Arpan Bhandari

Hey yall, my wife’s insta was hacked. They’ve blocked my main account but we have mutuals who are reporting it rn.

Any advice on what we can do? The hackers have managed to completely take over the acct and replaced the password, phone number, and email. They’re post G wagons and BTC scams now 🙃

I’m teaching “asynchronous” and it’s the worst method of teaching I’ve ever experienced. It literally only works for memorization based courses.

Dropping this here because I like how I look.

At the home of Frida Kahlo in Mexico City.

Aesthetic?

I am on the lookout for academic jobs in Religion. I intend to finish my PhD and defend sometime this year and am currently sitting at 4/4 body chapters drafted.

I work on Islamic Studies, South Asian Islam, and Sufism.

#academicjobs #academia #religiousstudies

"Why won't Ms. Rachel state that she cares, specifically, for my children, who are fed and safe and not being bombed? I guess she's just a bigot."

Always difficult to come back to writing after not having touched it in a while. Like what am I doing? Why am I here?!

Quinta Brunson is in the same place as Shah Rukh Khan and Diljit Dosanjh tonight. This timeline is so…peculiar.

Composite shows four Hubble images in quarters. At top left is a crisp view of Mars in shades of orange, blues, and browns. At top right is planetary nebula NGC 2899, which is shaped like a single macaroni noodle, with its central torus appearing semi-transparent and blue and green, and its top and bottom edges in orange. At bottom left is a tiny portion of the Rosette Nebula. Very dark gray material shaped like a triangle takes up the center. At bottom right is barred spiral galaxy NGC 5335 with a milky yellow center that forms a bar surrounded by multiple blue star-filled spiral arms that wrap up counterclockwise.

i love that we got 4 new hubble images today and we still continue to get more after 35 years 🥹

hubble really is the little telescope that could!!!

Me: *explains really weird messed up thing to my therapist. Not sure if I’m being irrational.”

Therapist: huh. Man. That’s some really weird af stuff that happened to you.

Me: 😃

Needed to have my pain taken seriously at the dentist today and man, I had to drop the “my dad is a doctor” thing so they start listening. Healthcare is such a hack of a business sometimes.

Me: can u plz give me more pain meds. I can’t function or work without them rn.

The dentist: buddy. Just take a Tylenol and an Advil and make a lil sandwich out of em!! You’ll be all good to go in no time. Here’s a sticker!!!!!

I’m done with American healthcare. Give me the meds so I can write.

internalized misogyny, possibly a really lame personality, and low self-worth. If there is an external factor, it's not women that are pulling you down. It's hyper-capitalism.

The whole "lonely masculinity" thing is really odd to me. It's perpetuated by grifters. Most men I know, secure in their self-worth and confidence, are thriving. They have an education, jobs, natural curiosity, a steady partner, etc. This whole "men are lonely!" thing really just stems from

Anyone have advice for post-wisdom tooth removal headaches? This is awful. I’ve even had my pain meds and it’s still exhausting me.

It’s hard to explain but I’m still mad at her for dying. It’s been 9 months. It still sucks. It’s still a void. I still wish I could smush her face one more time.

It's really something. The isolation we feel in the US is also just so numbing. I mean sure, this is capitalism maximized and all but, I really don't want to be this bored lmao

Turns out, whenever I leave America, all of my mental exhaustion disappears and I become the old passionate me.

Cool. America is ruining my life.

They also helped with the eventual prospectus process which is by far the most exhausting process of this degree.

It’s all so weird and just hazing but you will def feel better about yourself at the end. Plz also regularly reward yourself. Exams are brutal. Are they still at home?

(Lmao and I’m sure Randall doesn’t want to read it)

I’ll tell you what @samahc.bsky.social told me (paraphrased): it’s all mundane and unnecessary but you’ll walk out feeling very accomplished and you’ll realize how much it is that you actually know and are an expert on.

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I think about it a lot and it’s very true. Post exam growth is very real.

Just finished Mo. what an amazing show. It might be the first time a show has made me every spectrum of emotions.

Long live Palestine. May we live to see a free Palestine.

Men's current "gender panic" is really just the realization that women, for the first time in history, have actual legal and material freedom to live independently from them.

And this means that the unpaid domestic and sexual labor their entire identities rely on, is vanishing before their eyes.

I had planned a whole trip to Uzbekistan. My visa wasn’t delivered and my flight from delhi is tomorrow.

Had to cancel everything in order to get some refunds. :/ big bummed.

In true arpan fashion, I forgot to ask for a photo with him and wasn’t even sure if it was an appropriate request.

Met Pir Zia Inayat Khan of the Inayat order this week and attended a 2 hour qawwali session for the Urs of Hazrat Inayat.

It was a surreal day and I have never met someone with such an awe-inspiring energy. I was only able to able to sit with him for a few minutes and we discussed our time at Duke

Made it to Nizamuddin Dargah for Basant yesterday. What a day! It was absolutely unreal to see the yellow decorations and flowers all over the place.

Back in Nizamuddin Dargah. One of my favorite places to be. There were cats there now which was a welcome change!

The motherland! I’ve been off insta for most of the month too. Going to hop for a bit while I’m here tho. The detox has been nice.

True true just wanted to make sure the world is still predictable. Things have been weird lately.