So, i didn’t have a ticket.
Rode for few kms sitting on a newspaper on the floor of this bus. Talked my way into sharing front seat with the conductor. This was just one of the several such turns that Dur Singh Ji - HRTC bus driver from Keylokg depot negotiates every day.
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not too long back, two men - mazlum ansari and imteyaz khan, were found hanging from a tree. one of them was just 15!
they weren’t effigies. they were living and breathing human beings killed and hung for no fault of theirs.
sadly no one cried out for sanity to prevail then.
This is an effigy of Nupur Sharma hanging in Karnataka.
Simply cannot believe that this is 21st century, India.
I would urge everyone to leave politics aside and let sanity prevail. This is just too much.
so marina beach in chennai has put up temporary wooden ramps and floating wheel chairs for differently abled ppl to be able to enjoy the beach and the sea.
this is so good.
was hoping i didn’t have to resort to this, but have been left with limited choices.
just filed fir against
@Flemster25
for harassment, attempts at self harm and threatening to seek “revenge” - all because i did not reciprocate his feelings for me.
here you go guys..
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i have observed that most indian men above 25 don’t play any sport at all but will watch and have an opinion on every random sport to ever exist on this planet.
there’s a man here with over 20k followers going around defending lewd comments about a woman’s dp and saying he will slap his sister if she doesn’t wear clothes approved by him.
and there are people liking his tweets.
this is why upbringing is so important.
most nris have cringe “code names” for not just americans, afro americans and mexicans but also fellow indians from other communities. have heard them refer to blacks as gulab jamun and south indians as anna sambhar. how they cry when get a taste of their own medicine!
none of these ppl would have died if not for incompetent administration. government holds 100% accountability & in any other country questions would have been asked & heads would have rolled. but here media actually ran a piece on how the pm couldn’t sleep well due to this mishap
friend’s spouse in blore drove 2 hours one way to hoist flag at their empty warehouse because they feared property would have been vandalized if no flag.
of course i wished them happy independence day.
Ganesh chaturthi is here and I am thinking about the night in 2016 when Bombay first made me fall in love with the beautiful city that it is.
I moved to Bombay on 5th sep 2016 after spending almost 10 years in Bangalore.
This was the day Ganesh festival began that year.
after missing my train by 3 mins and then taking another train to chase my original train and still missing it and after that don’t ask me what all i did to get here. all for this view.
some troubles are totally worth it.
so lost my job sometime back. decided to return home and just not do anything for a while.
amazed at how much we as indians give importance to having a “stable job”, regardless of the impacted person’s desire and financial position to sustain without having to work a regular 9-5
Feminism is not misandry.
Misandry means hatred towards men or the concept of women wanting power over men in the society.
So no, women who hate men are not feminists.
13 yr old girl: i am going to sonu’s house to collect yesterday’s class notes.
indian parents: don’t go alone. take your brother for safety.
(pointing at 6 yr old brother)
btw asked a bjp supporter their opinion on electoral bonds and their reply was congress is funded by pakistan and china that’s why they don’t need funds from indian industrialists.
this happened some 7 hours back and i am still laughing
SRK Fans have beaten the combined Bhakts, BJP IT cell, Verified Accounts and Akshay Fans. Our tag is trending above them with the double count of theirs.
#Even_Modi_Needs_BrandSRK
yesterday’s outcome must have devastated these players beyond what we can ever imagine but instead of letting them be and respect their privacy atleast for few days he makes them post for his pr.
never seen a more shameless or insensitive man.
Unfortunately yesterday was not our day. I would like to thank all Indians for supporting our team and me throughout the tournament. Thankful to PM
@narendramodi
for specially coming to the dressing room and raising our spirits. We will bounce back!
sold my parents old couch on olx to some nisha and two 20 something guys are here to pick it up. i asked how were they related to nisha and one of them smiling shyly and saying he only is nisha on olx 🤦🏽♀️😵💫
and pls don’t dm or even reply saying how sorry you are for me or how bad you feel that i had to go through this shit. i am alright, with or without solidarity. just hope this helps us to know who we trust and interact with. and a lesson to not put up with bs for too long.
dear universe if you ever decide to reincarnate me as a dog make sure you follow this account and design my life in accordance with these thoughts only. okay?
after a lot of convincing, managed to get my mother to step out with me and experience the nightlife here in florence. just her and i. she wasn’t sure if it will be safe for two women to step out in a foreign city so late at night by themselves.
well past midnight rn and…
this ex colleague holds ganesh puja at her house each year and instead of offering flowers, money and sweets she makes her guests offer notebooks and pens which are later distributed to local ngo run school.
this is 2nd year in row that she is doing this and i find it beautiful.
we live in a country where basic human rights of an average indian is violated in usual mundane daily ways of living and we are so used to it, it doesn’t even feel like a violation.
not defending hanging of nupur’s effigy. but ffs what’s an effigy when y’all kept quiet while real people were hung?! had you insisted on sanity to prevail then, maybe situation wouldn’t have come to this.
BIG BREAKING 🚨
Visuals from the 'Employment Fair' in Lucknow.
Thousands of ex-servicemen turned up for meager jobs & waiting in long queues.
Imagine the state of unemployment in the country!
This is very heartbreaking, sad & outrageous.
90% of my married friends are not happy and wish they weren’t married. society & family wouldn’t let them walk out of it. some veer off into extramarital affairs, some just fake it and get bitter internally, some cry themselves to sleep each night, some seek solace in work.
moral of the story is:
1. financial independence and a solid investment plan is an essential life-hack.
2. it’s alright to hit rock bottom. teaches to deal with a lot of things.
3. you are the single most important person to help yourself bounce back.
finito.
amazing how ppl can fake things here. all his talks about equality etc are just eye wash. i have texts/emails from him saying things like how could i reject “someone from his social standing and choose an anglo indian instead”.
this the same man who tweets about social justice.
came upon this waterfall during our trek and had to cross the stream. took off the boots and put on neoprene sandals. almost died of hypothermia. water was itna jyada cold!
but breathtaking. no?
i was out of country on work when the below mails hit my inbox. this shook me up. i feel stupid now that i was so worried for this man’s well being that actually reached out to few friends here to see if they could ensure his safety.
over last 4 months i have been subjected to countless emails from different ids (after being blocked on all other platforms) ranging from very polished eloquent love-letters to abusing the ppl i am friends with on twitter to wishing me sorrow to threatening to committing suicide
local cops knew about it. state govt too & possibly even some of these high profile ministers in delhi knew. all were mum and hoping this news would never see daylight. there never was an intent to act and protect. smriti tweeted because news went viral and not because she cares
was on a video call with a colleague from italy on friday. he was almost crying when he said they are at a point when they are having to agree to take medical care away from their parents to save their children and themselves.
no body should experience this :(