I love the empire state couple they tickle the same part of the cultural psyche that loves bonnie and clyde - deep down inside we all want the kind of love that makes us ungovernable by the world and crazy together, nobody actually wants checklists, therapy, or “compatibility”
Idk but Michelle Obama telling Barack “You told me all those years ago that you couldn't promise me the world, but you could promise me an interesting life. And, of course you outdid yourself and managed to give me both." is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard someone say to another 🥹
Unpopular opinion:
I rarely meet men in real life who are as remarkable as the ones written in movies, but I constantly meet women who are far more impressive than the women movies give us.
Lucky Girl Syndrome in your 20s is finding ₹500 in an old handbag. Lucky Girl Syndrome at 30 is realizing every heartbreak, every bad date, every job that rejected you, every plan that fell apart was basically a GPS recalculating to get you somewhere better.
The face card is stronger, the standards are higher, the bank account is healthier, the anxiety is lower, & somehow life keeps pulling ridiculous little miracles out of its sleeve!!!
Girls younger than me who are stressed about every move, this one’s for you - Lucky Girl Syndrome magnifies with age. By 30, it’s at its most glorious height.
Zendaya once gave her entire film crew at least 1% equity in her film 'Malcolm and Marie' so they would earn a bonus after the film sold.
The movie was sold to Netflix for an estimated $30M.
Each crew member made at least $300k+
Visvesvaraya resigned as Diwan of Mysore in 1918. Not because he failed — because the government wouldn't match his pace.
He'd already built the Krishna Raja Sagara dam, set up the Bhadravati iron works, pushed for state-funded technical education. But he wanted a full industrial policy — tariff protection for local manufacturers, compulsory STEM training, state-backed factories.
The princely state thought he was moving too fast.
A century later, that gap between the reformer's ambition and the system's absorption speed is still the defining feature of Indian industrial policy. Every generation has its Visvesvaraya moment.
Yet again @PMOIndia hasn’t put money where the mouth is. After a grand appeal for WFH, there have been zero policy decisions or even attempts to persuade employers to enable WFH options.
The traffic on ORR stretch is like a beached whale, barely moving.
#BaateinHawaonMein
Heartiest congratulations to Shri Ankegowda M Ji on being conferred the Padma Shri Award.
From a KSRTC employee to an Akshara Yogi, he has devoted over 50 years to collecting and preserving books. He has gathered more than 20 lakh books, magazines and valuable manuscripts in multiple languages. Using his personal savings, he has transformed his home into a ‘Pustaka Mane,’ which now functions as a free public library.
ಪದ್ಮಶ್ರೀ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿಗೆ ಭಾಜನರಾಗಿರುವ ಶ್ರೀ ಅಂಕೇಗೌಡ ಎಂ ಜಿ ಅವರಿಗೆ ಅಭಿನಂದನೆಗಳು.
ಒಬ್ಬ ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ KSRTC ನೌಕರನಾಗಿ ಬದುಕು ಆರಂಭಿಸಿ, ಇಂದು ಸರ್ವರ ಮೆಚ್ಚುಗೆಯ ಅಕ್ಷರ ಯೋಗಿಯಾಗಿರುವ ಇವರು, ಕಳೆದ 50ಕ್ಕೂ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ವರ್ಷಗಳಿಂದ ಪುಸ್ತಕಗಳ ಸಂಗ್ರಹಣೆ ಮತ್ತು ಸಂರಕ್ಷಣೆಗಾಗಿ ತಮ್ಮ ಇಡೀ ಜೀವನವನ್ನೇ ಧಾರೆ ಎರೆದಿರುವುದು ಪ್ರೇರಣಾದಾಯಿ.
ವಿವಿಧ ಭಾಷೆಗಳ 20 ಲಕ್ಷಕ್ಕೂ ಅಧಿಕ ಪುಸ್ತಕಗಳು, ನಿಯತಕಾಲಿಕೆಗಳು ಹಾಗೂ ಅಮೂಲ್ಯವಾದ ಹಸ್ತಪ್ರತಿಗಳನ್ನು ತಮ್ಮ ಒಡಲಲ್ಲಿ ಜತನವಾಗಿ ಕಾಯ್ದಿರಿಸುವ ಮೂಲಕ
ತಮ್ಮ ಜೀವಮಾನದ ಕಷ್ಟದ ಗಳಿಕೆ, ಇಡೀ ಉಳಿತಾಯವನ್ನೇ ವಿನಿಯೋಗಿಸಿ, ತಮ್ಮ ಸ್ವಂತ ಮನೆಯನ್ನೇ ಒಂದು ಅದ್ಭುತ 'ಪುಸ್ತಕ ಮನೆ'ಯಾಗಿ ಪರಿವರ್ತಿಸಿರುವುದು ಗಮನಾರ್ಹ.
ಇಂದು ಈ ಮನೆ ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಬ್ಬರಿಗೂ ಉಚಿತವಾಗಿ ಜ್ಞಾನದಾಸೋಹ ನೀಡುವ ಅಕ್ಷರ ದೇಗುಲವಾಗಿದ್ದು, ಅವರ ಈ ನಿಸ್ವಾರ್ಥ ಸೇವೆಗೆ ಸಂದ ಗೌರವ ನಾಡಿಗೆ ಹೆಮ್ಮೆಯ ವಿಷಯ.
#PadmaAwards