shamsad shaikh

curious

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

MEA needs a less clichéd and more serious script for the PM's visits abroad, one where he engages with his hosts on substantive issues, rather than his own accompanying troupe and Indians settled abroad.

[Dr Ritesh Malik @drriteshmalik]

DON’T WATER THE PLANTS YOU DON’T WANT TO GROW:

Simple line. Took me years to actually live it.

Every time you replay an insult in your head, you’re watering it.

Every time you revisit a regret on loop, you’re watering it.

Every time you entertain a thought that makes you smaller, you’re watering it.

And it grows. Slowly. Quietly. Until one day it’s the loudest thing in the room.

Your mind is a garden. Finite space. Finite energy. Finite hours in a day.

What you give attention to, grows. What you starve, dies.

The anxious thought. The bitter memory. The comparison that eats you alive at 2am.

Stop watering them.

Not because they aren’t real. But because they don’t deserve your soil.

Water what you want to see more of.

Gratitude. Ambition. Clarity. Calm.

You don’t get a bigger garden.
You just get to choose what grows in it. 🙏🏻

[kushal @kuxshl]

been speaking with a lot of designers for hiring. we’re looking for someone who has worked on brand identities and has great taste.

if you think you’d be a good fit, send over your work.

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

A Swiss hotel once displayed a list of special rules exclusively for Indian guests which I personally saw and was appalled.

Today, videos of garba in restaurants, loud conversations in airports, and turning aircraft cabins into picnic spots keep doing the rounds. Even in Davos, an Indian businessman blasted Punjabi music in a club so the whole town could hear it, calling it “soft power” but to everyone’s annoyance.

Japan earned global admiration through their courtesy and civic sense. If India wants to be a true global superpower, the world should remember Indians for its excellence, consideration and respect for others.

Our civic sense seriously needs to be upgraded.

[shamsad shaikh @sham786]

Shameless people

[PunsterX @PunsterX]

📍Puri, Odisha

Local police detained a roadside khaja vendor for encroachment.

Thereafter, a crowd of bystanders looted his unattended tray.

What level of depravity is this??

[shamsad shaikh @sham786]

It's a #Parle day today

Melody itni choclatey kyu hai 🙂

[Satbir Singh @thesatbir]

Have been hearing of tampered watermelons for the last 40-odd years. Easy to inject colour and syrup in. We need UAPA kind of law against food adulteration. It is killing more and more people every passing day.

[BBC News Hindi @BBCHindi]

झारखंड के गोड्डा में रहने वाले फ़ैज़ानुल्ला सेरेब्रल पॉल्सी से ग्रसित हैं. वो हाथ से लिख नहीं पाते. लेकिन उन्होंने परीक्षा में 93.80% हासिल किए हैं. वो अपने मुंह से ही लिखते हैं. फ़ैज़ानुल्ला आम लोगों की तरह उठ-बैठ भी नहीं पाते हैं. लेकिन पढ़ाई के लिए उनके जज़्बे ने उन्हें अब सुर्खियों में ला दिया है.

रिपोर्ट: मोहम्मद सरताज आलम
शूट और कैमरा: निशांत कुमार
एडिट: दीपक जसरोटिया

[Swanand Kirkire @swanandkirkire]

Big mistake I made — buying your car, @Toyota_India. You shared my phone number with several insurance companies, and now all I do is answer endless sales calls while trying to remain polite, because I know there’s no point screaming at or insulting your underpaid and exploited employees.
Don’t you make enough profit selling cars already? Why sell your customers’ data too?

[RAHUL @RahulSeeker]

In a world full of insignificant VIPs, a truly gifted man goes to cast his vote like any ordinary citizen. No security, no hype. His name is #ArijitSingh 💖

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor says, "I think the government should at least have the grace to withdraw its earlier claims that the decline of the rupee under the UPA government was somehow a fault of the Prime Minister. If this decline is because of international forces beyond our government's control, then I think that places in perspective what happened during our time as well. So I think the rupee is obviously subject to a great deal of volatility these days. So we are not doing well...So I think the government should also have the grace to acknowledge that the earlier criticisms of the UPA on this call were certainly not warranted."

On West Asia conflict, he says, "This crisis is affecting us, it's affecting many other countries in the region and beyond because now as oil prices go up and gas supplies go down, you're looking at problems facing everybody...This is a serious issue. I certainly think that we should be part of and ideally we should lead an international effort to bring this war to an end. There are many countries that will join us. No one wants to see this war continue. It's hurting a lot of us who have nothing to do with this conflict. And I think the time has come now to get both sides to climb down from their positions. They need our help. They need our encouragement and that of other countries. I hope we will play our part..."

[Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal]

A distinction should be made between colonists who rule from abroad and conquerors who don’t.

The Mughals were conquerors who did not rule from abroad or had their capital outside the country.

Their seat of government was in India. The Mughal Emperor was not a Viceroy.

The British ruled from London.

The Mughal conquerors did not ship their wealth out of the country, the British colonialists did.

When India became independent the British went home.

The Mughal empire ended without anyone going back “home”.

The Taj Mahal was built by a conquering dynasty not “colonialists”.

The word “ colonial” does not exist in any Indian language.

Incidentally, were the Ottomans who conquered Asia Minor and Constantinople “colonialists”.

Is the Topkapi Palace a colonial monument? @mattwridley @DavidDeutschOxf

[shamsad shaikh @sham786]

#Roohafza time starts next week

[shamsad shaikh @sham786]

Recently I visited Mumbai's Nair hospital to see one patient and came out depressed 🫥

This is where the government should spend money, all other infrastructures have no meaning

[Sumit Behal @sumitkbehal]

Amul Milk contains 98 times more Coliform than the limits set by FSSAI

A YouTube channel is testing products, receiving legal threats from brands and FSSAI is literally sleeping

India's bestselling milk failing quality standards explains everything about your future health

[Vineeth K @DealsDhamaka]

Blocking delivery staff from using lifts is just untouchability in a new form.

[shamsad shaikh @sham786]

Waah. Brilliant

[Dr. S.Y. Quraishi @DrSYQuraishi]

How creative!

[Ajay Kamath @ajay43]

Any minor who commits rape must be treated as an adult and be subject to the same punishment.

[shamsad shaikh @sham786]

@IndianGems_ Doesn't look appetising

[Sanjiv Kapoor @TheSanjivKapoor]

Imagine if 2200 people a day (or 6 a day) were killed on the New York subway or London Tube or Beijing Metro? We would never hear the end of it. However in Bombay we casually accept 6 commuters every morning never making it home, killed on the commute. Barely makes the news.