Mandar Kulkarni

दिल में खुदा है,आँखों में नशा है,बातों में मजा है,अंदाज जरा जुदा है
I might hv an opinion diff than u & this is key-THAT IS OK! We r mature enuff to handle it!

[Amit Paranjape @aparanjape]

#PuLa New find! Interview of Sudhir Phadke conducted by Pu La Deshpande (likely recorded in the 1970s)

https://t.co/f04kintbcQ

[Amit Paranjape @aparanjape]

https://t.co/IiPAXowUIr

#PuLa

"Pula Deshpande hosted a few shows inaugurating Bal Gandharva Rang Mandir in Pune in 1968. One of them was "Gandharva Gitanjali," which paid tribute to Bal Gandharva's music. The program concluded with Sudhir Phadke, Vasantrao Deshpande, and Bhimsen Joshi all singing the famous abhang "awaghachi sansar sukhacha karina" together, with Pula Deshpande on harmonium. In fact, at 13:05, you hear all of them urging Pula to also join in the singing. The photo in the clip is also from this concert!"

[Daarshik Pandey @daarshik108]

Diwali rituals are slowly disappearing from Indian homes.

Lighting diyas is not enough tonight.

5 Diwali rituals your grandparents never skipped.

5 Must do Rituals on Diwali - 1/N 🧵

[Mandar Kulkarni @mandarisunique]

Wordle in 1
Bonus August 26, 2026

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 4:14

[Mandar Kulkarni @mandarisunique]

Dear @MyntraSupport team,
my Order has already arrived in my city on 29th Oct and it is showing 9-11 Nov as Delivery date. Please give me a reason why I should buy this argument.

Please give me the hub address or contact details. Perhaps I will collect it directly.

[Sutanu Basak @SutanuBasak]

My father told me about ’83. I’ll tell the next generation how lucky I was to witness a group of superwomen come together,break through the floodgates & reach the pinnacle of success despite countless hardships, criticism & heartbreaks.

2 Nov 2025❤️
#OTD

[Armaan C. Das @Armaan_c_das177]

What a fkn song it is 🥵❤️‍🔥🔥💥🙏

[India_AllSports @India_AllSports]

STOP PRESS!

MANISHA BHANWALA CREATES HISTORY! 🇮🇳🔥

BECOMES INDIA'S FIRST-EVER WOMEN'S WORLD WRESTLING CHAMPION! 🏆

STUNNING COMEBACK FROM 0-6 down to beat Pan American Champion Abigail Nette 8-6 in the GOLD medal bout (59kg).

📸 @wrestling #WrestleAstana

[Jake Mor @jakemor]

introducing FindMyWifePhone™️ my latest shortcut squarely placed on the pareto frontier. there is no easier & cheaper way to find your wife's phone.

"honey, do you know where my phone is?"

the fuck I dont!

"can you call me?!"

she keeps her phone on silent.

so i made this shortcut to help.

trigger = i send her a text with !ping in it
action = hey phone sets a timer for 1s

timer always works, we like to keep our phones on silent + dnd and we dont use apple watches. so finding each other's phones used to be a challenge. we both have this set up in reverse, and its worked well.

bonus shortcut = button in home screen widget to send !ping to my wife

(we also have one called !awaken which disables silent, sets volume to max & disables do not disturb in case of emergency)

[Sann @san_x_m]

In April 2019, one of the largest food companies in the world sued 9 potato farmers in Gujarat.

The farmers were growing a potato. They had bought the seed in the local market. Most of them had never heard of intellectual property.

The company wanted damages running into crores.

Her name is Kavitha Kuruganti.

She is a farmers' rights activist and the convenor of an organisation called the Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture.

The potato at the centre of it is called FL 2027, sold commercially as FC5. It is the variety grown for Lay's chips, because it has low moisture content and fries well. PepsiCo India had registered it in 2016 under a law called the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act.

That law is unusual, and it is the whole point of this story.

Most countries protect the plant breeder. India's law protects the breeder and the farmer, in the same statute. Section 39 says a farmer is entitled to save, use, sow, resow, exchange, share or sell his farm produce, including the seed of a protected variety.

That right was written in deliberately, because in India seed has been saved and exchanged between farmers for thousands of years, and Parliament decided that a registration certificate should not be able to end that.

PepsiCo sued anyway.

The response was immediate. Farmers' organisations mobilised. Political parties took it up. It became a national argument about whether a company could own a potato.

On 10th May 2019, PepsiCo withdrew all the cases.

That is usually where such a story ends. The company retreats, the news moves on, and the registration that made the lawsuit possible stays exactly where it was.

Kuruganti did not stop there.

In June 2019 she filed an application asking the authority to revoke PepsiCo's registration of the variety altogether. Her argument was that the registration itself was wrong, that documents were missing from the original application, and that granting it was against public interest given the hardship it had caused.

It took 2 years.

On 3rd December 2021, the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Authority revoked the certificate. The order noted that the registration had been granted despite missing paperwork, that there were discrepancies in the process, and that farmers had suffered hardship as a result.

PepsiCo challenged it in the Delhi High Court, and the case has gone back and forth through the courts since.

Whatever the final legal position, one thing already happened and cannot be undone.

9 farmers who could not have afforded to defend themselves were sued by a company worth hundreds of billions, and within a month the company walked away.

Not because the farmers hired better lawyers.

Because 1 woman read the Act properly and knew that Section 39 was in there.

[Mandar Kulkarni @mandarisunique]

@awesomeavee Where was I, when Sachin was getting this century🤔

[बृहन्महाराष्ट्र मराठी मंडळ @MarathiPrasar]

"गोट्या" ही १९८८-८९ च्या काळात दूरदर्शनवर प्रसारित झालेली अत्यंत लोकप्रिय आणि कौटुंबिक मराठी मालिका होती. तत्कालीन समाजमनावर या मालिकेची आणि त्यातील बालकलाकाराची खूप मोठी छाप पडली होती.

८०-९० च्या दशकाच्या उत्तरार्धात जेव्हा टीव्ही नवीन होता, तेव्हा या मालिकेने कौटुंबिक मूल्यांचे आणि बालपणातील संघर्षाचे अप्रतिम चित्रण केले होते. 'काकू' आणि 'गोट्या' या दोन पात्रांमधील जुगलबंदी आजही जुन्या पिढीच्या मनात घर करून आहे.

[Saurabh @saurabh_daya]

OG 90's-2000's cuties♥️

[Savita Punia @savitahockey]

Our women's hockey team just delivered India's BEST World Cup finish in 52 years — 5th place, beating Germany 3-1. Best result since the historic 4th-place finish at the very first World Cup in 1974. 🏑🇮🇳 This story deserves to be more than a headline. 🧵

[Mandar Kulkarni @mandarisunique]

@bajajgeneral what does this msg means ? Without any call and consent, I am getting this msg late in the night :

[Amit Paranjape @aparanjape]

Today is the 101st death anniversary of Sir Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar.

Bhandarkar was a teacher, a scholar of Sanskrit and ancient Indian history, a social reformer and more. His students founded the
Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute in his honor, on July 6 1917 (his 80th birthday).

A versatile genius - Bhandarkar's areas of research included a vast range of topics such as dharma and religions, philosophy, epigraphy, numismatics and history, etc.

@BhandarkarI

[RobinHood @therobinhoodz]

टेलिकॉम मिनिस्टर विकला गेलाय का? का नक्की डोक्यावर पडला आहे एकदा नक्की चेक करा

ऐरटेल , VI आणि जीओ चा उच्छाद सुरू आहे , सगळे बेसिक प्लॅन संपवले आहेत, प्राईज हाईक केली आहे, सर्वसामान्य माणूस , महिला या रिचार्ज करू शकत नाहीत, परिस्थिती हाताबाहेर सुरू आहे आणि विशेष म्हणजे याबद्दल कोणीही बोलताना दिसत नाहीये.

@TRAI चे अधिकारी आपलं काम वाजवताना दिसत नाहीयेत, कुठलीही कंपनी रोज उठते आणि रोज एखादा रिचार्ज बंद करते आणि महागडा सुरू करते. सगळं कसं मनमानी सुरू असून जनतेला कोणी वाली उरलाय का नाही हा मोठा प्रश्न पडला आहे
@JM_Scindia तरुण तडफदार मिनिस्टर आहेत, परंतु त्यांनी तर डोळे झाकून घेतलेत की काय अशी परिस्थिती झाली आहे.. त्यांचं खात्यावर कुठलंही कंट्रोल कसे नाही?

नरेंद्र मोदी साहेबांनी डेटा आणि नेटवर्क कमी पैशात लोकांना उपलब्ध व्हावे यासाठी भरपूर पॉलिसी बदल केलेत, इन्फ्रास्ट्रक्चर वाढवलेत परंतु आता मंत्रीच या कामाला अडथळा आणत आहेत हेच दिसतंय..
सरकारने याकडे त्वरित जागृत व्हावे, अन्यथा वेळ गेल्यावर शहाणपण येऊन फायदा नसतो..

[Mandar Kulkarni @mandarisunique]

@beingcalm02 Thanks for reviving the memories. This song doesn'y get the adoration that it deserves

[नैना @chandkpaarchalo]

Love it ❤️