8. So we know of the caste system in India. Do you belong to a higher caste or a lower caste?
9. Are all Indians sexist?
10. Oh you are so DIFFERENT! I didn’t expect an Indian to take a stand about feminism. You are not like other Indians.
4. So you speak Indian?
5. Will you have an arranged marriage?
6. Isn’t it lovely to be in Berlin where there is no RACISM!
7. Oh Indian! Hmmm exotic! So you are looking for white men to date?
Things Germans have said to me: 🙃
1. You don’t look Indian (they mean it as a compliment)
2. Oh! You must be so poor. How do you manage here in Germany?
3. So now you have experienced what partying is like bcz in India you have none, right?
If we’re supposed to be role models why would we only show our best moments? What kind of example does that set? That something’s wrong with someone if they aren’t okay all the time? I don’t believe in that. I want to show you me, as a real person, so you know you aren’t alone.
You know that 3000 crore statue that was built? That money could have been used for the public education system to subsidize poor students.
So now you’ve spent the money on a statue and are beating up the students who can’t pay the hiked fee.
Wait.... my eyes are still moist from that heartfelt whining of the Delhi police at their protest cos some of them got slapped around by lawyers "we also have families. We are human." how quickly they forget.
It’s a terrifying and, of course, utterly disgraceful moment when a former senior army officer is allowed to call for the rape on national TV.
Be worried, India, very worried.
A question on courage made me realise that my courage is nothing but due to my privileges.
The privilege of being a Hindu
Of being a Male
Of being an ‘Upper Caste’
Of being an IAS.
A bit fairer in complexion & I would have been the epitome of all privileges in this country.
one of my friends from college has financially sustained herself in DU all by herself. her family income is nil because of rampant casteism in her village. privileged losers, who have a problem with nominal college fees can never understand how even a rupee hike affect students.
Nathu, our handyman, lost his wife to tb complications and breathing difficulties last night. I am so sad and so mad. The #climateemergency and #delhiairemergency are class issues. And the govt keepa pushing compliance deadlines for power plants. Life is so fucking cheap, right?
how easy it is for chauvinists to erase their mother's lifelong free labor and overall contribution to theirs as well as their entire family's development, at the expense of her own just so they can own the "mad feminists"