Al-Avalathi Bear

find someone that looks at you the way Sreenivasan looks at Mohanlal

The BJP needs to send a thank you note to the election commission. SIR deletions were highest in constituencies where BJP vote in 2021 was very weak

@vinayaravind Whst about bread and sambar

have i also indulged in it at some point? yeah probably. But i try and do better now. Try and not pass off a preference as some immutable moral imperative.

Indian food discourse is always "oh that sucks", "you can get better at XYZ", "this other city has better food", "you actually like this food/place??" and some variation on this. The worst kind of dumbf*cks.

Blame.

Dear National & International media, This is Manipur right now at 10 PM IST (Friday, 17th April today). Is Manipur even a part of India? Why are you silent on Manipur? Wake up! No Justice, No Rest. #HappeningNow

It's been a while since I posted my work, so here are some pictures from a lovely wedding I shot in Chennai in February. If you're looking for a low-key, mainly documentary-style solo photographer to shoot your wedding, drop me a line. And do RT to spread the word!

Cigarettes selling for dirt cheap today because the govt missed to charge their cut Apparently there was a sintax error

If 90 LAKH VOTERS can be REMOVED in a single state under the S.I.R. process and still be justified as “part of the system,” what credibility does a “valid election” even have left? How can we call it free, fair, and democratic?

I've taught European history for 30 years. Americans have always asked me how the Holocaust was possible, how Germans could have enabled a madman reveling in mass murder to carry out his plans. Now we can see in real time how this is enabled; now we have front-row seats.

@kuyyomorro Is this submission part of your document verifications

i submit that it's not that surprising

Reminder:

There is a mythology the U.S. built around the American War in Vietnam. It goes like this: Young idealistic soldiers were sent into an unwinnable situation by confused politicians. They came home broken and unappreciated. It was a tragedy. A mistake. A lesson learned. Notice what that story does. It centers Americans. Their trauma. Their confusion. Their homecoming. Their feelings. In this story, the Vietnamese people are a backdrop. A jungle. An obstacle. An abstraction. Three million dead Vietnamese people are the scenery for a story about American self-discovery. They made hundreds of movies about Vietnam. The Deer Hunter. Apocalypse Now. Platoon. Full Metal Jacket. Born on the Fourth of July. Hamburger Hill. Count how many of them center a Vietnamese character with a full human life, a family, a name you remember after the credits roll. They turned our genocide into their coming-of-age story. They lost the war and still managed to make themselves the main character. And then, with extraordinary arrogance, they put their soldiers' names on a wall in Washington and call it a memorial, as if the dead to be mourned were the people who flew 10,000 miles to do the killing. Where is the wall for our three million? There isn't one. Because in their telling, we were never quite real enough to mourn.

@Ka_Neeli Ilyas chattha pacha

Guarding Indian airports is a repetitive, monotonous task. It is CISFean after all

Breaking: Israeli settlers setting homes and cars ablaze in Nablus:

Calling for a chakka jam is an act of terror but not this👍🏾

@mooserbaer Abilitye patti ulla chodhyam aano? Pattum. Nalla assalaayi pottikarayaan pattum

@vanwynkle നിനക്കൊന്ന് പൊട്ടിക്കരഞ്ഞൂടെ?

Who called them postpaid services and not Feeकल Matter

Amazing that the cause of a dead classroom every day isn't named. It's Israel. It's always Israel. They kill children every single day. For fun.