Calling all fellow Gujju ABCDs: you know how it is in October when we have garba in local high school or college gyms on Friday and Saturday nights.

For those of you who have visited Gujarat as adults during Navratri, what are the key differences and key similarities you’ve seen between garba in US and garba in Gujarat? The scale is obviously much larger in Gujarat. Other than scale, what have you noticed in Gujarat that you have not seen in US? What similarities have you noticed? For example, I’m told that it’s a meat market for the teens and young people. Any truth to that?

I am a CBCD Malayalee with mixed race kids. My oldest is two and so far we've only let her watch the potty training related episodes of Daniel Tiger and Ms. Rachel. As potty training is going reasonably well now, I'd like to transition to having her watch primarily/only Malayalam content. Before she was born, I intended to do one-parent-one-language but it is so hard! I'm hoping that this will augment her understanding of Malayalam. Unfortunately, all of the Malayalam toddler content I've found so far is high transition rate/AI slop type content. Do you have any recommendations for quality children's shows in Malayalam? I would like to prioritize a low number of scene transitions, no AI, and reasonable content (not scary or normalizing bad behaviour).

Also, we have a couple of Keralite books that we like but are always game for more recommendations there too!

Mainland this, mainland that

This seems like a term that is mocking / comparing individuals that have moved from south east asia

We need to come up with a better solution

Growing up my family did nothing religious. Like my dad occasionally took us to poojas but otherwise we didn't do a whole lot.

Just wondering how religious yall are

I made a post about the failed temple attack on Instagram, and immediately had other South Asians I went to school with(I grew up in an enclave) message me “Oh what about Muslims/Christians in India”, etc.

First of all, we live in America. Aren’t we American. Why are you holding me liable for whats happening in the mainland lol.

Second of all, yeah those aren’t great either. Why must we be subjected to purity tests? Can’t we just call out an attack on Desis(cuz if you think these people will spare non-Hindu Desis, you are sorely mistaken), and just unite? Why does calling out this temple attack mean I co-sign everything that goes on across the world?

Idk, it was very frustrating.

But, every time I mention the bad, I will mention the good too. I had my Eelam Christian friend and my Pakistani friend repost it and support us too. And many more who liked and shared.

But we really need to be better with South Asian unity as a community, whether you’re Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, Jain, Atheist, Rastafarian, Scientologist, Satanist, or you pray to Cthulhu, idgaf. We are Desis, let’s just stand together and help protect each other lmao. I will never hold a South Asian American liable for what goes on in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc. All those country’s could be better in treating their minorities better, yeah, not sure why that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t band together in America or abroad in general lmao.

I recently saw Natasha Thasan (aka Drape Therapy on social media) make a tiktok video about how she felt that her styles drape designs were stolen for the movie for Matreyi’s character’s outfit. Has anyone seen that video and the discourse around it? What are y’all’s thoughts?

These are statistics from the UK Census Bureau in 2021

Here is the link to it

CT21_0297_Census 2021 - Office for National Statistics

Here is the breakdown, just exclude the Roma- white category because Roma are not 100% white

This is a mix of white British, Welsh, Scottish, White Irish, White travelers, and white other

Indian men and white women - 34,573

Indian women and white men - 34,529

Bengali men and white women - 3,701

Bengali women and white men - 2,634

Pakistani men and white women - 14,101

Pakistani women and white men - 5,988

Breakdown of other mixes

Indian men and Pakistani women - 4,702

Pakistani men and Indian women - 5253

Bengali men and Indian women - 1015

Indian men and Bengali women - 966

Pakistani men and Arab women - 1,056

Pakistani women and Arab men - 588

Indian men and Arab women - 496

Arab men and Indian women -343

Bengali men and Arab women - 237

Bengali women and Arab men -139

Pakistani men and Chinese women - 375

Pakistani women and Chinese men - 89

Indian men and Chinese women - 1,015

Chinese men and Indian women - 333

Bengali men and Chinese women - 138

Bengali women and Chinese men - 59

Pakistani men and Black African women - 341

Pakistani women and Black African men - 333

Indian men and Black African women - 303

Indian women and Black African men - 644

Bengali men and Black African women - 73

Bengali women and Black African men - 148

The title is pretty self explanatory but I think we’d all be happier if we cleaned up our social media algorithms.

I just cleaned up my X feed after regrettably viewing so much anti-Indian hate over the last two days, it came after the backlash for the new Avatar series being Indian influenced.

Take some time to select ‘not interested’ for any racist content you see, you can also block any users on social media sharing that content.

“It’s only online bro”

“Go outside and touch grass bro”

I live somewhere where people are racist. A lot of people living in blue areas and enclaves have gotten complacent in their bubbles. This is America.

Arm up and practice 2A if you aren’t already. Only for defense.

And everyone, I mean every single one of you, better get ready to go to the polls and vote blue. 100% the dems don’t care about us, no question. They legit don’t give a fuck about us. But I would rather vote for someone who would not give a fuck about us than people who actively encourage an environment of hostility against us.

Come on people.

Boybands generally have a teenage girl fan base but the biggest boybands in history have had a sizeable male following base as well. The Jackson 5 had tons of male followers following them. Actually, this group hasn't even sold out stadiums in Mumbai and South India yet, so even the Indian market has not been fully used before going to the states. Also I don't think they should mimic western 90s boybands, they need to have their own Indian feel to it besides the language, from dress and dance style as well, but without making it look cringe to people.

OutStation - Kho Sa Gaya Hoon (Live from The Friend Zone Delhi)

Well it seems like India is finally entering a band phase after Bollywood has been filled with nepotism and no talent being generated.

OutStation - Tum Se (Official Music Video)

They're a Gen Z group but they're growing

I honestly think India could lead the world in music and dance considering so many genres historically were inspired by India, from Soca to Reggae to even the beatles using Indian instruments to dances like Flamenco as well.

There you have it folks 🤦‍♂️

London, Oct 14: Three Indian nationals were killed in a fire at a residential building in the German city of Bochum, local media reported on Wednesday.

The victims were two women aged 25 and 27, and a 26-year-old man, all Indian nationals, German public broadcaster WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) reported, citing details released by Bochum police.

Their names and home states in India were not reported.

Romanian national arrested on murder suspicion

Police have arrested a 41-year-old resident of the building on suspicion of murder. He is a Romanian national, German news channel n-tv reported, citing the German Press Agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA).

What do you guys think? Would Canada actually consider bringing in millions of workers from India over the next couple of years? I personally don’t see it.