पत्रकारों का काम है अपना काम करना.
इसलिए पत्रकारिता या तो होती है, या तो नहीं होती.
सच्ची पत्रकारिता जैसी कोई चीज़ नहीं होती.
इसलिए डियर पत्रकार्स, अपना काम करो. सोशल मीडिया पर काम लेकर नाचना बंद करो.
घटनाएं खबर हैं, तुम नहीं.
इस आत्मप्रेम के चक्कर में ही गलती करते हो, करते रहोगे.
Proud of this kid. He seems amazing. Humbly, It feels like your channel is exploiting him to invalidate other kids. Maybe the next time a bridge collapses you could interview someone who took a longer route to work and got promoted. Instead of engineers or people under it.
“People like Thackeray are born and die daily, and one should not observe a bandh for that. Respect should be shown voluntarily, not out of fear.”
A girl posted this on Facebook and another hit “like” on the post.
Your state’s police put both in jail, and your goondas vandalized her uncle’s hospital.
Please don’t utter words like “democracy” from your mouth. Achha nahi lagta.
शर्मनाक ये है कि इस अधिकारी पर कार्रवाई के बजाए, प्रशासन की ये दलील है कि गाड़ी का नंबर प्लेट टूटा था, कागज़ पूरे नहीं थे, रात में आ रहा था ... तो क्या आप उसे मारेंगे? उस अधिकारी से अभीतक सफाई तक नहीं मांगी गई है जो न्यूनतम है @CGPoliceDept@vishnudsai
Archana Parkhe whose pottery shop was demolished is all smiles (for now).
After the authorities demolished her small pottery stall, her only source of livelihood was destroyed, taking away her ability to earn with dignity and leaving her literally begging on the streets for food and ration.
Credit to my cousin, who visited her with help, and to @TanushreePande for bringing various people onboard who will support Archana going forward.
Trying to get her a bank account with the help of my cousin so funds can be raised for her directly and transparently.
Kuch log kehte hain Twitter echo chamber hai. I think Twitter is magic.
Dekhiye, sirf kuch ghanton mein kya ho gaya. I asked for help for this lady, and beautiful humans not only found her, but also reached her with rations and money. Please send all your love to @abhijeet_dipke and his family. God bless you guys ❤️🤗🧿🙏
They’re also helping her open a bank account. @arunbothra and @pavannair sir have also promised help. It’s because of people like you that the world still feels balanced. Ministers pe chhod denge toh hum sab mar jayenge 😭
Thank you, sirs 🙏 And thank you once again, @abhijeet_dipke.
My family has found her. I tried speaking to her on the call, but since she cannot speak, I spoke with the people who are currently around her. We are trying to help her from our end. As of now, they have only asked for ration so they have something to eat.
Since people are offering to help, I want to inform that there’s one issue, she does not have a bank account yet. We are trying to figure out the best possible way to help her further and will update once that is sorted.
PS: Since I am not in India at the moment, I will be helping her through my cousin who is reaching there shortly.
Imagine how retarded Indian discourse is. A major Indian state (Punjab) passes a batshit crazy law where blasphemy is now punishable, and the punishment is life imprisonment. No one gives a flying fuck!! Yeh desh chunautiyon se nahin, chutiyon se bhara hai.
Birkenstock went from 1 India store in 2020 to more than 50 today. And that isn’t the victory it looks like.
It’s a distress signal.
Brands don’t walk into India when they’re winning in the West. They walk in when they’ve stopped winning. The Indian premium consumer has quietly become the last chapter in a lot of Western brand stories — and if you squint, you can see the pattern stretching back a decade.
Starbucks arrived here in 2012, seven years after US growth peaked and “mall Starbucks” had become shorthand for corporate blandness. H&M came in 2015, just as “fast fashion” stopped being aspirational in the West and started being a slur. Victoria’s Secret shipped up when American teens had moved on to Skims and Aerie. Uniqlo, Pottery Barn, and Zara’s aggressive Indian expansion — all arrived in the second half of their Western growth story, never the first. The pattern is almost comical once you see it. Brands land here right when their home market stops being easy money.
Birkenstock is textbook. Their stock is down around 20% this year. Their FY26 guidance disappointed Wall Street last month. The Crocs CEO said recently that customers are “migrating back towards athletic.” The New York Times ran a piece calling the potato-shoe era over. The Western ugly-shoe cycle — the one that put Birkenstock on every Brooklyn influencer’s feet for the last five years — is visibly closing.
Meanwhile, Birkenstock India grew 31% last year. APAC is now the company’s fastest-growing segment globally. In their last earnings call, management told investors this growth will “reduce exposure to the US dollar.”
Translation: we need India to save the story.
And we’re showing up right on cue.
Influencers are doing Birkenstock-with-socks posts in 2026, two years after TikTok in New York was already over them. The aunty who called them chappals at a family function in 2019 bought a pair in taupe last month. There’s an Arizona in every third Uber in Bandra. Wedding sangeets now feature cousins sliding into Bostons for the after-party.
They’re good shoes. I’ll say it twice because the comfort is real. That’s not the argument.
The argument is that the story we tell ourselves about “the brand arriving” is backwards. What actually happened is the brand ran out of easy growth somewhere else, and we became the escape valve. We get to feel arrived. They get to extend the runway.
The Indian premium consumer has become a useful last chapter in a lot of these stories. We show up exactly when the West gets bored, which means we’re buying peak narrative the moment it’s losing its edge.
We always run this cycle two beats behind. We were getting into skinny jeans as they were dying. Oat milk landed in Mumbai cafés the same year America started complaining it was everywhere. Athleisure became a serious Indian category after athleisure had been absorbed so completely in the US that nobody called it athleisure anymore. The pattern is consistent enough that you could almost trade on it — if you could stomach buying the thing your rich cousins in Manhattan are quietly moving on from.
The consolation is that we don’t really care about being first. Indians buy brands for what they signal, not what they predict. A Birkenstock in 2026 Bombay says “I’ve made it.” A Birkenstock in 2026 Brooklyn says “I’m still here, for now.” Those are different jobs, and ours is frankly the more fun one.
Being fashion’s last reliable customer is also its own kind of power. The brands know it. That’s why Birkenstock is opening forty new stores globally next year with India as a focus, even as they guide Wall Street to expect slower growth overall. We’re the hedge. The hedge works.
Maybe that’s fine.
Or maybe it just means we’ll spend the next decade wearing what America is quietly taking off.
Pune crowds made the race outstanding; showed exemplary behaviour: Tour de France commentary veteran
"While humongous money poured into improving road quality and absolute road closures through parts of the city have ensured the Pune Grand Tour has registered positively on minds of experts, it’s the city’s crowds that have completely bowled over the European experts who trooped into town this last week.
https://t.co/WiVYrYffnl #PuneGrandTour2026 @PuneGrandTour
"Ahead of the start of Stage 4, Graham Jones, a veteran commentator with five years Tour de France experience, said, “I’ve seen many races my whole life, and many in Asia, but this is possibly the best 2.2 level race I’ve seen in terms of funding and organisation when starting from scratch.” But what stood out for him have been the thousands who have lined the streets, some in fancy dress, waving assorted flags and cheering riders on, even if the peloton wasn’t exactly recognised names. “I’ve never seen anything like this. Non-stop crowds, and while too many people can be concerning, they have been very well-behaved. Even the Tour de France has wild people taking selfies and obstructing riders. But not here. Pune crowds have been exemplary,” he said."
@SkyStar04510789 Only off putting thing on a re-watch is randomly appearing songs, else it was a very well adaptation.
Remember reservoir dogs was made 10 years prior when tarantino was a nobody, with very limited resources.
i've been seeing rounds of vastly undeserved hate for veritasium here, which is so painful to see i have to speak up. the binary brained see vc = bad and unanimously dogpile onto the very few remaining high quality, educational youtube channel, without getting the full context.
he has been working solo for the past few years, and had to give up family time for it. he found a way to sustain the channel without him burning out. this is extremely valid and logical for anyone in his shoes.
you consume the content *for free*, probably using an adblocker and without paying youtube premium, yet you expect him to be able to do the work of maintaining a 10m+ channel pumping out high quality 40min+ videos ON ITS OWN while ALSO taking care of his family. how entitled must you be to have such a blindsided opinion?
@kamleshksingh Contingency argument is childish and just wordplay,
the main claim what mufti made is Morality comes from a supreme being, that's bullshit, morality is a spectrum displayed by different species at different levels, who doesn't give a batshit abt a first cause.
Every soft spoken left liberal who was celebrating this Jamaat e Islami sponsored "student power" and wishing a "Dhaka model" of democracy on the streets of New Delhi should be made to sit and shown this footage on a loop for undefined number of hours for their intellectual dishonesty and naked support of talibanisation, no matter how sugar-coated their words were sounding to start with.
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*पुणे मुम्बई और आस पास* के इलाक़े में पाये जाने वाले TTSTaff को आगाह किया जाता है कि *महीना ए दिसम्बर की 21 तारीख़ को सुबह 10 बजे से* TTSTAFF वार्षिक भेंट एवं मिलन समारोह होना सुनिश्चित पाया गया है, आप सभी से आग्रह है कि अवश्य पधारें।
आप अपने साथ हो चुके या होने वाले जीवनसंगी को भी ला सकते हैं, अन्य TTपगलों से मिलकर वो आपके जूनून को समझ पायेंगे।