Views expressed are personal. Former editor at Mumbrella Asia and Brand Equity.
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To those raging about the Navi Mumbai airport, how do you think people in Vashi & beyond felt about leaving 4 hours early, bleeding money on cab fare, & paying tolls both ways, just to catch a plane from Marol? I can't recall anyone cribbing & ordinarily I wouldn't either. 1/2
Being Indian is seeing this and immediately thinking "Yeh Thar-waaley gadhey ke haat lag gaya, toh?"
Sometimes someone articulates what you've felt better than you'd ever be able to do yourself.
Contrary to what AI will tell you, not every woman in the 80s looked like Nancy Wheeler from Stranger Things & not every guy like her idiot boyfriend. Sad how lazy the supposedly tireless AI is getting. Ghibli ripoffs while horrible were at least not this wall of sameness 1/2
I hope the majority of Mumbai's citizenry get reborn as sentient potato chips in a Lay's packet so before the inevitably horrific end, they experience, however briefly, ample living space and breathing room. 1/3
I 'd actually started this post wondering when the 'spirit of Mumbai' would morph into widespread rage insisting on criminal action against the corrupt, inefficient city administrators who sit by & allow the citizens to be literally crushed to death like bugs. 2/3
Says a woman whose own son wrote an ode to US citizenship in the WSJ - which we have actual proof of, unlike these possibly fictional rustic folk. If you can't get past the WSJ paywall, this song does a pretty great job of capturing its general vibe:
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The above song though objectively annoying makes for a great soundtrack to this article:
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Hey @sebastianbach - I think you've got an impostor? I was followed by this id: xitter.cf/Bach_private
Outstanding series on how VC bets in promising sectors in India collapsed after a collision with reality. My subscription was up for renewal around the time these landed & while I'd have probably renewed anyway, they made the decision to sign up an absolute no-brainer.
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A lot of money was spent on building a home-grown social media success story. The only thing that got built was fundraising pitch decks. The deceit of India’s TikTok clones.
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I'd interviewed Dev Anand on this & am quoting him verbatim: "The greatest intoxication is conceiving of a film and making it. What happens later is beside the point. You need intellect & courage to lose goodwill & money on a project. It's very easy for people to say ...1/2
