Anybody feel like you are about to enter Balaji Telefilm’s world everytime you start @JioHotstar !?? Like could they not have found a WORSE sound to play when it starts !!?
₹19,000 crore.
That is what Banks collected in last 3 years just for not maintaining ‘Minimum Account Balance.’
Not from the rich. Not from big borrowers.
From the poorest accounts in the system.
Their crime? They didn’t have enough money.
A farmer misses the minimum balance - Penalty.
A pensioner withdraws money for medicine - Penalty.
A daily wage worker falls short by a few hundred rupees - Penalty.
The poor keep money in banks for safety. Not to be quietly fined for being poor.
Financial inclusion should protect small savings, not punish small balances.
In Parliament today I proposed ending minimum balance penalties so the banking system stops charging people for their poverty.
Mrs. Johnson taught 8th grade at a school in a low-income neighborhood. She was strict about homework, but she was kind.
She noticed that one of her students, a boy named David, was always getting in trouble. He was angry. He fell asleep in class. Other kids made fun of him because his clothes were dirty and he smelled bad.
One day, David got sent to the principal’s office for stealing. He had stolen a stick of deodorant from a girl’s backpack.
Mrs. Johnson went to the principal.
“Don’t suspend him,” she said. “Send him to me.”
David walked into her classroom, expecting to be yelled at. He stood by the door, his fists clenched, ready to fight.
Mrs. Johnson locked the door. She walked over to a large metal cabinet in the corner of the room. She unlocked it.
“David, look here,” she said.
David looked. The cabinet wasn’t full of books. It was full of supplies. There were rows of toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, shampoo, deodorant, clean socks, and even snacks like granola bars.
“I keep this for students who are having a hard time,” Mrs. Johnson said gently. “I know things are tough at home. I know the water got turned off at your apartment. I heard your mom talking to the office.”
David’s anger melted. His shoulders dropped. He started to cry.
“You aren’t a thief, David,” she said. “You just want to be clean. That is dignity, not a crime.”
She handed him a bag.
“Take what you need. Come back every Friday and refill it. No one needs to know.”
David filled the bag. He took deodorant, soap, and food.
“Thank you,” he whispered.
David didn’t become an A-student overnight, but he stopped fighting. He started coming to school clean. He held his head up high.
Ten years later, Mrs. Johnson was retiring. At her retirement party, a handsome young man in a police uniform walked in. It was David.
He walked up to the podium.
“Mrs. Johnson didn’t just teach me history,” David told the crowd. “She taught me that I was worth being taken care of. She gave me soap, but she really gave me self-respect. I am a police officer today because she showed me that authority figures can be kind.”
This news is heart-wrenching… 💔
A mother found out that her son was bullying a child with autism, and her reaction is a lesson for everyone: only love, guidance, and awareness can bring true change. 🌱💛
I’m a dog parent and love dogs. My golden retriever Duke is family. ❤️
But I fully support the Supreme Court’s decision to remove stray dogs from Delhi-NCR’s streets, in fact it should be implemented in Maharashtra too. Stray dogs in India aren’t just an “inconvenience”, they’re a menace.
We’ve normalised dog-bite cases, rabies deaths, and aggressive packs chasing kids, cyclists, and delivery guys.
You don’t see this in any other country. Go to Singapore, Japan, Europe, US where dogs are pets and not free-roaming hazards.
Don't get me wrong, I love dogs but I also love seeing kids play in the park without fear, delivery agents ride without being chased, and pedestrians walk without dodging packs.
This decision will anger many. But it might finally make Indian cities safer for humans and for the dogs themselves.
God knows who decided it was a good idea to have loud speakers in these Vande Bharat trains. It is just IMPOSSIBLE to sleep in this train. More nuisance & headache for more money. Indians will never understand how important and priceless peace is #indianrailway@IndianRailUsers
The ones who step out of their posh flats straight into luxury cars, chauffeured from film sets to bars, discos, clubs or their husband’s cricket matches, have no business preaching about street dogs to the people who actually face them.
Your staged, PR-friendly photos with a stray are worth nothing. You’ll never be bitten because you’ll never set foot alone in the streets. You’ll never watch your child get mauled. You’ll never die of rabies.
So keep your hollow morality to yourself and stop lecturing those who live with the threat every single day.
No stray dogs in Australia.
No stray dogs in Singapore.
No stray dogs in Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Prague, Tokyo & Seoul.
But if Delhi aims to be stray dog free, animal lovers lose their shit.
Happy living among stray dogs then. Stepping on dog shit every morning and getting barked at, chased, scratched and bitten during your walks.
I have got to stop telling people I don’t have work this week and I intend to chill. The minute I put it out there in the Universe, I get calls from clients !!!!
This tech CEO hired 40 villagers from a coconut farm in India.
No resumes. No Ivy League.
Everyone called him crazy.
Today? His company is worth over $1 Billion.
Here’s the GENIUS playbook that stunned Silicon Valley:
State of #IMAX theatres in #ahmedabad
Broken trays, broken recline seats, no caramel popcorn, in fact no decent food, nonsense system of no cash, unbearably loud advertisements, like defeating !!!! Just bad !!!