talisman 🇮🇳

A Nationalist. Supports Modi and his efforts to Modify India. RT's are not always endorsements.

[AstroCounselKK 🇮🇳 @AstroCounselKK]

Brilliant!
Absolutely brilliant!
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Congress leader Rajeev Shukla said that if Narendra Modi was not the Prime Minister, then America would never have invited him....!!

Reply by Chauhan Bau Nath, USA

Honourable Shukla Ji and Congressmen,

Now I will tell you the story of this "if"...
1) If Rahul Gandhi was not Sonia's son, he would only have been a peon in some office today...!!😂😂
2) If Sonia was not Rajiv's wife, she would have been a retired bar girl from some bar in Europe...!!😂😂
3) If Rajiv was not Indira Gandhi's son, he would have spent his days as a "pilot"...!!😂😂
4) If Indira Gandhi had not been Nehru's daughter, she would have remained an ordinary muslim housewife...!!😂😂
5) If Gandhi-Nehru along with Jinnah had not betrayed the people of India in the greed for power, today Akhand Bharat would have remained united....!! 😂😂
6) “If Nehru had not dishonestly become the Prime Minister in place of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, then China would not have been so influential today, nor Pakistan would have been born, nor would this Kashmir problem would have ever arisen...!!😂😂
7) And "if" this Congress was not there, then this fake Gandhi family would not have even existed. The whole country would not have been ruined in nepotism and communal violence by falling into the clutches of these traitors and scamsters. Rather, India would have been the leader of all the countries of the World...!!
😂😂
Rajeev Shukla ji....
“If Narendra Modi was not the Prime Minister of India, then there would have been no other Prime Minister of India who would have looked into the eyes of the US President and talked to him…!! 😂😂
What a befitting reply.
🙏🏼🙏🏼

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Bangalore, 1924.

3 brothers: Parameshwara, Ganappayya, and Yagnanarayana Maiya, left a small village near Udupi looking for work, and ended up as cooks in private Bangalore households.

In 1924, Parameshwara, backed by his own employer's support, took the leap alongside Ganappayya: a tiny eatery on Lalbagh Fort Road, serving just coffee and idlis.

They called it, plainly, the Brahmin Coffee Club.

5 years later, Parameshwara died...

Yagnanarayana, "Yagnappa" to everyone who knew him, joined in to help Ganappayya run it, and it is here the story actually starts accelerating.

In 1951, Yagnappa made an almost unthinkable move for a small South Indian eatery of that era: he traveled to Europe, purely to study how restaurants there operated.

He came back and rebuilt the place from the inside out, modern sterilization of utensils, an open kitchen customers could actually see into, an obsessive new standard for hygiene that no comparable Bangalore eatery had at the time.

1960. A new address, and a new name.

The restaurant moved to its now legendary location on Lalbagh Road, and Yagnappa renamed it after the neighbourhood it now called home: Mavalli Tiffin Rooms, MTR.

Rava idli, arguably MTR's most famous dish, was born as a wartime workaround, not a planned invention.

When rice, the entire foundation of a traditional idli, grew scarce during World War II, MTR's cooks experimented with roasted semolina instead.

Similar rice-substitution ideas may well have existed elsewhere along the South Canara coast, but it is MTR that took the workaround, refined it, and made it famous enough to become a genuine national breakfast staple.

1975. The Emergency and the day MTR chose to lose money in public rather than lower its standards.

During the Indian Emergency, the government summoned 5 of Bangalore's best known restaurants, MTR among them, and ordered them to sell food at fixed, government-mandated low prices under the new Food Control Act.

Every restaurant had the same choice: comply, and compromise on quality / refuse.

Some paid up.

Others quietly cut corners on ingredients to survive the mandated prices.

MTR did neither....

They kept the food exactly as good as it had always been and instead, put up a board outside the restaurant, visible to everyone walking past, openly stating the day's financial losses.

For 16 straight days, MTR served its usual quality at a mandated loss, refusing to cut a single corner, telling the public exactly what that integrity was costing them in real rupees.

On the 16th day, they closed the doors.

The exile that accidentally built a 2nd empire.

The restaurant stayed shut for 6 years. But to keep the family's staff employed during that gap, they started selling spice blends and roasted flour mixes out of the adjoining grocery store.

That improvised survival move became the seed of an entirely separate business, taking shape as MTR Foods through the mid to late 1970s, even as company histories still trace the brand's true origin back to 1924.

The restaurant itself finally reopened in 1981, the same building, the same standards, the same stubbornness.

Meanwhile, the packaged foods arm, eventually led by Yagnappa's son Sadananda Maiya, kept growing on its own trajectory, expanding beyond Karnataka into Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh by 1984, earning ISO and HACCP certification around 2002, and reaching export markets including Japan and other countries by the mid 2000s.

In 2007, Sadananda Maiya sold MTR Foods to Orkla, a Norwegian conglomerate that, by the time of this deal, was operating as a branded foods player, for ~$80M.

It is a quiet irony sitting at the heart of this story: the packet of MTR rava idli mix sold in an Indian supermarket today is owned by a Norwegian company, while the original restaurant on Lalbagh Road, the place all of it started from, remains entirely family-run, corporately unrelated to the brand printed on the packet, still standing on the same street, still serving the same dishes, over a century after 3 brothers with no money and a borrowed leg up from an old employer decided to open a coffee stall.

- A migrant family from a small coastal village.

- A European study trip that modernized Indian hospitality decades ahead of its peers.

- A wartime rice shortage that turned into a national breakfast staple.

- A government mandate that a family chose to lose money against rather than cheapen their food, in public, on a signboard, for two full weeks.

- And an improvised survival hustle during a forced shutdown that eventually became a bigger business than the restaurant that spawned it.

That is a 100 year lesson in refusing to compromise, told entirely through idli and dose.

[Klassiq Tunez @celebritytailol]

They were recording when the water pounced on them, they all died but the phone kept recording 💔

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Last year has seen India's highest ever GST collection: $270 billion; highest ever vehicle sales: 29 million; highest ever Manufacturing PMI: 59.3; highest ever Forex reserves: $726 billion; highest ever Sensex: 86,100. And now Q1 GDP zooms to 7.8%.

Terrible. Modi must resign.

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

Popular Hindi songs, Indian & Uzbek classical dances form part of welcome for Indian PM Modi in Tashkent

[talisman 🇮🇳 @talisman23]

@sumanthraman Don’t watch then. You won’t get tired! Wake up fresh.

[Rishi Bagree @rishibagree]

Absolutely Insane Footage Coming Out of Nepal After They Were Hit with a Flash Flood!

Village after village getting destroyed in minutes !!

[talisman 🇮🇳 @talisman23]

@VamsiChandran Heartfelt condolences om shanti! 💐

[Rishi Bagree @rishibagree]

Rajiv Gandhi had 426 LS MPs & 159 Rajya Sabha MPs. A brute majority to carry out any constitutional changes.

Yet, he ended up reversing the Shah Bano Judgement to deny her ₹180 monthly alimony, to appease the mullahs.

This is how Congress smashed patriarchy !!!

[Whitepilled India @Ind_Whitepill]

A stunning capture of the Vande Bharat Express traversing the Western Ghats between Bengaluru and Mangaluru. 🚆✨

[talisman 🇮🇳 @talisman23]

@SauravDassss U prick listen to good advice coming from knowledgeable experienced seniors. We know you are handled by someone from outside India. Time for you to back off before you burn yourself with these antics!

[Rishi Bagree @rishibagree]

A single 1.3 km double-stack electric freight train running on a dedicated corridor keeps around 700 heavy diesel trucks off the highways and saves 80,000 litres of diesel.

Remarkably, this entire 3,500 km railway network didn’t even exist six years ago.

[talisman 🇮🇳 @talisman23]

@RShivshankar What about unknown gunmen!

[talisman 🇮🇳 @talisman23]

@HemanthNBJP @sumanthraman Add none also to answer as E.

[talisman 🇮🇳 @talisman23]

@sumanthraman Idiot. No truth in what you blabber. With petrol it is inevitable that it will dry out one day. Find an alternative.

[talisman 🇮🇳 @talisman23]

@varmaspech @ptrmadurai You joker. Don’t get worked up. Calm down. Book your tickets and leave if you find India not upto the mark. Simple. No drama here

[talisman 🇮🇳 @talisman23]

@sudhanpsg @ptrmadurai Sure you have not experienced a bird hit. Reason enough you remained a student pilot instead of a professional.

[talisman 🇮🇳 @talisman23]

@varmaspech @ptrmadurai Best you deport yourself to another country if you feel so strongly about India.

[talisman 🇮🇳 @talisman23]

@JaipurDialogues @Iyervval @VijayGajeraO It is easy to bundle the *The Wire* and throw the *NewsLaundry* in the Laundry this very minute *NewsMinute* So don’t harbour any bad ideas. *INDIA* against these jobless nutcases!

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

If @RahulGandhi was the captain of the Titanic, he would have steered the ship all night long in search of an iceberg to collide with.