Hackie Chan @hackiechan@mastodon.social

Okay #India #introduction again.
I toot life observations channeling #philosophy, #creativity, #psychology and #humor.
Everything is fair game, from 4th seat domineering aunty on the local train to chest-thumping uncles running political parties.
I studied at a bunch of 'premier institutions' when I was younger (those coveted 3 letter ones). I've worked on a range of issues, from Wall Street to water and sanitation in Bihar/ UP.
Follow me if you'd like to be entertained, provoked and amused.

I've played myself on this stage for so long. Let me at least play it with confidence now.

Downside of Asperger's is that sometimes you can sense things in people, and when you ask them what exactly is causing that feeling in them, they deny it, only to come back after 6 months and say "yes yes you sensed that feeling and this is actually what was causing it. I was really trying to numb that feeling so I got mad at you for calling me out."

Four different people talked to me today about being chronically emotionally exhausted (either right now, or in the recent past). They all talked about different pressures to conform to a system or expectation, and feeling overwhelmed by the problems around them. They all wanted to cut down their inter-personal interactions as a way of insulating themselves.
What exactly is happening all around us? This literally feels like a mental health epidemic.

"Jo bhi main
Kehna chahoo
Barbad Kare
Alfaz mere."
-this is basically me trying to write today.

I repeat: We, as a collective, have officially lost our sanity from being subjected to a constant lack of justice.

People who are starved for justice will project it on to any act that could remotely be interpreted in that narrative.

My tasteless prediction: Given some of the current movie directors in the Telegu film industry, we should expect a hyper-masculine movie on the #HyderabadHorror series of events very soon.
Let me know when that happens.

I'm worried about cops making Lunch plans these days, because one little typo.... one overzealous autocorrect and...

While people 'celebrate' the cops, do remember that they failed to Lodge the FIR, they told the parents that "she must have eloped" and they did nothing about people leaking her name to the media.
In this story, the police actually committed the second set of atrocities on the family, after the rapists.
So their official duty and process? They absolutely lynched that part too.

Life seems to be a joke format. I might as well be funny.

Netflix might as well upgrade it's business model to shoot dopamine directly into brains.