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[@gauravsabnis](/creator/twitter/gauravsabnis)
"Me: Hey P how was your trip home "Fun but also a reminder of how hard it is to find a clean public washroom in Mumbai." Me: Beyonce & Sonam Kapoor did a song about it. "What" Me: That Mumbai Coldplay song ends "mala shoola traas asto mala shoola traas asto" "Dying 😂""  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1980607204357964135) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-21T12:08Z 51.8K followers, 4572 engagements


"I can pretty much predict what many responses here will be - Pics from some times square nye or Superbowl parade that also shows litter - Whataboutery about things not at all comparable - Cope & burnol type messages taking pride in littering streets of America"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1980639693609005487) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-21T14:17Z 51.8K followers, 11.4K engagements


""If Hindus migrate to other regions on earth Indian caste would become a world problem." - Dr Ambedkar When Jersey City had mostly working class/caste desis we never had a reputation for littering. This is the crowd that's white collar earns 250K+ pays $3-4K in rent etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1980640937194975260) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-21T14:22Z 51.8K followers, 38.9K engagements


""Can the RW shift in motherland cause so much change in attitude of immigrants" Can does has. I've seen it happen around me in NYNJ Bay Area past XX years. WhatsApp University & Godi Media & recently LinkedIn effect. Moral centroid of the diaspora has shifted way right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1980936933585858900) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-22T09:59Z 51.8K followers, 1355 engagements


"I looked up what was the average national price in US on that day. It was $XXXX per gallon. Currently XX years later the price is $XXXX per gallon. Europe similar trend. In India petrol price doesn't follow market trends. It only goes up up and up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1975656111459213778) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-07T20:14Z 51.8K followers, 107.8K engagements


"Hard agree. The weather there truly is very volatile. Adds an extra layer of drama. The grounds are gorgeous. But mostly it's the crowds. The local populace. That genuinely loves tests. And packs the stands. Oh and the food is so good Best stadium food in cricket world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1977291180473024735) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-12T08:32Z 51.7K followers, 2588 engagements


"This. Come to our NYC. You'll see a lot of pigeons and crows everywhere as well as lots of house sparrows. The idea that pigeon/crow drive sparrows extinct sounds like WhatsApp University. What we don't have in NYC are overhead power lines"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1980012530337456518) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-19T20:45Z 51.8K followers, 3864 engagements


"I was in IBM sales Mumbai. Headhunter friend got me interview with Microsoft sales. Restaurant lunch. X qns in "You have a gf" Me: Yes. Why "A good sales guy should be able to sell himself haha. How did you meet" Later rejected. "Guys with gfs want weekends off""  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1978466842910806322) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-15T14:23Z 51.8K followers, 10.5K engagements


"Gobi paratha with Gobi achaar. All that's missing is a Gobi dessert. *badumtish*"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1978480977887334888) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-15T15:19Z 51.8K followers, 2558 engagements


"One of the skills I'm most proud of is making perfect Gobi paratha. 😁 It took years of practice. And mindful trial and error. I's about judgement of the texture proportions temperature even how to grate the cauliflower. Some things you just need a lot of practice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1978706518842237157) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-16T06:16Z 51.8K followers, 4563 engagements


"Teaching note for self. Tell students about how South Park movie in 1999 was the first major studio release animated movie with an R rating. An animated movie that only adults could watch. Which was a big hit. Epochal moment in the business model of animated movies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1979107213072388101) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-17T08:48Z 51.8K followers, 1109 engagements


"But just broadly speaking he was such a perfect grandpa. Never pulling rank. Always a safe space. Always open to disagreements. He & I argued a lot. But it always ended with a smile and a hug. I especially loved his anti tradition anti caste anti patriarchy words & actions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1979119789357383960) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-17T09:38Z 51.8K followers, XXX engagements


"When he was XX & aaji was XX she was hit by a scooter while crossing the road. Bedridden. Relatives & neighbors started sending food. Until a point when he said stop sending food. I can cook. That really influenced my cooking trajectory. My XX yr old gramp cooking his food"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1979120422764343479) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-17T09:40Z 51.8K followers, XXX engagements


"#trivia When Apple Computers was launched and later when it grew which band sued them (and won) multiple times for trademark infringement & breach of contract Lots of settlements. Turns out money can buy you love"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1979354658431996289) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-18T01:11Z 51.8K followers, 4979 engagements


"Out for XXX AM meteor shower walk haven't seen any meteors but saw something interesting Was admiring Jupiter when I noticed in that top floor window a couple putting up decorative lights. At XXX AM on a Monday today I'm gonna guess they're Hindu 😄 Happy Diwali y'all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1980176911780229555) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-20T07:39Z 51.7K followers, 1168 engagements


"Longtime followers know I celebrate Diwali with the kind of lights no one in the world can manufacturer. Orionids. Orion. Taurus & Pleiades. Andromeda. Vega. Capella. Sirius of course. Many brightest stars are up high this night. No moon. Makes me wonder if that's why Diwali🤔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1980180098897924126) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-20T07:51Z 51.7K followers, 3688 engagements


"This New Yorkers like to poke fun at London on everything possible. But never public transit🙏🏽. That would be daft. Saying from Mumbai your Metro is better than London New York is like saying Sumit Nagal plays better tennis than Sinner Alcaraz. It just made you sound silly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1980184250365403191) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-20T08:08Z 51.8K followers, 2320 engagements


"Saying from Mumbai that the Metro is better than London or New York is like saying Sumit Nagal plays better tennis than Sinner or Alcaraz. It just made you sound silly. And insecure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1980184637436747825) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-20T08:09Z 51.8K followers, 1117 engagements


"Hehe. This car is still there and still cracking me up. The owner has to be a man right I just can't imagine a woman thinking I'll buy a Jaguar and just in case people don't get it also a vanity plate saying it's a Jaguar. 😂😂😂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1980190194310758499) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-20T08:31Z 51.8K followers, 1135 engagements


"They first saw how a senior's hospitalization was tricky cos the lift was do high. Then built a ramp. But then some kids slipped and fell. And now they've gated the ramp To prevent children from running and slipping on it. And now it's only for ambulance use /End"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1980253407664316799) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-20T12:42Z 51.8K followers, 1399 engagements


"Mom visiting during diwali means she brought my two absolute favorite diwali snacks. I used to just eat these two "faraaL" items as a kid. No sweets for me. Mom's poha-murmura chivda. And her rice flour chaklis. Have a tasty Diwali everyone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1980303796380241951) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-20T16:03Z 51.8K followers, 1797 engagements


"Orionids - Haley comet debris creates reliable meteor showers easy to spot cos Orion is so prominent Sirius - the brightest star in the sky rises after midnight & scintillates like insane near the horizon. You'll think it's a plane or drone changing colors"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1980559245688156425) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-21T08:58Z 51.8K followers, XXX engagements


"Taurus is high up. In that region you can see Aldebaran & Capella 14th & 6th brightest stars. Pleiades - the seven sisters are not always easy to spot. Except around Diwali. It gets high enough that you can make out the individual stars in it Vega - 5th brightest star"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1980559247193850097) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-21T08:58Z 51.8K followers, XX engagements


"Flex your lowest academic low score. To remind us that almost everyone fails at some point in life but it isn't the end of the road. Just a memory in the end. Mine was 27/100 in Engineering Math X just a year after I'd scored XX in 12th boards. Much needed kick in my butt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1626144370079547397) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2023-02-16T09:00Z 51.8K followers, 44.4M engagements


"Lying blue check bhikari these pics are from X AM taken by people on morning commute. I've spent many diwali nights in JC over X decades. Next morning was never like this. Used fireworks were put in water tubs right after. Don't confuse white supremacist racism with this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1980927823293677786) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-22T09:22Z 51.8K followers, 5464 engagements


"If you don't know the ongoing real life Pixar movie that is Astoria the turkey you really should look her up Such an unlikely tale of survival niceness of humans around her and cuteness. She is a true mascot for NYC. And she's made a home where the Brit army left from"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1981176394391368095) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-23T01:50Z 51.8K followers, 1718 engagements


"These places like Queens Edison Jersey City have had Hindus living in big numbers for over XX years. Celebrating Diwali without burning things down. This new surge of Diwali fires is directly tied to the BJP in India & its politicizing diwali fireworks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1981305212666335389) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-23T10:22Z 51.8K followers, 6537 engagements


"Story 🧵 of the brilliant ramp with a bolted gate in my parents' building in Pune. If it hadn't happened in front of me I would've thought it a comedy sketch. X yrs ago aaji had health trouble & moved in to their place. Which was in a newish building of mostly young folk. /1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1980248711369289930) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-20T12:24Z 51.8K followers, 8538 engagements


"Smol 🧵 on why Diwali is the best night for stargazing & astrophotography in the Northern Hemisphere. Literal Star cast hehe. Orion - Probably the most easily recognizable constellation on earth. It gets nice and high after midnight. Betelgeuse scintillates while rising"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1980559244140376437) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-21T08:58Z 51.8K followers, XXX engagements


"Gemini - Castor Pollux and across from them Proctor X more of the brightest stars in our sky. Cassiopeia - the M/W shaped constellation that can help you find the north star as well as Andromeda galaxy Pegasus - Another prominent constellation with bright stars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1980559248565158073) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-21T08:58Z 51.8K followers, XXX engagements


"Asked building super who works M-F if he was okay cos I noticed the relief staffer working yesterday. "Had a day off thanks to you 😁" Me "My contract gives days off on any NYC school holiday. Yesterday was the Diwali holiday. 😁 Happy Diwali" Ha nice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1980560187623972978) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-21T09:02Z 51.8K followers, 4123 engagements


"Jersey City. Have heard from friends as well as Reddit (pics) a lot of justified outrage. Diwali has been celebrated in public in JC from 80s without this. Organizers attendees would clean up streets after. Emphasis was not to give a bad name to India. Really is a #NewIndia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1980639283301216777) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-21T14:16Z 51.8K followers, 81.9K engagements


"New York Public Library like most American public libraries is so much more than just a place to borrow books. Look at these free events at my local branch. One of XX branches. See how much free and useful public service happens through funding public libraries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1980917490856423468) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-22T08:41Z 51.8K followers, XXX engagements


"Here's a video showing his lies. This is from Journal Square On Sunday night. It wasn't just some benign celebration which they cleaned up later. Diwali has been celebrated here since 1980s without such scenes. This lot is something new & belligerent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1980930794131730655) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-22T09:34Z 51.8K followers, 1129 engagements


"Some relevant facts. X. Diwali is during Fall. When NJ is full of fallen dry leaves. Riskiest time for fires. Houses are wood based. X. NJ has legalized some fireworks. But doesn't mean you can set them off on the road like India. Other celebrations use private property. /1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1980933758590288034) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-22T09:46Z 51.8K followers, 5068 engagements


"Jogged a memory from Penn State. Pennsylvania has one of the most relaxed fireworks laws in the northeast. Firecrackers & bottle rockets are also permitted unlike NY Jersey Boston. An obvious requirement is you need permission of property owners. So every diwali"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1980979365103255676) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-22T12:47Z 51.8K followers, 7614 engagements


"Sliwa just made an obscure Boss Tweed reference that I doubt anyone except a few people got. 😂 Say what you will about Curtis he knows NYC history back and front"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1981152270474760360) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-23T00:14Z 51.8K followers, XXX engagements


"This is one Dark Diwali in North America. All these historically Indian heavy places like Brampton Dallas Edison Jersey City Queens Bay Area have reported cases of illegal dangerous fireworks and some actual fires. This is not normal. This a new phase of Hindutva"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gauravsabnis/status/1981328787791925439) [@gauravsabnis](/creator/x/gauravsabnis) 2025-10-23T11:56Z 51.8K followers, 28.4K engagements