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Shefali Vaidya.

@ShefVaidya

Aug 30, 2018

@rahulkanwal

#ReadTheThread. An open letter to @rahulkanwal and @aroonpurie. Sirs, I saw the link of the @IndiaToday show shared by Rahul Kanwal on FB, where your senior employee and colleague, Rajdeep Sardesai tried to outshout, abuse and intimidate Tushar Damgude, a private citizen.

I thought I would ask you a few questions about the appalling behaviour of your colleague.

I could of course ask all these questions to Rajdeep Sardesai myself, but the doyen of free speech that he is, he has blocked me on twitter.

What is it about Tushar Damgude that your colleague Rajdeep Sardessai hates so much? Is it the fact that Tushar is a self-made man from a humble background who did not have a famous cricketer as a father?

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Shefali Vaidya.

@ShefVaidya

May 2, 2018

#ReadTheThread It was morning. The phone alarm rang. The born-brahmin 'anti-caste' SJW feminist woke up. 'This damn brahminical racist I-phone', she screeched, 'it keeps ringing and it has a white cover'. She considered switching black to the black Dalit landline briefly.

Yawning, she walked to the toilet with bleary eyes, head hurting from last night's excess of Desi tharra. She had stopped drinking wine and vodka coz they were 'racist brahminical' drinks while desi tharra was the only original mulnivasi drink, that's what the man selling it said

She didn't use toothpaste anymore. it was white and brahminical and reminded her of her tyrannical brahminical mother who forced her to brush her teeth and maintain dental hygiene as a child. Bad breath was more egalitarian and Mulniwasi.

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Shefali Vaidya.

@ShefVaidya

Mar 20, 2018

#ReadTheThread. Ten things every Hindu can do!
I keep getting asked, ‘what can we, ordinary Hindus do for the Dharma?’

I am no expert on Dharma, but here are ten easy steps we can all take at our individual levels to assert our identity as Hindus. #Hindu #Identity #HinduPride

1) Tell your kids or nephews or nieces, or kids you know stories from our history and religion. Buy them Indic books. Take them to see Hindu temple architecture, and when they ask you, pointing at a vandalised Murti, ‘what happened here’? Tell them the truth, with the names!

2) Have a Pooja corner in your house. Have a regular ritual. Light a lamp. Make children pray before they set out for school. Just a simple chanting of a few shlokas is enough to keep them connected if you do it on a daily bases. Visit a temple on festivals or on their birthday.

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