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Jul 27, 2018 19 tweets 9 min read Read on X
There is rain scent in London tonight. The one when parched earth suddenly gets soaked. Not a smell I associate with Britain. It got me thinking of #rainsongs and this
Sending this one from my #rainsongs list to @noteon 😁
Am missing Dilli farm house rain parties 😉 and of course this old favourite. SO many memories #rainsongs
Going back to a classic. And #ZeenatAman! My first and forever screen crush! (sending this one to @JShahryar xx)
#rainsongs
And another favourite #rainsongs
Sending this one to @TheBuddhaSmiled with fab memories of rain parties in lots of cities across the globe
So yes I wrote the #BachchanBook but I have never been a big fan of this one. Some how it seems too crude for Smita! #rainsongs
And (yes don’t @ me for this) am not a fan of Aishwarya but I love this one #rainsongs
Another song with a lot of my late 90s early 2000s stint in India. #rainsongs
Reaching back to the classics. An amazing movie too if you want a reco #rainsongs
PS I promise I know the word petrichor. I just prefer rain scent as it is closer to सौंधि खुशबू than that rather harsh sound wordmin Engish
But I may as well add this classic. No #rainsongs session is ever complete without it
No rain visuals but one of the most gorgeous songs ever about rain in Hindi #rainsongs
This brings back so many memories. My own and transgenerational. So much of my area still has scars of history. Also a novel worth reading/movie worth watching #rainsongs
Ending this session with the absolute favourite. It is one of my most romantic songs ever #rainsongs
Haven’t done a #Bollywood song session in ages so felt good. Lots more #rainsongs of course but for now 🙏🏽
PS, for those who just joined the thread, this one is for you #rainsongs
Oh never mind. I just have to share this one too! #rainsongs
In India, there is a traditional perfume that smells of rain scent.

As a child, I used to think it was magic.

I still do.

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Oct 7, 2018
A short thread:

Many in the US can be very insular. And even those who are international have imperial filters so the rest of the world is to be feared/discovered/saved.

This is why it needs saying: Kavanaugh is vile and should never have been confirmed. But it’s a long war!
Also let’s pay attention:

A woman - Nadia Murad -who had been held in sexual slavery and survived and works against SV got the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday.
Women in India are speaking up and speaking out in numbers and in ways that are unprecedented.

And this summer the 377 judgement laid down the principle of ‘bodily sovereignty.’

Think closely on what that means.
Read 12 tweets
Sep 15, 2018
Read this. Personal story: I moved to UK in my 30s. I have paid taxes from day one. I speak English. I am educated. But I keep my interactions to a bare minimum and get full medical checks when I go to India.
Why? Because I know my concerns are not taken seriously. And yes this is after I have been registered at multiple surgeries (because of change in address).
So questions that I know are important (given family health history) are ignored or dismissed.

At one surgery, I got regular lectures from the (English) nurse on the dangers of eating wheat - herpersonal bug bear - instead of actual health advice.
Read 8 tweets
Sep 7, 2018
Reading #Sec377Verdict. This thread will pick up my reading from Page 96 and section on privacy. The first thread upto this point here:
"...within the compartment of privacy, individual autonomy has a significant space. Autonomy is individualistic. It is expressive of self-determination and such self-determination includes sexual orientation and declaration of sexual identity."
"Under the autonomy principle, the individual has sovereignty over his/her body."

Although this section is on privacy, this sentence stands out because of its implications for other areas of civil rights, including future body data rights.
Read 68 tweets
Sep 6, 2018
I LOVE that #Section377Verdict starts with a quote from Goethe (also Schopenhauer and Stuart Mills but GOETHE): barandbench.com/wp-content/upl…

#loveislove #lovewins
"...the sustenance of identity is filament of life. It is equivalent to authoring one's own life script where freedom broadens everyday. Identity is equivalent to divinity."

#Section377Verdict
"Denial of self-expression is inviting death."

This!!!! This.
Read 43 tweets
Sep 1, 2018
Seeing parts of London I have never seen before!

Yup, security tweet.
FFS!

On the next table: “but I am the subject matter expert. Do you see the irony.”

Yes I fucking do!
I want to be pathetic paranoid little @MrAndyNgo type writing fearfully from Zone 1-2 for @wsj tonight.

Instead I get London at its best
Read 5 tweets
Sep 1, 2018
He is a lovely man and fortunate to love and be loved so much.

BUT for f*ck sake, there is nothing heartwarming about a super power that does not have basic, affordable, public transport infrastructure!
And yes ‘he could take the bus’ hides a great deal of shittiness about the state of public transport in the US
Surely providing a state funded car or specialised transport service for senior citizens (various places in Europe do this) is not prohibitively expensive or difficult to put in place.

But yeah, capitalist paradise 🙄
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