Speaks a man who comes from southern India where each and every woman is referred as a divine mother, when I initially started to work in south films everyone called me maa and I was hardly 17 years old, I felt so strange but then I noticed that even a 3 year old is called maa there, why such burns Mr Subramanian if young women in this country are not our daughters then what are they? Like Bollywoodias like to call them “ items” ? Shame on you for your thinking.
Don’t know about Rang De Basanti, but let me tell you what some of us millennials actually grew up watching.
I was in primary school during the 1993 Mumbai bombings -- too young to even understand what terrorism meant. But I distinctly remember my mom repeatedly warning me not to pick up anything lying around while playing outside because, you know, it could be a bomb.
That was childhood.
Then came the seemingly endless procession of attacks: the 1993 Mumbai blasts, Red Fort in 2000, Parliament in 2001, the Mumbai bus bombings and Akshardham in 2002, three separate blasts within eight months in Mumbai in 2003, the 2005 Delhi blasts, the 2007 Hyderabad bombings, and the 2008 Bangalore and Ahmedabad blasts.
In July 2006, I was supposed to be on one of the trains that was bombed near Mahim. I stayed back at the office because of a meeting. A completely mundane change of plans is probably the reason I’m alive to type this instead of being a name on a list of the dead.
I remember that evening far better than I remember any stupid movie. Our office went into lockdown. Phones were jammed. People were crying and frantically trying to reach their families. Nobody knew what was happening, whether there were more bombs, or whether someone they loved was lying dead inside a mangled train compartment.
Two years later came 26/11.
I had the misfortune of watching uncensored footage of the aftermath. One clip showed bodies being piled and stacked inside a makeshift room at CST while someone wheeled in another load on a bloodied wheelbarrow, with blood dripping onto the floor. The sanitised footage shown on television didn't come remotely close to what actually happened inside that station.
So yes, us millennials lived through an era where we went to work knowing that the crime of simply boarding the wrong train, getting on the wrong bus, eating at the wrong restaurant, or standing on the wrong street at the wrong fucking moment could get you blown to pieces or riddled with bullets.
Some of us literally went to work wondering, somewhere at the back of our minds, whether this would be the commute we wouldn't come home from.
So please, spare us millennials this sanctimonious horseshit about Rang De Basanti and what some Bollywood movie supposedly should have taught us about how to vote.
Look at your problems as problems & they will continue to hold you down. See them as blessings in disguise & that's what they truly become.
Real students followed this while appearing for re-exam taking extra time to study more. Clowns have been rioting to bring country down.
Meet Kanika Tekriwal, born in Bhopal to a Marwari business family who expected her to marry young, diagnosed with stage 2 Hodgkin's lymphoma at 22, and now the owner of 10 private jets.
She grew up surrounded by aviation books and posters, chasing a dream of flying that clashed hard with what her family expected of her. Then came the cancer diagnosis, chemotherapy, and a fight that pushed her business plans aside for the fight to survive.
After recovering in 2012, she went job hunting and found recruiters wary of hiring a cancer survivor, worried she'd become a liability. Instead of taking a job, she and co-founder Sudheer Perla launched JetSetGo in 2014 with just 5,600 rupees, taking client advances and vendor credit to survive the first two years with zero external funding.
JetSetGo grew into India's largest privately held aviation fleet, managing 9 private jets and 2 helicopters, more than 6,000 flights and 100,000 passengers served, without ever raising a funding round. In 2026, she joined Shark Tank India Season 5 as one of its youngest sharks.
A body that once needed permission to survive chemotherapy now owns the planes it once couldn't afford a ticket on.
I think as a nation if we ban any kind of social media monetisation by platforms. Be it YouTube, Instagram or Twitter. Don’t ban content. Just switch off monetisation.
I feel a lot of problems will automatically get solved.
‘RETWEET’ this tweet first when it comes to your timeline.
Now read this carefully.
Why do patriot SM accounts have lower reach than propaganda accounts?
The reason is ‘Reaction’
Most of the Patriot audience just reads and scrolls down, while on the other side, they react to tweets and reels.
They do share, like, and comment.
Ultimately, you don't get patriot accounts on your timeline because you ignore them, and the algorithm adjusts accordingly.
There are many factors as well for their greater reach, like👇
1. Paid content
2. Greater audience from neighboring countries.
3. Use of bots heavily.
So please start reacting to the content of nationalist accounts.
Thank you 🙏
He once slept in a one-room home where rats bit his fingers at night.
Today, if someone in Mumbai can't afford food or medical treatment, Jackie Shroff is often the first person to step in.
Before becoming Bollywood's beloved "Jaggu Dada," he faced poverty, dropped out after Class 11, and survived multiple rejections.
Success changed his life—but not his values.
Today, he quietly supports nearly 100 families, pays for life-saving treatments, funds children's education, donates wheelchairs, and builds classrooms for underprivileged kids.
No PR. No cameras. Just a man who never forgot what it feels like to have nothing. ❤️
@bindasbhidu
#JackieShroff #InspiringStories #HumanityFirst #KindnessMatters
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વરસાદ આવતા જ રોડ રસ્તા ધોવાઈ જવાનું કારણ હવે સમજાયું કે
જ્યારે રોડ રસ્તા બનતા હોય ત્યારે પાલિકા વાળા અનાયાસે બોર્ડ લગાવી જ દયે છે કે ,
રોડ નું કામ #ચાલુ છે
એટલે કે ચાલુ કામ છે ,
બ્રાન્ડેડ નથી 😄😃
Jhumri Telaiya.
How a small town in hinterlands of India became the part of pop culture? How all of us know about it?
A really interesting story of how someone’s hobby can become a passion of entire town.
How that transforms into a national curiosity & becomes a folklore.
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