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Used to Sale Technology, Now I Design & Build Homes & Happy! Will Travel just for Food. Vinyl Records Hoarder. Blues-Jazz-Classics. Guardian of the old recipes

[N @induskid_]

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[N @induskid_]

🇺🇸 Fall Road Trip Tracker: San Francisco Bay Area Spectacles
Hey Freddy! If you want to experience massive, uniquely American spectacles that attract people from all over the world, you have to route your road trip through the San Francisco Bay Area this fall. Here are the top bucket-list events for your list:

🏈 Over-The-Top College Gamedays

* Cal vs. Clemson (Berkeley, CA)
* When: Friday, September 25, 2026
* The Vibe: Massive Friday night stadium clash against a national powerhouse. It features a unique "Grateful Bears" theme that blends high-intensity college football with classic California rock-and-roll counterculture.

* Stanford Football (Palo Alto, CA)
* When: September 4 (vs. Miami) or September 26 (vs. Georgia Tech)
* The Vibe: Premium West Coast campus tailgating. Fans take over massive eucalyptus groves with elaborate food and drink setups before entering the stadium.

🎸 Massive Public Spectacles

* San Francisco Fleet Week & Blue Angels Air Show
* When: October 4–12, 2026 (Air Show: Oct 10–12)
* The Vibe: An absolute titan of an American event. Millions of people line the city hills and charter boats on the bay to watch elite U.S. Navy fighter jets roar through the skies at supersonic speeds right between Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge. It is loud, proud, and incredibly photogenic.

* Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (Golden Gate Park, SF)
* When: October 2–4, 2026
* The Vibe: A legendary, completely free 3-day music festival drawing over 500,000 global music lovers. Sprawling across giant park meadows with a bring-your-own-picnic setup, it delivers a massive, open-air celebration of American rock, folk, and roots music.

🎪 Elite Electronic Music

* Portola Music Festival (Pier 80, SF)
* When: September 25–26, 2026
* The Vibe: A world-class electronic music festival right on the industrial waterfront. It draws an international crowd and features an exclusive global lineup including Swedish House Mafia and Robyn.

[N @induskid_]

GOAT 🐐 #Messi 🙌

[Sonal Kalra 🇮🇳 @sonalkalra]

Why confuse pride in our national identity with ideology? Aapka kya kehna hai is baare mein?

[Indologia @indologia]

Nobody elected them. Nobody appointed them. But somewhere after 1947, a small class of people decided they were in charge of your conscience.

The arrangement they made was simple. They sit at the top. You sit below. They speak English and write op-eds.

You speak your mother tongue and are always wrong. Their job is to explain you to yourself. Your job is to accept the explanation.

The tools are familiar. Caste guilt. The backwardness narrative. The constant suggestion that Hindu majoritarian violence is always one election away, perpetually imminent.

Each 'concern' is framed as a uniquely Hindu disease. It's never a residue of centuries of colonial extraction. The blame is Yours alone.

There is one rule that never changes. Hindu pride is fascism. Hindu confidence is dangerous. Hindu civilizational memory is extremism.

You are permitted to exist but you are not permitted to feel good about it. A Hindu majority that felt no guilt about existing would have no need for moral tutors.

Thus this whole structure — the secular Lutyens elite and their the prime-time sermons — rests on your uncertainty.

The moment that uncertainty lifts their foundations shake.

A class that profits from your shame has no incentive to tell you the shame was manufactured. Your misplaced guilt keeps them employed.

Your recovery would put them out of business.

They need you on your knees. Apologizing. Explaining yourself. Grateful for the permission to exist. The moment you stand up the whole arrangement falls apart.

Will you stand up?

[Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु @MumukshuSavitri]

Aren’t you the same person who was blaming Holi and Kumbh Mela for spreading COVID and mocking Diwali by telling Hindus to “beef up”

And you think you are uniquely qualified for Hindus to take festival advice from you?

Now I know why they say the quality of your thoughts reflects on your face.

You look exactly how you think.

[Farrago Abdullah Parody @abdullah_0mar]

Read it Carefully. Very Carefully !

From 2005 and 2010, Congress gave subsidy on Petrol and Diesel. Oil agencies wanted to sell 70rs per liter but Congress told them to sell 60rs and remaining 10rs per liter they will give to agency.

But Congress DID NOT pass that 10rs to agencies. After few years, agencies couldn't bear the burden and put pressure on Congress govt to repay their "10rs per liter" amount. Instead of giving them hard cash, Congress gave them "Oil Bonds" and when those "Bonds" will be liquidated ... no body knows.

In 2014, Modi govt came and after oath he immediately increased the Petrol price to repay the principal and interest amount to agencies.

Finally, this March 2026 Indian agencies got their amount back with full Payment.

Congress is CURSE!

[N @induskid_]

ARR used to be really good but back in the day. He became monotonous and repetitive. You can pretty much assume that the album will have a Sufi song, a duet, a dance number and then a few more. It’s astonishing that the kind of love & admiration he got from everyone for years, he’s politicizing it. ARR had no problem with parody of Aarti followed by Sufi song in Rockstar and yet people loved the album and uniqueness of it, but now showing history in Chhava is communal to him. Music was the weak point of the film man. If we are to give him any benefit of doubt - He literally fell into the trap of the BBC (known for anti-India and misleading news) and its journo (no surprise in guessing that the journo is from across the border). Should have just kept his mouth shut

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Defeats happen.

But Rahul Gandhi’s real political crime is abandoning his party today.

On a day Congress is crushed in Bihar, Mr Gandhi is reportedly abroad.

Shouldn’t he have stood with his rank & file?

No true leader abandons his army.

[N @induskid_]

When Brits/EIC first colonized India, it started with brainwashed education in WB and it has never gone away. The inherent belief or more importantly the need to feel superior to others in the guise of intellectual & artistic inclination. I don’t care if you oppose Gov or Modi as your political right, but it’s become a fashion to bash India or Indian origin folks to get their agenda out.

[Varun Velamakanti 🦅 @CricVarunSRH]

Atit Sheth has to be one of the best ARs playing right now in domestic cricket. The captain of Baroda’s name has been mentioned a lot since 2024.

He’s got power hitting abilities + the skill to take wickets whenever the team needs one. He’s a true all-rounder!

#SRH #IPL2026

[Sunil Mathew @cric_domestic]

Atit Sheth remains domestic cricket’s most consistent pace bowling allrounder. A genuine pace bowling allrounder, he’s good enough to open the bowling and slot in at No. 6 for most Ranji sides. Yet somehow, he is criminally overlooked.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.

I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.

Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.

However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.

When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.

The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.

Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?

I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.

The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.

Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

[Arun Pudur @arunpudur]

This you??

[N @induskid_]

Sunday morning & #vinyl session. Bliss!

#turntable #recordplayer #discogs #bobdylan #music #analog #vinylhead #drfieckert #hana #psaudio #primaluna #recordshop #vinylrecord #sunday @discogs

[N @induskid_]

@AbsoluteVish Yeah! That’s why I said, bowlers and that too someone who can bat like Atit and has proven time & again, could really be a good addition. Especially with ability to swing both ways and also seam bowling. And can help get over the woes of bowlers/tail enders barely scoring any run

[N @induskid_]

Pretty much ruled by Bombay & MH lobby. Also, why would Shardul pick/push for Atit or other fast bowling all rounder as such? They are his direct competition for both at domestic & national level as yes?. As Gavaskar says and I agree, Till BCCI mandates First class/Test teams being selected based on First Class performances (Ranji & other domestic matches) and not based on playing IPL or not, Indian cricket will continue to suffer as such. Even the current test team touring Eng is heavy on GT and Gambhir preferred players from IPL, so many of them haven’t played many first class matches if you compare them to players like Atit & other deserving folks who have been performing for so long. Of course for me, he is family, so I could be biased but fact is, IPL unfortunately has become yardstick for all selection.

[Amy Mek @AmyMek]

WARNING NYC 🚨 Zohran Mamdani Isn’t Running a Campaign — He’s Leading an Islamic Political Insurgency

What we’re witnessing in New York isn’t a mayoral race. It’s civilizational jihad, and Zohran Mamdani is its smiling face.

At a Brooklyn press conference, Mamdani didn’t just talk policy. He delivered a call to his ummah, his radical global Islamic community, telling Muslims across NYC: We don’t just belong here. We belong in City Hall.

This is about dominion...

🕌 A CAIR-endorsed radical backed by international socialist movements and anti-Western networks.

🕋 A man who co-founded a radical Islamic hate group (SJP) - the campus arm of Hamas.

📣 A Marxist who openly vilifies Hindus, Jews, defends pro-Hamas rallies, and wants to force halal Sharia-based food practices, holidays, etc into NYC’s public schools.

🛂 A loud opponent of borders, ICE, and the very idea of American sovereignty.

And yet… NYC is sleepwalking toward disaster.

Make no mistake: Mamdani is not here to serve America. He is here to reshape it. His campaign fuses Islamic supremacism, post-colonial grievance, and revolutionary socialism into one calculated movement—funded, organized, and global in scope.

This is the Muslim Brotherhood playbook. This is the Red-Green Alliance. This is the long game: Use democratic systems to embed anti-democratic ideology, until the system cannot fight back.

🗳 June 24 isn’t just a primary - it’s a front line.
New York must decide:

🇺🇸 Will we defend America, or surrender it to those who despise it?

🕯 Will we honor those murdered on 9/11 or hand power to those who chant “Intifada” in our streets?

If you love this city, if you value freedom, faith, and the rule of law - you must stop Zohran Mamdani.

📍 NYC is NOT a caliphate. City Hall is NOT a mosque.