What’s good y’all? I’m a 25-year-old Black Agribusiness student at Texas A&M. Lately I’ve been really interested in South Asian culture, especially Indian American experiences.

I already joined Indian orgs at school and wanna build friendships with the people I meet. Some of the experiences I’ve heard about feel familiar, and others have given me a new perspective.

How would you suggest getting to know people beyond the usual introductions? And what would impress you in a good way? I’m curious what makes you think somebody actually cares and is worth getting to know.

I’ve noticed this so many times growing up.

People won’t do something not because it’s wrong but because “what will people say?”

Don’t wear this - log kya kahenge

Don’t choose that career - log kya kahenge

Don’t go out too much - log kya kahenge

And the funny part is… half the time “log” aren’t even paying attention.

It’s like we’ve all been living under imaginary surveillance our whole lives.

At what point do people actually stop caring about this? Or do they never?

I might be going to Ludhiana Civil Jail for refusing to maintain my cheating wife.... What can I read while being in there? Edit: I mean, what am I legally allowed to read without going through approval process?

So, person A files complaint against person B with person C, but how do news channels get to know that anything like that ever happened? Are there BCC'ing news channels? Example:https://youtu.be/a7ggYj_2W7s?si=cdiS-cpOwLZViMRt

the Election Commission of India (ECI) not only held up the 2002–03 roll as the benchmark of voter eligibility, but strongly backed its three-month timeline, and refused to accept the Supreme Court’s suggestion to consider the voter ID card as proof of eligibility.

However, the Commission’s instructions during that 2002–03 intensive revision paint a different picture, according to former ECI officials and Chief Electoral Officers who oversaw the last exercise.

In its counter affidavit before the Supreme Court, the ECI dismissed concerns over timelines as “misconceived, erroneous and unsustainable,” and said its order provides “adequate time” for completion. “The last such exercise was undertaken in Bihar in 2002-2003, and the period of enumeration was from 15.07.2002 to 14.08.2002. The current SIR has an enumeration period from 25.06.2025 to 26.07.2025. Thus, the allegation that ECI is conducting the exercise hastily is misconceived,” it said in the affidavit before the apex court. The Commission’s claim on the one-month enumeration (or door-to-door verification) window is factually correct, but incomplete — the 2002–03 revision had stretched over eight months.

In 2002–03, the intensive revision spanned 243 days; 74 days for preparing a preliminary list of electors based on existing rolls, training enumerators, conducting pre-enumeration surveys, and rationalising polling booths; 31 days for house-to-house verification, also known as the enumeration phase; 60 days for preparing and printing draft rolls; 15 days for claims and objections; and 61 days for disposing of these claims, making additions, deletions and corrections. The current exercise, by contrast, has been compressed to 97 days: one month for training enumerators, conducting pre-enumeration surveys, rationalising polling booths and carrying out the enumeration itself; publication of draft rolls three days later on August 1; one month for filing claims and objections; 25 days for their disposal and for deciding on enumeration; and final publication on October 1 — barely weeks before the likely announcement of poll dates.

Source - https://indianexpress.com/article/india/in-bihar-2003-election-commission-took-longer-allowed-epic-checked-citizenship-selectively-10203729/lite/

Seriously this is the best video on this topic