Father of 8 (girl,boy, 5 dogs & a cat), amateur photographer, still soul searching, army brat, full time accountant. Views are personal - aren't they always?
Superbly articulated by Priyanka Joshi.
"The world doesn’t know what to do with India.
We don’t fit their neat little boxes. We’re not white.
We’re not monotheistic.
We’re not ex-colonizers or submissive ex-colonized.
We are something they can’t decode.
We are too many things at once—ancient and modern, spiritual and scientific, emotional and logical.
We believe in gods and particles, karma and quantum.
We’re chaos that somehow moves forward.
That bothers them.
Because we aren’t supposed to succeed.
We don’t speak with one voice. We speak in thousands.
Our system isn’t clean. It’s noisy. It debates. It screams. But it works—because we’ve lived through worse and survived.
When we rise, they frown.
When we achieve, they doubt.
Because they still see us the way they chose to see us long ago—untrained, uncouth, and scattered.
But we’ve always known how to turn our mess into movement.
They don’t get that a billion people don’t need a single script.
They fear our success because it didn’t come from their textbooks, their aid, or their approval.
We remember being ruled, but we were never truly conquered.
We adapted, absorbed, transformed—but never disappeared.
And that is unsettling for those who thought we would.
India rising doesn’t fit their world order.
Because we didn’t wait for permission.
We didn’t rise from imitation—we rose from memory, from contradiction, from sheer force of will.
And that’s why they don’t celebrate our rise.
They resist it.
Because it wasn’t supposed to happen.”
I’m European.
Last year, I moved to India.
What I experienced shattered my Western mindset.
Here are 10 life-changing lessons I learned in India that reshaped how I see the world:
I intend to be disgustingly outrageously LOUD about this btw. Andy Murray. Back in action. Coaching the greatest tennis player of all fucking time...
Just so damn cool.
Why is the word Sanghi being used as a slur? I’ve heard every kind of adjective used to describe them including filthy low life, scum and more. Am I right that Sanghi means member of Sangh Pariwar? And its use is essentially to insult anyone who is perceived as Hindu right wing or is it just for those who support Modi? But the Sangh Pariwar has over 70 organisations including Nele home for destitute children, Kreeda Bharati, India Foundation Think tank, Vivekaananda Medical foundation, Friends of Tribals Society, national Medicos Organisation, Fisherman’s Cooperative, railway Mazdoor Sangh, Kishan Sangh, Bharat Tibet Friendship Society and many many more outside of RSS, VHP BJP membership. The Shiksha Bharati train almost 2 million under privileged girls and women. They would be Sanghi’s right? Why are farmers doctors lawyers, orphaned children tribals all being abused with the use of this word that infact covers all of them? I think they need a different word or maybe our politics would just be more dignified without any name calling on either side.
@Sassy_Soul_ Always better to give the basis for your assessment when trashing a product. People should know why, else this is a damaging statement for any brand with consequences for them.
🏸 The fastest badminton shot ever played had a speed of 565 km/h (351.1 mph), exceeding the fastest speed recorded by a Formula 1 car by almost 200 km/h. The record belongs to India’s Satwiksairaj Rankireddy.
All Top Gun jokes aside, a sortie at that age is no joke.
As a friend, who used to fly says: "Dude just for this I have respect for this guy.. I told you I was learning flying planes in Palo Alto right and those were just midwing cesnas.. even if the Tejas does a low end 2G pull during a yaw-pitch-roll, that 73 yr old man would get a stroke! So, hats off. No shit!!! I am giggling as it is kinda cool though a PM being able to do this."