madhuri sastry 🍂🍜🫖

[Hari Kunzru @harikunzru]

Here’s a spreadsheet of orgs working on the ground as India experiences this terrible covid wave. Many are accepting foreign donations. https://t.co/Rto1UqoPSQ

[madhuri sastry 🍂🍜🫖 @Chicks_Balances]

Then came Idi Amin, and the rampant xenophobia made the diaspora flee. Khoja matriarchs, now twice removed from the land of their ancestors, took their cooking westward.

[madhuri sastry 🍂🍜🫖 @Chicks_Balances]

The type of Khoja Ismaili food that I write about originated in Gujarat and migrated with its people across the Indian Ocean, where it became influenced by East African ingredients, giving rise to new kind of deliciousness. Think cassava sprinkled with chile and lime!

[madhuri sastry 🍂🍜🫖 @Chicks_Balances]

When the British looked to them for text material, what was "Brahminism" became "Hinduism" writ large. Brahmins were only too gleeful, and why wouldn't they be, placed as they were at the apex of this new religion.

[madhuri sastry 🍂🍜🫖 @Chicks_Balances]

Modern Hinduism is a British colonial concept, created in concert with Brahmins, who are at the "apex" of the caste system. The word "Hindoo" in fact, is of Persian origin, meaning a person who lives in the Indus valley.

[madhuri sastry 🍂🍜🫖 @Chicks_Balances]

I wrote for @Slate about how Trump's plan to cancel birthright citizenship had been tried before, and the catastrophic human rights abuses that ensued:

https://t.co/bMc19MzAz6

[madhuri sastry 🍂🍜🫖 @Chicks_Balances]

I began this year writing for @WearYourVoice about how, in the saturated space of food writing, we've lost sight of just how political food really is:

https://t.co/JxSa2S7yDY

[madhuri sastry 🍂🍜🫖 @Chicks_Balances]

This history of deliberate racialization still persists, notably through the weaponization of white tears. This history of deliberate racialization still persists, notably through the weaponization of white tears.

[madhuri sastry 🍂🍜🫖 @Chicks_Balances]

Fascism doesn’t mushroom overnight. It requires a cultural ecosystem—a primordial soup, if you will—that enables these ideologies to flourish. This culture is soft power, which is then weaponized in order to create or actualize a political movement: fascism.

[madhuri sastry 🍂🍜🫖 @Chicks_Balances]

“Be the bigger person!” “Mend things or else you’ll feel bad when xyz dies!” Etc. NO SIR. NO MA’AM. I will NOT feel bad for not being the bigger person. I don’t want to be the bigger person anymore. I JUST WANT TO BE A PERSON.

[madhuri sastry 🍂🍜🫖 @Chicks_Balances]

When I told some members of my family THE WAY SOME OF THEM TREATED ME...there was so little compassion, so much centering of themselves, such TEXTBOOK gaslighting/derailing/distracting and then shaming ME for not wanting to reach out to people who had actively made things WORSE.