What do we talk about when we talk about INDIA?
In the past four months or so, while being stuck at home (thanks to Mr. Covid), I have developed this weirdly voyeuristic habit of watching random Indians fight over politics on twitter. Now for those of you who don’t use twitter, to give you an idea about the toxicity of it – just imagine yourself being in a relationship with ten Kabir Singhs at the same time(sorry to all the fans!). Every person who has fingers to type and a half-informed, fully-prejudiced vituperative opinion to put out, contributes to this pandemonium of social media. Everything ranging from national defense issues to nepotism debates are solved on twitter, who’s a patriot and who’s an ISIS agent is decided in the comment section of every tweet, which artist to boycott and what film to ban – you name it, twitter got you covered. Although more often than not I silently play the role of a mere spectator to these (in)glorious Homeric battles of twitter but at times I decide to delve deeper in...