Aakanksha Lath

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[Aakanksha Lath @aakankshalath]

Shutting them down as usual!

[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

My two cents on Twisha Sharma case.

Link: https://t.co/oCgqau9LYu

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

This is not just a song…it’s an anthem for life.

“I'm at peace with the measure of my worth.

I've freed myself from every doubt, every disguise.

Even if we win the world’s approval, peace will not come this way.

Whatever is yours will find its way to you by any means possible

Let your heart understand this truth and Jhoom, Jhoom, immerse yourself in joy.”

I’ve heard many versions of it, including Abida Parveen’s famous rendition…

This one stands out.

I don’t know who the soulful singer is, but she has brought peace to this saturday…I applaud her and thank her.

(Video courtesy @beingcalm02 )

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

One mother forbade medicines to the dying, converted them, then laughed at the death count; the other mother has provided free treatment to 5.9 million, built 13 million sqft, 95 OT, 101 speciality, 4050 bed hospitals employing 1540 doctors.

The first mother got the Nobel Prize.

[Aakanksha Lath @aakankshalath]

(2/2) They are filling up in buses and trains..paying up 3-4 k per person per way for a 2 day arduous journey. Don’t know who is paying for it but it is not even discreet; it’s out in the open. What are we doing about it?

[Aakanksha Lath @aakankshalath]

All M househelps from Gurugram are being forced to travel to Bengal for voting or they are told citizenship will be taken away…its a minute pain for their employers but for the nation, a massive crisis!
And they are clear in their head - to vote for TMC..#BengalPolls2026 (1/2)

[Aakanksha Lath @aakankshalath]

@ChykIndia Two Visionaries, One Vision!

[CHYK India @ChykIndia]

Meeting the Prime Minister: A Heartwarming interaction.

In December, we had requested a meeting with the Prime Minister. In January, the PMO reached out asking about the urgency of the appointment since our main program is scheduled only in October. They mentioned that they would try to arrange a meeting sometime in March.

Interestingly, March was also when I had planned my Antarctica Yatra. While I was in the White Continent, I would occasionally wonder if the PMO might revert with a date while I was still away.

On my last day in Antarctica, I received a message from the PMO asking if it would be convenient for me to meet the Prime Minister on the 19th.

Swami Swaroopananda was also very happy that the appointment had come through before he would leave India. After nearly 29 hours of travel, I reached Delhi via London at 2 a.m. on the 19th, and the meeting was scheduled for 11:30 a.m. the same morning.

Meeting the Prime Minister was truly a beautiful experience. During our 20-minute conversation, he radiated the same warmth I had seen years ago when he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat — and the same warmth continues even today as a global leader.

He was particularly delighted to hear that I had travelled all the way from the South Pole region, flying nearly twenty-nine hours to reach Delhi in time for the meeting on the 19th. His affection and genuine interest were very evident as we spoke about our initiatives. (Just look at the picture — his eyes and smile say it all.)

I shared about the Amrit Yatra — a group of Chinmaya Yuva Kendra youngsters who are travelling across Bharat for 300 days, covering nearly 35,000 kilometres, spreading the message of the Gita. His face lit up when he heard that one of the cars in the Yatra is an all-girls team. He will meet them at Bharat Mandapam in October.

With great pride, Modiji mentioned that he presents the Bhagavad Gita to foreign dignitaries he meets. He also suggested that perhaps a library and research centre could be created where all commentaries on the Gita could be preserved in one place, along with hostel facilities for scholars. I humbly suggested that Kurukshetra would be a very fitting place for such a centre.

Interestingly, this thought comes from Rajarishi of this era — and that too in the 75th year of Chinmaya Mission, an organisation deeply committed to spreading the message of the Gita. Hopefully, this vision & Sankalps will soon become a reality.

He graciously hinted to attend our grand celebration in October and even made a very endearing, almost child-like request — if we could find a photograph of him meeting Gurudev in Baroda in 1993.
We now have to begin searching for that picture!

He was also very receptive to our suggestions for two possible topics for his Mann Ki Baat talks:
https://t.co/gNXkGyWXv7, a child prodigy racer and a fourth-generation devotee of Chinmaya Mission.
2.The Hindu temple in Punta Arenas, the last piece of land before the seventh continent.

The meeting was filled with warmth and light moments. Swami Swaroopananda mentioned that he had been waiting to meet the Prime Minister. Smiling and pointing towards me, the Prime Minister responded, “But we have been meeting each other often.” I felt happy and touched that he remembered our earlier interactions.

Returning from Antarctica on Ugadi and meeting the Prime Minister on the very same day truly felt like the perfect icing on the Yatra. It made the day feel deeply special — and the Yatra felt poornam.

#chinmayamission #chinmaya75
#cm75

@SwMitrananda @PMOIndia @SwSwaroopananda

[CHYK India @ChykIndia]

25,000 Gen Zers just found their 'inner peace' with Chinmaya Amrit Yatra. Wonder what's next - world peace ?

#worldpeace #cm75 #youth

@ChinmayaMission

[S Gurumurthy @sgurumurthy]

Brilliantly put @JethmalaniM

[Dr Poornima 🇮🇳 @PoornimaNimo]

📌Was part of the Ram Rath Yatra in 1990.
📌Requested the Supreme Court to hasten the decision on Ram Janmabhoomi case.
📌Laid the foundation stone of Ram Mandir and performed Bhoomi Pujan on 5th August 2020.
📌Performed the Pran Pratishtha ceremony of the Ram Lalla idol at the Ayodhya, Ram Mandir on January 22, 2024.
📌symbolically unveiled the eyes of the Ram Lalla idol.
📌Ahead of the ceremony, he observed a special 11-day anushthan (austere ritual).
📌 Went without food and salt for 11 days drinking only coconut water.
📌Sleeping on the floor with only a blanket, as sitting or sleeping on a bed was prohibited by the specific rituals and "Yam Niyam" (austere measures) he followed.
📌Avoided luxuries, travelling abroad, visited 11 pilgrimage sites and temples.
📌Ranganathaswamy Temple, Tamil Nadu
📌Guruvayur Temple and Thriprayar Shree Ramaswami Temple, Kerala
📌Veerabhadra Temple, Andhra Pradesh
📌Kalaram Temple, Maharashtra
📌Lord Ram shrine on a beach near Arichal Munai.
📌Sri Kothandaramaswamy temple, Dhanushkodi.
📌Took bath with cold water from 22 wells and a holy dip at the 'Agnitheerth' beach in Rameswaram.
🛑Today will hoist the Ram Dhwaja at Ram Mandir, Ayodhya, fulfilling his promise to the Hindus of India.
Marking the completion of the Ram Mandir.🙏🚩
PM of India, Shri Narendra Damodar das Modi.

[mitrananda @SwMitrananda]

What a blissful day! Hon’ble PM @narendramodi avl launched #GitainTamil, with music by @ilaiyaraaja, at the historic Gangaikonda Cholapuram temple. This marks the beginning of Chinmaya Mission’s 75th year celebrations. #GitainTamil is Chinmaya Mission’s gift to Tamil diaspora.

[Aakanksha Lath @aakankshalath]

Asked a fellow ‘seemingly educated’ passenger to help move bags along with my husband & me and he flatly refused- it isnt my job! I shall wait for as long as it takes! Where does such #entitlement stem from? Everyone else just stood waiting - Appalling behaviour in today’s times

[Aakanksha Lath @aakankshalath]

Was at T3 right now; collecting bags from belt no 9! Bags werent coming in since earlier bags weren’t picked up for 15 mins. Asked the nearest AI staff to send help-since these were bags from Vietnam Airlines, they didnt bother. #Terminal3 @DelhiAirportGMR @VietnamAirlines (1/2)

[Aakanksha Lath @aakankshalath]

#32seconds

[barkha dutt @BDUTT]

Good morning 🙏

Go to the stopwatch on your smart phone.

Press start.

Wait for 32 seconds.

Press stop.

Now ask yourself:

What could you do in that time?

Brush your teeth?

Have a shower?

Wear your clothes?

Have a cup of coffee?

None of the above?

Then ask yourself:

Would you be able to make a life or death decision in that time?

Would you WANT to make a life or death decision in that time?

Well, that is apparently the amount of time that the pilots on the Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, Flight AI 171, from Ahmedabad to Gatwick, had.

From take-off to crash.

32 seconds.

If one has ever peeked into the cockpit of a modern aircraft, then I guess one would comprehend the difficulty even more.

Because people have been talking about and analyzing the videos of that horrible crash.

Expert airmen and air women.

Flyers with thousands of hours of experience.

And they are still unable to definitively state what might have gone wrong.

After more than 30 hours.

They can’t figure it out.

Bird strike?

Dual engine failure?

Incorrect take-off configuration?

Flaps not correctly deployed?

Landing gear not retracted in time?

Hydraulics?

Nah, they just can’t say.

Not yet, not with certainty.

Not without the flight data recorder and the voice recorder, they can’t.

And yet, those poor pilots in that fated cockpit didn’t have 30 hours.

They had the luxury of a full 32 seconds.

To decide.

With certainty.

What in their modern, highly complex airplane, with millions of little knobs and gizmos and gadgets and dials, had actually gone wrong.

What should they do?

Not what should they speculate, but what should they actually do?

Because once they had figured out what had gone wrong, they still had to fix it.

All in a grand total of 32 seconds.

And not 32 seconds of peaceful thinking.

But 32 seconds of horrible frantic thinking, scrambling for ideas, running through mental checklists in the blur of seconds, racking through their brains for everything they had learnt in flight school and thousands of hours of flying, checking, scanning, altimeter, airspeed, stick shaker, what’s going on, why, why, why, with sirens and warnings likely blaring in the background, knowing that what they decide could impact their lives as well as the lives of another 240 souls on board, shit, 240 souls, why, what, how, will I see my baby.

I pick up my own smart phone.

Flick on the stopwatch.

Start.

Let it run to 32 seconds.

What must it be like, then, to know, with utmost certainty, possibly around the 15 second mark, that this was it?

That these would be the last few precious seconds of my life?

To know that things were hopeless, beyond fixing, to press that button on the radio and say those last words:

Mayday, Mayday, Mayday.

Hopefully some day we will know.

Some of the answers at least, I hope.

Of what went on in that cockpit.

What went wrong with that aircraft.

Why did it fall slowly out of the sky?

And hopefully once we know, airlines around the world will scramble to fix things.

To fix airframes, or equipment, or crew, or ground staff or whatever went wrong.

So that these 32 seconds never happen again.

Tonight, before your head touches that soft comfortable pillow, close your eyes.

And say a little prayer.

For 32 seconds.

Better still, pick up that smartphone, yes, the one with the smartwatch, and call someone.

Someone you love.

And let them know.

You love them.

Because life is fragile.

And who knows.

One day, we may only have…

32 seconds.

-Written by a Pilot !

[Tata Group @TataCompanies]

With profound sorrow I confirm that Air India Flight 171 operating Ahmedabad London Gatwick was involved in a tragic accident today. Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with the families and loved ones of all those affected by this devastating event.
At this moment, our primary focus is on supporting all the affected people and their families. We are doing everything in our power to assist the emergency response teams at the site and to provide all necessary support and care to those impacted.
Further updates will be shared as we receive more verified information. An emergency centre has been activated and support team have been set up for families seeking information.
- N. Chandrasekaran
Chairman, Air India

[ADG PI - INDIAN ARMY @adgpi]

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Operation is in progress.

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