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One day I cursed that mother-fucker God He just laughed shamelessly. My neighbor – a born-to-the pen Brahman- was shocked. He looked at me with his castor-oil face and said, “How can you say such things- ~ One day I cursed that mother-fucker God by Keshav Meshram Read by Mevish M. #poetryinparks

A story in The Print. theprint.in/feature/arou...

People.

Indian court rules trans women are women and ‘legally entitled to recognition’

A rambling thread on poetry and community. (With one question and a footnote.)

Apparently Mamdani’s electoral promises are pissing off some IndAm libertarians.

I have a theory that the reason some people spell the name of of the steamed rice-flour dish 'idly' and not 'idli' is because of MSWord spellcheck.

Some other trivia. The NCR (the national capital region, including Delhi and adjacent muncipalities) has about 71 million people. If it were a country, it would 20th most populous, after China, India (-NCR), USA, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil, Bangladesh, Russia, Mexico, Japan,

Found in the archives. From 2022.

I wonder if the average* USAian knows how much ‘western’ science owes to the Islamic world. * I know, I know. All generalisations are unfair.

Made my own nunchuks in the 80s. Sawed a cricket stump in half, taped it, screwed in eyelets, added chain from the hardware shop. I was studying taekwondo at the time. This was not a result of that. Taekwondo just happened to be the martial art I could study near home. The real reason was Bruce Lee.