Jharna Kukreja Chauhan

Twin mom, YouTuber, Blogger, Content Creator, Former Journalist and TV News Producer, Wannabe Feminist, Pop Culture observer and eternal Dravid devotee

[Jharna Kukreja Chauhan @jharnalist]

Mobile phones (around year 2000) - we reached college late and they wouldn’t let us appear for the exam. Thankfully after the listed processes they allowed us to appear for a supplementary exam that took place during the upcoming vacations

[Jharna Kukreja Chauhan @jharnalist]

Have a related story from when I was a student at St Xavier’s College, Mumbai. I was headed for a college exam via Western Railway train (Kandivali to Marinelines) when the train stopped in the middle of 2 stations (Goregaon- Jogeshwari I think) & just wouldn’t start (contd)…

[Meher @meherness]

For the AIEEE exam, I was assigned a center at Kharghar (I lived on western railway line) making it a 2.5 hr journey. Enroute to Dadar, my train came to a sudden halt because someone had died on the tracks. To make my exam, my father and I had to disembark on the tracks...

[Jharna Kukreja Chauhan @jharnalist]

My friend & I ended up jumping off the train, walking across the tracks & making our way to the nearest possible exit from the tracks we could find. It was scary, dangerous and anything could have happened. The whole ordeal took a good amount of time and this was an era without…

[jyotsna mohan @jyotsnamohan]

Forget her newspaper’s link to Norway Labour Party, your organisation is owned by Adani and you are giving lectures on press freedom @GaurieD
So earnest and funny. @ndtv

[Jharna Kukreja Chauhan @jharnalist]

Why nearly all of my former colleagues / peers have left the news media

[Jharna Kukreja Chauhan @jharnalist]

Centre again saying by Monday - in this day and age it is taking 10+ days to get a simple 2000 rs part delivered and replaced. Horrible pathetic service all around @SamsungIndia

[Jharna Kukreja Chauhan @jharnalist]

Dear @SamsungIndia You have horrible service that is absolutely unacceptable for a market leader. My fridge has not been working since 8 days and your service centre + customer care keep issuing lies and false promises

[Jharna Kukreja Chauhan @jharnalist]

They @SamsungIndia sent a technician who diagnosed that a heater plate needs to be replaced on monday 18/8 - he assured it would be done within 24-48 hrs. Some other technician came with a wrong replacement on 22/8 and then lied the correct one would be brought. Now service ..

[Jharna Kukreja Chauhan @jharnalist]

How can you not love Test cricket?

[Meru @MeruOnX]

Many foreigners are hurling abuse at India, claiming accidents like the Air India crash are “expected.” Time for a quick reality check:

India operates 8,000+ flights every day, that is over 3 million a year.

Only 2 fatal commercial crashes in 10 years before this. That’s a safety record on par with the U.S. and EU.

India ranks 48th in ICAO’s aviation safety oversight rankings ahead of:

China (49)
Isreal (50)
Turkey (54)
Norway (52)

India also holds FAA Category 1 status, meaning it meets the highest international safety standards.

Check facts before spewing hate!

[Jharna Kukreja Chauhan @jharnalist]

Same. After working in mainstream news for many years, I cannot bear to watch it now

[Anubha Bhonsle @anubhabhonsle]

I have begun to feel extremely triggered at the sound of television news folks, especially in times of crisis. As a former news broadcaster it pains me to say this but I have begun to detest the sound of news TV—even the slightly more sane ones, even the digital ones, even when they maybe giving facts. 1/n

[Jharna Kukreja Chauhan @jharnalist]

This

[Ritesh Banglani @banglani]

Can't disagree more.

1. Bangalore is not "overcrowded". It isn't in the top 20 cities in Asia by either population or population density. It does not have any geographical barriers to growth.

2. As an economy develops, it needs to urbanize. There are no developed economies that are predominantly rural. If we have to grow, we need to wean our people off the land and into cities. Keeping our population rural is merely a dangerous Gandhian fantasy.

3. Anyone who understands the politics of Bangalore knows the "overcrowded" is a dog-whistle for "overcrowded with outsiders". It shifts the blame from the administration to the citizens, especially to a tiny minority with no representation. Tech leaders, at least, should push back against this nativist narrative.

[Asra Nomani @AsraNomani]

“Bahawalpur.”

I still have chills in my heart from when I first heard that town’s name in late January 2002. For the 23 years since, I have reported on how Pakistani intelligence and military leaders have used that city — Bahawalpur — in the southern province of Punjab as a base for its homegrown domestic terrorists.

When I heard India bombed training camps in Pakistan this week in Operation Sindoor, in response to a Pakistani terrorist rampage in India’s Kashmir state, I had one city’s name on my lips: Bahawalpur.

Did India bomb Bahawalpur?

It did. I knew then India was striking actual hubs for Pakistan’s homegrown domestic terrorism.

Why do I know?

My friend, WSJ reporter Danny Pearl, went to Bahawalpur in December 2001 with a notebook and a pen. Gen. Pervez Musharraf had just promised he was shutting down Pakistan’s militant groups after a strike by Pakistan’s terrorists against the Parliament in India, and Danny reported on the militant offices in Bahawalpur.

He literally knocked on their doors. Dear Dr. @yudapearl, this story is a window into Danny’s reporting enterprise. And because people will wonder: Danny was no cowboy. This was a calculated low-risk reporting trip because no journalist had been targeted for kidnapping in Pakistan. Around that time, Danny sent me an email: “I’m anxious to go to Afghanistan, but I’m not anxious to die.”

What did Danny learn?

The militant training camps were open for business in Bahawalpur.

On Jan. 23, 2002, Danny left a home I had rented in Karachi, Pakistan, for an interview.

I learned Danny’s fixer, Asif Farooqi, had arranged an interview for Danny through a man named “Arif.” Danny didn’t know it but Arif was the PR man for a militant group, Harkutul Mujahadeen. What was Arif’s hometown? Bahawalpur.

The police launched a manhunt to find Arif in Bahawalpur. We learned Arif’s family faked a funeral for Arif. Police found him trying to board a bus in Muzaffarabad, across the country by Pakistan’s border with Kashmir.

It is another town India said it bombed terrorist training facilities.

Arif had handed Danny off to Omar Sheikh,a British-Pakistani dropout from the London School of Economics, radicalized in the 1990s in London mosques. He went to Pakistan to train in these militant training camps. Then he kidnapped tourists in India. He was caught and jailed but on Dec. 31, 1999, he was traded for hostages in the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814.

Omar Sheikh was freed with Pakistani terrorist leader Masood Azhar, whose family was allegedly killed this week by India’s air strike in Bahawalpur.

Did Pakistan jail Omar Sheikh and Masood Azhar when they returned to Pakistan with a third terrorist, freed from India’s jails?

No. Pakistan’s military and intelligence gave them safe passage. They used them as weapons against India. But in fact these domestic terrorists have waged war against innocents in Pakistan, like civil society activists, Benazir Bhutto, Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, schoolchildren and countless others.

Their extremism has ruined Pakistan, and Pakistanis can’t blame America for creating the mujahideen to fight the Soviets in the 1980s.

Pakistan has had a duty to dismantle those terrorist bases — for even the safety of its own people. What India is doing is a strategic attack on terrorist bases Pakistani military and intelligence should have eliminated but never did in their obsession to take over Kashmir.

You will see parallels in the propaganda messages against India and Israel. Like Hamas, Pakistani terrorists crossed a border to kill. Now, Pakistani propagandists call themselves victims of their “fascist” “colonizer” neighbor.

It’s the Reverse Uno strategy of moral inversion, just like @stoolpresidente got from the Temple student who won’t take responsibility for promoting the “HATE THE JEWS” sign. Don’t fall for it. Nations, communities and people must own up to their extremism, from Bahawalpur to beyond.

[Jharna Kukreja Chauhan @jharnalist]

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[BruceWayne Jatt @BruceWayneKxip]

Rahul dravid completing Vaibhav’s homework so that he can focus on his batting 🫡🫡🩷

[Jharna Kukreja Chauhan @jharnalist]

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[Carlos Brathwaite @CRBrathwaite26]

@RohitSLS Dravid is a treasure of a human
Even better person than batter and that’s tough considering how good a batter he was

[Jharna Kukreja Chauhan @jharnalist]

Very well deserved Man of the series to Rachin Ravindra - ever since he made his debut for New Zealand, I somehow knew he would reach great heights. Definitely going to be an all time superstar of the game

[Jharna Kukreja Chauhan @jharnalist]

What a downgrade it’s been India when it comes to Head Coach

[Behram Qazi 🇵🇰 🇨🇦 @DeafMango]

Lovely little package shown by the broadcasters on Gill, in which he shared a story of Dravid in the direct aftermath of India's U19 WC win in 2018.

The Wall showed his boys a list of Indian U19 World Cup winners who never made it at senior level.

Champion level reality check.

[Saurabh Somani @saurabh_42]

Shastri thinks it's great spectators in Cuttack are being sprayed by water on hot day.

Know what'd be nicer? Using some of BCCI's vast money to build stadiums with proper shade, free drinking water, clean toilets.

Then they won't need to resort to spraying humans like a garden.

[Jharna Kukreja Chauhan @jharnalist]

@saurabh_42 Please write something on the conditions of stands in stadiums across the country. And the kind of rules spectators have to put up with too. It sometime feels like a punishment but yet we go for the love of the game