Mansi

I’m a privileged woman who moved from the US to India with the intention of contributing to the country. The past 1.5 years have been a mix 🧵

A deeply cunning man was glorified as a hero — Bal Gangadhar Tilak, a staunch supporter of child marriage and a believer in the caste hierarchy, is praised only because he was a Brahmin. He did not contribute a single meaningful step toward social reform, yet is celebrated while…

Anjana Om Kashyap is literally asking historian @tishasaroyan to not share facts which can hurt "sentiments" Perfect example of Godi media As they say "you can silence 50 intelligent men with 1 fact but you can't silence 1 id!ot with 50 facts"

Brian Cox reads If I Must Die, by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer. Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike. This was the last poem he published.

FYR, The Indian government has spent 5 billion USD on the cleaning of River Ganga.

Forcing perfectly working cars into scrap should be an international concern. It’s absolute madness in the name of emissions. The common man in India is already struggling due to rising inflation.

Here, Zohran Mamdani reads Umar Khalid's Notes from Jail in New York, ahead of Modi's arrival in 2023. Mamdani is a man of guts, character, and integrity. I have to admit, I like him so much more now.

I know that NYC mayor is not the leader of the world but @ZohranKMamdani is such a hope in these deeply disturbing times

TIL China employs more than 40x the number of Babus as India. One of the key reasons behind Indias low state capacity has been that we have too few government employees, each with too much discretionary power.

Horrible idea. Who decides what is fake? And who decides the intention behind it? If a supposed fake news is shared by a thousand people, will all of them be jailed? And what if the news is just someone posting a photo of a mango and titling it as banana? Which means who decides…

They are going to legitimize dowry, child marriage, Sati at this rate. Make no mistake. They want to control women.

Indians are fully and unequivocally in support of our Iranian and Palestinian brothers and sisters. The current group of treacherous scums leading us don't represent the real India and its ethos. We will break free.

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the way no one talks about how they are slowly taking over Himachal and will later on claim the land was promised to them...

Video from last year of Boeing’s CEO being confronted by a US senator for personally falsifying inspection records for the 787 - the same plane that crashed in Ahmedabad today

🧵Boeing: A 5-Year Timeline of Disaster (If I do 10 year then it is massive list) Why India Companies must reconsider its massive Boeing purchases.

blood never boils since it is not by terrorists but by govt,we do not consider it killing. Mumbai ranks world’s deadliest rail networks Deaths 2014–2024- 29,000 per year:2.6k U chose to satisfy communal love rather than 4 development Maharashtra: chosen BJP for the last 15yrs

And only the Indian news media lapped up satire as news 🤦🏽‍♀️

"In a few days it is going to be five years since the day I was brought here.  At times I am amazed how I have survived so long in the same confined space, and not been restless through most of this period. Well, there were days when I was irritable and depressed — and…

I'm attending @CVPR 2025 in Nashville this week and will be in the Bay area next week. Hit me up if you'd like to catch up!