Merry Christmas! How’s your Christmas going? Here is a collection of random tweets from Indian Twitter that will do India proud. Thread 👇1/n

The run up to Christmas started with Chavhanke running his Christmas special series on conversions. 2/n
A few days before Christmas, a ‘dharmic’ influencer started a campaign about whether Hindus should celebrate Christmas. 3/n
Right-wing blog OpIndia meanwhile thought it was an opportune time to dig out a 10+ year old video of Zakir Naik on Christmas greetings. 4/n
No Christmas is complete without Indology enlightening his followers. In fact he does it every year on Christmas. 5/n
Come Christmas Day, right-wingers start calls for Eco friendly Christmas. 6/n
PM Modi sends out his Christmas greeting, much to the angst of some of his followers. Why should we celebrate Christmas, they ask. 7/n
Others wishing Merry Christmas meet the same fate. The hate is now boiling over. 8/n
The ones with red flags in their tweets and DPs are most upset for some reason. 9/n
Hashtags on ‘Tulsi Pujan Diwas’ are trending. The idea of Tulsi Pujan diwas on Christmas was the brainchild of Asaram and his followers are busy tweeting stuff like, say no to Christmas, revive Vedic festivals, etc. 10/n
The initiative to celebrate 25th December as ‘Good Governance Day’ that was started in 2014 has lost steam but some BJP handles still remember it and extend their greeting. In fact they extend greetings for everything other than Christmas on Dec 25th. 11/n
Only thing missing this year is Postcard News article on Christianity = KrishnaNeeti. So here is an old screenshot to entertain you. 12/n
Christians form <2.5% of India’s population. Yet their festival rattles a certain section of people so much every year. Feel sorry for the haters and enjoy the day. Merry Christmas!🎄🎁 13/13

More from Twitter

A big part of my tweets are inspired by other people's content.

I bookmark everything that looks interesting and go there when in need of inspiration.

This is a thread-recap of the best-saved tweets from 2020 (for me at least) and what you can steal from each one. 🧵👇


The year chart by @jakobgreenfeld

What to steal: the idea and the design

Create a chart with the key moments of your growth. It's a great reflective exercise for you and it can be a great learning experience for your


Let's collaborate by @aaraalto

What to steal: the idea.

Creating a blank piece of content (could be a sentence, a design, a video...) that your audience can later


Advice to first-time info product creators by @dvassallo

What to steal: the insight

This tweet was one of the sparks for me writing the Twitter Thief ($1,3k revenue says it's good


How to be a better writer by @JamesClear

What to steal: the insight

A world-class writer giving free writing lessons. The tweet is from 2019 but I discovered it this
Hey #optics and #photonics twitter

It's time again for the 2nd annual #top10photonics thread, where I compile my own #top10 best photonics papers list of the year!

See here for last year's thread:
https://t.co/6h82mPAn3w

A thread 👇


Same disclaimers as last time:
1. These aren't just papers that were published in 2020. They are papers that were added to my library in 2020. Some are a little older — some are a lot older. All are interesting or exciting to me in some way.

2. I reiterate - TO ME. This list is highly subjective, and is mostly about what captured my imagination most, not about what will make the biggest impact, or what is most worth funding. The order is mostly arbitrary too. This is just for fun :)

3. Once again I am NOT including any of my papers, or any from my current or former groups. If you're curious about what I do, drop a proverbial tip in my jar and peruse my publication list

And while I have your attention, register for #POM20ja, happening in 2 weeks. (It's free!) It's a completely reinvented @PhotonicsMeetup, and it promises to be a great time!

Now, on to the main event!

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