Anagha @songpapdi Twitter profile

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Anagha

@songpapdi

6 months

I'm all for being cruelty-free but I know this messaging doesn't work because my dad was admiring fishes at the aquarium yesterday and suddenly said, "Aaj pomfret khayenge".

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@peta

6 months

If your breakfast could speak, would it sound like this? 🔊

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@songpapdi

7 months

I'm unmarried at 32 and when I look back at the people I had (almost) prepared to marry when I was in my 20s I'm grateful those didn't materialise because that would've been the very definition of damage

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@songpapdi

2 years

Fascinating how in Hindu families we're ok with using the labour of widowed women for the tedious work in every religious ceremony but can't have them around for the fun, 'honourable' parts. For that we need married women or couples, no matter how strained their marriages are.

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@songpapdi

5 months

Hindu insecurity has always amused me. The way we have been convinced that a way of life that has sustained for millennia, without your help or mine, needs to be "protected". That a faith that has existed for so long (with all its flaws and inequities) +

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@songpapdi

6 months

Quizzers have an inexplicable God complex for knowing trivia they're exposed to mainly as a result of socio-economic privilege

India Wants To Know: India's First Panel Quiz Show

@IWTKQuiz

6 months

What is your Quizzing hot take which will have you like this?

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Anagha

@songpapdi

2 years

I wish all men have more female friends. Not could-have-beens. Not potential girlfriends. Not exes. Just friends. Because all-male groups always seem to give each other terrible advice and aren't really the support group films make them out to be.

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Anagha

@songpapdi

2 years

आधी से ज़्यादा आबादी को पढ़ने तो देते नहीं थे वर्णव्यवस्था के चलते। इतने गुरुकुलों में क्या रखते थे, गैया?

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@songpapdi

2 years

One of my all-time favourite bits of trivia is that the deity Santoshi Maa (in whose name devotees observe a rather difficult fast every Friday) actually has no basis in scriptures whatsoever. It is this film that made the goddess popular among masses.

Film History Pics

@FilmHistoryPic

2 years

JAI SANTOSHI MAA released today in 1975 One of highest grossers ever - “people traveled miles in bullock carts to watch this film, threw flowers/coins on screen, some left footwear outside the theatre & small cinema hall owners even kept a donation box to earn money”

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@songpapdi

1 year

Something I wish people would understand. The frustration of being single doesn't come from your incapability of being by yourself. It comes from the hopelessness of seeing day after day, experience after experience pass by, without another human to share it with. You can do +

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Anagha

@songpapdi

5 months

needed a physical edifice for people to bow their heads in. And that not only did we need a physical manifestation of this faith, but that we also had to turn it into a mediated extravaganza so that we could rub it in the faces of those who, +

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@songpapdi

2 years

Had anyone told me from five years ago that I'd regret the stepping down of a Shiv Sena CM, I'd have shown them the door. No one has defied expectations quite like @OfficeofUT has.

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@songpapdi

5 months

But back to my original point. The hilarious nature of Hindu insecurity. And how it has allowed possibly the most incompetent, disingenuous, cruel group of people to rise to power and take our country to the dogs for ten years now. +

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Anagha

@songpapdi

3 years

I wish people understood that disordered eating comes not from delight in treating your body like a trashcan, but from the pressing need to to feel something different from the disturbing emotions that otherwise prevail. It is a distraction, for want of better coping mechanisms.

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@songpapdi

5 months

The Hindu faith never needed rescuing, least of all from narcissistic leaders who wouldn't sit beside their own mother unless a camera was on them. But the constitutional values that are being sacrificed today in the name of faith -- the values that kept our country together +

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@songpapdi

5 months

in our deluded minds, threaten the essence of Hinduism. (Your guess is as good as mine about what it is. I used to think it was about seeking the Supreme while doing what you did, and practising kindness. I must be mistaken.) +

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Anagha

@songpapdi

5 months

If you are at least my age, or even younger, then you aren't fooling anyone by claiming today's events as merely "cultural". You cannot deny the undercurrent of violence it has. But something tells me it doesn't horrify you anyway. +

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Anagha

@songpapdi

5 months

(No need to come at me and other "sickulars" with "Apply Burnol" wisecracks. Save some for yourself for when it might be the only thing left to sell.)

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@songpapdi

5 months

Because you think you are immune to it. But historical patterns have a curious way of repeating (because humans really are that stupid, I think) and what we have unleashed will come for us too. +

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@songpapdi

5 months

You'll continue to turn everything into memes and share them at the expense of everyone else who doesn't subscribe to this rabid ideology. But make no mistake. The threats were always imaginary, but the monster you created to fight it will eventually turn on you. +

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@songpapdi

5 months

despite differences, that let many of you and me cross caste lines, educate ourselves, express ourselves, think for ourselves -- those need rescuing without a doubt. +

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@songpapdi

5 months

It doesn't bother all of you reading this, if you're even still reading. Because it does not affect you. It won't, for a few more years, I'd say. You'll ride the high of this victory over the imaginary threats your parents and you convinced yourself of. +

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Anagha

@songpapdi

1 year

everything you want by yourself. You aren't exactly sad. But when you've known the joy of sharing an experience with someone once, it becomes difficult to be alone in it, deprived of another person's perspective that adds to the beauty of it. And you don't get this time back.

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Anagha

@songpapdi

2 years

Spotted on IG. Valuable advice anywhere.

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@songpapdi

2 years

@taru_uniyal Extremely. Heard most often from people who think their wives are nags, when in fact it's just the husbands who are insufferable man-children, and don't actually allow their wives that kind of power at home in practice. Zabardasti ka victimhood.

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@songpapdi

1 year

My native tongue is Varhadi, a variant of Marathi spoken in Vidarbha. My favourite saying: धड देवळात चित खेटरात Literally means, thinking about the sandals one leaves outside while physically being inside a temple. Not sure if it's a common saying in Marathi or Varhadi though.

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@Paperclip_In

1 year

Happy International Mother Language Day to everyone! Let us celebrate by sharing our favourite phrase in our mother tongue, with an English translation if possible! #InternationalMotherTongueDay

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@songpapdi

1 year

@krownnist Also wondering why someone felt it was okay to shoot while this was happening with zero thought about these people's privacy but I might be asking for the moon here.

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@songpapdi

7 months

My English is in danger of being Bangalorized. Something and all only I keep saying every time.

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@songpapdi

2 years

Maharashtra's missing love stories: It's puzzling, why #Marathi folklore (if I can call the combined oeuvre of all regions in present-day #Maharashtra that) doesn't include love stories. +

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@songpapdi

2 years

'आई कुठे काय करते' मध्ये त्या अभि-अनघा चं लग्न तरी लवकर होऊ दे किंवा ७.३० ते ८ माझ्या घरी स्टार प्रवाह बंद तरी होऊ दे. अनघाचं केळवण, अनघाचं लग्न टीव्ही वर सुरू असतं आणि घरी पर्सनल अटॅक माझ्यावर होतात गड्या.

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Anagha

@songpapdi

1 year

Everytime a man disappoints me, I remind myself that even Shakira got cheated on so who knows what that unevolved group of humans wants.

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@songpapdi

5 months

Something I wrote has triggered some RW lowlifes. Funny thing is, other than the mother-father-grandmother insults, a new one I'm seeing is how I'm ugly 😂 Agar "sanskaari" Hindu hone ka sundarta se sach mein koi sambandh hota, tab to saare Tanataniyon ko dharm tyaagna padta 😂

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Anagha

@songpapdi

7 months

@appadappajappa Pat Cummins for Clark Kent

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@songpapdi

3 years

@JanusBlinked Amazon sent me 20 boxes, instead of the 20 arrows I'd ordered, so DIY'd a bed for grandpa. Vlog up on YouTube:

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@songpapdi

2 years

31 ☺️ Growing older has taken a while to get used to but I think I'm coming to like it.

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@songpapdi

1 year

@QuizzerThirsty If+when quizzers can overcome their superiority complex, we can see that quizzing gives the thrill we get from cracking a well-crafted puzzle. Then we can treat it as a hobby like any other. Shame we don't get there, & derive pleasure only from establishing that we know trivia.

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@songpapdi

2 years

Cotton candy.

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@songpapdi

1 year

My family thought they could send me pictures of a panipuri station to make me regret moving to Bangalore. They were right.

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@songpapdi

1 year

High peer pressure from strangers to get dressed up today.

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@songpapdi

2 years

Finally watched Jhund. There's something so thrilling about seeing names like yours, people speaking like you, places you know be shown on the big screen. No amount of half-assed West Maharashtra aping by posh actors can match this feeling.

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@songpapdi

6 months

Women are just, in general, so beautiful. PJs and velvet slippers with messy hair? Beautiful. Hair oiled and braided, bindi, pinned chunni ironed suit? Beautiful. Crop top, palazzos, oversized bag in hand? Beautiful. Loose hair carelessly tied saree? Beautiful. Men could never.

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@songpapdi

2 months

Alexa, play Suraj Hua Maddham

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@songpapdi

9 months

@sarayupani Someone brought up how Vishal singing the Spanish lyrics at the beginning of Besharam Rang sounded very Indian, and then all the annoyance I'd feel at "Bollywood"-ised numbers in American films/sitcoms made sense because they do this in reverse.

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Anagha

@songpapdi

2 years

Disclaimer: I'm an atheist. As far as I'm concerned, all deities are made up as a result of a marketing exercise. I still acknowledge others' faith & the importance of religion for them, regardless of whether a deity became popular in 7th century or 1970.

Anagha

@songpapdi

2 years

@Chhokkwangun @CodeNameProteus @Biorahul @nayanikaaa Not questioning legitimacy of faith. And yes, Sheetla Mata and many goddesses are "folk" deities that got co-opted into the Hindu pantheon. Doesn't make them lesser or anything. This film is just an interesting study in how a cult formed out of essentially a marketing exercise.

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@songpapdi

2 years

Chhoti mami. Wo bhi muh kholti hain to aag hi ugalti hain.

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@westerosies

2 years

If you had a dragon what would you name it?

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Anagha

@songpapdi

7 months

Hao bhai Google, yehi bolna tha mujhe 🤦🏽‍♀️

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Anagha

@songpapdi

1 year

Accidentally drugged myself by walking into The Filter Coffee, Indiranagar. The influencers didn't disappoint, for once.

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@songpapdi

1 year

PLUS ONE BHI DE DE NA BMS HARAAMKHOR

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Anagha

@songpapdi

2 years

Not even close to my best effort but felt like it tonight. Good night!

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Anagha

@songpapdi

9 months

Storytime: Beedi (and Bipasha in Omkara) helped 15-yo inferiority-ridden me truly believe in the sexiness of dark skin. No hate towards Kajrare but Beedi needs to win. For young girls everywhere who are told they'd be pretty if they were just lighter 💪🏽💪🏾💪🏿

#1990sBollywoodBracket, see pinned

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QF2 [4] Kajra Re: [5] Beedi:

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Anagha

@songpapdi

2 years

Outside of Maharashtra, I love being anywhere in South India where I am not shamed for mixing all my rice and curry at once and eating it with my hands 🍛 🍛🤌🏾🤌🏾

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@songpapdi

2 years

Much ado about nath-ing 😉

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@songpapdi

1 year

Kisiki shaadi, kisika photo op.

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@songpapdi

2 years

Isha Sharvani looks like Amruta Fadnavis and I cannot unsee this.

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Anagha

@songpapdi

7 months

Diwali ki shubhkamnayen sabko ✨

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Anagha

@songpapdi

2 years

Every day terrifying images surface from the areas affected by waterlogging in #Bengaluru . As someone living in Indiranagar, relatively unaffected by this, I'm realising that this safety is yet another commodity, like clean water and decent housing, that I can buy in this city +

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@songpapdi

2 years

Kareena in 'Ye Mera Dil'is the literal gold standard for hotness in post-2000 Bollywood. Everything else is but a poor attempt.

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@songpapdi

11 months

Turns out you do actually look very nice if you dress according to your season (warm autumn) and Kibbe body type (soft classic) and if your friend has an iPhone.

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@songpapdi

4 months

400 se zyada log mujhe follow karte hain lekin tweets par engagement bas wo anjaan kapdon ki tangi se guzarti angrez mahilayen deti hain

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@songpapdi

9 months

Flashed back to the time when a classmate saw a picture of Aurobindo Ghosh in my house and asked if he was my dadaji 😭

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@songpapdi

2 months

Mother is disappointed I won't have to fly home to vote but yay!

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@songpapdi

1 year

I've learnt maybe 30 basic words in Kannada after a month-long introductory course. I'm prepared for the advanced course where the first sentence I'll learn to construct is "Anna please auto dheere chalao meri shaadi me nahi pahunchna hai".

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7 months

@ChotuMissMuffet I'm fortunate in that my parents are relatively receptive and understanding of the merits of a "late" but compatible marriage of equals, than a textbook "appropriate" one. And while I have them on my side it becomes easier to not care too much about what others think.

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@songpapdi

2 years

Context: that part of Rahul Gandhi's speech where the Speaker asserted his "authority" over who gets to speak, made into a "thug moment" clip by meme pages. IMO the vitriol that such pages spread in the name of "humour" hurts RG's perception as much as other smear campaigns.+

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@songpapdi

2 years

Mad fangirling at the Vidarbha Literary Fest ( @lit_vid ) talk by @krishashok . At times, it's actually quite pleasant to meet your heroes.

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@songpapdi

2 years

My room smells like a wedding.

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@songpapdi

5 months

Sugar rush

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@songpapdi

2 months

"Hygiene standards" are when mangoes cultivated by people definitely not Desai-Joshi-Surve, are sold by and profit said Desais Joshis and Surves, it's basic ya.

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2 months

Kya ye tweet casteist hai ya phir ye tweet Islamophobic hai? Ya allaha ye to shayad dono hai

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Anagha

@songpapdi

2 years

About time BhaDiPa understood that their pan-Maharashtra "comedy" is not as representative as they think it is. Especially when they look at everything from a Puneri (ew) lens. (And stop that cringe Kandepohe series now).

𝓢𝓾𝓱𝓪𝓼 𝓦𝓪𝓻𝓮

@Suhas_writes

2 years

अप्रिय @BhaDiPa काल चा तुमचा कोथरूड vs लातूर चा episode बघितला आणि अक्षरशः कीव आली तुमच्या बुद्धीची. असंच नागपूर आणि अमरावती च्या episode वेळीही वाटलं होतं, पण हा तर अगदीच विचित्र आहे. मी स्वतः 2017 ते अगदी जुन 2022 पर्यंत लातूरकर होतो आणि मला एकदाही पाणी नाही असा अनुभव आला नाही

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@songpapdi

2 years

Boarding a Nagpur-bound train from Pune is relieving for many reasons, the foremost being, nobody talks like they do in Pune once in the train.

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@songpapdi

2 years

Me on the sets of Barbie (2022).

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@songpapdi

1 year

I've turned grocery shopping, scooter repairing, quizzing or even just a walk around the corner into dates. Hardly ever exchanged gifts, and those were mostly handmade. Anything is a date if you're creative enough. It is a lovely concept. Choose the right people to go with.

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1 year

Dating is a bourgeois concept. It involves a significant amount of time, energy, and money spent on dining out, attending events, and purchasing gifts or other forms of entertainment, Reinforces consumerist tendencies and perpetuate social and economic inequality, People with mo

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@songpapdi

2 years

Let the Diwali parties (staying indoors and stuffing face with chiwda) begin.

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@songpapdi

2 years

Why does not being able to book a cab for your parents feel like a personal failure?

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@songpapdi

1 year

Even when it's not overt, folks in N. India (incl. Maharashtra sadly) look at you like you're in the wrong place. Since I moved to Bengaluru I just feel so much more at ease in public spaces. No one stares at me like I don't belong or don't deserve to be in "posh" places.

(((Dominique Fisherwoman))) 💙

@AbbakkaHypatia

1 year

North India is so obsessed with skin color in ways I’ve never experienced in my life. Every single persons gaze pierces through my skin. I can’t imagine growing up in such a place as a dark skinned person. It’s disconcerting even as a grown up.

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1 year

Auto is taking inscrutably long route so blessing your feed with the gyaan that chupdoing oil on your face for half an hour gives your face the best of glows which you can then go on to ruin by watching a tearjerker of a film.

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1 year

It's funny really how this quirk of Marathi really gets on the nerves of folks used to Hindi. In the same way that Marathi speakers hyperventilate when they are addressed in (what they think is) a formal manner. Neither party intends to disrespect or alienate, yet manages both.

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1 year

Never engage with Bombay people in Hindi. You could be complete strangers and they’ll still feel free to address you with a ‘Tu’. Unacceptable behaviour.

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@songpapdi

6 months

Father was delighted to see "coat-tie ghatlela pakshi" aka a penguin.

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@songpapdi

2 years

Finally watched+heard Pasoori and thought this is a good time to share that the saree-clad lady you see dancing in the video is Sheema Kermani, one of the few classical dancers in Pakistan whose repertoire ranges across Kathak, Bharatanatyam and Odissi. Fascinating woman who +

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@songpapdi

2 years

Successfully grabbed a chair near the cooler and avoided melting faster than the ice cream. Monsoon weddings are overrated.

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@songpapdi

2 years

Happy Navaratri, children!

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@songpapdi

5 months

Everytime a date suggests an Indiranagar restaurant for dinner

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@songpapdi

7 months

Since y'all are here in the replies to tell me I'm unwanted (lol), a hoe (kudos, Sherlock!), immature or have bad-quality eggs (I keep them in the fridge, joke's on you), or just scrolling through with popcorn, I'd like to use the most engagement I've ever got to tell you 🍉

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@songpapdi

1 year

Season's boopings in advance because holidays are nearly here!

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@songpapdi

2 years

When you hear KK, you can imagine him in the recording studio, gently handling every composition with the attention you'd give your firstborn. Every song, every single syllable is imbued with love. That's why his songs make you think of the person you love/loved. And it hurts.

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2 years

And to think I almost didn't go to office today!

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@songpapdi

6 months

Kay Kay could be doing better things with his time tbh

NDTV

@ndtv

6 months

Watch: Man Balances 88 Spoons On His Body, Breaks Own World Record

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7 months

Kaafi dumb mehsoos ho raha hai so November dump lijiye

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@songpapdi

2 years

South Asian diaspora ko kaun samjhaye ke ye bhi capitalism hi hai🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

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@songpapdi

1 year

If only I could capture the glee plastered on my face when I am racing against rainclouds, worried about drenching nothing but the laptop on my back, driving around my lovely city where the roads are functional and traffic is sane ❤️

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1 year

Do you also experience the dissonance that comes with air travel? Like, I was in Bengaluru this morning and now I am 2500 km away and my body struggles to accept that we crossed that distance in three hours. Everybody speaking in Punjabi sounds odd because I'm used to Kannda now.

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@songpapdi

8 months

The hype vs the drama

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@songpapdi

8 months

Ringing in the 32nd with music, laughter and a whole lot of liquid courage 🥂

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@songpapdi

2 years

Was fed up with that Instagram reel mashup so ...

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@songpapdi

2 years

Happy Diwali folks!

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@songpapdi

1 year

Channelled the 60s to go dancing because 'Dirty Dancing' had been watched today.

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@songpapdi

2 years

Call me Manjulika because it's Durgashtami and I'm dressed to kill.

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@songpapdi

1 year

@Chandragupta258 Sane take. Whether or not she's sanghi is a different matter. But there are clear consequences to snubbing these men which a person may not be prepared to face. That party's mania in this state is scary and I've only been here a few months. Imagine the predicament of a local.

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@songpapdi

1 year

The more identical Indian weddings look, curated out of the same ✨lifestyle ✨ magazine, the stronger is my urge to just elope and then throw a reception serving kadhi-masalebhat-basundi in the badminton court-like community hall where my first birthday party happened.

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Anagha

@songpapdi

2 years

My favorite KK memory: An open mic on World Music Day. I walked up to the stage (trembling with my immense stage fright) and sang 'Kya Mujhe Pyaar Hai' as someone I admired watched from the audience. I don't know how I sang but the joy in his eyes made everything worth it.

HKM

@icewatervapour

2 years

Fav KK memory is from 2007 when I was trapped in coaching hellhole at Kota. Neither me nor my roomie had a music phone. Totally dependent on FM which had just arrived at Kota,our music needs were mostly fulfilled by a cassete player my roomie had. (1/n)

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Anagha

@songpapdi

1 year

Someone decided to leave the country of their birth because they didn't feel safe anymore and our first reaction is to get aggressive, attack them personally and then wonder why they don't feel safe. What will it take for Hindus to shed their victim complex and introspect?

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