Don’t know about Rang De Basanti, but let me tell you what some of us millennials actually grew up watching.
I was in primary school during the 1993 Mumbai bombings -- too young to even understand what terrorism meant. But I distinctly remember my mom repeatedly warning me not to pick up anything lying around while playing outside because, you know, it could be a bomb.
That was childhood.
Then came the seemingly endless procession of attacks: the 1993 Mumbai blasts, Red Fort in 2000, Parliament in 2001, the Mumbai bus bombings and Akshardham in 2002, three separate blasts within eight months in Mumbai in 2003, the 2005 Delhi blasts, the 2007 Hyderabad bombings, and the 2008 Bangalore and Ahmedabad blasts.
In July 2006, I was supposed to be on one of the trains that was bombed near Mahim. I stayed back at the office because of a meeting. A completely mundane change of plans is probably the reason I’m alive to type this instead of being a name on a list of the dead.
I remember that evening far better than I remember any stupid movie. Our office went into lockdown. Phones were jammed. People were crying and frantically trying to reach their families. Nobody knew what was happening, whether there were more bombs, or whether someone they loved was lying dead inside a mangled train compartment.
Two years later came 26/11.
I had the misfortune of watching uncensored footage of the aftermath. One clip showed bodies being piled and stacked inside a makeshift room at CST while someone wheeled in another load on a bloodied wheelbarrow, with blood dripping onto the floor. The sanitised footage shown on television didn't come remotely close to what actually happened inside that station.
So yes, us millennials lived through an era where we went to work knowing that the crime of simply boarding the wrong train, getting on the wrong bus, eating at the wrong restaurant, or standing on the wrong street at the wrong fucking moment could get you blown to pieces or riddled with bullets.
Some of us literally went to work wondering, somewhere at the back of our minds, whether this would be the commute we wouldn't come home from.
So please, spare us millennials this sanctimonious horseshit about Rang De Basanti and what some Bollywood movie supposedly should have taught us about how to vote.
Arnab makes a terrific point - that he is following social media marketing companies and there’s a money trail.
Influencers with <100k followers are being paid 40-50k per reel and 30k per story. Their books should be examined. Should be brought under PMLA.
International media in the last 30 days: "India Hunger strike", "protests in India", "Floods in India."
🇮🇳India in the last 30 days:
July 19, 2026: Indian Gen-Z team wins 4 gold medals (top rank) at International Chemistry Olympiad and medals at the International Biology Olympiad.
July 18, 2026: Young Indians working at Skyroot Aerospace successfully launch Vikram-1, India’s first privately developed orbital-class rocket, from Sriharikota, placing payloads into Low Earth Orbit.
July 17, 2026: PM Modi flags off India’s first indigenous hydrogen-powered passenger train (10-coach set) from Jind station, Haryana, on the Jind-Sonipat route as an inaugural service.
July 14, 2026: DRDO completes successful military field trials of an indigenous scalable fiber-based Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system for secure strategic communications.
July 13, 2026: Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway (63 km), India’s first barrier-free expressway with satellite-based tolling, opens to traffic.
July 12, 2026: Young Indian team wins 5 gold medals at the 56th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO 2026) in Colombia, securing joint world #1 rank.
July 11, 2026: RM Rajnath commissions INS Mahendragiri, the sixth Project 17A stealth frigate, in Visakhapatnam (~75% indigenous content).
Early–mid July 2026: Vimag Labs (Bengaluru) secures its 5th Indian patent for the Virtual Magnet Synchronous Motor (VMSM), a software-defined rare-earth-free electric motor platform.
Early July 2026: ISRO announces plans for a new Satellite Earth Station campus near Ledo in Assam to strengthen space communication in the Northeast.
Early July 2026: IIT Gandhinagar team wins a grant for developing indigenous liquid cooling plates for AI data centres, EVs, and high-performance electronics.
June 26, 2026: Nuclear heat-based hydrogen production facility (copper-chlorine thermochemical cycle) commissioned at Kalpakkam using Fast Breeder Reactor process heat.
June 24, 2026: ISRO successfully conducts hot test of semi-cryogenic engine power head at 175 tonnes thrust level.
June 24, 2026: RDSO (with ARAI) successfully conducts full-scale crashworthiness testing of LHB coaches for enhanced passenger safety.
June 21, 2026: PM Modi commissions three indigenously built warships in Kolkata: INS Dunagiri (Project 17A stealth frigate), INS Sanshodhak (hydrographic survey vessel), and INS Agray (ASW shallow water craft).
June 15, 2026: DRDO successfully flight-tests the indigenous Long Range Land Attack Cruise Missile (LRLACM) from Odisha; all objectives met.
June 10–11, 2026: DRDO conducts successful Phase-2 Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) trials and anti-ship missile tests, demonstrating capabilities against long-range ballistic threats including ICBM-class.
Mid-June 2026: India’s defence production reaches a record ₹1.78 lakh crore in FY 2025-26.
Mid-June 2026: Maiden flight of the indigenous C-295 military transport aircraft highlighted as a major self-reliance milestone in aviation (with 40 aircraft under production in India).
June 13, 2026: First batch of women cadets trained at NDA commissioned into the defence forces. Marking the start of an women empowered era in defence.
I have no words anymore.
A child dies under a fallen tree.
Two students hospitalised as rainwater is electrified
What kind of country have we become?
People are not dying because of fate.
They are dying because of negligence of govt and public services
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My appeal to PM Modi-
In order to save petrol & diesel, please make it mandatory for bureaucrats, MLAs & MPs to use public buses and metro instead of large convoys.
It will also be a good opportunity for them to experience world-class infrastructure they are building for us.
కొన్ని తెలుసుకోండి.
బీరు తాగితే కిడ్నీలో రాళ్లు కరగవు.
జ్వరం వస్తే చికెన్ తినడం మానక్కర్లేదు.
పుప్పి పళ్లు పీకితే కంటి చూపు పోదు.
కత్తిరించిన బొడ్డుకి పేడ రాయకూడదు.
ఏడాది లోపు పిల్లలకి తేనె ఇవ్వకూడదు.
మండ మీద వాత పెడితే కామ��ర్లు తగ్గవు.
పిల్లలకి కడుపు మీద వాత పెడితే కడుపు నొప్పి తగ్గదు.
పెళ్లి చేస్తే పిచ్చి తగ్గదు.
కంటి వ్యాయామం వలన చూపు మెరుగవ్వదు.
బాలింతలు పథ్యం ఉండక్కర్లేదు.
పప్పు తింటే పుండు చీము పట్టదు.
మంత్రం వేస్తే మానసికరోగం తగ్గదు.
పాము కాటుకి నోరు పెట్టి పీ��ిస్తే విషం వచ్చెయ్యదు.
ఆరు నెలల లోపు పిల్లలకి తల్లిపాలే అన్నీ.
వ్యాక్సిన్లు పనిచేస్తాయి.
వంశపారంపర్యంగా ఊడిన జుట్టు మళ్లీ రాదు.
అనుమతి తీసుకోకుండా చేసే సెక్సు అత్యాచారం.
తాళం చెవులు చేతిలో పెడితే మూర్ఛ ఆగదు.
మెలకువగా ఉన్నవాళ్ళకి సీపీఆర్ చెయ్యకూడదు.
కిడ్నీలో, కాలేయం కింద పిత్తాశయంలో రాళ్లు ఏ పసరుకి కరగవు.
లివర్ ని డీటాక్స్ చెయ్యక్కర్లేదు, చెయ్యటానికి వాడే పసర్లు తిరిగ�� లివర్ని డ్యామేజీ చేస్తాయి.
మందు వలన గుండెకి కానీ ఇంకా ఏ అవయవానికి కానీ లాభం లేదు, అంతా నష్టమే.
పొగాకు నమిలినా, కాల్చినా, పీల్చినా, చప్పరించినా ఎలా అయినా క్యాన్సర్ వచ్చే అవకాశం తగ్గదు.
గంజాయి శాశ్వతంగా మెదడుని దెబ్బ తీస్తుంది. దానికి మందు లేదు.
వైరల్ ��న్ఫెక్షన్లకి యాంటీబ్యాక్టీరియల్ మందులు అవసరం లేదు.
ఓ ఆర్ ఎస్ ద్రావణం ఒక మందు, అదొక పానీయం కాదు ఎప్పడు బడితే అప్పుడు తాగడానికి.
హైపోథైరాయిడ్ కి థైరాక్సిన్ ఒక్కటే మందు.
మెడ వెనక , గజ్జల్లో నలుపు మట్టి కాదు, నీకు త్వరలో మధుమేహం వస్తుందని సూచన.
హై బీపీ వలన కోపం రాదు, కోపం వలన బీపీ వస్తుంది.
ఉప్పు తగ్గిస్తే బీపీ తగ్గుతుంది, ఉప్పు మానేస్తే ప్రాణం పైకెళ్ళిపోతుంది.
రేబీస్ కి మందులేదు, మరణం తథ్యం, వ్యాక్సిన్ ఒక్కటే నివారణ.
పండ్లు, సలాడ్లు సరిగ్గా కడక్కుండా తినకూడదు.
మూడేళ్ల లోపు పిల్లలకి పంచదార అవసరం లేదు, ఆ తర్వాత కూడా అవసరం లేదు.
కుట్ల సంఖ్యకి ఆపరేషన్ సంక్లిష్టతకి సంబంధం లేదు.