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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

4 months

Graduated from Harvard today :)

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@bhatoti

5 months

Cute but Dhruv Rathee is not Opposition, he is a media personality, kinda like you. He steps in because of a vacuum of political analysis from the likes of WSJ. So that’s a fairer comparison. Why aren’t you good at your job?

Sadanand Dhume

@dhume

5 months

It says a lot about India’s ramshackle opposition parties that the most effective BJP critic today is a 29-year-old YouTuber who got his start 10 years ago with a video of a water park in Germany.

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

3 years

Since Danish Siddiqui is being maligned in death for his pandemic coverage by the famously well-behaved crowd (you know who), let me say that I would have wanted every journalist to photograph my father's burning pyre. The people culpable for his death should not sleep peacefully

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

2 months

Coke Studio comments section is not ready for this 🇵🇰 🇮🇳

Shiraz Hassan

@ShirazHassan

2 months

THE CHAMPIONS!!! #ArshadNadeem 🇵🇰 #NeerajChopra 🇮🇳

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

2 months

I would personally find it sinister to partake in a society that demands food on the table in ten minutes at the cost of hamsterwheeling an underclass.

Ujjwal Sukheja

@ujjwal_sukheja

2 months

Much awaited life update 📢 After months of building in Stealth, Excited to announce that we are building Swish: 10-min food delivery app ( @justswishin ) Many of you might be asking how did a bunch of crypto enthusiasts end up launching a food delivery app? thread 🧵

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

1 year

Hard disagree here; the material reality of my Dalit and Muslim friends substantially improved after moving abroad. Hate is not “less visible” it is simply, and substantially, less. Unsurprising when the comparison point is vigilante violence and apartheid-like living.

Megha Mehta

@meghamehta8488

1 year

Country is burning let’s move abroad is not the take ppl think it is. History of last decade shows fascism is catching on everywhere, including ‘developed’ West. Moving abroad just means you want to swap out your current ivory tower for one where the hate is less visible or

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

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Internet pontification really has fried our brains. This video is the most level headed defense of LGBT rights from the leader of opposition of the largest country in the world, and yet this is how it is being unpacked:

Yes, We Exist 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

@YesWeExistIndia

14 days

Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi still thinks sexual orientation is a preference or a choice. Gives a vague answer when asked about @INCIndia policy on LGBTQ rights and irrelevantly talks about violence and aggression.

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

9 months

Sonal's comment is particularly revealing of the deep sickness of the casteist mind. Having wealth and power is simply not enough, what matters is subordination. No amount of wealth abroad would be enough because what the casteist mind desires is the destruction of dignity.

Basil🧡

@LinkofSunshine

9 months

ppl will tell you with a straight face the economy is bad because their maid can afford to send their kid to school

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

4 months

A political science professor at University of Delhi

Sangit Kumar Ragi

@RagiSangit

4 months

I am happy that BJP has decided not to keep Muslims in the cabinet . Enough has been done by the party to bring Muslims closer. But it is well established that Muslims vote to defeat the BJP.

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5 months

Just so so hard to control the rage and despair and the indignation. This child would be a young man now still subjected to the whims of the mob. Two decades later, not one lesson realized. Not only are the ideas of justice remote, the mob has only grown in size.

Gabbar

@Gabbar0099

5 months

Gujarat Files : Imagine the trauma of this child & the scar to his tendor life.

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@bhatoti

6 months

Around this time 3 yrs ago, I spent nights sleeping on the footpath as my father gasped for breath on a hard-fought hospital bed in East Delhi. He did not make it. I want to move on from this trauma, but we are on the cusp of a re-election, so this thread is a reminder:

RAHUL

@RahulSeeker

6 months

As the LS Elec is here A small Recap of the pandemic, very secular more than anything, that every Indian across religions suffered. On 28/01/21 PM MODI announced at World Economic Forum DAVOS “We have defeated COVID” Proud me conquered 4 bottle vodka that night. 😍 🧵 1/21

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@bhatoti

1 month

A student revolution that claims to be secular and succeeds with popular mandate? Keep dreaming, babe. You’re in South Asia.

Shihab Ahmed Tuhin

@TuhinShihab

1 month

He was a dean of Dhaka University, who didn’t allow students to recite the Quran Publicly. Today, students recited Quran in his office, make dua for his hidaya and forced him to resign. Poetic Justice!

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

1 year

The SOP-fication and coverletter-ing of life, packing every choice ever made in a professional narrative is the hardest part of grad school life. arey, what if I did something because I had a fleeting interest? what if I studied something but realised I didn't like it at all?

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

5 months

April to June. I can trace each day of the Delta wave as my father fought for his life. Today 3 yrs ago, I had seen a woman frantic to save her husband. They had come in an e-rickshaw. It was too late, he had turned blue. She returned with his body in the same rickshaw.

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

1 year

I will never marvel at any technological progress because my grief surpasses all joy and Chandrayaan-wonder. My father needed a hospital bed and he didn’t get it on time which led to his death. I’ll carry the spite to my grave.

caste traitor

@CasteTraitor

1 year

(1/2) Isro and you forget how technologically backwards is the country that sent a million workers walking 1000 kms in bare summer sun on (often) barefoot. That we couldn't even keep a proper count of deaths, that oxygen and hosp beds were on blackmarket .

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@bhatoti

3 years

This also includes the government of Delhi, who stared at a poor pandemic response and instead chose to do nothing about it.

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

15 days

This and Karan Thapar’s Op-ed about Delhi Gymkhana are simultaneous reviews, art pieces and ethnographic evidence of a certain kind of Indians

Ambarish Satwik

@AmbarishSatwik

15 days

A tirade. Against @Indian_Accent , Delhi’s much-lauded temple of gastronomy, where the well-heeled and the well-fed go to stroke their palates with innovation. A couple of days back, they were found peddling a culinary sleight of hand. The offending dish, an offering on the

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

17 days

How many times will you guys say this though? It’s been over a decade. You had to develop an alternative and not sit around podcast mics saying the same thing over and over

Manisha Pande

@MnshaP

19 days

Long rant alert! The problem with Lutyens Elite

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

3 months

Justin, this is a process standardized and enforced by America & EU and is quite customary for anyone in the Global South (incl academia). In the replies you also complain about separate biometric appointments, which once again, is a standard aggressively enforced by America

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@bhatoti

1 year

A literal copefest. Primetime news discussing jobs and inflation in Canada while ensuring a complete blackout of the unemployment and inflation crisis in India. The student throws a tantrum but continues to be in Canada as if it wasn’t his choice to come all along. Waaah!

NDTV

@ndtv

1 year

Watch #TheLastWord with @maryashakil | "Lack of infrastructure, no jobs": Namra Shukla, Indian student in Canada

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

9 months

Got to moderate this session with @RahulGandhi today. Won’t say much because we often judge words disproportionately but I think I understood why there is a robust multi-million media infrastructure stacked against him. He is fiery, intelligent and profound.

Rahul Gandhi

@RahulGandhi

9 months

Had a wonderful and engaging chat with a diverse community of Harvard students from across the world. The students were curious about a wide range of topics - about India, the rise of authoritarianism and challenges to democratic politics, geopolitical challenges posed by

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

2 years

Friends, we have been taking baby steps over the past year but this one was a giant leap. Congratulations and Jai Bhim.

Harvard officially adds caste to its new anti-discrimination policy; rules to be effective from...

www.freepressjournal.in

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

1 year

Mostly agree with the message of this op-ed but as I'd said earlier, the philosophy dept being overwhelmingly white picks up attention and starts discourse on representation and never that most faculties everywhere continue to be exclusively upper caste.

Ashoka University and the hypocrisy of ‘liberal’ branding

Its mostly Caucasian philosophy department would raise no eyebrows if India's most elite private university actually stood up for the moral values it professes. Since it doesn't, better to stick to...

indianexpress.com

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

3 months

It’s been over a decade but this niche competitive exam motivation literature still traumatizes me. It’s not even funny. Kids should not be subjected to platitudes on life and success on an industrious scale.

Sakshi

@333maheshwariii

3 months

In kota factory Jeetu bhaiya said "Jeet ki tyari nhi, tyari hi jeet hai" is one most apt line aspirants should keep in mind while preparing for any competitive exam.

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@harnidhish Please expand why you felt that knowing the geopolitical situation of India and existing capacities of the G and the B? Or is this one of those half baked thoughts because US did and so can India?

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

1 year

If you’re Muslim and/or Bahujan, and if you think grad school is a way for you to eventually leave and lead a better life, contact me. I’ll personally mentor you if our fields align, else will put you in touch with friends.

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

1 year

& Sidhu Moosewala often used casteist slurs. Celebrity worship will lead to disappointment. This is the only thing we should learn from the SRK tweet to Modi. I deeply admire him but he makes the trade-offs to preserve his lifestyle. Not sure if it’s OK but it’s understandable

ਰਬਾਬ

@hikktehvajj

1 year

Sidhu Moosewala would never have done this yet Caravan calls him problematic but celebrates Shahrukh.

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2 months

I have learnt a few scary lessons on premature celebrations and Vinesh’s case has retraumatized me for life. Absolutely gutted.

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@bhatoti

3 months

Caste is the biggest determinant in labour outcomes. We know that from many studies and surveys incl those quoted by this article. A journalist should engage with this evidence in good faith. A journalist should also engage with the content of articles and not headlines.

Shubhangi Sharma

@ItsShubhangi

3 months

Damn these Brahminical solar rays

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2 years

with a semester completed in grad school, I look at the challenges I face as an international student, and then I look at the offices of diversity/inclusion/belonging only to realise how toothless and disingenuous these efforts really are.

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@bhatoti

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@YesWeExistIndia @INCIndia He said the words sexual preference doesn’t imply that he meant sexual orientation is a preference, and he did not even utter the word “choice” so you shouldn’t casually slip that in with no basis

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@bhatoti

5 months

I cannot forget her primal screams as she struggled to put his shrouded body back on the rickshaw. It just wouldn’t fit, so she chose to…make the body sit upright. 3 yrs later I am yet to fathom the innumerable horrors that I witnessed in these three months.

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

3 years

#URGENT My Mother's oxygen saturation levels are hovering around 89-91. Besides prone position, what else could we do while we arrange for an oxygen cylinder or a hospital bed? #SOS #COVID19 #COVIDEmergency2021

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@bhatoti

4 months

Sibal saab is a very honourable man but this self-perception needs to be corrected. Hailing from generations of lawyers did make one elite in India, even as refugees were rebuilding their lives. ~12% of India was literate in 1947. Unfortunately can’t argue out of this eliteness

Areeb Uddin

@legallyuddin

4 months

"I am from that family who were refugees from Lahore, we don't belong to any elite class.. we don't want to be elite. We're here to serve the people of this country, not those who are rich, but the people who have no representation anywhere in the country." - @KapilSibal (1/2)

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@bhatoti

1 year

@ghaywan Actually this statement does not respond at all to what Yashica has said. An apology would have been better instead of doubling down and denying plausibility. You belong to a big production house backed by power and capital, the least you could do was give Yashica SOME credit

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@bhatoti

1 year

what if I was being silly and listless? what if my curiosity took me to a shore I immediately left? can we not err in our choices anymore, why do we have to save our face about that?

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@bhatoti

3 years

My father has been in the hospital for the past three days showing no signs of improvement. Please pray for him, that's all I ask for.

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@bhatoti

1 month

I often think about this tweet—and the fact that most women in India may never experience such simple contentment. That many will deny and dismiss this instead of imagining a better country—this is our collective degradation.

Sumirti

@sumirti

7 months

Last year, in summer, I accidentally dosed off in a park in Germany. When I woke up after an hour, I felt warm and content because that was the first time I ever slept on grass. But then,the fact it was the first time in 30 yrs of my existence made me profoundly sad.

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1 year

I'd like it if my family is around for my graduation in 2024, so I began their US visa process in 2022, having spent 1L+ already and currently praying they don't get rejected because they are all women (and apparently more vulnerable to rejection). Fun times, very dignifying.

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@bhatoti

1 year

Aches to read this thread. We don't have an anchor or an estimate to understand the size of this grief and anguish. Can't believe we expect our Muslim friends to be stoic and unassuming about what affects them so fundamentally.

Whatizname

@nazmaaman

1 year

Asking my Muslim friends here, has it become exhausting for you to witness the relentless attack and propaganda on a daily basis? Do you wish to become indifferent to everything that's happening , to preserve your sanity?

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@bhatoti

1 year

I’ll give you one better, including local RAs as coauthors will not only give you exactly what you highlight here, it is also an ethical practice.

J-PAL

@JPAL

1 year

Including local researchers as coauthors in studies can produce evidence that is more attuned to the local context. What are strategies to ensure successful international coauthorship? Learn more: #EconTwitter

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@bhatoti

1 year

Found out that a student newspaper I used to lead in DU with a couple of other passionate journo folks has now effectively been reduced a 'relatable', inane angsty social media page :(

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@bhatoti

2 months

I think my hot take in light of the budget is that salaried people’s frustrations are understandable.. that they use this frustration to attack already precarious welfare systems is another problem..

Rajeev Mantri

@RMantri

2 months

I am highly amused to see lots of individuals self-identifying as “middle class” and cribbing about #Budget2024 😄 Please get a reality check - if you are earning tens of lakhs of rupees, you are *not* “middle class”. Stop kidding yourself. What do you think the Budget exercise

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A casteist mind situates the self in relation to others. Wellness, happiness etc. is secondary, almost inconsequential. The misery imposed on others is the real currency. The distance in prosperity is the only yardstick. I shall do well but you MUST do worse. That's caste for you

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@bhatoti

4 months

The hoarding wouldn’t fall in Malabar Hill. In fact there would be no hoarding in Malabar Hill.

Bhaumik Gowande

@bhaumikgowande

4 months

You may live in a house worth ₹60 crores at Malabar Hill and hangout in cream-de-la crowd of Mumbai but god forbid if a hoarding falls on you tomorrow, you are worth ₹5 lacs for Maharashtra State Government and BMC.

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2 years

The most practical advice (but maybe not the 'best') I received for grad school applications was to not make tragedy the centre of my story. Tragedies will require trials. Your tragedy will compete with another tragedy.

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@bhatoti

1 year

@ANI Okay Radio Rwanda. We know why you are overly descriptive of the whereabouts of this crowd.

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@bhatoti

2 years

Feel like this will be a hottake so read on if you'd like to.. but the common thread across most American (and white) acads I engaged with at Ashoka was that they just didn't land tenure in any American University

Sridhar Venkatapuram MSc MPhil PhD MFPH(Hon) FRSA

@sridhartweet

2 years

I'm slightly confused / alarmed at the make up of the faculty of Philosophy Dept at Ashoka Univ. - In India. Can someone explain please? .

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@bhatoti

1 year

Can you imagine a non-American academic influencing American Presidential elections using radio campaigns and measuring its effectiveness using RCTs? Seems absurd right? Well the IRB clearly did not come to the same conclusion when this RCT happens in India

VoxDev

@vox_dev

1 year

🆕 A radio campaign highlighting the costs of vote buying drew close to 3 million votes away from vote-buying parties. Today on VoxDev, @LauraASchechter ( @UW_AAE ) and @srini_econ ( @UChi_Economics ) outline their research in #India :

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@bhatoti

3 years

Please help. My father who is in the ICU at GTB Hospital is not being properly attended. He has sent several distress calls, he is dehydrated and uncomfortable and NO ONE HAS COME TO HELP @ArvindKejriwal @SatyendarJain @LtGovDelhi @AamAadmiParty

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@bhatoti

2 months

The job of a journalist begins with checking the veracity of claims. We instead have “veteran” journalists who signal boost outrage to pander to their inattentive audience.

barkha dutt

@BDUTT

2 months

This is appalling. And will be the end of Women’s Sport as we know it- and for which generations of women have fought so hard .

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@harnidhish Alright. We can’t skip to the ending is a general reminder to this kind of thinking. Many, many problems are intractable, doubly so because we don’t have capacities. Working on such an idea would be a disaster

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@bhatoti

2 years

Nothing is more electrifying than reading and discussing @surajyengde in class at Harvard.

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@bhatoti

2 years

And please while we are at it, please question the diversity of any Indian academic faculty at any institution in the world. If you're here to question the whiteness of things, we will question the casteism of things.

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@bhatoti

4 months

It has come as a rude shock to me that people do not care about the govt response to the delta wave, incl the opposition. Despite social media theatrics, I want to remind everyone that I reached out to every political party cadre to arrange for my father's treatment - to no avail

Arnav Gupta

@championswimmer

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People lost near and dear ones because oxygen cylinders ran out A better opposition wouldn’t have let the government forget this till elections Wealth redistribution and social reforms shouldn’t be the plank when empty oxygen cylinders could have been

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@UserNameShudB He did though. But looks like you have a habit to yell and not think:

A PICTURE AND ITS STORY Witnessing COVID chaos in India's hospitals, graveyards and crematoriums

Covering the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic as it tore through Indian cities, towns and villages was overwhelming at times.

www.reuters.com

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@bhatoti

5 months

It should not take an MP to explain the trajectory of the Holocaust to a journalist.

Siddharth

@DearthOfSid

5 months

Watch this to see how a shameless propagandist is trying so hard to pretend to be a journalist and failing miserably. Disgusting.

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2 years

Fall colours in Cambridge. Still can't believe I get to walk through these yards everyday.

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@bhatoti

11 months

Knowing what happened to Ehsan Jafri

Tired Peasant ☭🇵🇸

@LizzieCosmos

11 months

What radicalized you?

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@bhatoti

1 year

@quizzicalguy Well, at least we know how long the Reich lasted..

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@bhatoti

5 months

The largest, most prolonged protests India has ever seen were in response to the Mandal Commission implementation, which was a core social justice reform. The demand was not to improve it or modify it, but outrightly discard it. So it is placed on the wrong side of history.

T. Ryan Gregory

@TRyanGregory

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Out of curiosity, when was the last time massive student protests turned out to be on the wrong side of history, and the state using police violence against them turned out to be right?

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@_ADeshpande ? The developments visible to the public in the last fifteen days have only been the abuse faced by Prof Sabyasachi and now his resignation. Assumptions are based on what is in front of us lol

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2 years

Missed you a little extra today

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One of these fifteen men later became a virulently communal person speaking in favor of the government (although never politically empowered himself) Politics in India is…interesting. But interesting is a non-word. Maybe it’s just unintuitive, weird, scary and entertaining..

Chittajit

@cjmitra

3 months

Today marks the 25th anniversary of India's first Pride March which took place in Kolkata. In 1999 when the US declared June as the Pride Month, back here in India on July 2nd fifteen queer individuals from a few different cities gathered together wearing bright yellow tshirts.

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Kaun kehta hai ki aasmaan mein suraakh nahi ho sakta… :)

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@D_Vaivab The question was on the future role and not party portfolio but if portfolio does matter, then this also matters along with your concern:

Congress manifesto 2024: Congress supports same-sex union in its manifesto

Congress and CPI(M) support civil unions for LGBTQIA+ community in India, promising legal recognition and protection in manifestos.

www.thehindu.com

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

2 years

at least try to address the massive inequality of opportunities, the unfamiliar pedagogical styles, the ruthless immigration landscape. at least try!

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@bhatoti

1 year

I consider Sabyasachi’s paper on voter manipulation in LS 2019 very damning, and along with the video of the mass shooter on the train in Mumbai… feeling pretty rattled for what’s ahead of us

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

3 years

Sometimes when I am up late at night studying or working, a part of me still expects him to walk in and pull me up for my unhealthy habits. My dearest dad, how much do I miss you..

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@bhatoti

2 years

Follow @IWWAGEIFMR and @LEADatKrea to know more about female labour in India instead of... this guy

Gabbar

@GabbbarSingh

2 years

A lot is being made of the 20 million women disappearing from the Indian workforce in the last 5 years. The fact is women in workforce has been steadily decreasing in India. Reason: As family income grows women choose to care for family as there is no compulsion to work.

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The comments to this tweet is the window to the truth. the mob has taken over. this country is just a large Nuremberg rally. blaming one person or two or five is too easy and a cop out. we are dealing with millions and millions of toxic zombies.

Bajrang Punia 🇮🇳

@BajrangPunia

9 months

मैं अपना पद्मश्री पुरस्कार प्रधानमंत्री जी को वापस लौटा रहा हूँ. कहने के लिए बस मेरा यह पत्र है. यही मेरी स्टेटमेंट है। 🙏🏽

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

2 months

decolonize this podium, they said

Prithvi

@Eighty7_Fifty8

2 months

In 116 years of Javelin Olympic history (27 editions), no European features on the podium!

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

3 years

Tears well up while reading tweets under #HamareAbbaJaan .. such beautiful stories of dads and their unadulterated love :) truly feel blessed to relate so much. Love heals and saves the world. Always. It always offsets the bile and the manufactured hate.

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

4 months

@notsomeritorios @tordinaryindian Where does she claim to be middle class? I am not doubting the possibility but would be nice to know

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

1 year

no, no, no. if you have to honour him, read annihilation of caste and that's it.

Malavika Mohanan

@MalavikaM_

1 year

A world of equality, always. Today’s read to honour Babasaheb. #JaiBhim ♥️

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@bhatoti

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@RandomCricketP1 Like you, my dad and I also used to watch Hockey together. Actually, all Olympic sports really. Waking up early, staying up late. Quarreling with each other because he was unrealistically optimistic about Indian sports☺ I just wanted to say this so you know you are not alone.

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

1 year

@DearthOfSid Similar story. A coaching center teacher used to call us “SC-ST-OBC” whenever we did not perform well. Also turned out to be a Modi supporter and still teaches at the same coaching center without any consequences for his everyday bigotry

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

7 days

Felt annoyed after this appeared on the feed, knowing how clueless, unmoored I was at this age. But knowing OP is a young Pakistani student, it's hard to fault this feeling. Everyone in QTs talking of PhDs at 50 etc should know a bigger world operates without safety nets,

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@notrlly_huzaifa

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one thing they dont tell u abt turning 23 is that suddenly its too late for everything. too late to pursue ur dreams, too late to take those risks, too late to be in love, too late to for quite literally everything. life ends at 22 and ure only left with regrets and longings

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@bhatoti

2 months

The discourse around Usha Vance from Indian American Dems is bizarre. It is not inconceivable for two law school students to fall in love and marry each other. This is not a Hindutva-Republican alliance. Sociological inquiry is great but overindexing matrimony is weird.

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

8 months

@ProfRavikantK a govt officer who is a classmate and “fact-oriented” brought this up recently. It’s chilling that this fake imagery of a Dalit leader making officers sit on the floor sticks even when there are *actual* images of politicians beating people, committing crimes, garlanding rapists

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

2 years

Several one year anniversaries are coming. One year of having felt that tingle in the throat. One year of hoping that it was just the flu. One year of sobbing at the pharmacy counter. One year of seeing dead bodies being piled in rickshaws.

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

2 months

This was a pet peeve but it’s just concerning at this point how the misuse / careless overuse of “Hindutva” is happening in intellectual circles. It leads to cheap and shoddy political analyses ultimately unhelpful in tackling it in an ideological way.

Jayati

@Jayati_M93

2 months

Rant: A very annoying thing abt some Indian left-libs is their uncritical support of Pieter Friedrice-style dog-whistling politics of finding "Hindutva" under every rock (read NRI Hindus). It's nt unusual for most first gen immigrants frm any country to have conservative views +

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

1 year

Sorry to break it to most of you who are being humoured by these tropes, but you literally live some of those tropes (which is also why you understand the specificities lol)

AH

@TaciturnToast

1 year

Meet Kabir/Arjun/Karan from Aaram Nagar whose favourite films are Tamasha and Black Friday, drinks coffee at Blue Tokai, attends MAMI, studied at NYU, and rents a sea-facing house at Yaari Road.

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@bhatoti

3 years

To be heard and seen is rare as is. To have someone sit and listen to your shattered story is rarer. I thank @HemaniBhandari for giving families like mine the space to do that.

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

5 months

Classics PhD holders used to translate The Iliad, now they write musings about unattractive teenagers

Solveig Gold

@solveiggold

5 months

Why are the elite college protestors so unattractive? No really, why? Some musings.🧵

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

2 months

@kukreja_abhinav A relative is literally in the same situation. They can't even manage their decrepit property now and can't sell either, random water bill not in their name appeared in some records. 48 lakh rupees.

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

1 year

Horrifying that this a professor at Harvard that specializes in how economies grow. And then goes on to support the chokehold on electricity and water imposed by a nuclear state on an open air prison with children forming the majority of prisoners.

Ricardo Hausmann

@ricardo_hausman

1 year

Many are upset at Israel for cutting Gaza out of electricity, water & aid. Many more are upset at Hamas killing & kidnapping Israeli civilians, including children, women & the elderly. A deal is clear: electricity, water and aid in exchange for kidnapped Israelis. Not before.

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

2 months

Pakistan and India winning gold and silver in javelin and India scoring a consecutive bronze in field hockey. This is a cultural reset. Time to move on from cricket.

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

1 year

Traveling to another country on an Indian passport means months-long foresight, research (usually patchy, sometimes quora-sourced), questionable fees and constantly being fight+flight during travel. And then you discover your American friends just booked the ticket and went.

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@bhatoti

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Kick-the-ladder syndrome sufferers usually deploy a wide range of artifices to elevate their parents' immigration stories and downplay the aspirations of other immigrants. Not Gen Z though, they just say immigration is "mid."

Kumar

@datarade

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Indians that are arriving to the US now are far different than our parents generation of Indians who arrived between 1960-1980. Even the uneducated ones ensured their children were westernized, adapted, assimilated, and hard working. The latest generation of H1B visa allowed

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

1 year

Moderating the event this Thursday!

Harvard SAFAR

@harvardsafar

1 year

‼️ Come out to this hybrid book talk discussion on Dalit feminist authorship, ft authors @thirunangai @dalitdiva @YashicaDutt and their amazing works. ➡️ This Thurs., Apr 27, 6:00-7:30 PM EST. In-person (Sever 103) or Zoom! Open to all 🚨 RT & RSVP NOW:

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

1 year

I appreciate people are upset that the institution of marriage in India reduces people to their jobs, salary, body dimensions. Although, little disdain is given to endogamy. Are you not equally upset that your humanity is reduced to your caste?

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

2 years

Presented our experimental method of finding hiring biases against women in Indian enterprises - check it out!

LEAD at Krea University

@LEADatKrea

2 years

📍LIVE: Discussion on barriers faced by women in participating in the economy, measurement issues within the context of unpaid care work and how to capture women’s routine work better. @bhatoti @parushya @IWWAGEIFMR @GEI_GlobalEval . Watch here:

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

3 years

@UserNameShudB You asked for a photo of a kabristan that he clicked. I know it feels bad to be proven wrong but at least don't scurry for excuses and distractions now that you were caught lying.

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

2 years

More than 4 million dead and the government only agrees to recognise 15% of them. This should tell you the only success story has been in the PR department.

ANI Digital

@ani_digital

2 years

Vivek Agnihotri hints at making film on India's success story against COVID Read @ANI Story | #COVID19 #Film #VivekAgnihotri #Bollywood

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

5 months

Civil services used to be one of very few escape velocities afforded to the dispossessed in India. It is now one of the many, and has extremely skewed success rates. To save millions of youth from years of misery, we need to decrease the number of attempts.

Kunal R. Virulkar 📝 குணால்

@kunalrv

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12 attempt 7 main 5 interview NO SELECTION. शायद जिंदगी का दूसरा नाम ही संघर्ष हैं । #UPSC #यूपीएससी

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

2 months

Hindi imposition has been an education policy issue and corporate India’s consolidation of languages. Now since you use Twitter why don’t you tag Blinkit and ask them to explain their policy? Why harass a person who got a job that stipulated fluency in only Hindi and English?

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@Metikurke

2 months

Blinkit sent a harmful notification and wished me "Gaya," which means "wound" in Kannada. I told them, if I received one more threatening notification, I would lodge a police complaint. After that they stopped sending nonsense in alien languages. That's how we need to deal!

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

2 years

Experience/intuition tells me that American students will never be subjected to this level of scrutiny at Harvard. For them, petitions work. Mere utterance of interests suffices. Casual investigations/trials are reserved for a special bunch like us!

Radhika Radhakrishnan

@so_radhikal

2 years

I had emailed a senior Harvard prof to register for his course. After initially ok-ing it he suddenly emailed that I shouldn't reg. He had creepily googled me, found my *personal website* and barred me on its basis. Just another day of being discriminated as a woman of color here

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

2 years

The only reason you say this today is because none of your loved ones were a part of those pyres. You didn't get to see the real indignity, the tragedy of living and dying in this country so you feel smug about it.

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@GabbbarSingh

2 years

From the gaze of the west a funeral pyre makes for a great picture of a barbaric pagan ritual their ancestors abolished. A group of such pyres during a Pandemic. Pulitzer.

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Kartikeya Bhatotia

@bhatoti

2 years

He was hospitalised on this day last year. Even as I carried him down the stairs, I couldn't confront the reality of being the caretaker. No, no - he was supposed to protect us and he always would. This was supposed to pass and he was supposed to resume his role.

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