Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري

Okay cool after I posted this,
@thebrownexperience.bsky.social helpfully uploaded a video breaking it down.
Yeah folks are stupid and people need to have their podcast equipment and phones taken away.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma6b...

Sudan & Palestine: We must break hierarchies of solidarity Hebh Jamal explains why the inability to view the Sudanese genocide independently from Gaza’s is dehumanizing & counterproductive to global solidarity.

A good piece by Hebh Jamal on eliminating the "hierarchies of solidarity" between the Palestinian and Sudanese causes. She also mentions Sinthujan Varathas and Moshtari Hilal's excellent book on the subject.
www.newarab.com/opinion/suda...

If that's the gist of it....screw y'all for making me defend Akaash

Trying to keep up with this whole Akaash Singh's wife drama....if I'm understanding it right...she's getting blowback for not being a virgin when she married Akaash, and she allegedly makes jokes about him and tells sex stories? Like atm the whole thing just screams "we're insecure men"

Of course you can't forget the 1980s classic Red Dawn, who made the mistake in glorifying resistance against a foreign oppressor, when they also just need to learn to live with each other

Anyway, in my new essay, I point out that the anti-Politics of Star Wars is resonating in America, and the movie needed sane centrists who could push the rebels and empire to listen to each other and engage in democratic coalition building, instead of glorifying political violence

Theres a movie review essay that was written by a MENA focused political scientist on how recent films showcase political violence.....that somehow manages to be an essay with minimal grounding in American politics, history or cinema...

Anytime I feel kind of sad on the state of brown representation in the US...I just take a look at the UK and go well shit atleast we got time to prevent us from becoming that crazy.

This was the first case that gave us a taste of what "Naya India" would be. Disgraceful

Got enough time during my layover in Chicago to give them shit as only a good Sconnie can do

The tweet in reference

The UAE talking about Sudan like....

I know nuance dies on here, but FFS, there is a lot of criticisms you can have of Shara'a: His authoritarian rule in Idlib, how he handled the coast + Sweida, etc. Hell even his former affiliation with AQ. But if you're calling him the ISIS dude in Syria, you're just idiotic

Its still wild to me that Tucker Carlson was promoting white nationalist and anti-Semitic shit for years, including when he was in Fox News...but he's getting blowback from the rest of the conservative movement now for mainstreaming Nick Fuentes and openly being anti-Israel

Episode 2, and still they haven't passed the bechdel test

All's Fair: a show with terrible writing, questionable acting, incredulous pacing decisions, the most vapid form of faux feminism I've ever seen on screen, and minimal to zero character development.

I love it

If Desi parents expectations weren't enough, now brown boys might not be able to go on Hinge without matches asking if you're the next potential Zohran Mamdani 😭

Was waiting for Shekhar Gupta to commission a "as a Muslim....Mamdani actually needs to answer for everything bad a Muslim person has done" piece as the good "liberal" he is

Also lowkey, if you think the Suicide Bombing claim is wild...wait till you read Robert Pape from...idk mid 200s like anybody who has studied terrorism before

Its hilarious to also take Tunku who has been hiding in his sheets yelling "Islamist" each time Zohran is on TV...to call Mamdani, the dude who was forced by Idi Amin to leave his home....as being pro-Idi Amin?

If you ever feel you're suffering from imposter syndrome, just remember there are "academics" who can't comprehend the title of the book, let alone be bothered to read said book, or take 5 minutes to look the authors corpus before making these bold claims.

This shit slaps hard if you're dumb

*smokes blunt*

One thing when you start getting into martial arts in India and why few notable MMA fighters have come from there, you really have to look at the socio-economic situation, politics, access to quality training...while most MMA "analysts" maybe hint at that but then get into some racist explanations.

YouTube video by Stories That Matter The Last Pehlwans: Inside the Dying Akhadas of Kolhapur | Stories That Matter

An awesome short documentary about the Kushti wrestlers in Kolhapur who struggle to keep the artform alive while contending with a world focusing on more "modern" grappling.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF-m...

lol he's both and I think he has referred to himself as both. Though usually there's a lot of us that tend to define ourselves as South Asian as part of being part of a wider identity grouping

NYC city is an anomaly, but Dems making huge gains in Virginia, Michigan, California, Mississippi, and other states....is proof that we actually need to become more RW and forget about marginalized people. On this podcast with Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias, we will...

He legit did Dhoom Machale to end the night.....LEGEND

I can't believe I got to be here for the creation of the Islamo-Marxist Republic of New Yorkistan 😜

Even as a non-New Yorker its hard not to feel pride and joy that despite the racist attacks, he still persevered

My own personal politics aside (and hell yeah im a leftist supporter), its hard not to feel joy and pride after being a Desi boy raised in the US after 9/11 and experiencing all the racist bullshit, just to see a South Asian Muslim Socialist win the mayorship.