I said it before, but Indian chillies will come over to borrow salt, get chatting, stay for dinner and then hold you up at gunpoint after dessert, mexican chillies will smash your door down, grab you by the collar and haul you outside for a solid beating

It really takes time and effort to switch from hustlebustle work mode to recreational exercise. No wonder people treat fitness the same way they treat career-goals, suffer through, pain etc. Activity should feel like play to really do the mind and body good.

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‘Butter Honey Pig Bread’ by Francesca Ekwuyasi

I just finished ‘Butter Honey Pig Bread’ by Francesca Ekwuyasi. I feel like I just finished a sumptuous meal that my system is still learning how to digest. African writers are so much more sumptuous than American writers. It’s also a wonderful queer read. Sometimes things just work out. #Books

Amits on dating apps will list Spanish as one of their languages but demand that Maharashtra & the southern states speak Hindi. The hypocrisy runs deep.

How wonderful that there are things about ourselves we may never know.

What is with my timeline full of people asking for a certain kind of oldfashioned girl or boy name? I suspect AI data harvesting.

Even worse? So many of these disgusting scum are married or separated with kids. Creep, work on the relationship you do have (including with your kid/s). “Ethical non-monogamy” it seems while demanding that you reply NOW and meet them immediately.

It’s really annoyingly how 40-something men demand instant relationships claiming they’re ’serious’ after these dudes f*cked up so many women’s lives by ‘proposing’ on a bet, slut-shaming girls who said yes, gaslighting ones who said no as robbing them.

A tree outside my house keeps trying to wave me over like it has gossip.

Thank you.

Men on dating apps in a tearing hurry to meet. The excuses? “I’m not into texting.”, “I am not here to waste time.” and a classic - “I think you’re only here as a hobby and my ADHD won’t let me stick around waiting for hours for a reply so I want to meet you now because you’re really pretty.”🤮

New phone who dis

Received one reply last evening and another the day before. Both salvaged bone-tired depressive spirals. Letters are investments in your own future. So people who say haha I don’t do letters but you can write to me lol are just selfish.

Is it self-centered to ask, “Do you think I’m self-centered?” and have I punctuated this right?

All life forms > whatever this is.

Writing two letters carried me into the new day in the best possible way. Did I tell you that 'The Correspondent' helped me revive my love of writing and in the best way possible? Letters, hmm.

Harping on this because this itches my brain the same way as white people yoga ends with ‘Namaste’ as if it’s some spiritual insight instead of plain “Hello/bye” among Hindus in North India. It’s not even uniform across India. Tamil Nadu says Vanakkam.

Reading a story set in colonial Sri Lanka by a white author. It’s beset by the obvious issues but is easier to read than ‘Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’ which is about Sri Lanka by a Sri Lankan. We’ve just gotten so used to racism. #Books

Annoys me when Westerners talk about Buddhism & Hinduism as if they had nothing in common. The Buddha was a Hindu prince called Siddhartha. Then again, same folk like to forget that Jesus Christ was a Jew. And pretend that Catholics & Protestants aren’t dimensions of the same religion.

Overrated food? Any dish in any Mumbai restaurant. Overpriced, made with poor hygiene, served by misogynists. I caught a liver infection, needed hospitalisation & am still in recovery 4 months later from eating only at “known” top restaurants. If you can cook for yourself, do.

I’m not as concerned with their language skills. But lack of self-awareness is a turn off. Non-monogamy has nothing to do with me-time. Casual goes both ways so why come on so strong?

Desi dudes have no chill. Spend their 20s being babied, 30s being effbois. Then in their 40s they want non-monogamy because “I want me time”. Or “casual and see where it goes” but 25 msgs within a minute and “hope u her 4 smtg serious I don like mindgames”

I uninstalled Insta months ago & check weekly on browser only. Today my feed shows a critical feminist analysis of Thaai Kezhavi, a personal essaying criticising the choice of a Chetan Bhagat book as a school prize, news about a bestseller author’s identity reveal. I’m doing this right.

*make OR break

India is like that too. Probably a holdover from British colonialism. We have a ‘board exam’ in tenth grade and another in twelfth grade, both of which we are told will make it break our lives. Most don’t break free of that even afterwards.

Indian students don’t like thinking and Indian teachers don’t like questions. It’s a cultural thing of unquestioning conformance. I’m curious if any other culture (not UK or US) sees this in learning.

Oh, this is actually great. Truly informative and also wickedly funny.

Seriously rethinking a former crush who’s a big shot in advertising because what a talentless hack industry this is turning out to be.

Oh eff off with your ‘data-led diagnostics’ to check if your AC repairwala is ripping you off. What fresh classist BS is this??!