Iโm actually loving reliving Insta stories unlike Facebook memories. So many gems that have crossed my feed, and this one by
@rkarnad
especially Iโd like to share here too.
I really hope that at some point my generation realises that thereโs more to a relationship than constantly hyping each other up on social media platforms
Leftists(like me) love shitting on Dhruv Rathee while the truth is that dude has brought more people from the fringe of right wing fanaticism to centrist mediocrity while most of us have barely been capable of having a coherent conversation with their own families about fascism.
When I was a fresher in TCS on a contract bond for a year while my Team Lead was s*xually harassing me & other freshers along with inundating us with work pressure due to our resistance to him, I had the โchoiceโ of paying back TCS more money than I earned or keep working w him.
Imagine that youโve met the love of your life. Youโve confessed your feelings for each other and decided to spend a lifetime together. 40 years have gone by, your soulmate has been blissfully socially offline, something you loved about them. Then one day it happens. You are
as time passes on I am becoming more and more convinced that having kids in this country or the current world would be cruelty of a high degree. i canโt be the only person in my generation to believe that adoption in India is a far more moral choice than biological children?
#Pune
Ladies please beware!
A girl discovered a camera fitted in the ladies washroom in Cafe BeHive, Hinjewadi, Pune. When she complained to the management, she & her friends were told to wait, while they secretly removed the camera & did not address the concern properly.
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TIL that India is the largest producer of mangoes, it accounts for less than 1% of the international mango trade; India consumes most of its own production.
It's 6 degrees there. The women at Shaheen Bagh are sleeping in 6 degrees. Headlining the most peaceful protest in the country.
What can one do but salute these Mother Indiasโฅ๏ธโฅ๏ธโฅ๏ธ
Lost my dad to an accident in a public transit and on days like these I feel like Iโm reliving the dread of millions of people sitting at home hoping something bad doesnโt happen to their family members going out to merely do their jobs.
sitting at the breakfast table, scrolling on your phone. And you see it. A lifetime has passed but you still remember the hysteric feeling of reading it the first time. There are tears in your eyes, you cackle โDimple bhabhi hatiyeโฆโ and look up from your screen to see your
partner watching you, uncomprehending. And thatโs when you realiseโฆ the person you shared an entire lifetime with, is incapable of understanding something so banal, so trivially profound about you. You leave them, heartbroken, never to come back to a life that was never yours.
Hello Twitter,
I'm a Freelance Writer looking for work with 4 years of total work ex. Have worked with 100+ clients in F&B, tourism, health, retail etc. I also have exp. as Social Media Manager, Content+Marketing Strategist.
RT to help me pay my bills! Thank you!๐
Warikoo has such a punchable face. If he developed a game allowing people to virtually punch his face, I think he would make more money than selling snakeoil remedies.
Am I the only one who outgrew many school and college friendships because they turned out to be hideous sexists and supporters of fascism, and now is in need of new friends in her mid-twenties? ๐ฃ
Despite having a highly supportive family and friends, I still fell into tunnel vision and wondered if my life was over and if it would be so awful to end it all. Corporate India is fked up in so many ways and it feels like you are going insane because on the outset your offices
look like the most accommodating & luxurious environments, but at the same time you as a fresher are at the mercy of narcissistic managers and unregulated hours and pressure. HRs are a joke.
You say you're an UPSC aspirant.. but you support CAA.. When your friends ask you, you say you just want it for the betterment of the minorities, but you don't meet the eyes of your Muslim friends... But it's okay, I can teach you about CAA, I can fix it... I can fix YOU
When the complainant refused to budge, the management tried to bribe them & also deleted the review left by them on Zomato. Now the cafe owners have taken down all their social media pages & even show 'Temporarily Closed' on Zomato. We will not let them get away with this!
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@gunducci
I think for anyone who wants to actually get out of a twitter bubble and have interactions with the real world, Dhruv Rathee is actually a godsend because he explains the things we assume are common sense or basic morality in the most unpedantic fashion
Pro tip: Every time you feel like lashing out at a loved one because you feel undervalued in your relationship, choose to be vulnerable instead. If itโs a healthy relationship, they will understand & make up for it, if not, you need to reevaluate the relationship altogether.
The thing with so many newly empowered women of my generation is that they wholly attribute their liberty to their economic freedom & this makes them as strong capitalist acolytes as their male counterparts without realising their roles as cogs in the capitalist patriarchy
He wasnโt even fired simply transferred to another office near his hometown lol.
Not one single colleague had the solidarity to file the complaint with me.
My friendโs aunt is currently fighting her battle against Corona virus.
She is currently in ICU on ventilator and her family and friends have fallen short of financial aid to fight this battle. We need an approximate 50000 rupees per day as expenses for her treatment.
Hello Twitter,
I'm a Content Writer looking for work with 3 years of total work experience & have worked with 50+ clients in F&B, tourism, health, retail etc. I also have exp. as Social Media Manager/Content+Marketing Strategist.
RT to help me pay my bills! Thank you!๐
To clarify, yes I filed a POSH complaint. No one within the project cooperated, other girls were afraid of losing their jobs and senior male colleagues were cowards. Had to go through humiliating interrogation with senior HRs. The company sat on the complaint for over a month +
Maybe the reason I prefer Twitter over Instagram is because I choose to be surrounded by socially aware supportive strangers rather than indifferent ignorant acquaintances.
Iโm so so proud of Indian women and the kind of reaction and solidarity they are showing not just on the streets but by vocalising real, concrete facts and criticisms of patriarchy. For the longest time we have been told to be obedient & โsanskariโ โ a word we now resent.
saying that there was โno evidenceโ and could not act against him. Finally as a last desperate act I had to tell them about another fresher who was sent inappropriate texts by him. It was only then that they took the case.
it seems like a challenging path too. but still less ethically ambiguous than choosing to subject someone to climate catastrophes, pollution, hate, conflict and unsafe environments for which our country has become a haven
This boi made fun of me because Iโm 25 and still canโt drive. I made fun of him because I started earning 3 years before him. The yardstick to measure our respective machismo sort of fell through for him. ๐RIP
You're not an artist bro you're a 26 yr-old filmy manchild who thinks differences with your middle class parents is a tragedy worth making a movie on and is still making them pay for your studies abroad without contributing a penny.
A song from Swades came on the radio and I felt more patriotic than I have in the five years of BJPโs rule. The good old days when belonging to a land and being proud of its heritage felt natural and not something that makes you a fascist and a participant of ethnic cleansing.
Clients who want to pay me peanuts just because the โmarket is badโ please go and look for a writer who is willing to work at the rates you are offering. The market might be bad, but my work quality is staying the same and so are the efforts I put in.
I genuinely believe if we started giving more importance to nice people instead of just "clever" people on Twitter, this toxic culture would go away. Twitter is like the worst version of high school with everyone trying to be cool and one up each other all the freaking time.
Okay so apparently he's blocked me, but this nirwan creep has resurfaced, thriving like a parasite on sympathies of young girls with his woke act. He's been called out in the past by me & a few other girls for lying about his age, making us uncomfortable & lying abt his illnesses
Karan Johar & Modi both have the same target demographic aka NRIs because they have more money to burn & are nostalgic about shit that doesn't really exist.
PUNE PEOPLE THERE'S NO POINT OF SHARING MEMES IF YOU DON'T SHOW UP TO THE PROTEST TOMORROW. 7000 BIGOTS TRENDED THEIR SUPPORT, WE HAVE TO STAND TALLER & SHOUT LOUDER.
SHOW UP FOR THE DAMN PROTEST.
I just interacted with two hetero Indian males who said "a husband hitting his wife in the olden days was just their way of showing love."
I want out of this society. I repeat. I want out of this society.
so often I hate that my nephew is thousands of miles away & is not growing up in front my eyes, but then knowing that he lives in a country 10 times safer than India at this age & is free to explore public places & nature without fearing for his safety itโs all worth it
25 min of following 1yo, sped up 10x to 2.5 min
Nearly zero interference or even interaction as he severally pursued his little side quests
I love this age
For so long I wondered if I was more comfortable making frens with people w trauma in their lives because we were all a little bit broken. Now I realise it was because they simply were more compassionate than others because the world didnโt extend its compassion to them either.
anyone who has travelled to developed nations would feel similar conflict after experiencing that drastic quality of life, safety and natural environs they would offer your child to question the decision to procreate in a nation where only a mind-bogglingly luxurious lifestyle -
You need to have a really really thick skin to be a female journalist in this country. Respect for those who don't fall to their knees against the institution that set them up to fail. Respect to the Ranas and Fayes and so many more who still give us hope.
twitter is crazy man, yes a person can be privileged and get things because of it but hating them for it instead of critiquing the social environment that makes this possible is crazy to me. yall wanna bully one individual instead of taking on systemic issues coz it's just easier
I'm more convinced day by day that people from Twitter should date people from Twitter because they will eventually end up shunning the rest of the society.
Shaheen Bagh will be remembered as one of the most important events in post independent India and I hope some day our kids will read about it in textbooks.