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Aug 16, 2021Liked by The Parallel Campaign

Thank you for your efforts in producing such an eminently readable newsletter about what it means to be "Indian". Many aunties and uncles have been upset by what I have learnt from the Campaign. Some have even had their views changed for the better! I hope that you can continue to write these well into the future because it is fun, and even inspiring, to see young people write about our history in such an accessible manner. Good luck with your academic pursuits! And even better luck with adding to our understandings of the past, present, and future. :D

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Tanvi and Niya, yet again, thank you for all the work you've done on this to bring us closer to our past. Your unending thoughtfulness, reflected in all the issues, continues to make its presence felt even in how you say your temporary byeee, capturing the essence of the newsletter and reminding us of the enemies at the gates of our perception that are likely to doom us. I really hope you continue to do so in future in ways that are exciting for you--yeah, not suggesting a podcast, but a Netflix special may be? If that does happen, I'm greatly looking forward to you pulling off a Bo-Burnham-Inside-Star-Picture-in-Picture and reflecting on these issues in future again, helping us understand where we would be at that moment in time. I'm excited for what you'd say in 2024, and in 2050, and in between, when we'd have to continue contending with our past and with what it means for our future--something we might need even more as we listen to someone arguing on television that climate change was a good thing, after all. May be it will be a debate about about giving a peace prize for using blockchains to melt the arctic icecaps completely and bringing down the cost of global shipping all-year-round to allow low income families to consume cheaper products within their means. Or may be--more likely(?)--it will continue to be a daily plebiscite about what it means to be Indian.

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