 Hi all, Salvatore here. This is just a quick video to answer some questions I keep getting online. First, why am I so interested in India? Well, you know, why wouldn't I be? In the last few years, I've become especially interested in the question of how India is able to maintain a democracy as such a poor country. India is the only country with anything near its GDP per capita that has 75 years of free and fair elections. I find that uniquely important as an area for study for comparative sociologist, and so I've focused on it. Second, am I in favor of nationalists in India? Look, I have no position on Indian politics. I know I've been followed by a lot of people who are, you know, nationalists or patriotic or Jai Hind. You know, fine, that's great. I have nothing against that. Everyone's welcome to follow me if you oppose the current government of India. If you're anti-national, if you're, you know, Pakistani, Chinese, I don't care, please follow me. And I'd love to interact with you. You know, not a problem. Third, what is my agenda on Twitter? Well, my agenda as an academic has been to expose hypocrisy, to fight against mendacity. That is, in each of the topics I've taken up, I've simply wanted to counter the existing narrative where I found that narrative incorrect and substitute a research-based fair alternative narrative. I'm thrilled to be able to do that with India, but I've done that in all my work. Please go back and look it up. I'd really appreciate it. Fourth, answering tweets and following back. Look, I've been gratified to have 45,000 new followers in the last month. It would take me a month just to press the follow back button 45,000 times. So please forgive me if I haven't followed you back. And if I don't answer you back, it's because I'm getting, you know, one, two, three thousand tweets a day. I can't answer them all. I'm very sorry. If you want to reach me, just email me or DM me. My DMs are open. It's not a problem. I always love to hear from everybody. Fifth, am I a Trump supporter? First, I don't accept the premise that it is somehow evil to be a Trump supporter. I mean, half of America's Trump supporters. But that said, I don't particularly support or condemn Donald Trump. And simply for not condemning Donald Trump, I have somehow been classed as alt-right. Look, call me what you want. Read my work. I stand by everything I've written. And finally, Thiruvannathapuram.