URGENT: Please help us locate my brother-in-law, V.S. Balasubramanyam (Bali), a US citizen of Indian origin.
Bali was travelling with the Isha Foundation S3 Kailash/Mansarovar group.
His last known phone location, confirmed to his family by Andhra Bhavan, New Delhi, was the Chinese Immigration Centre at Gyirong, Tibet, on the morning of August 26, when the devastating flash flood struck.
His family has had no contact with him since, and his current status is unknown.
If anyone has information about Bali or the S3 group at the Gyirong immigration centre, please DM me.
Please RT 🙏 and share this widely. @MEAIndia@USAndIndia@Sadhguru@IshaFoundation
Beating the GOAT Magnus Carlsen online and casually going straight to sleep without even waking your parents is absolute peak teenage nonchalance.
Huge congratulations to Vandan Sawai on an unbelievable victory! Scoring a win against Carlsen at this age is a massive statement of fearlessness and raw talent.
Waking up the next morning to realize your kid just dismantled a World Champion has to be the ultimate parenting moment.
The future of Indian chess is not just bright—it's utterly fearless. Keep shining, Vandan! ♟️🔥
#Chess #MagnusCarlsen #VandanSawai #IndianChess
From BKC to Mumbai AirPort T2 it is 7 KM & it took 1 hour 10 minutes for me! 30 minutes on a single flyover (the SCLR flyover)
The other day from Chennai Airport to Mahabalipuram it took 1.5 hours and the traffic was chaotic.
Yet, only Bengaluru traffic comes to be described as notorious!!
Disclaimer: this is not a defence of Bengaluru traffic. We do need to do more here, whatever be the situation in other cities.
Dude, stop embarrassing yourself
Kerala’s biggest achievement last week was sending a Volvo bus to Karnataka. Develop your own state & generate revenue from it
Importantly, STOP dumping your garbage on your neighbouring states !
What the Royal F? A PSU bank funded with my Fu(king money, my money in the bank & i have to pay to withdraw. And what if I don't hv digital means ....or don't want digital means
Why does this govt take away choice
Many Groups including the Cockroach Janta Party got FULL permission to protest at Jantar Mantar. Infact the CJP rightfully got it the SECOND their boy landed at the airport.
So why the discrimination againt the General Category students & youth? Why are they DENIED permission even after applying properly, waiting, begging? One can agree or disagree with them but this is BS!
This is not democracy.
This is open discrimination.
One can absolutely disagree with the #21AugReservationHataoAndolan but they have a right to protest.
@neha_laldas@talk2anuradha@ajeetbharti
INTERESTING: Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations (PM CARES) Fund, which was set up in March 2020 during COVID to deal with emergency/distress situations, has accumulated a corpus of Rs 8,452 crore by end of FY 2024-25, but just Rs 87 lakh was spent, as per audit reports released. Still NO information on source of funds. PM CARES has so far refused to divulge any details under RTI Act. 🙏
They reduced our life expectancy to 32.
Today, we are the most preferred medical tourism destination for them..
The power of वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम्, the conviction of Bharata 🙏
Happy Independence day to all the true patriots 🫡
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.
Why is Dharmendra Pradhan more important than the sentiments of the youth of this country. He failed spectacularly in his job from UGC to paper leaks and yet the government is shielding him like he’s their most precious jewel!