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So one funny thing happened while watching obsession when Bear was calling customer support at the same time a phone rang at the theater at perfect timing. It was hilarious everyone laughing. Oke person told that guybto pick up the phone quickly.
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Public apology: Yesterday I posted some pictures from a nearby park in London along with the caption “I miss UPI”. Unfortunately that offended thousands of people from the Indian community, UPI community, male community, anti-socialism community, anti-cringe community and then some. I fully deserve the backlash that followed, including ghoulish abuses, threats, baseless accusations about getting to London on family’s corruption money (I’m here on the talent visa for recognition as a tech leader, my father worked in a bank my mom was a teacher, I grew up with two siblings in a DDA flat that measured 50 sqyds.) and trolling on my other tweets and LinkedIn. This was a very reasonable response from my distinguished countrymen.
The anti-socialist community labeled me “brown sepoy”, whatever that means. I have worked all my life, for what I don’t know, but every place I ended up in - I wasn’t supposed to be in it. Perhaps that’s why I moved to London, because I enjoy the torture of pushing myself and I don’t have a comfort zone. My career is built on capitalism, I am here because of capitalism, everywhere I will be will be because of capitalism. I do like to read about and learn from socialist societies because I believe tech wins when it does good. I don’t know what brown sepoy means but I would like to also apologise to the anti-socialism community. My joke “I miss UPI” was certainly inappropriate for your feelings.
On the other hand many kind and considerate countrymen warned me about racism I should expect to get in London/UK. I want to thank them for making me aware that I’m “pajeet”, “brown shitskin”, “ass washer” etc. I am yet to hear these words here since I’m new, so I am very thankful that I learned about these identities of mine from my thoughtful Indian friends. Thanks to you all, I will now be able to understand these abuses if and when they get hurled at me.
I apologise also to the anti-cringe community who thought I was being petty or flaunting myself. I am guilty. Now that you’ve called me names for my mistakes, I will learn from you all how to not do virtue signalling and how to be “simple” and humble.
All in all, I am sorry my sense of humour didn’t match that of thousands of people on a platform with millions of people. Going forward, I will never make jokes about UPI or India or my countrymen who are nothing but angels on earth.
To those who instructed me never to come back, I am sorry but that is not within my scope. You will have to take it up with the governments of India and UK to ban me from traveling back to my homeland, where I’ve paid (and am still paying) large amounts of tax and I am a legal citizen of.
To be really safe, I will from now on not make any jokes or comments or content related to my country of birth. As it stands, each one of us defines our identity differently. For many of you, your Indian identity is so sacred that three words can make you justifiably violent. I have been amply warned that I need to respect that and so I will. As for me, it’s vasudhaiva kutumbakam. I go wherever my karma takes me.
Thank you for reading. And once again, I am sorry for three words.
@GabbbarSingh if you calculate the net present value of a permanent 1L cr annual revenue cut at an 8% discount rate, it comes out to about 12.5L c a substantial fiscal impact over time.
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