Life is not qualified just by:-
-Fluent English,
-Branded clothes or
- rich lifestyle.
It is measured by the number of faces who smile when they hear your name. The impact you leave when you interact with different people.
I've nothing personal against Shamika Ravi. But saying poverty has almost been eradicated in India and justifying all economic disasters is not expected from Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council.
I don't know how many of you remember Montek Singh Ahluwalia. He was in a similar position in the previous governments. He never used to dress up anything. He was always factual and tried his best to find workable solutions. As a technocrat, his communications were never political.
We need people who acknowledge problems and then work towards addressing them.
Google which is cash surplus, just announced an additional capital raise of $80 bn.
Google annual profit is $160 bn, last quarter $62 bn, and market cap $4.5 trillion. That is close to total profits and market cap of all Indian listed companies put together.
It’s a wake up call to all companies to invest into the future, whatever the present maybe.
Now that IPL is done and dusted, time for India to focus on business of business.
Itanagar observed 24 hr shutdown called by Arunachal Pradesh Indigenous Youth Association to prevent illegal immigrants from celebrating EID.
Gigachad Arunachalis🗿🔥
The Nilgiri Marten is one of nature’s happiest little secrets, with tiny feet, golden-yellow and chocolate fur, and playful agility leaping through the shola forests like a spark of joy. Found nowhere else on earth except the Western Ghats, this rare endemic beauty brings the spotlight on the precious and irreplaceable mountain ecosystems #wildwednesday #Nilgirimarten #endangered #wildlife incredible capture by
R.Vidhya Vigashini #Endangeredspeciesday 15th May
Strong people don't necessarily look like strong people. Though actors & social media health grifters must look the part.
(Just as surgeons may not look like surgeons).
In his first speech as Tamil Nadu chief minister, Vijay said that he grew up in poverty, and that he even knows what hunger is. It's bullshit because he was my classmate in the third standard in Loyola School.
His father was a filmmaker who set up his son for a career in films.
It is possible that like most filmmakers his father may have had periods of financial strife but that's not the same as Tamil-grade poverty. A lot of affluent boys confuse being broke with poverty. Two very different things.
His name was Manjunath Shanmugam.
He was an IIM Lucknow graduate.
He got a job with Indian Oil Corporation as a sales officer.
His territory was Uttar Pradesh.
He found that petrol pump dealers were adulterating fuel and cheating customers.
He reported it. He sealed the pumps.
On November 19 2005 a petrol pump owner shot him dead outside his office.
He was 27 years old.
The killers were convicted. Sentenced to life imprisonment.
His parents did not get compensation for 15 years.
His college created the Manjunath Shanmugam Trust in his name to fight corruption.
Some men die because they refused to look the other way.
India forgets them too quickly.
Did you know?
- Indian chess player Soumya Swaminathan withdrew from the Asian Team Chess Championship in Iran in 2018.
- Indian shooter Heena Sidhu withdrew from a tournament in Iran in 2016.
Reason? Wearing hijab was compulsory at tournaments in Iran. Both Indian players refused to accept the hijab imposition by Iran.
Teacher Birendra Kumar Dey, called ‘Jhunu Sir’ by his students, could not save his home in Bahor village of Sylhet district from being burnt down.
His fault: being Hindu in Bangladesh 🇧🇩
The ashes and tears were a Makar Sankranti gift from Islamists.
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Whenever a path breaking and monstrous hit like #dhurandhar comes , the industry people will wish to ignore it because they will feel threatened by it due to their inability to match it’s standards ..So they will think of it as a nightmare, which will vanish when they wake up in their own films This is even more true of all the so called pan india biggies which are right now under various stages of production.. They were all written and mounted , modelled on the films made before #dhurandhar which is the exact opposite of what they all believed will work .. what’s even more worrisome is that #dhurandhar apart from being a omega hit also is the most discussed film since the last 50 years
Everyone of us experienced an incident like we going to visit someone’s house and we see a large scary looking dog which keeps staring at us .. Inspite of the owner assuring it’s harmless and advises us to ignore it , the tension will remain and will keep growing and we can’t resist seeing it from the corner of our eyes .. #Durandhar will be like that monstrous dog which will be invisibly pacing around in every production office wherever the upcoming biggies are being made .. They will try their level best to even avoid uttering the dog’s name, but it will keep loitering in all their minds ..To that extent #dhurandhar will actually be like a HORROR film for all those makers who believed in the earlier template of VFX ridden , expensive sets , item song ridden and the Hero worship template ..And now in #dhurandhar with the film being worshipped instead of the star, they would be getting crucified in their own self created dungeon of masala films .. But no matter how much they wish the dog won’t go away .. it will be here to bite whenever their next film releases
More than anything else @AdityaDharFilms is forcing the industry people to look at their own films in the mirror , in comparison to the beautiful looking #dhurandhar
"The Delhi bomb blast has once again proven that education cannot cure certain diseases like extremism. The more educated they are, More dangerous they become......"
- CM Himanta Biswa Sarma
Another Christmas market cancelled in Germany, this time in Magdeburg. Authorities say they can’t guarantee safety.
Islamic terror attacks have done what no war could: killed a German tradition.
Earlier, markets in Overath and Kerpen were also called off due to new “security requirements”.
#ZohranMamdani is celebrated in India mainly because he is a Modi-critic, and appeases Islamists and the Left with his views.
Meanwhile, another Democratic Muslim candidate, Ghazala Tanveer Hashmi — originally from Malakpet, Hyderabad — has also won the position of Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.
Yet she has not received the same pomp, attention, or media coverage, largely because she has not made any radical statements or public stunts.
For the radical Left & Islamists, loyalty is defined by ideology and religious identity, not by nation — and that is why the patriotism is always questioned.
Here is what actually happened. 👇
There was an incident in India involving members of the Australian women’s cricket team who were approached and touched inappropriately by a motorcyclist while walking to a cafe.
The accused turned out to be a Muslim.
Following this, public discourse on social media especially from Australia shifted dramatically: this same Australian cricket page deleted posts about the incident and instead redirected attention toward alleged misogyny from some anonymous Indian users who commented.,
Political groups in India like Congress party quickly caught on and now Muslims (Congress party workers) from India and Pakistan are blaming the BJP IT cell and Hindu men for comments, framing them as aggressors and calling them rapists.
You see how this works!
👉So, Why did Australian cricket page delete the post?
Well as you might be aware there is growing right-wing movements in Australia against immigration. These movements were originally rooted in cultural differences and crimes by illegal immigrants but have become increasingly hostile towards affluent Indians who are mostly high skilled workers with zero to no criminal records similar to patterns seen in the United States political scenario. Hence the game is to blame Indian men.
The real hypocrisy shows up in who gets blamed and how the stories are framed. Religion gets used to label individuals in one case, while national or ethnic identity gets weaponized in another to dodge bigger biases.
The same moral outrage is applied unevenly, and accountability gets redirected to fit political motives instead of tackling the harm or encouraging real dialogue.
Anushka Sharma didn’t even invite her grandmother, uncle, or aunt to her wedding they only found out through television that their granddaughter and niece was getting married. Maybe she feels ashamed of her ordinary family; perhaps that’s why she invited only 20 guests.
Suresh Raina got married in 2015 but didn’t invite the uncle in whose arms he used to play as a child. When the media spoke to that uncle, he was seen expressing his emotions with tears in his eyes. The reason was that Raina felt embarrassed by his uncle after all, he had become a big man.
Jasprit Bumrah’s 84-year-old grandfather, who longed to see his grandson for 17 years, came to Ahmedabad to meet him. But Bumrah’s mother sent the old man away, after which he committed suicide by jumping into the Sabarmati River.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni didn’t even show his own brother in the film based on his life story.
And these are the kinds of people today’s youth idolize and follow.
On the other hand, there is Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who invited his entire village to his wedding and donated lakhs of rupees to a girls’ school in his district to celebrate his marriage. That is what we call culture and values. Learn something from him not from those shallow celebrities who fail to see their grandparents, uncles, aunts, or villagers as their own family.