Editing India (section)

=== 2024 ===

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|content=@BeerBicepsGuy @amitvarma @prvkhvr Would be great fun. You're on. Thanks Ranveer!
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|content=One of my goals is to better connect the pirate radio of the anglophone podcasting world to our counter-parts in India. As such, it was a thrill to sit down with Prakhar.

Having done this now with @amitvarma in Bombay/Mumbai,  and @prvkhvr just now, I can say that I really appreciate the difference in the content, style and focus. Indian podcasting is accurately reflecting the true cultural shadings in the rhythm of discourse, and the questions are often entirely different at the level of substance.

I firmly believe that we in the West are set to relearn the lesson of Indians writing in English; many of the worlds best English language conversationalists right now are Indian, tilted towards Hindi spiced British English, and they could possibly truly completely transform the entire space for the better. 

That said, I specifically don't want to say "@BeerBicepsGuy is the Rogan of Indian podcasting just as @prvkhvr is the Lex Fridman"..or some such nonsense. That would be totally uninteresting. We already have a @lexfridman and a @joerogan. This only gets really interesting when India serves up an ecosystem that is really *new*, and thus self-confident enough not to measure its success by a self-imposed western yardstick. 

If I am correct, English speaking India is a sleeping giant, capable of shaking up the world of long-form English language podcasting in the next 10 years. Right now, the U.S. really has no meaningful image of modern India. Hopefully, long-form podcasting is going to change that. I would love to be even a small part of making that happen. 

Whether I am right in the above line of thinking, or whether this is just a hopeful dream, I can't say. But there is only one way to find out; let's try it. 

Happy new year to all and Shabbat shalom. 

[रणवीर, चलो मेरे दोस्त ! And congratulations on @naval. That was great.]
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|content=@SacredGeoInt @amitvarma @prvkhvr @JohnnyVedmore Eh?
|timestamp=12:30 AM · Oct 05, 2024
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|content=Yikes. That seemed funny at first.

Is this coming from the anti-Semite/pro-Hamas world? The Whitney Webb world? The Bitcoin maximalist world? The pro-peer review world? There are so many of these angry groups, I lose track.

There are all these seemingly different worlds that are attempting to enmesh me in their drama(s). Usually (maybe 85%) of the time, these ringleaders eventually are found to have issue with Jews and/or Israel no matter what the ostensible area of endeavor. 

Thanks just the same and Shabbat shalom.
|timestamp=4:41 AM · Oct 05, 2024
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|content=@ZovaZyan @FranklinCormor1 @SacredGeoInt @amitvarma @prvkhvr @JohnnyVedmore I totally understand. Be well. https://t.co/6bWYJvi0k5
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|timestamp=3:17 PM · Oct 05, 2024
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|content=Let me first say hello to you. We have never met. As I write this I have no idea who you are. I don’t know if you are pro Trumpor pro Harris. Or if you are British or Peruvian. I don’t know if you are Buddhist. Or if you are a die hard Jewish commando serving in the IDF.

You and I do not know each other, there is no desire on my part to engage further with a random account that is using facts in my life that I am very proud of to make up a story to animate a group of accounts to harass me. You are neither the first nor the only one doing this. In other dramas I am a Mossad agent, or Peter-Theils henchman, or George Soros’ agent.

That wasn’t my first response. My first response to being attacked was to respond to someone else 4 days ago because I thought they were a poor confused soul.

I have a policy of not responding to people telling stories to incite mobs against me. It’s hopeless. They don’t listen. And they take the real responses as denials which animates them more. 

Such people aren’t critics. They are usually wounded and traumatized souls trying to figure out what is true in this crazy situation. And for that I have a lot of sympathy. But my life is too short and too rich to want to live as a badly sketched character in your story so that your followers can hate a life long progressive restrictionist as the architect of the world’s uncontrolled migration.

I can however do this. Read what I wrote 4 days ago. I posted the quoted response 100 hours ago when I thought this was one person. The Israel angle came about because I started to see accounts harass me that were fairly consistently anti-Jewish and/or anti-Israel. I do not mean to tar you with a broad brush if that doesn’t apply to you. It’s a statistical observation. I don’t know your politics. But the idea that I am the secret architect of the world’s migration system is utterly disconnected from reality as to defy easy explanation. 

And please undo and disperse your mob of followers who you have convinced to harass me. 

Bottom line, you are wrong. I don’t want you or your followers posing as critics demanding a conversation by harassing and threatening a stranger. 

I am going to assume you personally are at worst neutral on Jews and on Israel. I apologize if I raised that unfairly from observing the accounts attacking me suddenly over being the UN’s globalist migration czar. But I am not going to get into a back and forth over this Internet theory with an account stirring up its followers into a mob to harass a stranger.

Hope this help. Truly.
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|content=“Debate me Bro! Man up!” 

Every. Damn. Time. 

Uh…I don’t know what world you live in. But that tactic is how you get blocked, not intellectually engaged. You are creeping me out.

Don’t take this the wrong way, but you are coming across as drama-seeking, rather than truth seeking. And I avoid such accounts like the plague.

I gave you my answer to one of your followers 4days ago. 

I am reading what you write now in horror. I’m not interacting with you. See below. I’m sorry you’re here. But I don’t want to be sucked into your life drama, stranger.

Shabbat shalom.
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|timestamp=7:08 PM · Oct 05, 2024
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|content=@InveStudentt Here we go again…. ;-)
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|content=Had a great time talking to Prakhar Gupta (@prvkhvr) on a last minute podcast, discussing US-India relations and beyond. 

If you, like me, are looking to diversify  your “Wild West” English language podcasting habit, India right now is the “Wild South”; it is just getting started at the point where @joerogan and @tferriss were when they were starting the US pirate radio/samizdat industry that is today’s long form podcasting.

Honestly, it’s more than a little bit scary because as an American, you don’t know exactly where the cultural and political fault lines and sensitivities lie for millions of people who are listening to mixed Hindi/Urdu/English discussion. 

That said: it’s time. Let me know what you think and whether you would like more cross-cultural content. Thanks in advance.

LFG.

🙏
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|content=P.S. Shout out to Hira Malaney for the Carmen Miranda “Chico Chico from Puerto Rico” uncredited and only half remembered reference in the podcast for गोरे गोरे ओ बाँके छोरे. 

https://t.co/WCc5MrFKmy
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|content=@YouTribedi @prvkhvr You are more than kind. Thank you.
|timestamp=4:38 AM · Oct 20, 2024
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|content=@PR20031992 @prvkhvr Totally fair. ;-)
|timestamp=8:12 AM · Oct 20, 2024
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|content=@failed_comic @prvkhvr Amit was ground zero. But that one was also recorded in Bombay/Mumbai.
|timestamp=3:46 PM · Oct 20, 2024
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|timestamp=11:00 PM · Oct 20, 2024
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|content=I wanted to put India’s *best* foot forward. I was criticized for not talking about the full spectrum of India’s issues in doing so. Which, in fairness, I did not as a foreigner. 

Better that you showcase that other foot so well for the world to see. Well done.

Next time: Don’t be an ass. 🙏
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|content=Why do we continue to see India this way?? 

I am aware I am being a bit petty here as these setbacks in US/India relations seem endless to me. Sorry. But I’m very invested in a better relationship between the US and India. I go into more detail here:

https://t.co/DJ3oQ9Bh2m
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|content=That’s so funny. I was in India not too long ago and they were just saying the same thing about Microsoft. https://t.co/M9CSJCJgVV
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|content=लैब चूहे ने कहा, "मनोविज्ञान विभाग मनुष्यों का अध्ययन करने के लिए एक उत्कृष्ट Laboratory है।" "आज ही क्यों मैं एक प्रयोगकर्ता को मेरी खोपड़ी के माध्यम से एक इलेक्ट्रोड के साथ भूलभुलैया के माध्यम से चलाकर मुझे मुफ्त पनीर देने का प्रशिक्षण दे रहा था।"
|timestamp=7:21 PM · Dec 03, 2024
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|content=[Note to astute readers, “figured out” is doing some lifting here. Not every post needs a footnote system however.]
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|content=Such a strange way to refer to Europeans. You know, that tribe who figured out even tempered harmony, movable type, the double helix, the grasshopper escapement, and general relativity.

I care. And I can’t begin to tell you how much. We should really pay attention to that tribe.
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|content=Ed, I don’t know you, but put “Indians” or “Zulus” or “The Inuit” where you have “White people” (I.e. European Ancestry) and you will likely see the problem in what you wrote.
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