Siddhartha Basu
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How dare anyone utter a word against us, especially any outsider ? Our troll armies will rip them into pieces. If they were here we'd pin them down with FIRs, set our agencies against them, jail them without bail, convict them. We're the most open democracy ever. Mind it☝️
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This is
@BeingSalmanKhan
at his best. It's the kind of thing he's been doing for years.
Salman Khan to help 25000 daily wage workers from film industry, will transfer money in their accounts - bollywood - Hindustan Times
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The message going out repeatedly is loud & clear - if you're a vandal, arsonist, rioter, mobster - as long as you're on our side, not a hair on your head will be touched; If you're not, we can nail you, jail you, deny you bail, on the flimsiest of pretexts or trumped up charges
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This pics gone viral on the net. Cannot get the smile off my face, or the lump out of my throat
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If the gold standard of TV drama is set by HBO (Succession) & BBC (The Crown), the one Indian show that makes that cut is Scam 1992. Brilliant, binge-worthy financial thriller & true morality tale. Take a big bow
@mehtahansal
@pratikg80
@nairsameer
@001Danish
@SPNStudioNEXT
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Call it what you will, it remains a mughal garden, bec it was conceived & designed as one, with it's rectilinear layout of char baghs, pools, canals with running water & fountains, signature features of mughal gardens elsewhere in the country & region, inspired by Persian gardens
The iconic MUGHAL GARDENS at Rashtrapati Bhavan has been renamed AMRIT UDYAN. Remember a rose by any name would smell as sweet.. Name change toh chalta rahega… a garden is about its lovely flowers and not its not so lovely politics!😊
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Good question with interesting choices on my way to work 🙂
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So, anyone who dares to stand up & speak out for the marginalised is an Urban Maoist. What does that make those who stand mute or are quite in favour of terrorising in the name of the cow, Urban Cow-ists ?
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No insult or disrespect whatsoever was intended to the memory of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in a question on KBC 11. This season there have been a number of questions which have all used his name with the full title. Apologies for the inadvertent omission of title in the choice
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It's not just VG Siddhartha. Wake up & smell the coffee - the liberation boom is dead or dying around us
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Oh, wow. 777 crores down the tubes for what now seems to have served only as a temporary set for ribbon cutting & photo ops
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We have many, many mother tongues, many people have transferrable jobs. We've had a 3 language formula that's worked well enough with English as a link language, giving us a global advantage. Ruling it out as a lingua franca is a recipe for chaos and a big brake on integration.
By far the biggest story of the day: new education policy which says medium of instruction till class 5 should be in regional language/mother tongue. How many think this is a good idea?
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Mustn't forget Dev Anand's nephew - yourself ! That's where the word nepotism comes from - nipote, or nephew in Italian. What in Hindi is called bhai-bhatija-vad
Raj Kapoor took his son in a film. Gave us amazing Rishi Kapoor. Dev Anand gave his brother a break. Gave us brilliant Vijay Anand. Films like Guide, Teesri Manzil. Its not about Nepotism. Its about opening gates to raw new talent. For its new talent that drives our film industry
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@shekharkapur
Seriously, Shekhar? And what's been the outcome of 5 years of authoritarian, centralised rule - apart from an abject failure of promises, draconian steps that wrecked the economy, destruction of institutions, unleashing lynch mobsters & fuelling belligerent majoritarianism?
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98% pass percentage of Delhi Govt schools in Class XII boards is phenomenal. Just shows, where there's a will, there's a way.
The socio-economic impact of
@ArvindKejriwal
govt's priorities give India's capital the biggest power push.
Unfortunately most children of our country don't get the same opportunities. Praying for a time when all children get their due & an education minister like
@msisodia
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Don't miss
#kbckaramveer
, tonight
@SonyTV
, with
@SrBachchan
. Meet the triumphant INSV Tarini crew, the 6 person all women naval team who braved seas & storms on a 17 m sailboat to circumnavigate the world, with just 5 stops. See what unstoppably sterling stuff they're made of
Iss hafte,
#KBCKaramveer
mein, miliye unn bahadur mahilaaon se jinhone na sirf baki mahilaaon ko prerana di, par desh ka bhi sir garv se uncha kiya hai. INSV Tarini All Women Navy Crew ki officers aa rahin hain aapse milne, kal raat 9 baje
@SrBachchan
ke saath. Dekhiye zaroor.
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Worth remembering on Republic Day that a republic means - of the people, by the people, for the people. Not of the rulers, by the rulers, for the rulers. It is the opposite of a monarchy & tyranny. Where people are citizens, not subjects. Where fundamental rights are guaranteed
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9 baj gaye kya ?
18 years on, in its 10th season, the tradition of announcing the first day of telecast with a front page ad lives on. The knowledge show that touches lives.
One more time, with feeling..
@SrBachchan
@Bigsynergymedia
@SonyTV
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Outstanding show of unity by a chaotic & flawed but hard-working, ultra high-risk industry, taking a stand against a motivated onslaught of hysterical mudslingers, poisonous propagandists & their blind believers, who have scant regard for facts or truth
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They're all harvest festivals, & first & foremost farmer's festivals. Celebrated mostly on the same day, Jan 14/15, albeit with different names & in different ways. So while wishing everyone on this occasion of thanksgiving & renewal, a big salute to our annadatas - Jai Kisan!
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Most of those exulting at persons of Indian origin heading govts in Portugal, Ireland, would burn at any prospect of the reverse in India
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This was the first look of the show, with the promotional pitch -
"Mein yahaan, aap wahaan, hamare beech 15 sawaal..
Aur aap ban sakte hain crorepati.."
Who thought then that a knowledge show for the aam janata would touch so many lives & still be going strong 20 years on
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That's how the world sees it, more so at a time of corona catastrophe.
DAVID JONES: Monstrous monument to Narendra Modi's ego via
@MailOnline
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A relic from 34 years back ! No wonder it appears rather dated and mannered. But hey, it was thought of as slick at that time, and for sure packed in a lot of Q&A into a 24 min show. Found a link to more or less the full ep on YouTube -
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#Tubelight
is one from the heart, from
@BeingSalmanKhan
&
@kabirkhankk
, an emotional fable of faith in love & hope, at a time of hate & war
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Don't miss '17 Saal Bemisaal', where
@SrBachchan
brilliantly recounts highlights of a show that created TV history. Fri, Aug 25, at 9pm
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What a hugely wasteful & vulgarian display has been lined up to pump up the vanity & prospects of men of straw
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Aww, & I thought this would fly under the radar, as it should, when the theme song is "When I'm 64". Thanks, bro, & here's to the Joy of quizzing. It's not funny, it's art 😀
Quiz Time started in 1985 & changed many of our lives.
Siddhartha Basu was easily the coolest man on Indian television & Quiz Time was family viewing in a way no Indian show today can ever be. Happy birthday
@babubasu
, you defined television anchoring in India.
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If this is not inciting murderous violence against dissenters, what is? Shocking, condemnable & actionable
via
@IndianExpress
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Persistently petty, mean, vindictive, obstructive, outrageous. Seems like they simply cannot stomach genuine development & reform, such as the outstanding makeover & performance of Delhi government schools, & inputs by dedicated talent such as
@AtishiMarlena
. Abuse of federalism
No wonder why Modi govt decided to remove advisors like
@AtishiMarlena
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an Stephenian who later studied at Oxford, then worked as Rhodes scholar, and then joined Delhi Education govt as advisor.
She was working with me on Re 1/pm salary for last 3 years.
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Shamed before the world. Only the deliberately short-sighted won't be able to see how this affects our moral & international standing
#India
: We are saddened & disturbed by the death of 84-year-old human rights defender Father
#StanSwamy
, after prolonged pre-trial detention. With COVID-19, it is even more urgent that States release every person detained without sufficient legal basis.
👉
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The show is alive and well, thank you. Not just in terms of ratings, which have been consistently high through the season, & taken Sony to top spots among GECs, but also in the range of content & contestants. Am afraid this is an ill-informed, cherry picked & prejudiced piece
How KBC and Big B killed a good show with wife jokes and inane questions
Poet Harnidh Kaur
@PedestrianPoet
writes:
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Hyperventilating anchors on our noise channels need to either take a chill pill or be marched off to padded cells for the sake of social sanity, apart from their own. In the meanwhile, the best remedy is in our remotes. Switch them off
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Unbelievable monument mania. At a time of national emergency & economic collapse, pushed through almost as if it's now or never
While the country reels under corona spread, is GOI still going ahead with its RS 20,000 crore plan for renovating Rajpath and central Delhi? Can we please get our priorities right for once folks? The urban poor need relief; a Tughlaqian plan to renovate Rajpath can surely wait!
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Flashback : anchoring in the early days, when Doordarshan was the only television channel in the country
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An anguished reading of a potent poem that should kindle the conscience of those who've programmed themselves to look away.
Well spoken,
@vrajeshhirjee
#DalitLivesMatter
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It was a silent chhoti Diwali in our part of south Delhi. Not one cracker heard. Whether its because of green restrictions on sale, heightened civic consciousness about the environment, or the squeezed economy, the net result was less sound & air pollution from crackers. Jai ho
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In his 50th year in the film industry, on the eve of his 77th birthday, his exceptional body of work is at last acknowledged by India's highest honour, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award. Richly deserved & long overdue. Congratulations,
@SrBachchan
! 🙏👏🙌
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Gabba is short for Woolloongabba - an aboriginal expression which variously means whirling waters & a fighting place. Aptly, for us, it turned out to be both a samudra manthan & cricketing Kurukshetra which threw up so many small-town youthful yoddhas who won the war for India
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Ram Mohammad Singh Azad - that was the proudly defiant multi-faith name Udham Singh adopted once he avenged the Jallianwallah Bagh outrage by assassinating Michael O'Dwyer, the Lt Governor of Punjab who'd ordered martial law & supported Dyer's massacre of unarmed citizens. 🙌🙏
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Beneath the masala trappings & stylised hyper-action, writer-director
@aliabbaszafar
hits a lot of idealistic & secular notes, putting humanism & humanitarianism above all, holding out aman ki asha. More power to such a punch 👊
#TZH
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That's truly remarkable ! Congratulations to the students & all those responsible for supporting & creating the conditions for their success
Delhi govt schools get 88.27% results in Class 12. Pvt schools: 79.27%. Govt schools do better than pvt schools, for a second year in row!
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"Get up, stand up,
Stand up for what's right
Get up, stand up
Don't give up the fight."
Lend a hand, grab a broom, do something..
Don't be a bystander.
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India is possibly the only place in the world where the licensors & format holders have not only allowed Indianisation of the theme music, but have also appreciated it enormously
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This day will test whether we're bigger than the sum of our prejudices.
Here's to peace, amity, understanding.
Sabko sanmati de bhagwan!
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There's no point just getting disgusted. In some countries people eat bats & pangolins, in some they drink gaumutra & glorify gobar.What makes it truly problematic is when they peddle it as a neutraliser of a disease as dangerous as covid 19.Such quackery should be made criminal
India, 2020.
People drinking Cow urine to save themselves from Corona.
This Gaumutra Party (Cow Piss Party) was organized by Hindu Mahasabha.
#COVID2019
#CoronaOutbreak
#CoronaVirusUpdates
#COVID
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Way to go, Kolkata.. (this little video will tell you why, do take a look )
Subho Bijoya, everybody 🤗🙏
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Trailer looks gritty & engaging,
@rahuldholakia
, with
@iamsrk
packing a pungent punch into a menacing Raees.
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Tonight on
#kbckaramveer
, meet 4th Dan Taekwondo blackbelter Ravi Kalra, who gave up a lucrative career training security forces across the world to set up a care centre for the aged & abandoned. Listen to the horrifying dimensions of the looming problem of an ageing population
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Whose Genda is it anyway ? Marigolds are native to Mexico, known to the Aztecs as cempasuchil & sacred to them. Also, Marigold = Mother Mary's gold. It came to India about 350 years ago, where it's become part of our culture & ayurveda too. Exclusive to none, it belongs to all
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Brave of a young insider with a lot at stake to speak up. We need many more like him to reverse debasement of awards
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Only in Kolkata. Passing by in a taxi on a visit about 10 years back, I first saw this incongruous sight of a line of chess players beneath the Gariahat flyover thoroughly absorbed in their game despite torrential rain & heavy traffic inching by on either side of their open arena
Unmindful of the cacaphony at one of Kolkata's busiest location - Gariahat crossing, chess players spend hours in deep concentration under the flyover.Everyone is welcome to join the Gariahat Chess Club.This chess hangout got a makeover in 2018, these are some Pre-COVID moments
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Command performance by Kanhaiya. More pointed, yet sincere & more good natured than most of what I heard in parliament in the last few days
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@virsanghvi
@jitenkhanna5
@PoulomiMSaha
Khan Market is actually named after Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan, freedom fighter & brother of Frontier Gandhi, who played a key role in setting up the market for rehabilitation of refugees. Its name honours his role & memory
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Outstanding ! Congratulations to each one of the students, and kudos to all those behind the revolution in Delhi government schooling which has made such continuous improvement possible, with such brilliant results.
Fantastic performance by Delhi govt schools in Class 12; the 90.64% result is 2.37% better than our own performance last year, and 7.6% higher than national CBSE average! Who would have thought this was possible?!
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@IndiaHistorypic
Here's one more for your archives. Smudged, grainy, & poor resolution, but it's the only one with the winning team of the first Quiz Time, 1985. Hari Menon & Saravanan of IIT Kanpur, with Kavita & me.
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@IndiaHistorypic
Wow. Dont think I've ever seen this before. There wasn't a photographer around, leave alone cam phones capturing every nano second. Where'd it pop up from ? Went on for a year on DD, Kavita Agarwal as scorer, set by Barry John, had music by Loy Mendonsa, directed by Sanjay Kak
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What could be more important at a time like this when the country is gasping to breathe?
Government Sets Deadline For PM's New House Amid Covid
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How Aussie media mogul Kerry Packer was attacked & derided as a game wrecker when he pioneered 'pajama cricket' with colourful kits & night cricket way back in 1977. He will always have the last laugh at how, 'white ball cricket' is ruling the roost 50 years on
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An outstanding & articulate contender
Here's a link to that final of Mastermind India
#BengaluruNorth
Should we really miss such a person over
@ShobhaBJP
?
He is not just a book, but a Library😍
Runner up of BBC Mastermind !
@rajeevgowda
🔥🔥🔥🔥
#Elections2024
#Karnataka
@INCKarnataka
@BJP4Karnataka
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Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection..
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Yes, it's annoying & avoidable.But the comedian only gave the govt's favourite propagandist a taste of his own medicine - ambushing people in public & on flights too. More bizarre is the sarkar's knee-jerk & disproportionate response - ban him from flying
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Sad. A titan of modern Indian theatre, a cultured & distinguished polymath now belongs to the ages. With great conviction, he always stood up & spoke out for enlightened, progressive values. RIP
#GirishKarnad
Breaking now: one of the creative geniuses of our times, Girish Karnad has just passed away at the age of 81.. my respects to a legend.. RIP
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Shashi, the 1st airport in India was Juhu Aerodrome, built in 1928. JRD flew from Karachi to Juhu in 1932. 1st flight from Tvm to Bom was in 1935. The first commercial civil aviation flight in India was from Allahabad to Naini in 1911, which also carried the world's 1st airmail
Thank you, AjaySingh ji, for your responsiveness to my request. Thiruvananthapuram, India’s first airport (JRD Tata flew From Karachi to Thiruvananthapuram in India’s first-ever flight) will offer a hospitable home to
@flyspicejet
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A huge fan of the show &
@SrBachchan
, businessman & prolific versifier
@VikasbansalEF
pens his appreciation of "from setback to comeback" in verse
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Now here's a soul stirring tribute to an India we love. Rarely heard, listen to this wonderful rendition of all 5 stanzas of Rabindranath Tagore's' Bharata Bhagya Vidhata', the first stanza of which, of course, is our national anthem.
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At an event last night at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, a Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to my professional & life partner, Anita Kaul. She earned her diploma there in 1979, & has played one hell of an innings in tv & content creation. Very proud of her 🙏
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#Sultan
marks
@aliabbaszafar
coming of age as an assured writer-director, with a gripping mainstream movie which moves & inspires you
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A friend kindly sent me this road map through the next few weeks. Am being advised to just stay home & admire its brilliance & clarity. And of course we must all remember to knock ourselves back saluting as the jets roar past
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This surfaced. The final of our last University Challenge, 2005. Check out the quality of quizzing & quizzers, & their range of knowledge. It's been 17 years since we've had a national inter- college quiz of this standard. Would there be any takers today?
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26th December is popularly observed the day after XMas as Boxing Day, from a custom of better off people giving boxes of presents to the poor. It's the opposite of unboxing. There's much to imbibe from such a tradition of giving, & the compassionate spirit of Christian charity
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Sharing a pic I took of birthday boy
@BeingSalmanKhan
& a little known fact - a childhood nickname was "Bud-dida", Farsi for large-eyed one
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The power of prayer of an entire nation & love of legion admirers the world over are with you, sir. 🙏🤞This bug needs to be shown who's boss 👊
T 3590 -I have tested CoviD positive .. shifted to Hospital .. hospital informing authorities .. family and staff undergone tests , results awaited ..
All that have been in close proximity to me in the last 10 days are requested to please get themselves tested !
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Inflammatory posturing in TV news media, desperately aimed at garnering eyeballs, is poisoning reasoned debate way beyond danger levels
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There needs to be a much tighter lid on tax-payer money being splurged on page after page of politician's thumping their own backs in the newspapers & every other space they can find. Who reads them? The desperation to be seen is quite obscene & waste of public money a shame
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Oh, boy, touche ! 🤣
@rahulkanwal
, you really grabbed the hypocrite by the short & curly, & in an amused, good-natured way. Attaboy 👍
वंदे मातरम गाने के नाम पर छूटे यूपी के मंत्री के पसीने!
#NEWSROOM
@rahulkanwal
अन्य वीडियो के लिए क्लिक करें
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Here are those of the team of 2021 who were there in Team KBC of 2000/1 (Season 1)
While marking a continuity over 21 years, remembering & thanking each & every member of the teams of all 13 seasons who helped reach this milestone of 1000 episodes of a flagship show
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My message to school-leavers: Marks don't matter in the long run.The pursuit of knowledge & excellence are lifelong & their own best rewards
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Birthday greetings to you,
@SrBachchan
🙏 In a 19 year association, what's been most inspiring & motivating for our team is your youthful relish for performance, daily diligence in preparation, total engagement with the creative process, & hunger for excellence. Cheers, Sir!
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You haven't seen masala action with such swag before, as our own Rambo rushes in for a risky rescue, & both Tiger & Tigress kick some serious ass in tandem, all guns blazing. Don't take my word for it. Check it out & see for yourself..
@BeingSalmanKhan
@aliabbaszafar
#TZH
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Don't miss
@iamsrk
bringing
#Raees
to life.
Controlled, strong performance in a gritty, absorbing, 80's type thriller by
@rahuldholakia
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The end of black money? Pink is the new black, period.Meanwhile, the honest can go through hell for a draconian move
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In tonight's KBC Karmveer, meet the doughty Sudha Varghese, who's spent all her life living among the very poor, much oppressed women of the Musahar community of mahadalits, working for their rights, protection & development. Championing her cause -
@AnushkaSharma
&
@Varun_dvn
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Surely they didn't earn that reputation by leap-fogging critical & established medical procedure or due transparency with completed data & efficacy reports. They need to take a stand. At stake is not just their reputation, but the health & lives of millions.
Bharat Biotech is a world class company with a stellar reputation for research and reliability. A pity it’s caught in the Govt rush to clear a swadeshi vaccine. A few more weeks’ wait for more data would’ve only enhanced its reputation, and public trust.
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Thank God for some programme executives who don't insist on things being dumbed down to the lowest of lowest denominators, we could witness an impressive mastery over her subjects like hers.
Thanks for the flashback to the Umaid Bhavan, Jodhpur, 24 years back
💥K.E. Priyamvada: The First Mastermind India Winner of the Millennium! 🤩
In 2000, Priyamvada, a postgraduate in English Literature, kicked off her career as a young Copy Editor for Britannica. Little did she know that her fun decision to join Mastermind India, one of the top
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Way to go, Delhi. Aap ki sarkar
Big Breaking: Delhi Govt to start random testing in areas of the NCT which are being seen as Coronavirus hotspots.. First state govt to begin random testing.. 1 lakh tests to be conducted in Delhi in the next few days.. well done
@ArvindKejriwal
@msisodia
@SatyendarJain
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The abusive arrogance of the toxic sisters have tipped way beyond just being 'mental' & 'judgemental' when they upbraid anyone who does not sing their praises or displeases them, going so far as to brand any critic as being anti-national, treacherous, & anti-constitutional!
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Right on target ! Sarcasm with a smile & sharp as an arrow. Do listen to how she homes in on her target
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When post-truth becomes paid-truth - as overt endorsements, covert campaigns, or pernicious propaganda, we're living in a world of lies
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He's paid a price for his views. They've struck again - the Chupwalas & Khattam-Shuds he wrote of. The arch enemies of language & imagination & knowledge, the poisonous silencers. This should be a wake up call to stand up to fanatics & fascists everywhere
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It's mass movements alone that can dislodge authoritarian regimes & restore democracy. That's the only hope.
Tel Aviv tonight. Netanyahu be gone. Elections now! (And sure, go ahead and call all these people "a small minority of Hamas supporters.")
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I can't recall seeing our cricket team quite like this before, closing in tighter & tighter for the kill like a pack of snarling wolves, drawing blood again & again, finally snapping off the neck of the opposition with ravenous glee. Playing hard, winning hard. Jai ho, jai hind
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