Manjula Jonnalagadda

Complex by nature!! Retired Software Engineer, mediocre quizzer, lifelong learner.

[Manjula Jonnalagadda @transcendentpi]

I helped create a site that discusses ideas to regulate Facebook. Check the site out #RegulateFacebook https://t.co/2ksDzARdfO

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@RaghavNC Ayn rand

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@RaghavNC Louvre?

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RIP Alan Greenspan!!!

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RIP James Burros!! Thank you for the sitcoms!!!

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@SajinShrijith This film is a master class at so many levels!!!

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Very important tweet! Nobody bothers about the long queues that Indians get stuck in to get a green card!

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My family moved to the US when I was 8, but by the time I turned 20, my dad was still on an H1B (waiting to get processed for a green card).

Once I turned 21, I would age out as his dependent, despite the fact that I basically grew up in the US.

I thought I'd have to become a code monkey after college, and even that only if I was lucky enough to win the H1B lottery.

Otherwise, back to India.

I had become a huge fan of @paulg's essays in college. I was actually depressed that my desire to start a startup or do something entrepreneurial was basically hopeless.

Working on the promising podcast I was doing as a side project? A beyond impossible pipe dream.

Even after 9 years, my dad wasn't able to get a green card - and the lines were only getting longer over time. I figured I'd be an old man before I could quit some FANG job and build my own thing.

By some miracle, COVID travel restrictions cleared out the lines, and I got my green card literally months before I would have aged out.

If not for this unbelievable coincidence, I would not be hosting the podcast.

In the best case, I would be shifting pixels around in the 3rd sub-sub-menu of some big tech software.

I'm incredibly grateful I made it through.

But it's unconscionable that we put the kids of high skilled immigrants through all this anxiety, and in many cases make them repeat the nerve-racking indentured life trajectory that they had to watch their parents go through.

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It is this Sunday/tomorrow! Don't miss it!

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@ATRightMovies Sleuth

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RIP Bharathiraja! An era in South Indian film making ends! :(

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Quiz for the month of June : June 14th, 2026

Time: 2 PM
QM: Akshat Jain
Venue: Midtown Room,
Mitchell Park Palo Alto Library
3700 Middlefield Rd
Palo Alto, CA 94303

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@Mads00108 Balasubramaniam also dubbed for Kamala Hassan in Telugu films.

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RIP Marjane Satrapi!! Thank you for Persepolis!!

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@SHEKARSUSHEEL This song used to play often on radio ceylon.

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@itskasturiii I see lot of folks who are not Indian getting food from Satkar in mountain view which is the best dhaba food around.

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@batatalal He didn't have it to begin with

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@SHEKARSUSHEEL Very nice tribute!!

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RIP Suman Kalyanpur!! The golden of Hindi films is all gone! :(

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@Mads00108 Kali Banerjee is a fantastic actor, who never got his due!

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@devamitrapanda @SHEKARSUSHEEL I didn't mean it in literal sense.

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@devamitrapanda @SHEKARSUSHEEL He is God!!!