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I'm convinced American discourse is fundamentally incapable of engaging with South Asian culture/history/society in any complex way. Conversations about identity are always vexed either in culturally essentialist/racist "curry peop

Practical considerations are also the self-interest of a certain class with caste dynamics. Let's at least have the honesty of acknowledging self-interested politics is not so much an innocent ignorance

Tbqh it's been hard for me. Intellectually, socially, politically, it has been liberating to divest from very toxic faith communities, but personally, emotionally, morally, I'd be so much less anxious

It really bothers me to read such media critiques that dont seem to understand how cinema is an affective medium. Like the vigilante cop is never meant to be a

Tried to explain TikTok’s marvellous appeal to my advisor (dont ask why) & I kept remembering one of the the most fertile imaginative tangents in my childhood was everyday daydreams

A thing I find hard when teaching in the US is to break this argumentative façade students are taught to cultivate as a public speaking skill. Getting all their talking