India is the only major civilization where if asked to have a critical view of history and not glorify emperors and empires interested in their own wealth and expansion that teenagers start copy pasting whiny tweets like this.
Everyone is pointing out the evangelisation of Hinduism but Hindutva has explicitly been a project of molding Hinduism into Abrahamic monotheism in a country that had never been a single entity in its entire existence
+ being social and interacting with different kinds of people is an important thing that enriches your life and thinking, and dare I say makes you happier and better at your job
hustle culture really has lost sight of the joy of catching your coworker near the coffee or chai station and biting on a good nugget of gossip -+ some of the best ideas I’ve gotten that have helped me through a research rut have come from having lunch with my coworkers
Yesterday, I was giving an intro talk to our dept's new PhD students. Technical things aside, my number 1 suggestion has remained the same over the years: Treat your PhD like a job.
- Avoid 1.5h lunch and three tea breaks.
- Avoid gossiping and loitering at work.
- Lab at 9 am and leave at 6 pm. Being productive till 11 pm in the lab is a lie people till themselves when their day starts at 1 PM.
Everything worth doing can be done with high intensity focus during work hours. And having fun in life is the secret to being productive in a marathon.
Academics, if you write something that the public can't understand you've failed. The point is to write something that even other academics can't understand
Incels when thappad:
Ek thappad pe divorce lena hai toh shaadi mat karo.
Incels when Mrs :
Ghar ka kaam karne mein itni dikkat hai toh shaadi mat karo.
Incels when Chiraiya :
Shaadi ke baad sex nahi karna toh shaadi mat karo.
Thank you for the awareness 🙏🏻
Unpopular opinion, but true: Each time I hear “Chak de India” play at the stadium, can’t help being reminded that the movie was about a (high profile) Muslim man facing baseless and very serious allegations, who then had to literally do the impossible single handedly to clear his name, proving the burden will always be on the minority to prove their ‘good Indianness’. And people singing along are celebrating this very unfair story. Tragic-comic, ironic, missing the point et al. 😌🙏