1. What's wrong with the Giva ad?
Nothing you see on TV/advertisement or/big screen, especially in big budget projects, is innocent or accidental
The Giva ad continues a broader trend in how film-entertainment and ad industries have treated cultural sensitivities of the two majority communities very differently for years - something Gems of Bollywood has exposed so clearly
Look at the way popular culture has marketed Hindu festivals for years. For instance, check any compilation for suggestions for Diwali playlist:
“Abhi Toh Party Shuru Hui Hai”
“Let’s Nacho”
“Tamma Tamma Again”
But typical suggestions for Eid playlist:
“Noor-e-Khuda”
“Maula Ali”
“Kun Faya Kun”
Typical media suggestions for Diwali outfit ideas these days: sexualised styling - cleavage, revealing blouses, familiar Bollywood glamour
Typical outfit suggestions for Eid: Rich and covered
This means that they know what cultural sensitivity looks like, what a family gathering looks like, what sanctity of a festival looks like
But they apply it only where they want
The test of their intention is simple. Look at the image attached. Imagine her holding a plate for Iftari and the text saying Eid. Will any brand ever run such an ad?
2. Are these ads really made to increase sales during Rakhi?
The primary purpose of such an advertisement is not to sell jewellery for Rakhi. Conduct a market survey. Show consumers the ad and ask them whether the imagery is prompting them to buy Giva jewellery on Rakhi for their sisters. I doubt the answer would be overwhelmingly yes
Modern advertising works at a deeper level than simply saying buy this product. It is often aimed at shaping long-term attitudes
When the same kind of imagery is repeatedly used around certain festivals, weddings and family occasions, it leads to normalisation of a particular culture
Much of it seems to be aimed at creating a society where every aspect of a woman's life is sexualised. I would say it is the same mindset that wants to legalise adult men having sex with schoolgirls
3. How should the public respond?
Stop treating these celebrities as icons and withdraw your interest from them
The same actress as in the ad did Thumkeshwari item number and then pretended to be Ma Sita on screen - until we vehemently opposed it, ran a campaign, people responded and the movie bombed
Reject them from every aspect of your life where you have a choice
HR finally tasted its own medicine.
A software engineer cleared all interview rounds and got offered 7.5 LPA.
The catch ?
→ Current salary: 8.7 LPA
→ Offer already in hand: 14 LPA
→ HR knew this from the first call.
When questioned, the recruiter simply said:
“It is what it is.”
So the candidate decided to play the same game.
Pretended to accept for “onsite exposure.”
Waited 2 weeks for the official offer letter.
Received it.
Rejected it with: “The pay is too low.”
Recruiter: confused.
Candidate: satisfied.
Respect goes both ways in hiring.
Rahul getting trained on stage:
Anchor: I will ask you one thing.
Rahil: Ok
Anchor: Just say in Marathi, Pune Manjhe Prem, it means "Pune Means Prem. I will ask you.
Rahul: and I will tell Pune Manjhe Prem.
Anchor: Any special message for People of Pune?
Rahul: Pune Manjhe Prem
Anchor: Aaaaaaaa Pune Manjhe Prem bol diya guys
Malabar Jewellery shop in Bilaspur was caught selling 20 carat Gold as 22 carat. That’s an 8% cheating in value. Local jewellers confronted them for losing trust because of their action.
Why do jewellers do this? And the closer you are to them, the more they betray your trust. Our family jeweller for 3 generations had been selling us 14 carat Gold jewellery as 22 carat and we came to know only when Tanishq installed a testing machine in a mall.
We got a phone connection in 1993 at Nana’s house. My Nana used his connections with a local MP and thanks to that our wait time was just 5yrs.
Dad’s scooter was priceless - it took him 6yrs of wait to get his chetak.
Murthy was camping in Delhi to get license to import computers
You want to build a house - better get in queue to get permit for cement
Congress was amazing
In the Tarun Tejpal case, first of all, a massive salute to the survivor warrior, who took on not only her powerful boss, but all the other powerful friends he had and an entire ecosystem. The lady symbolizes guts and courage of another level.
Second, rape and sexual assault is not left wing, right wing, it is ideologically agnostic.
Pains me to see Anurag Kashyap(not once, but twice) dismiss the charges made by the then victim.
Newslaundry went thousands steps further in bringing shame to themselves. Abhinandan Sekhri's sister in an article somewhere around 2015, 2 to 3 yrs after the sexual assault, shamed the victim, in an entire article, where she relentlessly in every single line punched and humiliated her. Dragged her, kicked her, and then punched her, with each word acting like a barrel of a gun.
To the Warrior Survivor, you are a Hero. 🫡
युवराज और प्रियंका दीदी की संसद के बाहर बारिश में भीगने वाली इमोशनल रील देखकर दरबारी अभी आंसू पोछ ही रहे थे कि किसी ने दूर से वीडियो बनाकर इस गीली क्रांति का भंडाफोड़ कर दिया!
असलियत में यह सारा त्याग और बलिदान सिर्फ 22 सेकंड की रील के लिए था। कैमरे के फ्रेम के ठीक बाहर चेलों की पूरी फौज छाता ताने ऐसे खड़ी थी, जैसे मुगलों के दरबार में छत्र लिए खड़े हों।
मतलब जब तक कैमरा ऑन है, देखिए, मैं जनता के लिए भीग रहा हूँ! और डायरेक्टर के कट बोलते ही, अरे तौलिया लाओ, छाता लगाओ, युवराज को सर्दी लग जाएगी!
सच में, इनका सारा जन-संघर्ष अब बस पार्ट-टाइम पॉलिटिक्स और फुल-टाइम पीआर (PR) नौटंकी बनकर रह गया है!
Most Indians in India are oblivious to the amount of racism in Chinese social media against Indians. It was already highly racist and dehumanizing for the last decade. Now with AI, it has only got worse.
Not a single day passes without some video dehumanizing Indians and demonizing India in China. The best part is after such obsession about India and Indians, they will claim they don't care about India at all.
The worst part is Indians programmed by Chinese propaganda on India's social media will parrot the same. "China doesn't care about India. Nobody cares about India."
Weak and sepoy mindedness of some Indians, that gives them gratification sh1tting on other Indians and their country as if they are somehow superior and foreign, is utilized well by adversaries.
🚨 HUGE! Smriti Irani calls out India Today Group over its coverage of youth protests against the Modi Govt vs Jharkhand
"32 publicly available reports on Jantar Mantar. ZERO on Jharkhand."
"If there is a TYRANNY of distance, it is between YOUR STUDIO & the REALITY on the GROUND."
He is Pierre-Henri Chuet, a former French Navy pilot. In 2025, during Operation Sindoor, he claimed that India had lost several fighter jets and praised Chinese fighter jets operated by Pakistan.
Now, in 2026, he has been detained after being accused of spying for China.
According to reports in the French media, he allegedly made at least two undeclared trips to China in 2018 and 2019 while still serving in the French Navy. During those trips, he allegedly organized training sessions for Chinese military pilots, arranged through a South African aviation company, and may have shared sensitive operational and tactical information with China.
⚠️Modern-day slavery alert:
A Muslim couple Advocate Ayesha Jaffer Sheikh and her husband, held their domestic help captive. The husband physically assaulted her while the wife repeatedly threatened to murder her.
Actress Sambhavna Seth rescued the young woman after the worker’s sister, who works at Sambhavna’s house, raised the alarm. Watch the full video to see how the so-called “scared minority” treated a young mother from the majority community.
It’s worth noting that when Sambhavna approached the Kharghar Police for help, they refused to register her complaint. Instead, they assisted the couple in filing a false robbery case against the victim.
Shame on @Navimumpolice for protecting the real culprits and targeting the victim. This nightmare could have been avoided if an FIR had been filed immediately, allowing agencies to free the woman sooner.
Domestic help agencies must start giving workers the option to choose employers based on faith.
SHOCKING STATEMENT'S 😲
Saw a video of a girl crying and saying, "I was not allowed to enter the temple during the lathi charge during the CJP protest.
Because " I am a Dalit, I belong to a backward caste."
But later, CCTV footage from the temple revealed that the girl and her 40-50 friends were inside the temple for three hours.
Later, after coming out of the temple, she stated that she was not allowed to enter the temple.
Imagine if her false statement had provoked the crowd there and they had attacked the temple, targeting the priest and staff.
Who would have been responsible for that? Abhijeet Dipke, cockroach Janta Party, or that girl?
Hope GenZ is watching this one closely.
The same Opposition that spent weeks turning paper leaks into a full-blown movement just blocked the Anti-Paper Leak Bill in Parliament.
No amendments. No debate. Straight “NO” and a rush to the well of the House.
Kangana pointed it out today. The slogans were loud from opposition camp.
The actual law that could punish the guilty is being rejected by opposition.
CJP exposes its selective outrage!
Question was put to @SauravDassss regarding ignorance on Paper Leak in Punjab and targeting Harjot Sjngh Bains and Arvind Kejriwal on his resignation. But this time he wants @ARanganathan72 to take lead in protests for the same and they will support him.
Why not spearhead this movement to cleanse Punjab as well, Saurav or is your partisan inclination stopping you from targeting Arvind Kejriwal?
The internet was busy debating jantar Mantar & a quiet facility in India witnessed something straight out of science fiction. An engine fired up. But it did not hum & it did not roar like a normal jet.
It detonated. Continuous supersonic shockwaves raced around a circular chamber 1000s of times/sec, harnessing controlled explosions to generate thrust.
The startup D-Propulse just gave the world a sneak peek of their air-breathing Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE) with an integrated aerospike nozzle.
Every jet engine on a commercial airliner, every fighter jet & every rocket we have ever seen operates on deflagration. We mix fuel with air/oxygen, ignite it & it burns relatively slowly at subsonic speeds. It is effective, but humanity has pushed this tech to its absolute physical limits.
RDEs throw that century-old playbook into the fire. Instead of burning fuel smoothly, an RDE explodes it intentionally. A continuous detonation wave sweeps around an annular (ring-shaped) channel at supersonic speeds, reaching over 2000 m/s. This is called Pressure-Gain Combustion.
It extracts 15-25% more thermal efficiency out of the exact same amount of fuel. In the world of high-speed flight, a 25% jump in efficiency is a completely different league.
Why this Matters for India?
For decades, the narrative surrounding Indian engineering was tied to catching up on legacy systems, spending billions trying to replicate 1970s turbofan engine metallurgy/importing critical defense tech.
D-Propulse is proving that India does not need to play catch-up anymore.
By leapfrogging straight to Pressure-Gain Combustion, an Indian deep-tech startup, guided by veteran scientists & built by young engineers is standing on the frontlines alongside research labs in the US, Japan & China.
Imagine hypersonic cruise missiles, ultra-long-range combat drones & spaceplanes that do not need heavy, complex moving turbopumps to break speed records. That is the realm this technology unlocks.
The future does not belong to those who build better versions of old machines. It belongs to those who rewrite the physics of how machines work.
As the buzz around the Jantar Mantar protest dies down, Madhya Pradesh is back in the news.
SDM Ram Niwas of Panna district ordered two mobile covers worth ₹120 from Flipkart.
When the delivery boy arrived with the sealed package, the SDM opened it and found only one mobile cover instead of two. Rather than raising a complaint with Flipkart, he allegedly abused the delivery boy and demanded an immediate refund.
The delivery boy dared to tell His Lordship that that's not how e-commerce works. He explained that the parcel was sealed, that it was likely a packing or logistics error, and that the proper course was to raise a complaint with Flipkart, which would handle the resolution through its return process.
His Lordship took offense at being told how the process worked. He allegedly called the police, and the delivery boy was reportedly arrested under Section 151 of the BNSS.
(Source: Aaj Tak)
CJP Protestor: Modi is a dictator!!
Me : Why ?
CJP Protestor: A Scientist like Sonam Wangchuk is on hunger strike and Govt is silent!!
Me : He is an Engineer not scientist!!
CJP Protestor : We have seen 3 idiots which was based on his life!!
Me : The movie was a fiction and not real!!
CJP Protestor : How can you Say this?
Me : In the Movie,Wangdu had 400 Patents, how many does Sonam has?
CJP Protestor : hmmmm...Let me google.. It says 0!!
Me : In the movie, Wangdu was poor and son of a servant!! Google about Sonam's family..
CJP Protestor : It says, His father was an MLA and Minister of congress!!
Me : Now tell me, Was the movie real?
CJP Protestor : Wait, I need to stand in the queue to get my Bread Pakoda!! I will answer you Later Andhbhakt!!
Now Police finds that Ayushi not only got her mother murdered, but she also got her father murdered so that she can get her father's job & his property.
Just at 23 years, she is such a hardcore criminal. Where society is headed? This is what happens when we do not read Ramayana Mahabharat but watch Ekta Kapoor’s serials