Mumbai Police…
You just gave us the gift of hope and happiness.
For this alone, you rank as one of the finest forces in the world
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 🙏🏽
(Thank you for sharing this story so vividly, Mohini)
On the night of May 20, 2025, a little girl in a faded pink frock fell asleep on her mother’s lap at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus. Her parents, simple people from Solapur, had come to Mumbai for her father’s treatment. They were exhausted. Just for a moment, the mother closed her eyes.
When she opened them, her daughter was gone.
Six months.
Six months of walking from police station to police station.
Six months of showing the same crumpled photograph to strangers on trains, in slums, in orphanages.
Six months of the father not sleeping, the mother not eating, both of them growing hollow-eyed, whispering the same name into the dark: “Aarohi… Aarohi…”
In Varanasi, a thousand kilometres away, a tiny girl with no memory of her real name was learning to call herself “Kashi.” She had been found crying near the railway tracks in June, barefoot and terrified. The orphanage gave her food, a bed, and a new name. She smiled easily, because children always do, but sometimes at night she clutched the edge of her blanket and asked for “Aai” — Marathi for mother — and no one understood.
Back in Mumbai, the police refused to close the file. They printed posters with Aarohi’s face, stuck them on every platform from Lokmanya Tilak Terminus to Bhusawal to Varanasi Cantt. They ran newspaper ads, knocked on doors, begged journalists for help. Six months is a long time for hope to stay alive, but some officers carried her photograph in their shirt pockets like it was their own child.
Then, on November 13, a local reporter in Varanasi saw the poster. Something clicked. He had seen a girl who spoke Marathi words in her sleep. He made a phone call.
The next morning, a Mumbai Police inspector sat in front of a laptop in Varanasi and opened a video call. On the screen appeared a little girl in a pink frock — the same colour she was wearing the day she vanished. The mother, standing behind the officer in Mumbai, saw her daughter and collapsed without a sound. The father just kept repeating, “That’s my Aarohi… that’s my baby…”
They flew her back on Children’s Day — November 14.
When the plane landed, the entire Mumbai Crime Branch was waiting. They had bought her balloons and a new frock, sky blue this time. But the moment the little girl stepped out and saw the sea of khaki uniforms, she did something no one expected.
She ran.
Not away — toward them.
Tiny legs pumping, arms outstretched, she threw herself at the nearest officer and laughed — the purest, clearest laugh that had been missing from the world for half a year. The officer, a tough man who had seen everything, felt his eyes burn. He lifted her high, and she wrapped her arms around his neck like he was family.
Her parents were crying too hard to walk. So the policemen carried their daughter to them.
The mother touched her face again and again, as if checking she was real. The father fell to his knees and pressed his forehead to his child’s tiny feet, sobbing words no one could understand except God.
And the little girl? She just kept smiling, looking from her parents to the officers and back again, completely unaware that she had turned an entire police station into a sobbing, laughing, praying family.
Six months of darkness ended in one hug.
Aarohi is home now.
The kidnapper is still out there, but that is tomorrow’s fight.
Today, a mother is singing lullabies again.
Today, a father is smiling in his sleep.
And somewhere in Mumbai, there are policemen who will never forget the weight of a four-year-old girl in their arms — the weight of an entire life returned.
Sometimes the uniform doesn’t just catch thieves.
Sometimes it carries lost children all the way back to their mothers’ hearts.
यह वीडियो देखकर मैं खुद को शेयर करने से रोक नहीं पाया हूँ,
न ही मैं बिहार से हूँ और न मेरा बिहार में वोट हैं लेकिन एक न्यूट्रल समझदार वोटर की तरह जब प्रशांत किशोर की बात को सुनता हूँ तो उनके प्रयासों में इमानदारी दिखती हैं l
Salute you @PrashantKishor
2 अक्टूबर हर भारतीय के लिए एक अतिविशिष्ट एवं सुसिद्ध तिथि है। आज, अपनी विराट संकल्प-शक्ति द्वारा स्वदेशी और स्वराज जैसी सुंदर संकल्पनाओं को साकार करने वाले राष्ट्रपिता महात्मा गाँधी जी की जयंती है तथा इस दिवस को मॉं भारती के लाड़ले पुत्र व पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री पंडित लाल बहादुर शास्त्री जी की जयंती होने का भी गौरव प्राप्त है। मृदु-हृदय बापू एवं विराट-चैतन्यता के प्रतीक पुरुष लाल बहादुर शास्त्री की संयुक्त वैचारिकी से सुदृढ़ हुए भारतवर्ष की नई पीढ़ी को सादगी, शुचिता, कर्तव्यनिष्ठा तथा प्रचंड पुरुषार्थ सीखने के लिए मात्र इस दोनों महामानवों की जीवनरूपी पुस्तक को पढ़ना ही पर्याप्त होगा। राष्ट्र-यज्ञ के दोनों सर्व-स्वीकृत महापुरुषों को इस विशेष दिवस पर अशेष प्रणाम! 🙏🏻🇮🇳
Sonam Wangchuk could have been a billionaire in any other serious country.
But he chose to stay in India to serve its people with his innovations.
Today, he's jailed under National Security Act.
And then we wonder why talented people leave India.
• मोदी सरकार मुझे टारगेट कर रही है
• मैंने विदेशी फंडिंग नहीं ली
• ऐसा केस बनाया जा रहा है कि मुझे 2 साल तक जेल भेजा जाए और मुझे बेल ना मिल सके
• मुझे जेल जाने का डर नहीं
• मेरा जेल में होना देश को ज्यादा जगाएगा, मेरे बाहर होने से
- सोनम वांगचुक
On this Independence Day, let us remember the countless sacrifices that won us the gift of freedom. Let us strive each day to build a brighter, stronger India that our future generations will be proud of.
Wishing you a Happy #IndependenceDay ! Jai Hind! 🇮🇳 🇮🇳
Proud of our armed forces.
#OperationSindoor is Bharat’s response to the brutal killing of our innocent brothers in Pahalgam.
The Modi government is resolved to give a befitting response to any attack on India and its people. Bharat remains firmly committed to eradicating terrorism from its roots.
Dear Citizens
If you see any movement of Indian Army, Airforce or Naval troops / vehicles through your town or city, please don’t make any videos or reels & NOT post them on social media.
You may be unintentionally helping the enemy
Jai Hind 🇮🇳
@adgpi@IAF_MCC@indiannavy
PC : www .. old pic for representation only
‘Don’t want people going against Muslims or Kashmiris.. ‘ Himanshi Narwal, wife of terror victim and Naval officer late Vinay Narwal, in her appeal for communal harmony shows far more courage and empathy than those who have lost very little but talk too much in tv studios, social media and at political rallies . Salute her! 👍🇮🇳
This is what called humour....
Comedy without using abusive words, vulgarity and being disrespectful towards anyone....
Sadly modern day "comedians" don't understand it, infact can't understand it....
I’m European.
Last year, I moved to India.
What I experienced shattered my Western mindset.
Here are 10 life-changing lessons I learned in India that reshaped how I see the world:
"तीस जनवरी सन अड़तालीस शाम के पाँच बजे
बिरला भवन में भारत के बापू ने प्राण तजे.....!"
श्रुत परम्परा के धनी मेरे स्वर्गीय दादाजी ने जब हमें यह पंक्तियाँ याद करवायी थी तब हम बहुत छोटे थे। आज दुनिया के हर हिस्से में हमें गंगा-गौतम-गाँधी के देश के लोगों के रूप में पहचाना जाता है। राष्ट्र-पिता को बिना जाने-पढ़े उनसे असहमत रहने वालों से मेरा सादर अनुरोध है कि मेरे कहने पर एक बार बापू की पुस्तक "माय ईक्स्पेरिमेंट्स विथ ट्रुथ" अवश्य पढें। ताकि वे समझ सकें कि हम किस विराटता से असहमत हैं, हम किस विलक्षण वैचारिकी से अनजान हैं।
आज पूज्य बापू की पुण्यतिथि है। भारतीय स्वतंत्रता-संग्राम के सर्वाधिक समर्थ सेनानी, संकल्पित संघर्ष के पर्याय-पुरूष, राष्ट्रपिता महात्मा गॉंधी जी की पुण्यतिथि पर उन्हें सादर नमन। हे राम ! 🙏🏻
- @DrKumarVishwas