‘Indians dogpiled him’: US techie behind ‘imagine the smell’ comments opens up amid major outrage

Nik Pash, the US techie who drew the wrath of social media after making an apparent comment on Indian techies that they are smelly, has been fired from his company, Cline. Cline founder and CEO Saoud Rizwan initially came to Nik’s defence, asserting that the comment was a generic comment on how jampacked hackathon rooms […]

‘Imagine the smell’: Why Cline AI head’s anti-India comment was neither a joke nor neutral | World News

When a single-line reply under a hackathon photo set off a storm on X, many outside the Indian and South Asian tech community initially dismissed the reaction as overblown. The phrase was short, vague and, to some, easily explained away as a crude joke about long hours and crowded rooms. But for many Indians in […]

US techie comes under fire for anti-Indian ‘imagine the smell’ comment; his boss says it’s OK

Nik Pash, the AI head of Cline, drew massive flak after he made an unsavory comment on a photo of apparently Indian coders. But his company head came to his rescue and explained that social media users took his comment out of context and that there was nothing racist about what Nick wrote. But the […]

‘Imagine if Biden had said this’: Trump trolled for ‘I’m going to Russia’ slip-up; ‘Alaska’s going back…’

Alaska was a part of Russia till 1867. President Donald Trump was trolled for his slip of tongue, as he said he will be going to Russia for his meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin — instead of Alaska where the summit will take place on August 15. “Just imagine if Biden had said this: […]

Barack Obama: ‘Imagine if I had done any of this’: Obama’s reaction to Trump administration after tariff announcement

Barack Obama speaks out against the Donald Trump administration. Former president Barack Obama Thursday said he has been watching the new administration of President Donald Trump for little bit and has not spoken publicly for quite a long time. In an on-stange interview at Hamilton College, Obama said he does not think Trump’s new tariffs […]