At the peak of his stardom, Rajesh Khanna drank scotch till 3 AM, ate at 4 AM, and strolled onto a 10 AM shoot at 4 PM.
When a producer pointed at the clock, a pride-filled Kaka snapped:
"Hum nahi, ghadi hamara time dekhti hai! Hamari ghadi 5 lakh ki hai aur chashma 3 lakh ka!
The director packed up without shooting a single scene and replied:
"Jo waqt ki izzat nahi karta, waqt usne sabak sikha deta hai.
Eventually, that lesson arrived.
A day came when Kaka had nothing but time no movies, no shoots, no family, and nobody left to call pack-up. Surrounded by sycophants, he would watch his old classics, alternating between tears and laughter, drinking alone in silence
Time comes for everyone, but it never stays forever.
Without luck and timing on your side, power and wealth mean very little.
Enjoy your good days to the fullest, but stay humble when you are on top because humility is the true currency of success, while ego is just the weapon that cuts it short.
Solomon asked for wisdom, God added wealth.
Abraham asked for a son, God gave him generations.
May God give you more than you prayed for before 2026 ends.
@IAMCouncil@USCIRF Islamic terroists should advocate for religious minorities is Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan before talking about anybody else.
@MarkJCarney You know she is a Hamas supporter? Are you following in the footsteps of Trudeau & supporting terrorists.The act was criminal and police should investigate and charge the perpetrators.However the PM should in no way comment and help terrorists by making them look like victims.
Under Mark Carney, Canada has set an example by retaliating dollar for dollar against Trump’s sky-high tariffs. Ottawa’s new counter-tariffs of up to 50% cover roughly US$20 billion in annual imports from the U.S. — the same value as the Canadian exports hit by Trump’s latest tariff round. Rather than absorbing the economic coercion, Canada matched it in both value and rate.
Because of power differentials, asymmetry is inherent in international relations. The parties are rarely equal in economic or military strength. But asymmetry is not the same as surrender: A weaker country need not passively accept punitive measures, and Canada’s dollar-for-dollar retaliation shows that even a less powerful state can impose meaningful costs in response to economic coercion.
Dolly Parton got married at 19 and kept her promise. She was married to one man, Carl Dean, for 60 years until he passed last year.
May they be forever reunited.
My uncle saved $650,000 for retirement.
Skipped every vacation for 30 years to do it.
Same truck the entire time. Packed his own lunch every single day. Never once ate out unless it was someone’s birthday.
Died with the full $650,000 still sitting there. Never got to touch a dollar of it.
His three kids split it evenly.
Gone in under two years.
New cars. A kitchen remodel. A trip to Cancun nobody needed.
He gave up three decades of small joys to leave behind something that disappeared faster than the sacrifice that built it.
Something big is moving under Kashmir.
Dr Deeesh Divakaran
That was my first instinct when Sergio Gor entered the Valley and met CM Omar Abdullah.
Because history has a bad habit.
It whispers first.
Then it screams.
So forget today's sweet words.
Below is the American trail.
Ambassadors.
Envoys.
Meetings.
And then...
Look at the aftermath.
1950-52
Loy Henderson.
Chester Bowles.
Met Sheikh Abdullah.
1953.
Sheikh resisted full integration with India.
Sheikh was later arrested.
1961.
J.K. Galbraith.
Srinagar.
1962.
India-China war.
Ladakh burned.
1963.
Hazratbal relic crisis.
Mass unrest erupted.
1964.
Chester Bowles.
1965.
Pakistan launched Operation Gibraltar.
Infiltration began.
Full war followed.
1987.
John Gunther Dean.
Met Farooq Abdullah.
1988-89.
Armed insurgency exploded.
June 1995.
Frank Wisner.
Met Officials & Separatists.
Days later.
Tourists kidnapped.
India was embarrassed.
1996.
Wisner returned.
Hostage crisis continued.
Militancy remained brutal.
1996.
Wisner again.
Weeks later.
Candidates attacked.
Rallies bombed.
Polling challenged by militants.
Feb 1997.
Wisner again.
Met Hurriyat separatists.
March 1997.
Sangrampora massacre.
Jan 1998.
Wandhama massacre.
Oct 1998.
Richard Celeste.
Met Farooq Abdullah.
Separatist Shabir Shah.
May 1999.
Kargir War.
Dec 1999.
IC-814 was hijacked.
India released Masood Azhar.
Oct-Dec 2001.
American strategic activity surges.
Powell.
Rumsfeld.
Blackwill.
Blair.
Feith.
Haass.
13 Dec.
Parliament was attacked.
Jan 2002.
Robert Blackwill.
May 2002.
Kaluchak massacre.
Dec 2002.
Blackwill again.
March 2003.
Nadimarg massacre.
24 Pandits killed.
2006.
David Mulford.
U.S. activity inside Kashmir intensified.
July 2006.
Mumbai local train bomb blasts.
189 people killed.
2008.
David Mulford again.
Washington watched Kashmir closely.
Separatist politics.
Then...
Nov 2008.
Mumbai terror attack.
166 people killed.
2013.
Tim Roemer.
Met Omar Abdullah.
Afzal Guru executed.
Valley unrest returned.
2015-17.
Richard Verma.
Visited valley reportedly.
2016.
Burhan Wani killed.
Mass unrest followed.
Then Uri.
19 soldiers killed.
Aug 2018.
Kenneth Juster.
Met Omar.
Feb 2019.
Pulwama.
40 CRPF personnel killed.
Jan 2020.
Juster returned.
May 2020.
Handwara operation.
Senior officers were killed.
April 2025.
US VP JD Vance arrives in India.
Next day.
Pahalgam.
26 people killed.
And Now…
Aug 2026.
Sergio Gor.
Srinagar.
Met Omar Abdullah.
He calls J&K an “important part of India.”
Good words.
But he did not say “integral part of India.”
History leaves an uncomfortable shadow.
Watch the room after the handshake.
Watch the border after the photograph.
Watch who starts moving after the cameras leave.
Correlation is not causation.
But intelligence agencies do not survive on coincidence.
They survive on patterns.
And Kashmir has punished complacency before.
Don’t look at his words.
Watch the actions that follow.