Amrita Chakravarty

Amazing piece. Especially when you reckon with the hostility of some No Kings protestors to symbols like the keffiyeh. It’s not just that they’re partial to the cartoons, it’s that they actually believe that violently repressing some symbols is perfectly reasonable.

Apart from the usual critique, AI companies proving themselves as poor at reading what actually works in “regional” markets as Hollywood did a decade before. Fox Searchlight and Disney took major risks with Ranbir Kapoor only to have to literally quit the India market after those films bombed.

Sinister (2012). Also The Babadook is all about protocinematic horrors.

Meanwhile, the guy who issued the literal call-to-arms that kicked off the "riots" (really pogroms) is a cabinet minister.

Ditto for Nehruvian elites.

Missing the message for the medium

Also shows you what they think of how non-white diasporas IN America should identify.

The New York f**** Times could have run the faintest of Google searches on the East African Gujarati diaspora before publishing its hit piece. But given its stunning ability to be on the wrong side of absolutely everything, they probably don’t consider him Gujarati cos he’s Muslim.

Barnacle complex 💀

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