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Tanul Thakur
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Wild Wild East, my book on the systemic abuse of the H-1B visa program, on Amazon India: amzn.in/d/0eosaebt Amazon US: a.co/0ixjhxcZ
New Delhi (for now).
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    Tanul Thakur
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    Apr 2
    It’s here, it’s here, it’s here! My dream, my obsession, my madness. My first book :) Wild Wild East, a work of narrative nonfiction, exposes how the systemic abuse of the H-1B visa programme ‘enslaves’ Indian IT workers and exiles American techies. It unfolds through the stories
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    Tanul Thakur
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    Mar 22, 2020
    This is not the sound of clanging of plates and spoons. This is not about Coronavirus. This is the surround sound of submission, played for the Dear Leader, giving him a signal that subjugation will be accepted without question.
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    Tanul Thakur
    @Plebeian42
    Feb 3, 2020
    Bong Joon-ho as a college student:
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    Tanul Thakur
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    Jul 21, 2020
    Calm down, Chetan. The sudden 'compassion' of the Indian audiences for Sushant Singh Rajput is hypocritical to say the least. And if you've any doubts about it, you should check the box-office figures of not just Sonchiriya but any good Hindi film over the last decade.
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    Chetan Bhagat
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    Jul 21, 2020
    Sushant's last film releases this week. I want to tell the snob and elitist critics right now, write sensibly. Don't act oversmart. Don't write rubbish. Be fair and sensible. Don't try your dirty tricks. You have ruined enough lives. Now stop. We'll be watching.
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    Tanul Thakur
    @Plebeian42
    Sep 27, 2019
    Lovely show, thoroughly enjoyed. Review, The Family Man: thewire.in/film/the-famil…
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    Tanul Thakur
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    Aug 12, 2022
    Man, Manmarziyaan is such a great album. It not only has great music and lyrics. I've of late started to use it as a Red Bull/coffee shot. No matter how depleted I feel, it always picks me up.
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    Tanul Thakur
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    Oct 25, 2021
    I remember checking Pakistani Twitter and laughing a lot after we won the match in the 2019 World Cup. The humour was great and endearing. But what did we do yesterday? Went after our own fast bowler because he's a Muslim.
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    Tanul Thakur
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    Jan 5, 2020
    Any JNU student in trouble and needs help/medical assistance/accommodation, get in touch. I live 10 minutes away.
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    Tanul Thakur
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    Jun 3, 2022
    With Yash Raj Films backing a project like Samrat Prithviraj, the Hindutvafication of Bollywood is complete:
    Samrat Prithviraj Is a Tedious Repeat of Nationalist Hindutva Films - The Wire
    From m.thewire.in
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    Tanul Thakur
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    Feb 14, 2022
    Gehraiyaan 'glorifying cheating' - and other similar takes - belong to the same genre of film analysis as 83 was a good film because it was 'inspirational'.
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    Tanul Thakur
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    Jun 14, 2020
    Rest in peace, Sushant Singh Rajput. Saying anything else feels futile. Only you knew how it felt.
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    Tanul Thakur
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    Feb 15, 2023
    I feature in a new Netflix four-part docu series on Yash Raj Films— unshaven and wearing a chappal—and immediately reduce its collective beauty by some 20 points. Jokes apart, I enjoyed doing it and exploring the stories of old Bollywood. Here's me trying to not frown:
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    Tanul Thakur
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    Aug 17, 2022
    "You can't sit with 20 independent filmmakers in a room after they've made made their first film (...) Put them in a room, and it'll explode like a bomb. They'll be like, "I'm a bigger 'auteur' than you." NO truer words have ever been spoken. Thank you for saying this.
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    Tanul Thakur
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    Jul 21, 2020
    Replying to @Plebeian42
    In fact, it were the critics - and *not* the audiences - who gushed about the movie (because it was that good). Many critics included it in their year-end list of best films. For me, it was the best film of the year: thewire.in/film/2019-hind…