Durga Puja isn't a five-day festival it's Bengal's biggest shopping season, and the planning needs to start now. Our latest playbook maps out how brands can move from festive visibility to measurable growth this Puja.
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Debated in budgets. Questioned in audits.
Jul–Oct 2025 ,I was inside the schools where it runs.
India didn’t made a policy.But a system working. Read my photo story: A promise delivered daily
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Happy Birthday @RahulGandhi Gandhi.
Few people continue walking their path when an entire generation stands against them. You never gave up, never compromised on what you stand for, and never bowed to adversity.
Stay blessed, stay strong, and remain the peaceful warrior you are.
Every journey starts with a first step. This is mine. This marks my beginning on Medium; feel free to read on if you're already familiar with it.
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The Ordinary. The Outcast. The Outstanding.
@RahulGandhi’s Andaman journey reveals a side rarely seen in politics—curious, grounded, and deeply human. There seems to be much more to him than the labels often attached to him.
I visited the southernmost tip of India.
I stood at Indira Point. I walked under trees that have stood for centuries. I dove into coral reefs among the most vibrant on earth.
And I sat with the people who live there. Tribal communities, whose land is being taken away by violating the Forest Rights Act. Settlers, many of them former soldiers, placed on these islands by the Indian government, who aren’t getting fair compensation.
The Modi government and BJP tells you Great Nicobar Project is about defence. It is not.
Expand INS Baaz - we will back the government fully. The Navy has been asking for expansion for five years - it has been ignored.
They tell you it is about a transhipment port. It is not. India is already building one in Kerala, which is on the mainland.
What it actually is: 1.5 crore trees felled. Coral reefs erased from official maps. Soldiers and tribals displaced - so one businessman can build hotels and casinos on India’s most irreplaceable ecological land.
Every young Indian I have spoken to understands this. You know that no amount of profit is worth destroying what can never be recovered.
I stand for ecologically balanced development. These islands can be the most extraordinary sustainable destination the world has ever seen. That is the India worth fighting for.
#GreenOverGreed
#NicobarMatters
#WorldEnvironmentDay
Sachin Tendulkar was being compared even before he became a household name - that’s how extraordinary his rise was.
• At 15, likened to Sunil Gavaskar by the Mumbai circuit
• In 1992, Imran Khan compared him with Inzamam-ul-Haq
• At 88, Don Bradman saw his own reflection in Tendulkar
• Strokeplay drew parallels with Viv Richards
• ODI batting comparisons with Saeed Anwar and Mark Waugh, in the race to surpass Desmond Haynes’ ODI hundreds record.
• Then came comparisons with Brian Lara
• Followed by Ricky Ponting
• And alongside Jacques Kallis
After retirement, the benchmark shifted to Virat Kohli, Alastair Cook, Steve Smith & Joe Root
And now, even teenagers like Vaibhav Suryavanshi are being measured against him.
That’s the thing - Tendulkar wasn’t just compared across generations. He became the standard every generation gets compared to.
Sachin Tendulkar's Last Test Match.
Never saw Indians emotional like that when he gave that last speech
Look at those shots man.
Truly came to this World just to play this beautiful sports ❤️
The 2003 World Cup would have been our greatest triumph ever, and this man deserved it - No words can ever describe the pain of losing that final. What an incredible tournament it was: Powerhouse teams with legends who had already lifted the WC, and yet we played so beautifully, Sachin's God level innings, Ganguly's captaincy, Sehwag's brutal force, Young Yuvi, Zaheer's class... Almost everything was so Perfect. Even now, years later… it still hurts. God, it still hurts so much.
Champions. 🇮🇳🏆
From the first ball of the tournament to the last moment of the final, this was about courage, calm, and collective spirit.
India the World Champions.
What a journey. What a team. What a night. #WorldCup#TeamIndia