Amrutha

Teacher/scholar: Global-/Asian cinema & lit | Torn between languages| Humour & conversations| tea kada tea, filter kaapi, & scotch neat| always local |

[Amrutha @DoofusPhD]

Back from hiatus to say: book is out! Do consider asking your institutions to buy a copy. For those interested, the introduction is OA! And thank you to the og chennai twitter crowd that gave me tons of inspiration and support over the early years!
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Quick #TamilCinema help q:
In trying to write about Apoorva Raagangal, I looked for streams. Found a pretty good quality with "subtitles" on aha. But also found a colour version on YT. Unable to find info on when it was recoloured or by whom. If anyone knows?

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Went on my first vacation; they're exhausting

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@_vgnsh Zanx! 😁

I think it's maybe finally sinking in that I did it

[Amrutha @DoofusPhD]

Back from hiatus to say: book is out! Do consider asking your institutions to buy a copy. For those interested, the introduction is OA! And thank you to the og chennai twitter crowd that gave me tons of inspiration and support over the early years!
https://t.co/xJSXeGJfZF

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But also, what's going on

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Can't believe it's been two decades since I watched it. Watching the thanu cut on YouTube tho.

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Can't believe I'm getting my students to watch Aalavandhan.

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Spent the morning trying to disable copilot off word so now I'm just switching to Google docs till the disable copilot option is a thing

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Colleagues landed up in sennai and want to know what to do over the next two weeks. Are food walks through sowcarpet and deep sea swimming a little outside the city still a thing?

Also: Realising I've never experienced Chennai as an adult with money

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I have started watching say yes to the dress India. I think I might be in a self loathing loop

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I decided to try the sex lives of college girls show. Knowing me, warnings?

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I really dislike it when weather app tells me that the day's high is -2 and low is -6 but current temp is -10, feels like -13. How is that a thing? Shouldn't the low be -10? What is happening.

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Watched Vettaiyan finally.

Went 🤷🏻‍♀️ at the end. It let me down as a fan, but kept me engaged as a scholar.

Far too predictable, which would have been fine if not for it being not formulaic enough to be that predictable. Which is a very nonsensical opinion, I agree.

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Apparently I've been off twitter for a month. That's cool.

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I don't understand why they say standing desks are good for posture. Having to keep ones shoulders and elbows at the angles they have to be to work on a computer at that height is awful.

I understand if the monitor was at eye level but the keyboard and mouse were at waist level

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thinking of turning mushroom pepper fry into a pie for this weekend; anyone done before and has tips?

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Should tell my brother that a rasam gose/kolsch has more appeal than a sambar ipa

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I think I'd watch something about a friendly curmudgeon south Indian uncle in the diaspora trying to become a friendly Starbucks barista

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Overall I think I finally had a conference experience the way it was intended. Where everyone listens to everyone, breakthrough questions about the field are answered and posed, kinship is formed, letters are promised, collaborative work is planned, a cohort is formed... 🥲

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This was interesting in Texas too