I panicked and paid him ₹700 (because he said it’s raining and he has to leave) extra on GPay. Later I find out the money was ALREADY debited. So I basically got scammed into paying double, ₹1200 for a ride that should've cost ₹490
@UberIN_Support@Uber_India I need you to explain this to me. My ride was prepaid, booked on my sister's account, money already deducted from her Uber wallet. But your driver Mohd Aavesh (cab number MH04NB4251, Thane to Fort) looks me in the eye and says "sir payment nahi hua”
Fun Fact: Omkara (2006) still stands as one of Hindi cinema’s finest Shakespeare adaptations. The title was crowdsourced, a public SMS vote picked “Omkara” over “O Saathi Re” and “Issak,” all three of which became album tracks. Othello’s handkerchief was reinvented as a kamarbandh, an Indian ornament with the same devastating power, a small object that can destroy a marriage. It’s the middle chapter of Bhardwaj’s Shakespeare trilogy: Maqbool → Omkara → Haider. It was a one-man show, Vishal Bhardwaj directed it, co-wrote the screenplay, wrote the dialogue, composed the soundtrack, and even sang the duet “O Saathi Re” himself. One film, five hats. The result were 3 National Awards and 9 Filmfares.✨
#JustAchaanak
3 Men - Ravi, Vinod and Rahul raped the daughter of a security guard for 3 days.
Poured acid on her face, broken bottle pieces in private parts. Inserted screw driver in her eyes.
These men have been acquitted and walk free.
You dont know who these men are neither are the photos public.
So they could be anyone walking around us.
All the best to all of us.
Planning to start a Paper Club in Bengaluru, where we’ll invite researchers, read papers, and discuss them together.
Reply below if you’d like to join.
Google Trends is now completely bonkers, likely due to AI search
For every AI search, Google performs multiple fan-out queries, and those fan-outs look to be getting lumped together
Either that or protein powder, SEO, running shoes, and CBD all became *hugely* popular in 2026
Across the country, people are recording themselves cooking, cleaning, folding clothes and moving through their homes, earning ₹250-300 a task from data-collection companies…
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Just had a great conversation with my cat where we discussed whether he’s a little baby, confirmed that he is in fact a little baby, talked about how cute he is, the origin of his cuteness, why he’s so small, and went into detailed agreement that he is a very good boy.
Only a woman can write a scene like this bec this is exactly what women do in love and hope that men do for them. To be loved is to have someone listen to the song you mentioned, or watch a movie you like. Always the little things.
My Dida was from Banaras, and waxed eloquent about Ramnagar ke Baingan till her last days. Her Laung Lata would melt in your mouth, crisp, flaky, glossy with syrup. My favourite Lassi shop in the country is Raja Ram Lassi Wala in Thateri Galli, lekin Banaras is not just my Dida’s - Banaras is also the 'ras' which Ustaad Bismillah Khan's shehnai took from this city and released into the world. He lived in Dal Mandi. In his last years, every night, his dinner was the mutton istew from Taj Hotel. I know this not because I read it. I know this because I went there, and I shot this story.
I shoot food-shows.
I have been to Lucknow many times - I've eaten the delightful sublime Makhhan Malai but also the delightful sublime Galawati Kabab, the Khasta and the Chaat but also the silken Nihari and warm Sheermal.
Also a most delicious cup of chai with Samosa, the chutney with the samosa was so tasty I still remember it, a simple chutney. I've never eaten anything in UP that has not been delicious. I have said this often. The land is blessed.
Moradabadi Dal and Moradabadi Biryani both make it to my to-eat list, why should they not? They are both delicious.
Kanpur Dehat is where I have eaten the best Bater. And I have also eaten - with equal gusto - Thaggu ke Laddu and Badnam Kulfi in Kanpur.
In Firozabad I have bought red glass bangles and eaten Naan Ghosht.
Kakori ki Train Robbery aur Kabab - dono lists se gayab hain.
If you go to Rampur, eat the Taar Ghosht, also eat the Adrak ka halwa.
The Ganga and the Yamuna have fed this land with love. The produce is so delicious. Even the Karela that grows in that blessed soil is sweet.
That blessed soil doesn’t grow Soya chaap.
I have never eaten Cake in Noida.
There is a particular grief in being erased not by violence but by omission.
To have fed a city for three hundred years and to find yourself, one Tuesday morning, absent from a ’list’s idea of what that city eats.
Erase voters names from voter-lists, erase dishes from culinary maps. Both voters and recipes will continue to exist.