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The movie "Anand" hurts differently once you grow older.
As children, you notice Rajesh Khanna’s charm.
That smile. That warmth. That impossible ability to make even illness look full of life.
Then adulthood arrives and suddenly Babu Moshai starts making sense too.
Amitabh Bachchan’s silence in that film is extraordinary. He spends half the movie watching Anand live loudly while quietly preparing himself for loss. And somewhere between them, Hrishikesh Mukherjee creates one of Hindi cinema’s gentlest heartbreaks.
“Babumoshai… zindagi badi honi chahiye, lambi nahin.”
That dialogue survived generations for a reason.
Notice how simple the film looks today.
No manipulative background score screaming for tears. No dramatic hospital glamour. Just conversations, humanity and the unbearable knowledge that some people enter life briefly only to leave permanent emotional damage behind.
Even the ending feels strangely quiet.
Like somebody important just left the room… but their voice is still floating around somewhere.
Rcvd from WA (courtesy FB page Timeless Indian Melodies)
@SanjayMuthal
Came across a beautiful Odissi video shot at the Sun Temple, Konark.
The grace of Odissi against the timeless backdrop of Konark feels absolutely magical.
Just a small anecdote of Sachin Tendulkar’s Irani Trophy debut on his birthday:
November 1989, Wankhede Stadium.
5 selectors sat in the stands with notebooks & doubts, watching a 16 year old boy try to force his way onto a plane to Pakistan. Sachin Tendulkar had already shone through the Ranji season, 583 runs showing he was ready. But the men in charge preferred patience. They wanted one more look.
Irani Trophy gave it to them. Rest of India against Delhi. Tendulkar made 39 in first innings. Promising, but not the hundred that would have made selection automatic. So the 2nd innings became an audition he could not afford to fail.
What happened next was less a cricket match & more a rescue mission. Tendulkar walked in at number 4. Scorecard around him read like a horror story. Not a single teammate managed to reach double figures after he arrived (in fact, no one crossed 6 runs). Wickets fell like dominoes. By the time 9th wicket went down, he was stranded in the 80s, the hundred slipping away with every departing batter.
Enter Gursharan Singh. Rest of India vice captain had fractured his finger in first innings, his right hand wrapped in plaster, his match effectively over. Then Raj Singh Dungarpur walked over & told him to pad up. Not to save the game, but to save the boy’s hundred.
Gursharan walked out one handed. Tendulkar, already heading back to the pavilion assuming the injured man would not bat, stopped in his tracks. Gursharan looked at him & said, “Tera hundred kar ke jayenge.”
Tendulkar smiled, took strike & told Gursharan he would handle Maninder Singh himself. They added 36 runs for last wicket & Sachin scored 103*.
A week later, he was on a flight to Karachi. Selectors had seen enough. Sometimes greatness needs a century. Sometimes it needs a teammate with a broken finger willing to stand in the firing line so the story can continue.
True Story from Deoghar, Jharkhand (Mahashivratri, 2003 – IND vs PAK)
In 2003, during the iconic India vs Pakistan match on Mahashivratri, I was at the Deoghar Shiva Temple in Jharkhand one of the most revered Hindu pilgrimage sites. Lakhs of devotees had traveled miles and were standing in long queues, waiting patiently for their turn to worship Lord Shiva. Managing the crowd was a massive challenge for the police.
Pakistan had already posted 273 runs.
As India came out to bat, a big screen on the side which had been playing devotional songs suddenly switched to the live match.
Something incredible happened.
The pandas (priests), who usually lead the worship rituals, rushed towards the screen and announced that the पूजा would begin only after watching Sachin Tendulkar bat.
The entire crowd erupted in joy. Thousands of people gathered around a single screen.
Moments ago, chants of “Har Har Mahadev” filled the air now, every cheer echoed for Sachin. With every shot he played, the noise grew louder, the energy more electric.
It felt surreal… almost as if even God was watching, smiling and perhaps that divine energy helped Sachin deliver one of his most memorable knocks.
India won the match on MahaShivratri
And only then did the worship begin.
It was a surreal moment lakhs of people smiling, laughing, celebrating together for the same reason, for the same man. It felt as if everyone’s prayers had already been answered.
Aura. Euphoria. Magnanimity. Madness.
All for one man.
#HappyBirthdaySachin
Sachin Tendulkar's first cricket bat was a Kashmir willow gifted to him by sister Savita, who got it when she went on a holiday to Kashmir.
Savita ma’am had no idea she had unleashed a beast!
Thank you, Savita ma’am! And Happy Birthday to the GOD of cricket! @sachin_rt
Bhimrao Ambedkar sat on a gunny sack at school & had to wait for the peon to give him water as being an untouchable he could not touch the tap or surai.
When he passed the 4th standard in school his Mahar community wanted to organize a feast as no one had studied that far.
He was the first Indian to obtain a Doctorate in Economics from abroad. His work ' Waiting for a Visa' was a textbook in his alma mater, Columbia University. He was a prolific reader, with a personal library of over 50,000 books even though he lost a whole lot when the ship bringing his books from his Columbia days was torpedoed.
His work, 'The Problem Of The Rupee : Its Origin And Its Solution' and his presentation to the Hilton Young Commission is regarded as one of the primary inspirations behind the creation of the RBI
He led the team that drafted our constitution. He opposed Article 370, wanted a uniform civil code & resigned when his Hindu Code bill demanding equal share for women in inheritance & equal status in marriage was stalled in parliament.
On B R Ambedkar's birth anniversary, remembering a giant.
"I don't think the message of the gospel is meant to be abused in the way some people are doing it."
Pope Leo responds to President Trump, who said the Pope is "weak on crime and terrible for Foreign Policy".
Pope Leo said he will continue to "promote peace" and that "someone has to stand up and say, 'there's a better way to do this'".