TruNamapi

Ever since childhood - one thing has not changed. There are too many of us (Indians). Line up for ration, dhakka mukki in public bus, cram for engineering/medical for 0.1% selection rate, and even after getting in, compete for GPA against other god-tier maggus. Then you go to the US and things are good for a while. You feel you are done with that shit for sometime. But then too many Indians land up there as well. 5 IIT grads in your team all working weekends and nights eyeing the same manager promotion. You go to Costco and every one of those God-tier maggus is also getting the same damned deal - wtf - there's no coming out ahead. All of your kids are competing to be top 5% in their class so they can get default admission into U of T at state tuition rates. Unfortunately you all live in the same suburbs built for new immigrants 20 years back. And 100% of kids cannot be 5%. Yo - wasn't the whole point of mugging that your kids didn't have to? You even bought a nice watch for yourself with your Faang gains, but then the famous Desi watch collector on X said it was overpriced crap and now you are looking at his collection and once again you feel like a 6.0 GPA in IIT. The white racists notice too. And now they are complaining there are too many of you too. Yes Darling - we know. No one's more aware of this than us. Even as you write this, you realize Manu Joseph - another Desi never mind the pseudo Anglican name - has probably written something like this. So you will even be the 107856th Indian to note in mildly clever prose that there are too many Indians. You keep running all your life, but the Desi competition doesn't change. It's a constant - like Speed of Light. Fucking same in every reference frame.