Saurav Mitra || সৌরভ মিত্র

..... नशा शराब में होता तो नाचती बोतल .....

[Bengal's untold tales @Gramergolpo]

On 29 July 1911, Mohun Bagan Athletic Club created history by defeating the British regiment team East Yorkshire Regiment 2–1 in the IFA Shield final. Playing mostly barefoot against booted opponents, Mohun Bagan became the first Indian club to win the prestigious title, symbolizing pride, resilience, and a powerful step in India’s freedom-era sporting spirit.

[War Times @wartirnes]

When a Pershing Met a Panther: The Legendary Duel in Cologne 🇺🇸🇩🇪

At 2:00 PM on March 6, 1945, as the U.S. 3rd Armored Division advanced toward Cologne's city center, a German Panther ambushed Allied forces near the cathedral, knocking out a lead Sherman tank, killing two crewmen, and wounding the commander.

An M26 Pershing from Eagle Company was sent to deal with the threat. In a brief but legendary duel, gunner Corporal Clarence Smoyer fired three rounds into the Panther, knocking it out and forcing the crew to abandon the vehicle.

The entire encounter was captured on film by U.S. Army cameraman Jim Bates, preserving one of the most iconic tank engagements of World War II.

Digitally restored, enhanced, and presented with sound design to recreate how these moments may have looked and sounded at the time.

[𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

In Roman Holiday, the famous “Mouth of Truth” scene became iconic precisely because it was improvised. While filming in Rome, Gregory Peck unexpectedly pretended his hand had been “bitten off” and hid it in his coat. Audrey Hepburn had no idea this was coming, so her reaction of shock and fear was completely genuine.

That spontaneous moment turned into one of the most memorable scenes in the film, showing that sometimes cinema becomes timeless when it steps outside the script and captures real emotion.

[Kaushik Basu @kaushikcbasu]

Ravi Shankar, Jawaharlal Nehru, Satyajit Ray. Special moments in history.

[Saurav Mitra || সৌরভ মিত্র @mitrasaurav]

@kachatterjee A giant of a human being, in more ways than one.

[Kaushik | কৌশিক @kachatterjee]

First they came for the principal opposition

And I did not speak out
Because I was not Principal opposition

Then they came for the intelligentsia

And I did not speak out
Because I was not amongst intelligentsia

Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Hawkers and Daily Wage earners

And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Hawker or a Daily wage earner

Then they came for me

And there was no one left
To speak out for me

[Kaushik | কৌশিক @kachatterjee]

Happy birthday Greatest

[Saurav Mitra || সৌরভ মিত্র @mitrasaurav]

LIAR LIAR!!!!

[Praveen Davar @PraveenDavar]

Dear @PMOIndia once again you are lying. Pt. Nehru never resisted restoration of Somnath Temple. It was his Cabinet that gave approval to its reconstruction . All he desired was that public funds should not be utilised. Patel, Prasad agreed. @ANI

[Praveen Davar @PraveenDavar]

Dear @PMOIndia once again you are lying. Pt. Nehru never resisted restoration of Somnath Temple. It was his Cabinet that gave approval to its reconstruction . All he desired was that public funds should not be utilised. Patel, Prasad agreed. @ANI

[Saurav Mitra || সৌরভ মিত্র @mitrasaurav]

@kachatterjee @dpsisi @shyamal_bhaumik @satyanewshi 🤣

[Saurav Mitra || সৌরভ মিত্র @mitrasaurav]

@kachatterjee @dpsisi @shyamal_bhaumik @satyanewshi Hnaa amader batch r City College e porto, meyebaji kore berato, ekta motorcycle chilo. Eyi tuku jani oor byapar e.

[Saurav Mitra || সৌরভ মিত্র @mitrasaurav]

@ShashiTharoor All because of EDUCATION, not literacy, EDUCATION!!

[Saurav Mitra || সৌরভ মিত্র @mitrasaurav]

@kachatterjee @dpsisi I smell a rat here. Looks like an insider job. Someone from the saffron, TMC is completely pulverised; they can't swat a fly at this moment. It's an insider job.

[Rants&Roasts @Sydusm]

Listen all you Bengalis, stop telling us we don't know how bad the situation was under TMC. We have been living under BjP rule. Nothing could be worse. Stop telling us you were fed up with Didi, and thus chose Modi. That can only confirm how dumb you are.

You voted for hate. Be honest to admit it.

[Priyanka Bharti @priyanka2bharti]

Her husband was bleeding after a road accident but the moment they reached the hospital, his wife was forced to clean the ambulance herself.

Pain, humiliation, helplessness and apathy is the image of “New India”!

Incident is of MP!

[Sann @san_x_m]

Her name was Priyadarshini Mattoo.

She was 25 years old. A Kashmiri Pandit who had fled militancy in Srinagar with her family and rebuilt her life in Delhi. She was in the final semester of her LLB at Delhi University’s Campus Law Centre.

Her senior in college was a man named Santosh Kumar Singh. His father was JP Singh, a senior IPS officer who would go on to become Joint Commissioner of Delhi Police.

Santosh became obsessed with Priyadarshini. She rejected him. He began stalking her.

She filed FIR after FIR. The police did nothing. Her father went to the university. The university did nothing. She was eventually given a personal security officer. The stalking continued anyway.

On the morning of January 23, 1996, her security officer did not show up for duty.

Santosh knocked on the door of her uncle’s house in Vasant Kunj where she was staying. A servant saw him enter. What followed took less than an hour.

She was found under her bed. Strangled with an electric wire. Her face battered beyond recognition with a motorcycle helmet. She had 19 injuries on her body. DNA evidence linked Santosh directly to the crime. His fractured helmet visor was recovered. Witnesses placed him at the scene.

In 1999, Additional Sessions Judge GP Thareja delivered his verdict.

He said in open court I am convinced he is the man who committed the crime.

Then he acquitted him.

He said the CBI had fabricated the DNA evidence. He gave Santosh the benefit of the doubt.

The Delhi High Court later called this verdict a perverse approach that murdered justice and shocked the judicial conscience.

It took public outrage, media pressure and her aged father appearing on television for years before the High Court took up the appeal in 2006. Within 42 days, the High Court convicted Santosh and sentenced him to death.

The Supreme Court upheld the conviction in 2010 but reduced the sentence to life imprisonment.

He has since been granted multiple paroles. In 2019, he was given parole to appear for his LLM examination.

The man who raped and murdered Priyadarshini Mattoo is studying law in prison.

Her father fought for 10 years to get a conviction the judge already had in his hands in 1999.

The verdict said police were reluctant to act on her complaints because Santosh’s father was a senior officer. It said junior staff do not react to complaints against the relatives of their fraternity.

She filed FIR after FIR. Nobody moved.

Not until she was dead.

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[Rajeev Dhyani•राजीव•راجیو•ਰਾਜੀਵ•রাজীব•రాజీవ్ @rajeevdhyani]

अनपढ़ बादशाह!

[Saurav Mitra || সৌরভ মিত্র @mitrasaurav]

The most graceful of all Bombay Heroes.

[Movies N Memories @BombayBasanti]

The most charming man of Bollywood, Shashi Kapoor talking about his family.

Your favourtie movies of #shashikapoor?

[Agnivo Niyogi (অগ্নিভ নিয়োগী) @Aagan86]

In 2021, apart from Debangshu's Khela Hobe slogan, if there was another campaign that steered the narrative, it was #NoVoteToBJP. Time to bring that brilliant video back on TL.

[SURAJ @SURAJ_624]

Sharvaanica, India’s Young Chess Prodigy, Became A World Champion At Just 10 And Is Making The Nation Proud With Her Brilliant Mind On The 64 Squares 🇮🇳♟️🏆