Yes! That is the most comic bit. Bengali women from tier 2 cities and/or with non-posh English accents who have not travelled abroad but are mentally cosmopolitan are not even novel. So so common. For generations. My mother studied in a Bengali medium school, doesn’t have a ‘posh’ accent but her English is flawless and she had read widely about world literature, was familiar with world cinema, besides Bengali literature and cinema, long before she stepped out of India, in her late 40s. For the first time. Nothing unusual.
All I have to say about the entire LifeOfPujaa saga is it's HOWLARIOUS that people are surprised that a Bengali woman has *read books* and *watched films*. I mean gaizzzzzz - do you even hear yourselves?!
How little do you know your own country folks? 🤣😭
@jarodzsz and if i say part of the literacy crisis is people who view media through a performative moral lens and won't even truly engage with art but will hate on it for meaningless social media clout
NRI being political is just limited to protecting chai and naan and this stuff or worse actively selling right wing agenda under the guise of ‘culture’
Taylor haters think she only has two good albums, Swifties think she doesn’t have any bad songs, and Travis Kelce can’t even spell the word music… it’s all too much to take
Making bad-faith, wildly unfounded sociopolitical TikTok critiques of a pop album is such a profoundly misguided use of political energy right now given… literally everything that’s actually happening