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[Rahul Srinivas @whizkidd]

Don’t know about Rang De Basanti, but let me tell you what some of us millennials actually grew up watching.

I was in primary school during the 1993 Mumbai bombings -- too young to even understand what terrorism meant. But I distinctly remember my mom repeatedly warning me not to pick up anything lying around while playing outside because, you know, it could be a bomb.

That was childhood.

Then came the seemingly endless procession of attacks: the 1993 Mumbai blasts, Red Fort in 2000, Parliament in 2001, the Mumbai bus bombings and Akshardham in 2002, three separate blasts within eight months in Mumbai in 2003, the 2005 Delhi blasts, the 2007 Hyderabad bombings, and the 2008 Bangalore and Ahmedabad blasts.

In July 2006, I was supposed to be on one of the trains that was bombed near Mahim. I stayed back at the office because of a meeting. A completely mundane change of plans is probably the reason I’m alive to type this instead of being a name on a list of the dead.

I remember that evening far better than I remember any stupid movie. Our office went into lockdown. Phones were jammed. People were crying and frantically trying to reach their families. Nobody knew what was happening, whether there were more bombs, or whether someone they loved was lying dead inside a mangled train compartment.

Two years later came 26/11.

I had the misfortune of watching uncensored footage of the aftermath. One clip showed bodies being piled and stacked inside a makeshift room at CST while someone wheeled in another load on a bloodied wheelbarrow, with blood dripping onto the floor. The sanitised footage shown on television didn't come remotely close to what actually happened inside that station.

So yes, us millennials lived through an era where we went to work knowing that the crime of simply boarding the wrong train, getting on the wrong bus, eating at the wrong restaurant, or standing on the wrong street at the wrong fucking moment could get you blown to pieces or riddled with bullets.

Some of us literally went to work wondering, somewhere at the back of our minds, whether this would be the commute we wouldn't come home from.

So please, spare us millennials this sanctimonious horseshit about Rang De Basanti and what some Bollywood movie supposedly should have taught us about how to vote.

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@qatarairways @qrsupport any update?

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@qatarairways 8LMAX6

Worst experience booking qatar flight. Emirates have processed refunds for flight cancelled due to Iran conflict with full waiver. we cancelled PNR 8LMAX6 under full refund waiver advisory and its been over 28 days and still not refund received.

[❁ Wild lily ❁ @DaaruDesi]

When we call qatar call centre, they say speak to your travel agent Makemytrip. Mmt keeps saying they have not received refund from Qatar. absolutely worst airline. we cannot even track refund on the website coz its a past dated booking. terrible service. process refund ASAP

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I go to Bank to finish a 10 min work and a bank executive insists to fill an online review which requires an otp on your phone. I tell them i am getting late still they insist. Why @TheOfficialSBI ???

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@shoppersstop Finally refunded after scores of emails and calls. Order no SB_1040433. Will never from your online store

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@shoppersstop the worst online shopping experience. They took 10 days to deliver the product. When i got the product it was used + wrong variant (sent by RCity Store). Raised a complaint and took them 9-10 days to pick it up and more 7-8 days to refund. Horrendous service.

[Vibhor Varshney @nakulvibhor]

Amazon Prime has to be the most disappointing OTT platform right now.

First, we pay for the subscription.
Then, we’re asked to pay extra just to stop advertisements.

Absolutely ridiculous — ads popping up every 15–20 minutes on a paid platform.

Paying for Amazon Prime to watch ads — peak comedy 🤡

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@mybmcWardT @mybmc @UIDAI @PMOIndia Thanks for revert 🙏

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@mybmc @UIDAI condition of Aadhar updation centre at Mulund Court. We have to wait in endless queue near a garbage dump. Aadhar is suppose to be national identity document and no proper government centers are made for same. @PMOIndia

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@IndiGo6E what kind of blackmailing is this that you out of 3 pax booked on same PNR including 1 kid you auto allocated separate seats for the child and 1 adult and do not allocate seats at all for 3rd adult. This is like forcing families to buy seats by scaring them.

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@mybmc @INCKerala I cannot believe you are replying to such messages but did not bother to delcare holiday for schools and colleges. It’s still raining so heavily. Only bmc has not declared holiday rest all corporations have done it.

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@mybmc Thane and navi mumbai municipal corporation have declared holiday due to bad weather. I think bmc should officially declare holiday. Its already late. Pls let us know.

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@mybmc any update on schools for tomorrow. Most school start at 7:30 to 8 am and buses come by 7 am. Due to rains if declaring holiday pls update by tonight

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@Gaurav_7887 Name?

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@aakancvedi why is eurokids/euroschool/lighthouse deal mentioned multiple times? its just 1 deal, the list will be shorted if you would not have repeated euro KKR deals multiple times

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@mybmc heavy flooding everywhere in Mulund. @mybmcWardT most school buses start at 7 am. Can you please send circular for school holidays otherwise school will not declare holiday.

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@mybmc any update on extended school holiday for mumbai schools? @NMMConline has declared school holiday this full week

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@mybmcWardT @mybmc @mybmcWardS @mihirkotecha @CMOMaharashtra @Neelam_Realtors See the condition of the road leading jbcn school mulund. How are kids supposed to walk on such roads when school and neelam realtor do not allow school vans closer to school?

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@mybmcWardT @mybmc @mybmcWardS @mihirkotecha @CMOMaharashtra pls help. Security guards of builder @Neelam_Realtors of senroof bldg are harassing kids coming to jbcn school in their vicinity by putting barricades near the jain temple and not allowing vans to go closer to school

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@mybmcWardT @mybmc @mybmcWardS @mihirkotecha @CMOMaharashtra Request you to take action against builder @Neelam_Realtors to stop harassing school vans & also make the road cemented & fill all pitholes