Zohran Mamdani is not my mayor because I live in Bhagalpur, Bihar, India. My mayor is Neha Sharma (honorary).

I haven't seen the presser, but I am sure it must be fun

Libbing out like it’s Obama in '08 and My Name Is Khan in 2010

- Dick Cheney is dead
- Zohran is the mayor

Permission to lib out, sir?

India Against India Satara doctor dies by suicide, accuses cop of rape; two booked

New blog alert 🚨

I once again wrote about the anxiety of navigating life in Indian metropolis, filled with incivility and despair.

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new blog alert! this time co-authored with @discoursedancer.bsky.social

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Reading a blog I wrote a year ago and it’s so obvious that I was going through grad school applications during that period—it’s filled with American English spellings. I have come a long way since then. Stopped applying to grad schools abroad.

Happy Diwali to all 🪔

If liberalism makes an effort, the pendulum will swing back, but there cannot be any disingenuous expression to this effort. The same faux promises cannot be repeated.

People will eventually get tired of this new system, which is amoral and abhorrent, a system in which people find glee in their neighbours’ pain. They will soon realise it is even more restrictive.

This malfeasance of the elite disillusioned the masses—and it gave rise to a counterculture, which isn’t exactly conservatism in the traditional sense, though it borrows a lot from it.

Liberalism promised messages and ideas that it couldn’t deliver because liberal elites wanted the status quo to remain.

Thanks for these recommendations. I’ll certainly check them out.

Finding it difficult to watch tv or films these days. I’m looking to pick up some books, probably, at least one fiction and one non-fiction. In fiction, im thinking Katabasis. For non fiction, I haven’t zeroed down a book but thematically, I’m thinking Churchill. Recommendations are welcome.

I agree. I wish South Asian twitter would move here; we could at least use some entertainment.

I reviewed the book 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.' The central theme of the book tries to project that it is architecture agnostic while relying on an architecture-specific scenario. Though I largely empathise with the message.

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Not sure if I should continue posting here. Really feel lost without the OSINT community—which is mostly seems to be thriving on LinkedIn.

Oh you nailed it. I was so tired from the flight that I passed out lol

I’ve got some time to myself, so I’m trying to figure out if this mountain is part of the Everest range. The river below is the Mahananda River, and the view is toward the north.

Not downloading the flight KML; I can't pay for another subscription.

One of the weirdest ritual that the urban middle class Indians have developed over the last decade or so is the practice of celebrating their birthdays at an orphanage. Yes, it’s a legit thing people do, where they go and cut a cake at an orphanage surrounded by orphan kids.

In Singapore for the next couple of days; I’m scheduled to speak at a conf. While I’m here I’m also looking to meet fellow journalists, policy wonks/AI policy researchers. Happy to have a chat over coffee :)

India’s state capacity is so low that it sort of parallels the British Raj, i.e., merely hundreds or thousands of officers ruling an entire subcontinent. The Raj had limited numbers likely due to technological constraints at that time. Our constraints today are purely artificial.

Some mornings you need red bull + double espresso shot to explode your heart and stomach

The best part about India is meeting people whose names are inspired by historical figures/events. It can range from Stalin to Saddam Hussein to George Bush to Bill Clinton. And sometimes you’ll meet Covid Kumar. Bakchodo ka desh hai 🫶🏻

I agree.

Civil War, the famous Alex Garland movie? :p

I know I’m an older gen z cause whenever I open discord, I feel like I’m about to get a brain aneurysm, but I don’t feel the same when I open slack

Nepal protest reminding me how much I miss working full time as an OSINT investigator.

Every Muslim yearns to be in the American midwest to be closer to their spiritual brothers

Hi all, here's my new work for the AI Policy blog run by the brilliant folks at Google DeepMind. Please read, comment and share in your circles. Thank you.

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