Nandini Krishnan

@nandini
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Author of Invisible Men: Inside India's Transmasculine Networks (Penguin, 2018) and Hitched: The Modern Indian Woman and Arranged Marriage (Random House, 2013); mother and slave to 8 dogs and 9 cats; humourist; playwright; funny with a mic. or glass in hand.

I prefer animals to humans; I'm vegan and it's easy because I prefer animals to food.

I believe in two things:
1. Nothing should take longer to cook than it does to eat.
2. Nothing is more beautiful than a cover drive.

Nandini KrishnanJan 20, 2020
@DesCoutinho I'm sorry, I missed this reply. You're absolutely right. The Congress usually gets away with its bigotry, and many intellectuals are willing to forgive the corruption. The BJP gets away with corruption and its supporters are glad for the bigotry.
Nandini KrishnanJan 14, 2020

The problem with protests is that they rarely carry original ideas. They are a minor disturbance to those in power and a major disturbance to commuters among the common man, but a show of numbers has historically proven to be ineffective unless it showed in the polls. My column for Sify:

Read more at: https://www.sify.com/news/protests-don-t-work-unless-the-polls-do-news-columns-ubjosqhcfddba.html

Protests don't work unless the polls do

Extremists stop at nothing to prove their supremacy, particularly when they feel disempowered. The protests across the country, whose attendance appears to belie the election results, have made news globally. Amit Shah and Narendra Modi have found themselves consistently on the backfoot for the first time since they came to power. Traditionally, the supporters of kings and kingmakers tend to allow their egos to bruise even more easily than the latter and avenge themselves for perceived slights with even more brutality than the latter.

Show threadNandini KrishnanJan 2, 2020
And then this 😊
Show threadNandini KrishnanJan 2, 2020
Which happened...
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I quite enjoyed what happened here...
Nandini KrishnanJan 2, 2020
The government and police action in UP is a warning to some of how the country could be run; to others of how the country ought to be run. If that does happen, India would fit right into the neighbourhood, ending 72 years of democracy and secularism. Column for Sify: https://www.sify.com/news/india-fitting-into-the-neighbourhood-news-columns-ubbonSbigchde.html
India, fitting into the neighbourhood

And for as long as the parties put their vested interests ahead of the public’s, ahead of the nation’s, we will have more in common with our neighbours than we might like to believe.

Show threadNandini KrishnanDec 19, 2019
@extraneous I can't believe people voted Boris Johnson in. He was a typical privileged toff idiot back when I lived in the UK in the early 2000s, and I was surprised when he became mayor. And now he's in 10, Downing.
Nandini KrishnanDec 17, 2019
On my Instagram channel, I'll be reading #FakeNews from the country of #Ewwtopia. Tonight, we speak about the #CitizenshipAmendmentBill which seeks to disenfranchise lefthanders:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/B6LX0j4B9br/?igshid=1iereasaj1tu0
Nandini Krishnan on Instagram: “The country of Ewwtopia has introduced a Bill to disenfranchise all lefthanders and grant passports to all righthanders #Ewwtopia #FakeNews…”

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Show threadNandini KrishnanDec 14, 2019
@extraneous Yes, there is a definite shift in the UK. But my opinion is the UK has been a bit too lenient on heinous crime: you must have read about the convicted child sex offender who committed another assault on his way home from prison. And, of course, the convicts in the Jamie Bulger case, who were tried as adults but sentenced as minors. One of them was convicted of another crime within months of release. It's an ugly world out there, I'm afraid. :-(
Show threadNandini KrishnanDec 14, 2019
@extraneous Oh, no need to apologise. It's nice to have an exchange. I'm used to birdsite, where people read the tweet and then respond without reading the link, so I made a hasty judgement there. My apologies to you :-)