Younger than I feel like; older than I want to be. Consulting, L&D, HR, Hindi music, cinema fan, reader, writer, singer, dad. Tweets personal opinions only.
Showed my daughter this pic from today’s
#MumbaiTimes
and asked her - “Do you know who they are?” Her answer? “Yes. Pitbull.” I’m still recovering.
#GenerationGap
This is India. We are far more bothered about a drone pic taken by Reuters of a crematorium in Delhi than the deaths themselves. Because of the damage to India’s “image”.
This is deeply disturbing because now many housing societies in the cowbelt, Gujarat, and even Mumbai will just ban the entry of red-shirted Zomato delivery persons. Mot only promoting discrimination, you are actively putting some of your customers in danger of ostracization!
To solve for their dietary preferences, we are today, launching a “Pure Veg Mode" along with a “Pure Veg Fleet” on Zomato, for customers who have a 100% vegetarian dietary preference.
Here’s a cricketer who’s travelled the world, been exposed to the most progressive cultures and educated professional women globally, and yet won’t allow his own daughters to play sports in public because of “social and religious” reasons. This is how religion hurts women!
The state of the nation is such that absolutely everyone knows this is a blatant frame up. But half the people are celebrating the throttling of the rule of law. India will never recover. Even the supporters of this travesty will feel the oppression one day.
A case of molestation under POCSO and forgery/fraud was registered against the bangle-seller who was beaten mercilessly on the complaint of the Class VI student girl
@ndtv
@ndtvindia
@GargiRawat
@manishndtv
Sarah Jacob quits NDTV, the latest in a spate of resignations.
Unsurprising. The humiliation of being a fine journalist 20 years & being forced to do puff pieces for one person’s image management would be too much to bear for most.
Regardless of what one thinks of Rajdeep, the fact is he is polite, soft spoken & has more dignity in his little finger than Malviya will manage in his entire benighted, lying, bigoted life. Rajdeep is still one of the top journos in India while Maiviya is…nothing!
I want to publicly apologize to Andheri-Kurla road, & especially Saki Naka
#Mumbai
for all the curses I have directed their way all these yrs.
I have been around Outer Ring Road & Bellandur in
#Bengaluru
last 2 days and and compared to those, Saki Naka is a soothing breeze. 🙏
This is happening again! How can an 8 year old have the agency to decide this? And how can parents agree, just because of the religious halo they will earn? Would it be wrong if ppl call this child abuse?
Clearly a fixed drama. Who in their Right mind (accidental pun!) orders vegetarian biryani rice from Arsalan - a restaurant famous ONLY for its non-veg? And then acts injured because her "beliefs" are violated? Itna hi belief hai to Shrikrishna Pure Veg restaurant se mangao!
If you’re a strict vegetarian (like me) think twice before ordering from
@Swiggy
!
I ordered biriyani rice with aloo which is clearly MARKED AS VEGETARIAN on the platform and I found a piece of meat (could be chicken, mutton or anything!) in the rice.
Such grave errors are
When (and if)
@theliverdr
's account is reinstated, he should take each and every
@HimalayaIndia
product one by one and get them chemically analyzed. Will be happy to support crowdfunding of the effort.
My daughter sent me a cat video (kitten video actually) on Insta and I made it a teachable moment. She’s definitely going to put me in a home when I’m old & never visit.
The RW response template:
"At the age of 21 I was already a sheep co-opted into the establishment without a murmur or thought of really questioning or changing the status quo, let along challenging it. What about you?"
@kariasunidhi
Islam's greatest win over you is that even during your biggest festival of the year, your actions are based not on what is good for you or the world, but on what Muslims do. You have lost the battle.
I’m genuinely puzzled. As a PM of a huge nation, why say things in public that are so easily verifiable and obviously untrue? What about your credibility? Doesn’t that matter at all?
PM Narendra Modi in Surat: There used to be rapes in this country earlier too, it is a shame that we still hear about such cases. Now, culprits are hanged within 3 days, 7days, 11 days & a month. Steps are being taken continuously to get daughters justice & results are evident.
I knew this sort of bullshit was imminent since the day he posted that pic with his son with sacred threads and ash on foreheads with great Brahmin pride. Now Whatsapp Hindutva Virus is all over him like a rash. Beyond salvage.
It was a congress govt that brought in price controls, Licence quota Raj, corruption, centralization of economic power and made Indians poorer and destitute! Never Forget ! India had free private enterprise before Nehru destroyed India’s economy, impoverished Indians through his
At this point it's hard not to believe that there is a concerted and orchestrated effort ongoing by the government & possibly certain members of the judiciary to keep him in jail, even in the face of a glaring lack of evidence.
Justice Amit Sharma of Delhi High Court recuses from hearing JNU scholar Umar Khalid's bail plea in Delhi riots conspiracy case.
Khalid's plea will be heard by a different bench on July 24.
His bail application was listed today before a bench of Justices Prathiba M Singh and
@governorswaraj
@narendramodi
He mentored the research, did he? How? Trained the scientists? Reviewed & the scientific experiments? Analyzed the data? Suggested better ways to do control experiments? How exactly?
Please elaborate. We need to know how great a scientist he is. It was all a secret till now!
“Rice bag converts” is the most ridiculous slur ever. I mean it should be obvious that for the poor & indigent, food trumps religion every time. For assured food for family and children, accepting another God is nothing. Every single person would do far worse things.
My daughter wanted me to help her study for her Geography exam on Monday. Mountain ranges. I started - “So when Mt. Everest takes a bath, he’s Nanga Parbat.” Now she refuses to let me help any more.
@Mittermaniac
It’s time for us to put these OTTs on notice. Hotstar inserts ads in every series and movie. Either remove ads and further fees or go full
Pay per view.
It is now clear that a large section of Indians don’t really want Democracy. They want a King, with all the trappings - anointment by high caste priests, golden clothes and sceptre, weaponry, glitz and glamour, crowns and jewellery.
Democracy was an interim, disposable stage.
@nit_set
@IKEAIndia
My wife is also Manipuri, Nitin, & she also faces subtle discrimination all the time after years in Bombay. The other day a person from our building asked her who she was saying he had never seen her in the 4 yes he had lived there. She replied she’d been here for 15 years!
This thread seems to be gaining some traction among right wing Indians so let me clarify ALL religions are anti-women. They pretend to respect & deify them, but under that facade they want ownership of women’s bodies, spaces & agency. Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity all!
One of my favorite actors from the
#Doordarshan
era, Mangal Dhillon, passed away this morning, as per Mita Vashishth’s Insta post. He was absolutely riveting on Junoon that was DDII’s first big hit!
Chetan Bhagat engendered a revolution in Indian English reading habits & single-handedly created a market that benefitted hundreds of writers subsequently as well.
Words can’t describe how shit some of the Indian versions of international food products are. Some examples: Nutella, Oreos and above all, Pringles.
The question is why? Bad ingredients? Contempt for customer tastes? Corner cutting by Indian manufacturing partners?
I've read enough to know what kind of person you are; the poisoned icing on the hate-filled cake is this latest attempt to defend convicted rapists & murderers of a child for religious reasons. You should have been prosecuted for hate speech long back, & will someday, I hope.
SG Mehta: Kindly visualise this- from the very beginning I am attracted to those persons who are mentioned in the degree of prohibited relationships. Incest is not uncommon but it is prohibited worldwide.
#MarriageEquality
#SupremeCourtofIndia
#SameSexMarriage
I love this 3-years-in-the-army proposal. There are so many nationalists in social media who will finally have the opportunity to go to the border and obliterate Pakistan with their fury.
Ok this seems to have attracted a lot of attention overnight. 😁
Thanks to all those trying to educate me about what “cute” stands for.
And a moment of silence for those trying to disabuse me (by abusing me) of the notion I’m cute. Sorry for your miserable childhood guys. ✌️
Shahid Afridi turns out to be just another garden variety religion regressive. And like most patriarchal products, he takes a dig at feminism along the way, while justifying his regressiveness. Very disappointing.
So clearly for the last few years there were two ways to get relief from ED raids in India:
1. If you are a politician, switch parties
2. If you are a business, buy Electoral Bonds/donate to PMCares
I did something satisfying last week. I walked out of a restaurant after being seated when they said I needed to scan a QR code to see the non-interactive HTML menu on my phone.
The restaurant next door had a printed menu. They got my custom. It was a good lunch.
@desimojito
Yes. Please send us video recordings of your family, neighbors and you standing at attention for the anthem 5 times through the day, starting 5AM in the morning, ok? Or we'll assume you are talking through your posterior. I'll save this tweet.
Bigotry: NRI style. People thrown out of US Garba event because their names didn’t sound Hindu enough. “We don’t come to your events. You are not allowed in ours.”
@madhukishwar
You evil woman...the time period, state of body, use of prophylactics can all give the same result, but you choose to read this as no rape?! For shame!
I remember only a few weeks back when NDTV was being taken over, there was an interview with the new owners where they pledged to stay away from editorial decisions & "maintain the independence" & objectivity of the channel.
Now? LOL 🤣
The house help at
#Kolkata
was late coming in to work today as she was up till 1 watching the quarter finals (especially “Meshi”) with her husband and teenage son.
#JustKolkataThings
If no one is allowed to vote, or marry or have legal agency before they are 18, how are they allowed to “renounce” the world and accept “monkhood” at 8? She’s a child, easily manipulated into such decisions because of the attention she will get.
Not that I have any love lost for Kejriwal but I have to say the way BJP & the Centre has gone hammer and tongs at him continually is scarcely believable. No stone unturned. No avenue unexplored. No method untested. LG, EC, CBI, DI, media, police - everyone’s been set on
#AAP
.
@voiceformenind
@narendramodi
Excellent choice. All these men should take a vow to leave women alone and not even think of them. That would be a fitting response.
@MyWealthGuide
Seriously. You think I should speak with a 8 year old child to understand her agency? I presume you are also ok with child marriage and child labour in that case. It doesn't matter if it's "diksha" or marriage - a child has no agency to decide, not adults to push them into it!
Indira Gandhi's paranoid days are truly back!
1. Khalistan bogey
2. Journalists as enemy
3. "Foreign Hand" seen in everything - Canada, China US
4. Draconian laws against common people (POTA/UAPA)
5. Creating a "khatre mein" situation by keeping the pot boiling
6. Emergency
The Hindutva meltdown over their hero Jordan Peterson's depiction of Kali is glorious. The best ones are the "but he otherwise usually makes sense" type, like the Barooahs & Tripathis.
Making friends with fundies of other religions just to "own the libs" always boomerangs.
Yes it's Sourav Ganguly's birthday, but I can no longer wish him with the same love and respect that I used to, given his current avatar as a conflict-of-interest ridden, law-bending power clinger at the BCCI. How he has sold out. Very sad for fans like us.
I used to wonder why left ecosystem has become so irrelevant. Today, I got the answer.
Trolling, hate speech, bigotry of left is same as of right wing. They are literally two sides of the same coin.
The only difference is the absurd moral supremacy that leftists live with.
Meet Princi frm Amreli Gujarat who ended her life by hanging from the fan after her Husband Dhaval Rathod died of heart attack. Princi and Dhaval gt married 6 months ago. Both wife and husband got cremated together. In these times when we read the news of
#HusbandMurder
by wives
This was a time when it was okay to talk about national integration, peaceful coexistence and religious tolerance. Now those phrases have become unacceptably "woke" or even "anti-national" in new India.
@tapanwaval
@BookLuster
Ask not what your government can do for you. Ask what app you can develop for the top 5% people to get paid access to facilities that the government should have done for you.
@neeleshmisra
Because there is a difference between "don't put the same serving spoon in a veg and non-veg dish to serve it" and "my veg serving spoon shouldn't touch even a washed non-veg cooking utensil because that's impure". See the difference? The 1st is acceptable. The 2nd is casteism.
If you are so worried about people being lured away by rice bags, just make arrangements to provide rice yourself first. Don’t cry tears and ask to make giving food to poor people illegal because you can’t match it.
Be better. Don’t just shoot how “they” are worse than you.
@AyurvedaMonk
Have you shared the picture of the kids with their consent? No. You have taken an innocent school picture & sexualised it in public on Twitter, effectively shaming the kids for their dress. You are a despicable human. Kindly stuff your "explanations" where the sun don't shine!
This is an appreciation tweet for Lt. Gen.
@rwac48
. His clearly-worded and incisive explanations of army tactics and insights into the Indian defense world is unparalleled!
The establishment would do well to invite him back for an advisory role in the Indo-China face off.
Lost my father's eldest brother to Covid today. Ex-Air Force engineer. All round great man who practically raise his many siblings after their father left them in penury. Fare well, Boro Jethu. You were an inspiration.
@QuirkyLogic
@jay_kotakone
Let me guess. You stay in a 3-4 bedroom apartment or a bungalow in India and are driven around by a chauffeur. You have a second home and wear designer clothes. You have at least 1 diamond set, & your home a/c bill is above 10,000 a month. Any inaccuracies?
THREAD
Azad Singh Arya, a gun-wielding Acharya & chief of Vishwa Hindu Parishad Haryana, is described by Monu Manesar as ‘the soul of Gau Raksha Dal Haryana’ & a mentor & guru. He's now an accused in the alleged kidnapping and murder of Nasir and Junaid.
Beautiful obituary about a couple, her mama-mami, written by a lady in ToI
#Kolkata
today. Worth reading for both the felicity of language and genuine emotional warmth.
When you see Brij Bhushan addressing the press about horrors of Manipur, it tells you two things:
1. He’s gaining prominence in his party, as rapists & killers do there
2. This government’s entire tactics to keep base happy is “own the libs” - this is a deliberate provocation.
Being unaware of the organ transplant process in India I had posted a query yesterday about how Arun Jaitley (and Swaraj) got a donor so fast. Here is a facebook post by a person who has been waiting for a donor for years. Read and think for yourself.
@divyaarorafd
हम तो इसे उर्दू कहते है। वही भाषा जो भगत सिंह इस्तेमाल करते थे। वही भाषा जिसका इस्तेमाल गुलज़ार साब अपने कविताएँ लिखने के लिए करते हैं। ये “मदरसे वाली भाषा” क्या है ये तो हमें पता नहीं।
@Vakeel_Sb
@Retired__hurt
@cricketpakcompk
They are not even complaining, but here you are on your rant. And the culture of India very much includes beef eating in many places - so what culture are you talking about?
Hindu bigot shows horrible prejudice against
@Airtel_Presence
by refusing to engage with a Muslim rep. And Airtel meekly responds by changing the rep to a Hindu one. Un-freaking-believable!
Because no one takes out processions deliberately through certain expressly to incite violence on Eid by dancing in front of Mosques playing loud music, and hurling abuse. So yes, there is a far greater need for asking for peace in Ram Navami in New India.
@madhukishwar
@iJasOberoi
When people like you claim to represent Hinduism, it's very easy to see why adherents are leaving in droves for other religions, or atheism. You are a disgrace to all women and humanity at large.
@Ravisutanjani
Have been hearing this bit of illogic since childhood. In every generation. There was a time when Sunil Gavaskar was considered irreplaceable. And a time when Sachin was. A time when Indira was too.
As Charles DeGaulle said - “The graveyard is full of irreplaceable people.”