Don’t know about Rang De Basanti, but let me tell you what some of us millennials actually grew up watching.
I was in primary school during the 1993 Mumbai bombings -- too young to even understand what terrorism meant. But I distinctly remember my mom repeatedly warning me not to pick up anything lying around while playing outside because, you know, it could be a bomb.
That was childhood.
Then came the seemingly endless procession of attacks: the 1993 Mumbai blasts, Red Fort in 2000, Parliament in 2001, the Mumbai bus bombings and Akshardham in 2002, three separate blasts within eight months in Mumbai in 2003, the 2005 Delhi blasts, the 2007 Hyderabad bombings, and the 2008 Bangalore and Ahmedabad blasts.
In July 2006, I was supposed to be on one of the trains that was bombed near Mahim. I stayed back at the office because of a meeting. A completely mundane change of plans is probably the reason I’m alive to type this instead of being a name on a list of the dead.
I remember that evening far better than I remember any stupid movie. Our office went into lockdown. Phones were jammed. People were crying and frantically trying to reach their families. Nobody knew what was happening, whether there were more bombs, or whether someone they loved was lying dead inside a mangled train compartment.
Two years later came 26/11.
I had the misfortune of watching uncensored footage of the aftermath. One clip showed bodies being piled and stacked inside a makeshift room at CST while someone wheeled in another load on a bloodied wheelbarrow, with blood dripping onto the floor. The sanitised footage shown on television didn't come remotely close to what actually happened inside that station.
So yes, us millennials lived through an era where we went to work knowing that the crime of simply boarding the wrong train, getting on the wrong bus, eating at the wrong restaurant, or standing on the wrong street at the wrong fucking moment could get you blown to pieces or riddled with bullets.
Some of us literally went to work wondering, somewhere at the back of our minds, whether this would be the commute we wouldn't come home from.
So please, spare us millennials this sanctimonious horseshit about Rang De Basanti and what some Bollywood movie supposedly should have taught us about how to vote.
#Neet topper Panshul Bansal: “I thought why should I go to the protest? Instead I could be studying at home and improving my skills and improving my score.”
Panshul scored AIR2. Wants to be a neurosurgeon or cardiovascular surgeon. @abhijeet_dipke would prefer he throw stones.
🚨🚨This should be posted again
"Paper Leak is the issue of the entire country, we tried to stop it, Gehlot ji tried it, but he couldn't"
: Priyanka Gandhi on Rajasthan Paper Leaks
If a leader from the opposition Democratic Party in the US had breached security near the White House, he’d have been immediately handcuffed & taken away. No apologies, no polite requests, no discussions.
Hello @AmitShah@DelhiPolice@PMOIndia are you aware someone from control rooms with full access to Delhi’s security CCTVs was on @instagram informing the protesters live of what was happening and where to go?
New demand by Cockroaches: Restore Article 370...
Next: Release all the terrorists and Naxals... Free J&K.... Make Ladakh a separate country....
I pity those supporting these Jihadis...
Stone-pelting, vandalism, arson, over 50 policemen injured - Dharmendra Pradhan toh bahana hai, inko desh jalana hai.
The dream of these anarchists to spring a thousand Nepals on India’s streets will remain just that - a dream. Indians will never let them succeed. My views:
Sonam Wangchuk’s wife now claims there was 𝗻𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵!!! So will the cockroaches now apologise for outright lying? Unless they’re claiming Geetanjali is a liar.
Animals do not have sex unless the female is biologically mature.
No animal on this globe ever attempts sex with their young ones.
Any desire to have sex with children puts human beings at sub-animal level.
A pedophile is a curse on mankind.
Those attempting reduction of the age of consent from 18 to 16 are pedophiles in the garb of activists.
Capital punishment is the only penalty for Pedophilia.
#ageofconsent
Turns out the judge was not only running the gas agency, his business contract was being renewed all through his tenure as a judge and chief justice.
And all this was happening right under the nose of the Supreme Court, that punished NCERT for a chapter on judicial corruption.
Imran Khan defaming Gurukul
While narrating bad experience of his school where adults misbehaved with students, he describes school as a gurukul.
Bro could have used 'Madarsa' but he chose to call it 'Gurukul'
2 mins silence for those who think it's not done intentionally.
🚨 SHOCKING CLAIMS by Former MHA Under Secretary R.V.S. Mani:
— "26/11 was a fixed match between Congress & ISI"
— "Had Kasab not been caught alive, 26/11 would be called Hindu Terror"
— "Modi & Amit Shah were targets in Ishrat Jahan case"
Private Coach, Public Outrage? The Facts Md Zubair Missed
A viral social media debate claimed that performing Rudrabhishek inside a railway saloon coach was no different from offering namaaz in a public train coach or converting a coupe into a honeymoon suite.
However, that comparison overlooks a crucial distinction. A railway saloon coach is a privately booked, self-contained accommodation with residential facilities. It is fundamentally different from a public passenger compartment used by regular travellers.
When unlike situations are treated as identical, the conclusion becomes misleading.
Here's our fact check explaining how railway saloons actually function and why the viral comparison fails. @digitalindianyt