Cultural Reflection
18 Threads
How Hollywood depictions of Batman reflect the state of American culture. A thread The 1966-68 Batman series took place during the height of American power & prosperity. The machi...
This 🧵 is about one of my oldest friends, who I've admired for literal decades, and who is Sudanese. I met her in Cairo, a million years ago when I was desperate to *not* live in...
My professor who taught comparative history of religions told us, once he did Ramadan in Vatican during his study, and everyone knew he was fasting. Came iftar time, he expected a...
Many times we relive our trauma, in Tigray many of our songs, actions reflect what we have been through or what we have been deprived of for generations. One thing I have noticed...
For the first time in over 20 years, I visited the childhood home of my late mother in Cairo’s Heliopolis district. Three generations of my mother’s family have lived and died here...
Sometimes last year, a guy posted his new Camry big Daddy on twitter & he captioned it like, “I know say e small but I say make i buy this one hold body first before I go get big...
#Thread I grew up in Bombay, not Mumbai. Regardless of the weather, our dinner time was at 8:00 PM and bed time was 10:30. Eating out at a restaurant was a huge deal, a rarity...
GM. This is our ancestral house where I grew up. We had nothing. Not even walls in our house. But my grandfather made us worship Saraswati and my father went on to become vice cha...
I've been searching for a word that describes my current experience. An arab who has left his home (unwillingly) and now finds himself alienated in Europe. I can't find a single wo...
What a composed and thoughtful plea. Respect! Small attempt at translation to get this, it's due. I'm a driver. When I drive alone, I think a lot. Why is the hindu religion alone a...
2021: a year in review (in pictures) 🧵 https://t.co/NtggVjFLj3
Thread. Years ago, when I sang Titli in Chennai Express, a superstar tagged me and said I sounded like love. If I remember right, it was the first time an actor, anywhere had said...
i grew up with extended blackouts, dark streets, hand-washed clothes, the ever possibility of spoiled food, a candle outside the door of our apartment. i recently came home after t...
I've lived in this little town for almost 10 years. In the beginning, it was home. Over the years, it morphed into a secret getaway. It is here that a woman cooked my pet fish, Joh...
"Pigeons did not fly🕊️". 1. December 2004 I travelled home for Christmas. A day before I would return to base in the north, I went to Umudike to see some friends & didn't get back...
The Pledge of Gandhi In 1921 Gandhi when he started Satyagrah, he said that if he he did not succeed his dead body would be seen floating in the sea. He couldn't make it succes...
Thread: How I came back to Islam after being a murtad for 5 years
As a #Xinjiang-born ethnic minority Chinese who spent almost 20 years in #Urumqi, received higher education in #Beijing and lucky enough to do advanced studies in different western...
