Sonal Kalra 🇮🇳

Chief Managing Editor : Entertainment & Lifestyle, HindustanTimes. Author/columnist, Ramnath Goenka Awardee. Host: The RightAngle

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Why confuse pride in our national identity with ideology? Aapka kya kehna hai is baare mein?

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If chilling had an ultimate benchmark, this would be it

[Mr. Turtle @TheMisterTurtle]

I won’t tell anyone when I make it, but there will be signs.

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I wish those little girls grow up to appreciate how their mom saved their lives by a whisker

[Maratha Newz @Maratha_NEWz]

Sirf 2 second ki deri hoti, maa apni dono betiyon ke saath paani mein sama jaati.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

His friend from upstream who called him to warn him about the flash floods and his quick thinking and decisive leadership saved the lives of everyone. He basically saved a generation of Nepalese 🙏

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@vimallakhotia It’s a word play meme for humour. No one’s mocking anything.

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Have you all tied Rakhee?

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@shankar35 Well, she passed in February this year. But, yes. Om Shanti

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Sarla Maheshwari, popular Doordarshan news reader (at the time they were called that and not news anchors) of the 80s era died today in Delhi. She would be remembered by many for her simple grace and poise. She was 71.

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This video of flood water gushing through Trishuli in Nepal is the scariest video I have ever seen. Sometimes it’s important to pause and be grateful for just being alive.

[furkan? @ruhadeg]

hanımefendi aynı anda avcı ve av olamazsınız

[Sann @san_x_m]

No rain fell in Rasuwa in Nepal this morning. The river still rose and swept away everything in its path. Here is why.

At 8.37 this morning, near the Nepal and China border, instruments picked up strong shaking. Early reports called it an earthquake of magnitude 4.4. The United States Geological Survey has now corrected that. There was no earthquake.

A huge block of ice and rock broke off a mountain and crashed into the valley. The impact was so heavy that it registered like an earthquake of magnitude 5.2. The landslide made the shaking. The shaking did not make the landslide.

That ice and rock fell straight into the Lhende Khola, a small stream that feeds the Bhote Koshi river. It blocked the stream fully and made a wall of ice, rock and mud across it.

The water behind that wall kept rising. Then the wall broke.

What came down was not water. It was mud, boulders and ice moving together. Video from the Rasuwagadhi border post shows the whole crossing vanish in under a minute. Timure and Syafrubesi were hit next. The surge then reached Bidur in Nuwakot and went on to Devghat, more than 100 kilometres downstream.

Police in Bagmati province have confirmed at least 95 dead in Nepal. China has confirmed 3 dead in Tibet with 265 missing there. The Nepal Tourism Board says nearly 400 travellers are missing, including 105 Indians and 37 people of Indian origin, many of them returning from the Kailash Mansarovar route. About 430 megawatts of power generation has been damaged. Bihar has put its districts along the Gandak on alert.

Now the part that matters for anyone living below a Himalayan river.

The same stream did the same thing 14 months ago. On the 8th of July 2025 the Bhote Koshi flooded with no rain. Nepal found that a glacial lake in Tibet had drained in a few hours. Scientists had already marked this basin as one of the most dangerous in the Himalaya for such floods.

These floods give no warning. No rain, no cloud, no alert, because the weather is not what causes them. Ice that stayed frozen for thousands of years is now loose enough to fall.

So remember this. If you are near a mountain river and the water suddenly drops for no reason, or you hear a low roar from upstream, do not stand and film it. That is a blockage forming or breaking. Move up the slope, away from the river, at once. Do not run along the bank. The water is faster than you.

Clear weather is no longer proof that a Himalayan river is safe.

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@drnasavk Hanji. Tibet Nepal border

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Terrifying moments when the Flash Floods struck. Never seen anything like this #Nepal

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@kansaratva Sunny deol

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@Mvshakha I and my team now have Sunday-Monday off instead of Saturday-Sunday. So i have effectively killed Monday stress from my life 😎

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@payalmehta100 Heartfelt condolences @payalmehta100. Om Shanti 🙏

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@gpsingh999 Thank you

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If you can’t say anything good, sometimes just keeping your mouth shut is a contribution to the country. Here’s why.

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Imagine selling the classic Indian saree as ‘botanical embellished draped overlay maxi dress’ 🤦‍♀️ Pathetic cultural appropriation of Indian heritage by Western brands. Shame.

[Indian Aesthetics @IndianAesthetik]

an american brand "jw pei" just colonised the nivi style sari and are selling it for $229. It has been renamed and sold as "botanical embellished draped overlay maxi dress".

we really need to question, how global brands take indian clothing without any credit. please tag them!

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@ShivAroor @PadmajaJoshi @Vasudha156 @VishnuNDTV @vedikas @SehgalRahesha @AdityaRajKaul @tarini28 Many Congratulations @ShivAroor @rahulkanwal on the refresh! I aspire to remain an avid watcher, and the unsolicited spell checker of the channel :) Great luck in taking good ‘old TV journalism’s glory forward

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@smritiirani @BJP4India @narendramodi Congratulations @smritiirani
An absolutely great choice on the part of the BJP. Best wishes.

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Delighted to host Ms. @sonalkalra , Chief Managing Editor, @htTweets at #JGU for a Fireside Chat on “Lifestyle & Entertainment Journalism: Flippant or Imperative”, with Prof. @kishalay & Prof. Ambreen Khan.
📅 19 August 2026
⏰ 12 Noon
📍 JGU
Looking forward to an engaging conversation on the evolving role and relevance of lifestyle & entertainment journalism in contemporary media.