📚 A dashcam lesson from Hyderabad's ORR, Shamshabad entry ramp:
Blind curve + overtake = you're trusting that nothing's coming. Usually you're right. This time, a cement mixer truck was reportedly driving the wrong way down the one-way ramp - and there was almost no time to react.
The car swerved back in time. Everyone was shaken but unhurt.
💡 Two takeaways for every driver:
– Never overtake where visibility is limited, even on safe one-way roads.
– Wrong-way driving isn't rare - always expect the unexpected on ramps and curves.
Save this. Share it before your next highway drive.
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I was fourteen, walking home from school in Paris with my French-American friend. Summer was around the corner and the heat was relentless.
‘You must be used to this heat,’ she said.
‘Not really,’ I replied. ‘We lived in the hills in India before we came to Paris.’
‘Hills? I didn’t know India had hills.’
‘We have the Himalayas,” I had replied. ‘The highest mountains in the world.’
She stopped dead.
‘You’ve got to be kidding! The highest mountains are in America.’
That expression of absolute certainty is etched into my memory even today.
Twenty years later, when I met her again in New York, I reminded her of that conversation. We couldn’t stop ourselves from laughing.
So anyway that afternoon we went home, and I opened my Philips Atlas and showed her the Himalayas.
‘You know,’ she said thoughtfully, ‘ I’d always wondered about that weird name. I just assumed it was some Native American name.’
A few weeks later, in geography class, while studying the Alps, our teacher announced they were the highest mountains in the world.
My newly enlightened friend proudly corrected her.
‘Actually, the Himalayas are.’
The teacher shot me a look that instantly identified the culprit behind this inconvenient fact.
Then, without missing a beat, she recovered.
‘Yes… but the Himalayas are the newest highest mountains. The Alps were the oldest highest mountains.’
Case closed.
At fourteen, I learnt one of life’s great lessons: The West doesn’t just write history, geography, science. It often decides it.
If something is ancient, extraordinary or foundational, somehow it must have originated in Europe or at the very least be explained through a European lens.
The Rig Veda became “Aryan.” A Middle Eastern Jew named Jesus acquired blond hair and blue eyes.
Even Panini, at one point, seemed to belong to everyone except India.
Now, apparently, Panini is Pakistani.
Progress, I suppose.
From ‘ that’s impossible’ to ‘it was ours all along.’
The script changes. The narrator doesn’t.
#SundayMusings
A Christian missionary was sent to Assam, named Father Cruz.
He got an opportunity to come home and teach English to a boy from an influential family of Assam. The pastor slowly began to inspect the house.
They found out that the child's grandmother is the most influential person in this house. Therefore, if they are trapped in the trap of Jesus' teachings, then through them the whole family and then the whole village can be made Christian…
The pastor began to tell Grandma how Jesus cured the leprosy,
How he used to give eyesight to the blinded,
And so on... Grandma said, "Son, all this is nothing compared to the miracles of our "#राम_कृष्ण"!
You have heard that our Rama touched a stone and she turned into a living woman.
Due to the influence of Lord Ram's name, even stones used to float in the water, they are still floating today,
The priest would have been silent. But continue their nefarious efforts.
One day the pastor brought #केक from the #चर्च and gave it to the grandmother to eat.
The pastor believed that Grandma would not eat, but contrary to her expectations, Grandma
I took the cake and ate it.
The pastor laughed with pride in his eyes, Mother! You ate the #प्रसाद of the church, now you are #ईसाई*.
Grandma pulled the priest's ears and said, "Wow, you ungodly one! One day I was fed a cake and I became a Christian. And I feed you from my house every day, so how come you are not a Hindu, you salt haram? Every day, you take the air and water of this primordial land of Sanatan Dharma and then every fiber of your being should become a Hindu.
Protecting our home religion and nation from going astray and going in the wrong direction
This grandmother was the famous revolutionary of Assam, Kamaladevi Hazarika, who knows her outside Assam? It is our duty that the whole country
Learn about them...
Jagadguru Shankaracharya Sri Sri Vidhushekhara Bharati Mahaswamiji graced Nepal Police Headquarters at Naxal as part of the Dharma Vijaya Yatra.
During the Sabha, on behalf of the Nepal Police, Sri Dan Bahadur Karki, Inspector General of Police, reverentially offered a beautiful model of the sacred Pashupatinath Mandir to Sri Jagadguru. Sri Jagadguru blessed him with a replica of the sacred Sri Vidyashankara Temple, a murti of Sri Sharadamba, and a special edition volume containing the commentaries of Bhagavatpada Sri Adi Shankaracharya.
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Another day another ancient Koneru was restored by the same people🧡
Hindus are working really hard and restoring the ancient treasures of Hindu Dharma.🙏🏻
Purva Sampada Rakshana Sena has been working hard on these ancient treasures despite many challenges starting from hot summers to finances.
📍Ramapuram, Owk mandal, Nandyal, AP.