit_ganguli a colonial settler project with a bunch of europeans displacing poor natives from their land and creating a narrative of this being some kind of utopia for world peace, brushing under the carpet the violence involved in its creation. that's the scam - forget the tourists

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@PPuzhu

3 months

That work has no gender. Growing up I was used to seeing Papa hand wash and iron Mum's saris, sweep and mop the house, and cook for us when he wasn't tinkering with his car or building model aeroplanes with cardboard for me. Dude was born in the 1930s in small town Kerala.

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@PPuzhu

3 months

poori - aamras for breakfast

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@PPuzhu

4 months

- notes on Delhi - Delhi is GREEN. At least the Lutyen's area where we are spending most of our time. Tree lined roads, flowers everywhere. Delhi is also stereotypical. We are staying in a reasonably fancy place and yesterday morning this guest in the lobby - covered... /+

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@PPuzhu

6 months

My apartment complex is going all out preparing for this. WhatsApp instructions on what pujas to do when... the works. We are too far down a slippery slope now, there is no going back.

dilf enjoyer 🇵🇸

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6 months

it’s hard not to see 22 jan as the moment when the state sheds all its pretensions to secularism and embraces, as a matter of ideology, the primacy of hindus in this country

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@PPuzhu

7 months

Ppl pointing to South Bangalore as a rejoinder to this. Lmao. South Bangalore didn't vote for Whatshisname because it's more educated. South Bangalore voted for him because it's an UC ghetto.

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7 months

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@PPuzhu

2 months

I self-diagnosed as having OCD back in my school days, before I reached the 10th grade, after reading a newspaper article. Then, in my late 30s, I sought a clinical assessment from one of Bangalore's top psychiatrists and confirmed it. That journey: self-diagnosis as a... /+

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@PPuzhu

2 months

Saw Aavesham last night. That dumb charades scene where she lists out all the movie names she knows, haven't laughed as hard in a while.

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@PPuzhu

7 months

(gym bro advice) Those who are planning to go to the gym next year: pick one as close to your place as possible. Ideally, say within 10 minutes walking distance. If your gym involves a traffic commute - even if it's only a few kilometres - you are likely to... /+

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@PPuzhu

29 days

ig the reason why you hear something as incongruous as, "Our cabin crew can speak English, Hindi and Pahadi", on a flight between Bangalore and small town Kerala is because they are recruited from small town North India and skin colour plays a role in those recruitments.

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@PPuzhu

2 months

Why do NIs say 'desi ghee' instead of just 'ghee'? I mean it is ghee and it's not imported. Nobody says 'desi doodh' for eg. Why does ghee have this special nomenclature?

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@PPuzhu

26 days

literally the only thing they talk about

Nick Gray / How to Make Friends

@nickgraynews

27 days

Bangalore has the BEST weather and nobody is talking about it

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@PPuzhu

1 month

@sirfaffsalot Hahahahahaha... they probably created these 'legends' to justify their takeover of local lands

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@PPuzhu

10 days

@baekhayaal tbh if they threw that kind of money at me I would have said yes even without the never ending pre wedding teaser trailers 😬

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@PPuzhu

9 months

Couple of my boomer friends are horrified that we went to Japan of all places. "I will never go. I'll starve." I agree. People who want to eat ghar ka khana while travelling, should sit at ghar only.

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@PPuzhu

5 months

Antique shipping trunk. The kind you see in the Titanic movie when the passengers are boarding. This one is probably a 100 years old and went by ship from Thalassery to Singapore to Vietnam in the years between the two world wars. My restoration project. One of these days!

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@PPuzhu

7 days

maybe it's an age thing but I find these tweets where folks share screen shots of their dating app convos and make fun of the other party, very tacky 😬

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@PPuzhu

2 months

(re Mother's Day) My cousin gave this portrait of Mum some weeks after she passed, 2 years ago. This is Mum surrounded with all that she loved - her money plants, her temples, her favourite flower and her cats.

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@PPuzhu

3 months

This is the hardest thing to do - when you are grieving, what is it that *you* want to hear? When Mum passed, I heard all kinds of condolences - the most common being on the lines that she passed suddenly, peacefully, and while I understood that and am grateful for that... /+

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- William Wordsworth

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@PPuzhu

6 months

for Indian metro systems, this is a feature - not a bug.

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@PPuzhu

1 year

At the Kochi Biennale. A site of savarna privilege... sigh.

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@PPuzhu

10 months

@nikhiilist Karl is such a white grifter. His YT videos he's always careful to be on the 'right' side of the current ecosystem and still seems to get into trouble with the powers that be.

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@PPuzhu

4 months

...and I would eat at school after saying bismillah. 2. the chicken curry that Aunty J would make with the skin on, and its eggs not yet laid, so they are still inside the chicken when cooked. 3. nei chorru and mutton stew, the festive dish prepared at every occasion... /+

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@PPuzhu

2 months

College buddy and you-know-who (buddy knows YKW for some years now)

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@PPuzhu

1 year

All this to say that I have done the needful. Fingers crossed. / end

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@PPuzhu

10 months

Not a photographer but I took this in Kalpathy near Palakkad, Kerala

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@PPuzhu

4 months

this tree is raining these flowers ❤️

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@PPuzhu

4 months

Ok... this is *not* the threat I was going for 🤦🏻

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@PPuzhu

2 months

I like those small bottles of fancy shampoo, lotion etc that they put in hotel bathrooms - I take them with me when I leave 😬 But however fancy the shampoo and lotion etc maybe, the toothpaste is always Colgate or something like that. Are there no fancy toothpaste brands?

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@PPuzhu

7 months

Thinking of the dark stuff that families keep hidden from kids. When we used to go to Thalassery during our school summer vacations, Mum would always take us siblings to this elderly aunty's house. She was Mum's childhood neighbour... /+

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2 months

F*ck it. We ball. (Went to Pizza 4Ps last night, there were no tables so walked over to Lavonne.)

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@PPuzhu

2 months

I bought a mesh shirt at H'&'M some days ago and it looks good on me ig but I have not worn it out yet because having bought it I wonder if it's a little too ott 😬 I'm not exactly the night clubbing dude - so where do I wear this? To browse in Blossoms? Drink coffee in Koshy's?

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7 months

Playing with my train set 😬

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@PPuzhu

1 month

Folks exiting high traffic metro stations: when you are anywhere near a stair or escalator, please DO NOT contemplate the complexities of life and other existential stuff. fgs keep moving.

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1 month

@suitcaseindian Ashok Leyland, Indusind Bank, Gulf Oil, Bofors scandal... fingers everywhere

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@PPuzhu

4 months

...in Thalassery where today restaurants only know biryani, which is such a pity. 4. bread loaf and Thalassery style meen molee - again only made at home and slowly dying away thanks to biryani. 5. steamed arikadaka - mussels stuffed with a rice dumpling and seasoned... /+

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3 months

and sadness that enveloped me after Mum's passing, I had remembered who had called, and who hadn't. And they hadn't. I couldn't hold out for long though. I called and spoke to them now - rather I listened as they spoke. And I'm glad I didn't give in to my pettiness.

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4 months

Night view

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We have this shallow 'U' shaped space at our place between 2 doors and it has bothered me for awhile coz it always seemed like something could be done about it, instead of letting it remain a bare wall set a few inches deep. So, I checked out ike@ and this is the outcome. /+

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@PPuzhu

5 months

As a migrant from Hyderabad with roots in the Malabar, the first thing that struck me when I moved here nearly 25 years ago was just how closely intertwined Kannada nationalism was with Hindu nationalism.

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@PPuzhu

5 months

My glasses - one Delhi f*ckboi and one Mallu film villain 😬

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@PPuzhu

4 months

...only with salt. The flavour primarily that of mussels and the Arabian sea, unlike the deep fried, heavily spiced nonsense you get in restaurants. O boy I could go on. Spare me that rave roti stuff 😞

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@PPuzhu

1 month

Pork spare ribs in an Asian marinade (oyster/black pepper/chilly sauce and honey). Browned the meat on the stove, then poached in a marinade + red wine reduction. Then added large onions and finished in the oven. Accompanied with beer and Olivia Colman's Wicked Little Letters.

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Bought this in Jayanagar yesterday

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4 months

negotiating with an auto driver, and the auto guy - about my age - keeps referring to her as 'beta'. I have not seen the Kannada equivalent of this scenario in Bangalore. And Delhi is also very stylish - certainly way more than Bangalore ig.

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@PPuzhu

1 year

@NamelessWander4 @fanofninasimone Lol... this dude's unlikely to have ever been to an actual fish market. The irony is the average Indian temple town is way more chaotic than any fish market I have been to. And I speak as someone who can't handle too much stimuli.

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multi cultural in bangalore means durga puja, ugadi, holi and diwali

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@PPuzhu

9 months

tambr @hm batchmate told me I h @te br @hmins . I told him I have br @hmin friends.

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Are you even anti-caste if a savarna hasn't accused you of "reverse casteism"?

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2 months

I'm always afraid that I resort to stereotypes too easily but I'm sorry bangalore south is not just a stereotype, it's a caricature that is picture perfect

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7 months

Went to Lila / Fort Kochi last night. Art gallery and cafe + restaurant serving modern Kerala food. Loved it.

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9 months

Curious to see what happens if they propose to replace temple priests with these.

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🚨 Robots perform Ayudha Pooja on Vijaya Dashmi at VIT university, Vellore Tamil Nadu.

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5 months

there was a tree on my mocha! (@ Petrichor)

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2 months

one thing that is glaringly invisible in mallu film discourse is caste.

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5 months

Saturday breakfast - Turkish eggs. Tasted pretty good but next time I will oomph up the color a bit by adding some fresh green herbs.

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Turkish eggs (Cilbir) at Cafe Petrichor (multiple branches including JP Nagar ORR). This was good - decently poached eggs, flavorful yogurt with spiced, molten butter dressing. Wanted to make this since I saw Nigella's video cpl of years ago but never came around to it.

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...school kid, clinical confirmation well into my adulthood, should have told me that OCD wasn't the only thing inside my head, I had to be on the spectrum. Which I would diagnose and confirm, still later.

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5 months

Mum was *the* cat whisperer. Every time she met a cat, she would go 'ps ps ps', and soon they would be conversing with each other. Her cat at home in Kerala would not eat, if she wasn't around. So much so that Mum would only make flying visits to our place in Bangalore, /+

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yall ever talked to a woman with a cat? sorry i mean a fucking angel

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