An old man in our neighborhood died today. He was hospitalized with chest pain three days ago, underwent angioplasty, but passed away in the ICU. His wife had died during the COVID wave, and he had been living alone since then.
His only son lives in Australia and couldn’t come to see his father. Now, I’m not saying that the son is uncaring or abandoned his parents. I don’t know him. Maybe he is really a nice man. The elderly couple used to visit him every year and spend a few months with him. But maybe once you build a life outside, you can’t really come back. Life, distance, responsibilities, things become complicated.
The son hadn’t come to India in nearly 10 years. He couldn’t come for his mother’s last rites due to COVID travel restrictions, and I don’t even know if he’ll be able to come now or will have to arrange his father’s last rites from there itself.
This has stayed with me all day. To think of an old man spending his final years largely alone, losing his partner, and then leaving this world without his son by his side. Even as an unrelated observer, the whole thing feels unbearably sad.
Maj Harshit, brother of Twisha Sharma who was murdered for dowry is standing alone against the system. He fights at the border for all of us and has also has to fight the system
Thanks to the Vardi Foundation, a group of volunteer veterans for standing with him
The system is failing our soldiers is a matter of great concern
CC - @PMOIndia@adgpi
@CISFAirport
I was travelling to from T2 Delhi airport. I found smooth and fast security check. I thank to CISF for making our journey safe and secure.♥️
Dear World,
If you stay silent on the atrocities against Bangladeshi Hindus by radical Islamists today, tomorrow it will be your turn. Their ideology draws no lines, anyone they label kafir becomes a target. Silence only feeds radical Islamists.
He is right. The cinema world is shivering. The tremors can be felt even before the video is out.
I went to PVR this morning to watch Dhurandhar, but they said they have cancelled all the shows because Rathee's video is coming. It’s happening pan-India.
The makers are recalling all the prints from cinema halls, and they’ll dump them in the Ghazipur landfill. Aditya Dhar is planning to quit filmmaking and shift to Mozambique, where he’ll run a chicken pakoda shop to earn a living. Akshay Khanna is planning to apologise for acting in this movie. Sanjay Dutt will return to the underworld, Madhavan to Dubai, and Rampal to Pakistan to avoid making movies henceforth.
This is the end of the nationalist cinema era. The catastrophic butterfly effect of this video is already unfolding even before its release. Studios are panicking, directors are hiding, actors are reassessing their life choices.
What will happen once the video is actually out? Total annihilation, presumably. I wouldn’t be surprised if it leads to nothing short of Modi’s resignation and the permanent shutdown of Indian cinema itself.