Anand

You do not lose if you do not play !

[The Seeker @TheSeeker268]

It's a shame no major film has been made about Biju Patnaik. He lived a life that sounds almost fictional:

In 1938, he flew his entire wedding procession by aircraft to Rawalpindi for his marriage to Gyanwati Sethi (who became the first Indian woman to hold a commercial pilot’s license, and the couple later flew daring missions together.)

While serving in the Royal Indian Air Force (including as head of Air Transport Command), he secretly ferried freedom fighters like Jayaprakash Narayan, Ram Manohar Lohia, and Aruna Asaf Ali to their hideouts. He also airdropped 'Quit India' leaflets to Indian troops while evacuating British families.

The British once jailed him for transporting nationalist leaders and distributing anti-British literature but also honored him for bravery in evacuating civilians from Japanese-occupied Burma.

During WWII, he flew daring missions delivering arms and supplies to Soviet forces in Stalingrad, and over the treacherous 'Hump' route to China in
support of Chinese Nationalist forces against the Japanese.

In July 1947, he and his wife flew a Dakota into Indonesia, landed on an improvised airstrip while evading Dutch anti-aircraft fire, rescued Prime Minister Sutan Sjahrir, refuelled using abandoned Japanese fuel, and flew him safely to India via Singapore.

A couple of months later, during the Pakistani invasion of Kashmir, he airlifted one of the first Indian troops into Srinagar.

The same year he founded Kalinga Airlines, one of India's earliest private airlines.

As Odisha CM post-1962 India-China war, he secretly visited CIA headquarters at Langley to forge a covert India-US partnership against China, which led to the Aviation Research Centre (ARC) at Charbatia, which supported U-2 recon missions over Tibet.

He was also a legendary administrator and statesman, laying much of the foundation of Odisha's industrial empire (mines, ports, heavy industries etc).

When he passed away, Indonesia observed 7 days of state mourning. Russia observed 1 day. He remains the only person in Indian history whose body was draped in the national flags of 3 nations - India, Indonesia, and Russia.

Few public figures have left such a footprint.

His extraordinary life needs to be brought to the big screen.

[Anand @anands13]

@Sahilinfra2 Will there be a jogeshwari metro station, with an interchange with the suburban railway

[Anand @anands13]

@mybmcWardMW Please see - lot of debris kept outside Ratna Stores, behind Maitri park ST bus stop causing danger to all @TukaramKate @SamriddhiKate

[Anand @anands13]

@AmeyKulkarni_21 @aparanjape @ayushrajjjjj25 @BHiren @NoidaUpdatesX @PowerTrain_YT @IndexofGujarat @TheMahaIndex @marinebharat All the more frustration considering Pune has missed out on HSR, RRTS, and even a decent airport - mostly operating out of infrastructure that was built decades ago !!

[Anand @anands13]

@mybmcWardMW Moti Baug - next to Ratna Stores

[Anand @anands13]

@RahulChels Let's see how long those two plots will continue to remain as gardens - it will be a miracle if they do not get encroached!

[Anand @anands13]

@akshaywcam1 @ArjunM1412 @AmeyKulkarni_21 Expand monorail to Chembur+ghatkopar stations - replace BKC pod taxi project with Monorail + build circular Monorail for Goregaon+Borivali/ Bhandup+Mulund /Vasai+Virar /Kalyan+Dombivli connecting existing metro and Suburban rail - that can replace Best and clear road congestion!

[Anand @anands13]

@TheINIofficial Can package 11 to 17 be ready by August end ? That way one can commute from morbi to talsari ? @akshaywcam1 @AmeyKulkarni_21

[Anand @anands13]

@cbdhage In an ideal scenario, they should have used this plot to make a straight road designed for current traffic conditions !!

[Anand @anands13]

@richapintoi Unfortunately nothing has changed since 2017!!
Dr. Deepak Amrapurkar, a renowned gastroenterologist at the reputed Bombay Hospital tragically passed away after falling into an open drain on August 29, 2017, during torrential monsoon floods in Mumbai.

https://t.co/LvYo1vP1pT

[Anupam Gupta @b50]

Civic apathy in Mumbai should stop being called negligence. It is wilful dereliction of duty and when it kills a resident, it should be called manslaughter and punished accordingly. A precedent needs to be set. Enough of this #SpiritOfMumbai.

[Anand @anands13]

@AmeyKulkarni_21 Without the connection to JNPT, how will the connection work ? Also where will it end on NH 48 ? All the way to Vadodara?

[Anand @anands13]

@AmeyKulkarni_21 I don't know why Mumbai - Indore and Mumbai - Goa, is not being considered - we need more development in MP, and indore can be developed like Surat/Vadodara

[Anand @anands13]

@AmeyKulkarni_21 Spot on - instead of RRTS, all other projects are moving ahead ! That is only solution to take the load of locals and connect the ever expanding MMR region

[Ankit Jakhar @Jakhar_ankit_]

Civic sense is rarely organic. It is a manufactured byproduct of the State's capacity to inflict consequences.

The uncomfortable truth is that the masses require "Danda Therapy." The highly disciplined societies of China and the Southeast Asian tigers (like Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore) did not achieve their utopian civic sense through moral science classes. They achieved it through ruthless, uncompromising state enforcement.

India’s tragedy is our hyper-democratic paradox. The moment the State actually wields the danda to enforce basic civic discipline (like clearing encroachments or penalising littering), the activist ecosystem launches a synchronised vidhwa-vilap, screaming that human rights and the Constitution are under attack.

We already have domestic proof that the "Danda pill" works. Just compare a chaotic local bus depot to the Delhi Metro. Commuters do not suddenly attain civic enlightenment at the Metro turnstiles. That pristine discipline is entirely engineered by the zero-tolerance surveillance of the CISF and immediate financial penalties.

You cannot lecture a population into first-world behaviour.

You have to enforce it.

[Anand @anands13]

@AlokPatel @krishnapophale Simple solution was to plan the Metro Line 2B via Bandra and Kurla suburban stations - also a good opportunity to clear the illegal settlements outside both stations !

[Football Factly @FootballFactly]

🇳🇴🤯 A remarkable World Cup coincidence: in 1994, Erik Thorstvedt, Alf-Inge Haaland and Gøran Sørloth were part of Norway’s squad at the World Cup in the United States. Thirty-two years later, at the 2026 World Cup in North America, their sons — Kristian Thorstvedt, Erling Haaland and Alexander Sørloth — are representing Norway on the same stage.

[Akshay Marathe @akshaywcam1]

Shunya also represents MMRDA's commitment & urgency in completing metro projects.

[Anand @anands13]

@IndusFederalist @runkarthikrun Line 6 is no equivalent of line 1 - line 6 does not connect central and western railway - that itself is a design failure!