Shivam Jha @shivamxjha Twitter profile

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

yahan saare hopeless romantic hi hain toh romance kar kaun raha hai fir?

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

what an excellent frame

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2 months

Spotted Beatles in Calcutta

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

Babe wake up, a new joke dropped in the newspaper

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

1 month

Found my father's BSc Mathematics books which are more than 50 years old (1972-75) Completely yellowed but still lush with notes and in an amazing condition - no eBooks and iPad notes can beat this feeling of preservation.

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

came to Bangalore just for the weather and was not disappointed

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

13 days

New job, new industry, new country, new life. Same old shirt.

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

After 25 years of living in India, I finally got to see the Taj Mahal albeit at 12 noon on a 45°C heatwave day. And it is every bit as beautiful as I people describe it

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

worst part about having friends in the armed forces is you only see them once in an approved holiday blue moon

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

26 days

Finally took the call. Last few months were so heartwarming in India - stayed with my family, met so many of my friends after a terribly long time, had the best food of all kinds, and spent hours at my favourite spots in Delhi It's a goodbye for now, for a long while.

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

was barely getting any sun when I needed it the most and now I don't even want to step outside anytime in daylight

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

4 months

Ladies would literally say this and then proceed to conclude that you are too nice for their own good ffs. What do you even want 😭

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

Northern lights may never hit Kolkata, but we had these kind of sunsets almost every single day <3

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

Apartment hunting is annoyingly frustrating as a bachelor. And at a broader level, living alone is just so expensive by design that it feels our society is structurally antagonistic towards single and solo-living people

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

4 months

3 months into it and a 1000 dry exchanges later, I'm absolutely done with every iota of small talk for the rest of my life. Half of this is so meaningless and predictable as if you're talking to a bot. Either this platform is flawed by design or I am 😭

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

20 days

The most beautiful library I have ever seen! Honestly, it is so mesmerizing that I could never be productive here. 📍Bibliothèque Nationale de France - Richelieu, Paris

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

Never ever forget. When we had free and fair media, a government receptive to criticism, and a PM who had the courage to face a press conference.

Narendra Modi

@narendramodi

3 months

Never ever forget. And never ever forgive Congress. For decades they looted people’s money, weakened India’s security and mocked our culture. NO LONGER!

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

spent 10 mins on a dating app only to be disappointed about how 80% of people still base their entire personality on their pets

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

If you thought breaking up over text was rude, imagine breaking up via a public NEWSPAPER MESSAGE

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

It is very comfortable to be well off in a deeply unequal country. Please look beyond your privileges, and vote wisely for leaders who have the courage to face public scrutiny.

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

Anyone who believed the exit polls from yesterday (and the market reaction), should take a step out of their bubbles and actually talk to people beyond their social circles. No surprise seeing people flip out as if they actually believed in all the 400+ (or even 350+) rhetoric.

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

Every year when the UPSC CSE results are announced, there is such an invisible yet palpable pressure from all sides of my family for me to take the exam. There has been no conversation in the last two days without a subtle, backhand jab towards it.

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

croissants have been murdered into so many variants in India I stg the only thing left to see now is a tandoori extra mayo peri peri croissant

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

1 month

Me in college: yaar ye Local Train har doosre fest me aajate hain Me now: Please ek aur concert kara do because khada hu aaj bhi wahin 😭

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

13 days

More than 70 productions a year, and never the same show on two consecutive nights. Also has the record for the world's LONGEST standing ovation received at 1 HOUR 20 MINUTES, for Otello in 1991 📍Vienna State Opera House

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

When I took the subway in Paris for the first time, I was super confused and bumped into this guy. He swore at me in French, and when he realized I didn't understand, swore at me again in English

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

4 months

MBA 59th batch Convocation day at IIM Calcutta! Big thank you to my parents, friends, batchmates, faculty, and the institution staff for making the last two years worth all the effort! It's been a fantastic journey ❤️

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

Bro we asked for a Prime Minister, not a chain snatcher

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

throwback to when I was dragged out of bed at midnight and made to go to our local pub for beer in literal chappals #peaklondon

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

1 month

do you believe in cute coincidences or should I marry her right away?

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

Agra Fort // Lal-Qila // Fort Rouge built by Shah Jahan and also where he was later imprisoned by his son because of being an extravagant spendthrift

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

North Korea being a top tier salty ex-partner even after 80 years of separation

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

Decided to meet a friend at Juggernaut in Delhi and we both ended up reaching different branches in CP and GK😭😂 Strictly based on this chat context, please tell me that CP was the correct one

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

Land at Guwahati airport and the first thing you'll see are these big ass shrooms. I hope they are shrooms only.

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

1 month

I'm looking to giveaway CAT prep material (TIME books and handouts + notes, c2020, super fresh) to anyone who needs it. You'd just have to collect it from me in North Delhi 🙏🏻

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

bhai topmate hi banana padega kya ab

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

Campus hiring networking events

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@dotinglyricism

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What’s the most uncomfortable thing you face as an introvert?

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

13 days

spot the odd one out guy in finance at a tech meetup (easy) but I met complete strangers off Twitter for the first time and it was nice!

Jelam

@jelambhatt

14 days

our second indian twitter meetup was a picnic in the park 🇮🇳🇬🇧 as one should when the fleeting london sun’s finally out 🧺 appreciate everyone who turned up ✨ might organise another meetup next month so stay tuned 🙂

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

17 days

Such a shame that most of the next generation would never know why The Walkie Talkie building is named so, because they would've never seen one

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

Anyone who likes to do as little as possible can hit me up and I will make you walk 20km a day to see every possible scenic spot in the destination city

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@Purba_Ray

3 months

There are two types of vacationers - the one who wants to do as much as possible and the one who wants to do as little as possible. They are usually married to each other.

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

11 days

9:30pm sunsets by the river in an old Greenwich pub playing the Black Keys tribute is exactly what I want on Saturdays

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

went out with an influencer and ended up filming some reel content. I didn't sign up for this 😭

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

21 days

Slowly getting back to running but why is it so windy all the time

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

Google Maps really needs to alert you that iss road pe Friday market lagta hai avoid at all costs

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

I love it when someone asks me which film I've seen the most number of times, and I say Baghban and they just understand why without a word of explanation

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

A simple hack to understand someone's opinion about women - just ask what does your mom do? Especially if she's a homemaker, seeing how they describe her work tells a lot about how they perceive women

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

An interesting lore about the Dainthlen Falls in Cherrapunji - In the Khasi culture, Thlen was an evil, shapeshifting serpent that terrorised the locals, until they managed to capture it, hack it to pieces, and eat it here. Thus, Dainthlen translates to "where Thlen was cut".

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

TIL there's nothing Bengali about the Bengali market in Delhi. It is apparently named after a gentleman whose name was ‘Bengali’ but was not actually from Bengal!

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

18 days

📍 The Tulip Staircase This wrought iron structure was the first geometric self-supporting spiral stair in Britain (meaning each tread is cantilevered from the wall and supported by the stair below rather than being supported by a central pillar)

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

5 months

why is someone pretending to be my father in my Instagram message requests 😭

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

20 days

After an unreal amount of effort I finally found an apartment in London to move into!!! 🫠

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

1 month

imagine what goes through people who like to preserve stuff and can't even get themselves to throw away/delete things

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@HeeriPeeri

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Having to delete 9 years of pictures, videos and memories has by far been the most heart wrenching experience of unloving someone. Nobody prepares you for it.

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

4 months

Guys get into IIM Bangalore and make 3 idiots their whole personality. I haven't met a single person from there who doesn't have an unhealthy obsession (and pride) for a film based on the misery of studying engineering.

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

1 month

Never thought that spicy drinks would be my thing but this Tabasco based cocktail at Perch absolutely slaps

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

18 days

London would be such a great city if it were not rainy, windy, gloomy, dull, and overcast grey all the fucking time.

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

Drowning yourself in work and dysfunctional notions of productivity so you don't have the time to be left alone with your thoughts

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signs of depression people don't pay attention too?

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Shivam Jha

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It wasn't round but it was definitely edible 🙏🏻 Greater appreciation for my hostel mess workers who made hundreds of these daily, only to be cursed at by students how the mess food sucks 😔

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

@aryamanar99 by West Delhi bakery do you mean halwai

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

Easiest money BCG has ever made

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@pranavmanie

2 months

bro just shut BSNL off already this is adding fuel to the fire now 😭

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

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Really sorry for wearing trainers on formals guys, it is because I chose to walk 3km to my office, and it's really inconvenient in formal shoes 🫠

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

Spent a Monday afternoon sitting at India Gate lawns and bhai sahab Dilli ke saare nalle berozgar yahin pe mil gaye (me too)

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

One way to tell an engineering college apart from the others is to just look at its hostel walls, and you will find the most random gyaan in the world + profanity. This one is DTU btw.

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

Sex is okay but have you ever been someone's first Uber passenger? <3

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

4 months

There are two kinds of people in this world.

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

Only the people who don't know what you do in this role would find it sexy

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@sparklemidi

3 months

"Equity Research Analyst" is such a sexy title for a job

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

23 days

> Gets a new device > Immediately enables dark mode on everything

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

I love it when I learn about something through a completely unrelated reference but don't fully understand it, and then stumble upon the original information years later and suddenly it all makes sense in an epiphany

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

7 days

sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night remembering a month old transaction that I forgot to splitwise

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

Found this 2017 Mood Indigo booklet while cleaning. This was my first time visiting Bombay and I've so many amazing memories from this week - great events, new friends, lovely campus. All the Delhi college fests are on one side, but MoodI was totally a different vibe!

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

LinkedIn posts about top 5 key learnings from election results and the relativity of success in politics are the ultimate centrist hellhole

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

In a country where most cities have at least two names, Varanasi has over a hundred. It's a place where all contradictions coexist - the city of both life and death, faith and fear, of sacred Gods and ungodly pollution, and the epicentre of karma.

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

Boiler Room Gurgaon turned out to be pretty lit (except for the venue) great to see NCR gigs matching euro level energy

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

It's kinda saddening that despite everything I've done in life so far, I've never seen my family be proud of any of it - just because I chose to not pursue this one exam. "ye sab theek hai, but UPSC kab de rahe ho?" idk man i just don't want to.

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

Please suggest some niche, speciality museums/exhibitions/galleries in Delhi that I might not have been to (as I've covered all the major ones by now). Thanks!

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

absolutely annoying moment when I'm playing the Chrome Dino game and the internet comes back on

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

8 days

Bro has never been to Jadavpur

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Top 10 red flags unis. Avoid dating these people at all costs 1.Amity 2. Sharda 3.Christ 4. Bennett 5.Vips 6.Jindal 7. Ashoka 8. IIT delhi 9.DTU 10.NSUT

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

Bob's is such a vibe even when you don't get a table

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

As I child I really wanted to collect and preserve all the books I have ever read - including all course material and notebooks since kindergarten, and I did it until last year. And then termites ate away everything :(

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You are the bane of my existence. And the object of all my desires.

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

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Industry wide system outage calls for an early Friday off guys come on I really need some sleep this afternoon

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

The fact that I know only one of these terms makes me feel SO old 😭

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@333maheshwariii

3 months

Situationship? Benching? Breadcrumbing? Cushioning? Freckling? Groundhogging? Love Bombing? Pocketing? Cuffing? Zombieing? Curving? Stone walling? Yeh sab toh nahi hoga. Shadi karni hai toh batao.

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

1 month

Just found out that I have maxed out on the number my Instagram highlights and the older ones have started disappearing! I never even realised that I've accumulated a 100 highlights wtf!? 😭

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

BLR folks - I am visiting the city for the first time this weekend! Is there anything I MUST do that you would recommend, apart from the touristy stuff?

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

9/10 recommended

sanjh🇵🇸🇧🇩

@sanjh0e

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realest advice ever

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

Increased appreciation for NGMA Delhi for having much better curated permanent exhibitions

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

Meanwhile guys having popcorn, peanuts, and beer for breakfast during WFH because groceries order karne ka man nahi hai

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Tell me you’re a bunch of bachelors living in a different city. I’ll go first.

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

talking to any metropolitan native for 10 mins can tell you they have never spent half a day in a village

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

bro has read the fault in our stars

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

People who've permanently moved out of India recently - How would you best suggest spending the last few weeks here? What are some things one should savour to the fullest that will be sorely missed soon?

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

Still trying to find something as soul touching as pahadi maggi

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

Ever found yourself flipping back pages from the bookmarked one, to recap what is happening even then, you don’t remember reading those last few pages? That's why I stopped using bookmarks altogether. It just ends up being a pretty invitation to forget what you’ve read.

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

I just hope Modiji takes meditation seriously now, and never stops doing it

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

what the fuck is a readymade wall

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

2 months

UP thekas are wild

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

The Red to Blue line interchange is the most annoying and painful thing about the Delhi Metro, involving 6 (de)boardings, and 3 platform changes 😤

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

Just found out that there is a mall in Greater Noida called Connaught Place. They have taken area catfishing too far

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

4 months

Me trying to maintain the 10 notion pages I built from scratch and still giving up, because I would rather get the stuff done than spend time fancily logging it in.

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Brilliant.

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

Saw this top notch, well written, one-act romantic thriller play at Kamani but more importantly, also learnt that Anup Soni does something other than Crime Patrol

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

5 months

People were turning LinkedIn into a dating platform, and here I am receiving career questions daily on a dating platform...

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

3 months

Why does it need to be put on a scale at all? Every degree offers you a unique value prop and a distinct college life. If you get what you want out of that, you're good. I can see no objectivity in this except that residential universities are obviously better than non res ones

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College life of: IIM student>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> literally any other college P.S. Not exaggerating Pretty campuses, so many extra curriculars, single rooms, co-living hostels, daily 🍻, and what not....!!

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

1 month

some @peakbengaluru moments

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Shivam Jha

@shivamxjha

22 days

The cycle of optimism continues. God save this mid team indeed.

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