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“you just wait sunshine, you just wait”
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barbie PR team on demon timing fr
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a developing story
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the state of gujarat now has 3-5 business days to respond
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not the SBI in london shut at 12:30 in the afternoon (lunch hour)
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Mental-health crisis from pandemic was minimal, study suggests
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@dammitabai
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4 years
a personal account for those of you who still have the audacity to make statements like "oh casteism is restricted to these small rural communities, not urban cities like ours" Bangalore, 2015 - dad and I were going around applying at colleges for my 11th and 12th (1/n)
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3 years
sebastian vettel is actually a second year BBA student from christ college
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3 years
average Karnataka resident every two years
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1 year
update: I have decided to deny the very existence of said half pants
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3 years
thinking about the time when I was 13 and my parents made me sing waka waka in the apartment as a part of Independence Day celebrations - including having me change and sing "this time for Africa" to "this time for India😍🇮🇳" this is my villain origin story
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aye bro can someone explain to me why post malone looks like a Karnataka HC lawyer 😭😭😭😭
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my honest reaction to a lighter being found in what appears to be a pair of shorts owned by me
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6 months
taylor swift when confronted with the 13 minute flight allegations
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bout to commit two counts of bribery
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1 year
multi-party negotiations for my safe custody have been underway for some time now
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4 years
Just because you haven't experienced it or seen it with your own eyes, gives you NO right to deny the existence of a system which continues to actively oppress millions of people across the demographic of this country (8/n)
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en route home (custodial interrogation)
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forbidden masala dosa
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3 years
what fatphobia does to a mf: growing up I'd sit and daydream about how much better I'd have looked if I got a full blown liposuction - a fourteen year old kid dreaming about liposuction tell me how any of this is okay
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update: bribe was complete waste - should have adopted sudha murthy approach and gotten simple holige from malleshwaram 17th cross instead of western cupcake
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1 year
sitting in my car finalizing strategy for late night special sitting of division bench of hon’ble high court (house is on 2nd floor)
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1 year
you think people in UCLA are wearing christ (deemed to be university) merch?
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1 year
how i’m about to sleep tonight knowing full well the events of today will prove to be catastrophic (detrimental even) to my general wellbeing
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1 year
briefing senior counsel to lead arguments in support of clemency petition (calling grandfather)
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4 years
The fact that someone at the highest levels of an educational institution reaffirmed her beliefs in an archaic system, just goes to show how deep rooted these belief systems are in the societies we live and participate in (6/n)
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2 years
currently feeling very represented
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4 years
As I was leaving, I overheard her calling in the peon in and instructing him to DISPOSE the cups in which tea was served to us - not wash but straight up throw the damn cups away (a shame since they were pretty nice tea cups) - and this blew my mind (5/n)
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4 years
This is just one of the thousands of stories I've heard and read about - people being denied jobs, housing, educational opportunities, access to common facilities - all in urban, metropolitan cities and all owing to the caste that they were born into (7/n)
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3 years
bro imagine running thru a 35 page article only to then find out that that the last 20 pages are just footnotes and citations oh the small joys of life
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1 year
me fighting the lighter allegations after my bribe strategy completely blew up in my face
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4 years
Hesitantly, I filled in that I was a member of an OBC in the space provided - she took a look at the form and instantly the mood and the tone of the principal shifted - within minutes the interview was over and dad and I were asked to leave her cabin (4/n)
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4 years
at this particular college, the principal had invited us to sit down for a chat as she reviewed my application (and possible admission) - the college was considered to be of great repute in terms of producing toppers and "traditional values" among other things (2/n)
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4 years
Naturally, my parents were keen that I join there (much to my displeasure) and as we sat for the interview, she noted that we hadn't filled the caste/community column - I remarked that it wasn't relevant as my marks met the cutoff set but she insisted that we fill it (3/n)
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update: after submissions were advanced in the matter, bench after a marathon hearing has risen for the day and will continue deliberations in chambers (went to sleep)
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impugned lighter
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bro if you played holi today please keep that shit to yourself it’s embarrassing as fuck
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generational wealth
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@RockbottomRo the bank stays committed to providing the same standard of customer service across continents you have to respect consistency when you see it
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3 years
I’m sorry but what the fuck is “retweets are not endorsements” supposed to mean like why would you retweet something if you don’t endorse the opinion that it shares like I simply don’t trust people who go through to the effort to state something like that
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3 years
the existence of uttar pradesh implies the existence of prashn pradesh
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4 years
in bangalore we don’t say early morning we say “belag belage” and I think that’s pretty cool
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1 year
the proliferation of work-related communication onto WhatsApp (arguably a personal medium) has to be one of the worst takeaways from WFH culture because wtf you mean my cat taking a gentle snooze display picture isn’t “professional” enough and is not very “client facing” of me
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4 years
my cousin turns 4 in a few weeks but since money’s a bit tight we’ve decided not to tell him
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3 years
hamilton here looks like a seshadripuram college boy who’s standing outside mount carmel college on his KTM Duke waiting for his crush to show up
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honorable mention
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@EyeballPosting @jackdwagner holy shit he’s real
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unreal interaction with my principal associate earlier this week
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Changi Airport (has artificial waterfalls inside) - wow what a spectacle western infrastructure is a sight to behold! Bangalore (Kempegowda International) Airport (water falls inside) - chee so desi kannad infrastructure bad
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Looks all fancy but can’t withstand Bangalore rains. #terminal2 #bengalururains #kempegowdainternationalairport
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NLU’s to now be renamed as Narendra Modi Law University 👍🏻
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sorry christ (DEEMED TO BE) university 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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@SkySportsF1 naw but why you added that picture of my man Lance Stroll unprompted bro he isn't even crossing the white lines here 😭😭😭😭
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4 years
imagine missing class to finish assignments and then missing class to watch recordings of missed classes and then watching recordings of classes that you missed while trying to catch up on earlier missed classes
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3 years
KR Puram bridge during sunrise 😍😍
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average ricciardo fan this weekend
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bro she really thought she did something with this tweet 😭😭😭 akka you come to 80 feet road sanjaynagar and i’ll show you six restaurants which are just as good, if not better
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bec I was maybe 10kg off the ideal BMI - me being fat is what caused me to almost fucking die as I sat at the end of a stressful school day and yet not a single day goes by where my family doesn't make me feel like shit over the way I look -under the garb of "health concerns"
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even today as I walk past one of those clinics that do these liposuction procedures, I sometimes stop for a minute and contemplate - the shame and the internalized guilt it brings is absolutely horrible to live with
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4 years
your honour my client has said “ngl” so I don’t see the need for him to swear to tell the truth while in the witness box
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this is not the flex you think it is
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Despite local constraints, India sent doses to 80 countries: PM Modi
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bringing back this जनता curfew gem
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currently planning on telling my parents that I landed a Bombay HC internship without telling them that it’s at the Goa bench of the Bombay HC 🙏🏻
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currently juggling 3 assignments and a quiz in the next four days as I simultaneously struggle to find ICU beds and essential medications for family members and friends ah the joys of being an indian student subjected to continuing internal assessments amidst a man made disaster
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walked into the ice cream store today and said “give me everything”
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universities: yes we are mindful of the pandemic and the toll it’s taking on our students - to ease their burden we shall offer them adequate relaxations! the relaxations in question:
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a big part of being an indian kid is not being allowed to do nice things on consecutive days me: “hey ma I’m going to raj’s birthday today” ma: “you went yesterday also for some birthday? nothing doing stay at home” me: “ya but it was girish’s birthday yesterday?!” ma: “idc”
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I don't think people understand just how lonely it gets being a cabbie - between having to pull 16 hour shifts to make a liveable wage and dealing with horrible and classist passengers (and traffic), their only source of comfort and familiarity is on the other side of the phone
Why Bengaluru cab drivers are always on a call? ALWAYS!
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imagine missing class to finish assignments and then missing class to watch recordings of missed classes and then watching recordings of classes that you missed while trying to catch up on earlier missed classes
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how bro two grown ass adults stood back and said "yes this decision makes sense surely this will not have any long term ramifications on our son who most definitely will not be bullied and subject to ridicule because he trusted his parents to make the right decisions for him"
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did we discover that as a consequence of me being premature at birth, I'd developed certain cardiovascular complications which resulted in my high blood pressure I was 17 years when the diagnosis was made and yet the doctor took one look at me and concluded that -
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the first time I was diagnosed with hypertension (excessively high blood pressure), my diagnosing doctor wrote it off as a consequence of my excess weight and simply told me to "lose it and everything would be normal" - only after I insisted that we take a second opinion -
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indian families are just 1500 square feet of pent up anger and resentment
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it's always the ladies club president who comes up with these outrageous performance ideas - and my mother who was keen to impress her fellow club members agreed to throw me under the bus and risked absolute public humiliation in exchange for some ladies club clout
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just imagine bro holy shit - flag has been hoisted and there's a general feeling of patriotism in the air after having sung the anthem in unison - then comes along this fat kid who starts yelling "SAMINAMINA EH EH WAKA WAKA EH EH"
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imagine pulling up and unironically paying 200 bucks for ONE glass of alcohol and thinking “yes this is a wise financial decision” - in addition to the 1500 bucks you’re already paying to enter the damn place
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ratio’d by egg rice
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The Indian Political Society at King's College London is debating the "relevance of the caste system in present times" how divorced do you have to be from social realities to even begin to contemplate something like this I'm sorry but I didn't know this was a two way discussion?
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how to say sorry to your kannadiga father - appalogies
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3 years
that entire performance is like a fever dream in my mind - I did not realize the ridiculousness of what I was about to do until I stepped on stage and took the mic confused clapping soon followed and I quietly went home and didn't show my face for three months straight
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4 years
it’s always the north indians and their unsolicited opinions on idlis
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3 years
is it just me or is it an anxiety moment when an unknown number calls ur dad and their expression gets really tense? and you’re just there thinking about every illegal and immoral act you’ve ever done bec in ur mind the person on the other side is telling them everything 💀
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trying to read article on times of india website
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i decided to listen to a @DillonFrancis and @killthenoise track after four years and i’m -
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bro I ate roadside gobi manchurian every day after JEE foundation class for two years straight this vaccine can’t do SHIT to me
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boys on their way to noida to do corporate internship
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how the fuck have I worked non stop for six hours and I STILL have shit left to DO bro I swear to fucking god if I catch some old motherfucker talk shit about how "online semester kids have it easy" I WILL TAKE YOU OUT WITH MY 400 PAGE NOTEBOOK IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE APARTMENT
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how I confronted and dumped a cheating ex of mine at a Cafe Coffee Day - WITH the dude she cheated on me with - a short story (1/n)
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@madamec0conut wait so lemme get this straight - the claim here is that north india’s biggest flex on us south indians is a chain of cafes that serves (checks notes) european food
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4 years
if you are a law student and you consciously chose to do MUN’s while you could have done a moot instead tells me all I need to know about you as a person
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4 years
“You’re Bangalorean? You don’t seem Bangalorean.” ok hold on I’ll just go get a job at infosys and stand in some traffic for an hour
@shahmohd05
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“You’re Muslim? You don’t look Muslim.” Ok let me put on a skullcap and beard, and drop some Quranic verses on you.
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decided to pass away earlier today as the stress from the RCB game right now would’ve killed me anyways
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4 years
nobody: that one second year kid that spent 28 days in Boston for summer school and his bio - ✈️ 🇮🇳🇺🇸
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3 years
“haha no I most definitely did not finish the entire tub in one sitting why do you ask?”
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@SunburnFestival sunburn said:
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2 years
Basu: I’m writing a commentary on the partition act and I need its cover to convey the seriousness of the material contained herewith designer: say no more
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