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Contradictions in the Quran:
Do they not then meditate on the Quran? And if it were from any other than Allah, they would have found in it many a contradiction.” Sura 4:82
How long is one day, according to Allah?
a. 1 day is equivalent to 1000 years (22:47)
b. 1 day is equivalent to 50,000 years (70:4)
2. How long did Allah take to create the Earth?
a. 6 days (7:45, 10:3, 11:7, 25:59)
b. 8 days (41:9-12)
3. Is heaven older than the earth? Which was created first?
a. Earth was created first (2:29, 41:9)
b. Heaven was created first (79:27-30)
4. From what substance were humans made?
a. A blood clot (96:1-2)
b. Water (21:30)
c. Burned clay (15:26)
d. Dust (3:59)
e. Nothing (19:67)
f. Earth (11:61)
g. A drop of thick fluid ( 16:4, 75:37)
h. Sticky clay (37:11)
5. Is Shirk (idolatry) an unforgivable sin?
a. Unforgivable (4:48, 4:116)
b. Forgivable (4:153, 25:68-71)
6. What is the punishment for adultery?
a. 100 lashes for both the man & woman (24:2)
b. Life imprisonment for the woman but no punishment to the man (4:15)
c. Grant pardon (4:16)
d. Stoning to death (Bukhari 8:816)
7. Did Noah’s son drown?
a. All of Noah’s family survived ( 21:76)
b. Noah’s son drowned, 11:43)
8. Did Pharaoh drown, or was he saved?
a. Pharaoh survived the battle (10:92)
b. Pharaoh drowned (28:40, 17:103, 43:55)
9. Do Christians go to Heaven or Hell?
a. Christians shall enter paradise (2:62, 5:69)
b. Christians shall go to hell (5:72, 3:85)
10. Will God reward the good deeds of the nonbelievers?
a. No (9:17)
b. Yes (99:7)
11. Did the Arabs (Meccans) receive prophets (warners) before Mohammed?
a. No (28:46)
b. Yes (2:125)
12. What is the food in hell?
a. Thorns/Dhari (88:6)
b. One's own pus (88:6)
c. Special hell fruit/ Zaqqum (37:66)
13. Is there compulsion in religion?
a. No (2:256)
b. Yes (9:29)
c. Kill apostates (Bukhari)
14. For whom is salvation?
a. For all pious theists (5:69)
b. For Muslims only (3:85)
15. What should Muslims do with unbelievers at the end of the day?
a. Nothing; live and let live (45:14)
b. Fight them (9:29)
16. Who will be the judge of humans?
a. Mohammad (5:109)
b. God (2:143)
17. What is the source of grace?
a. God (57:29)
b. Mohammad (9:74)
18. Who is the only one who can forgive sins?
a. Allah (3:135)
b. Allah together with Mohammad (4:64, 33:36)
19. Can God share power and sovereignty?
a. No (17:111)
b. Yes (3:26)
20. Does Satan mislead Muslims?
a. Yes (7:16)
b. No (38:82)
21. Who was the first Muslim?
a. Mohamad (39:12, 6:14, 6:163)
b. Moses (7:143)
c. Abraham (2:132)
d. Adam (2:37, 3:33)
e. Some Egyptians (26:51)
f. Jesus and his disciples (3:52, 5:111)
22. How was Isa created?
a. When Allah said, “Be.” (3:47)
b. When Allah blew into Mariam’s private part (66:12)
23. How many surahs does Allah require to prove that the Quran is not forged?
a. One (10:38)
b. Ten (11:13)
24: Can Allah have a son if he wanted to?
a. No. (6:101)
b. Yes (39:4)
25. Is it possible to have a son without a consort?
a. No (6:101)
b. Yes (19:20-21)
26. Can one bow before anyone but Allah?
a. Only Allah (22:18)
b. To Adam (2:34)
c. To kaabah
27. Does Allah forget or not?
a. Allah never forgets (19:64, 20:52)
b. Allah forgets (7:51, 9:67, 32;14, 45:34)
Contradictions About Allah
• Where is Allah?
a. On a throne (57:4, 11:7)
b. Everywhere (2:115)
c. Kaabah (14:37)
d. Nearby (2:186, 50:16)
2. Is Allah the only protector?
a. Yes (32:4, 9:116, 18:112)
b. No, angels too (41:31)
c. No, Muhammad too. (5:55)
d. No, the believers, too. (9:71)
3. Is Allah the only Master to obey?
a. Yes. (18:26, 17:111, 6:71)
b. No, Muhammad too. (4:59, 4:80, numerous repetitions in 26:108,110,126,144,150,163,179)
4. Can Allah be seen?
a. No (6:103)
b. Maybe (42:51)
c. Yes, (53:1-8, 68:42)
5. Is Allah omniscient, all-knowing?
a. Yes (49:16)
b. No, he needs to test you to know (2:155)
6. Can only Allah see the unseen?
a. Yes (10:20)
b. No, Solomon can, too (27:39)
7. Does Allah lead people astray?
a. No (9:115)
b. Yes (6:25)
8. Does Allah have body parts?
a. No (42:11)
b. Yes, he has a face (55:27)
c. Yes, he has eyes (20:39)
d. Yes, he has hands (5:64, 38:74-75, 39:67)
e. Yes, he has legs/shin (68:42)
f. Yes, he has a bottom to sit on (69:17)
g. Yes, he has male sexual reproductive organs (implied) (6:101)
9. Is Allah merciful?
a. Yes (1:3)
b. No (4:56)
10. Does Allah speak directly to people?
a. No (42:51)
b. Yes, various Moses, Adam, Muhammad, and some unknown person. (4:164, 2:36, 53:11, 2:259)
11. Does Allah forgive all sins?
a. Yes (39:53)
b. No (4:116)
Contradictions About Angels and Demons
12. Can angels be sent to the earth?
a. No (17:95)
b. Yes (2:102, 66:12, 15:65)
13. Can angels guard and protect?
a. No (2:107)
b. Yes (41:31)
14. How many angels helped Muhammad at Badr?
a. 3000 (3:124)
b. 1000 (8:9)
c. 0, because Allah does not send angels near any disbelievers (15:8)
15. Does Satan mislead Muslims?
a. Yes (7:16-17)
b. No (38:82-83)
16. Was Iblis a jinn or an angel?
a. Jinn (18:50)
b. Angel (2:34)
17. Where are the Jinns?
a. On earth, and they cannot get to the heavens (55:33)
b. In the heavens and they cannot get to earth (37:6-7)
Contradictions About Creation
18. At creation, did heaven and earth come apart or come together?
a. Together (presented as evidence that the universe is contracting) (41:11)
b. Apart (presented as evidence that the universe is expanding) (21:30)
19: How long does it take Allah to create?
a. Takes time (7:54)
b. Instantly (2:117)
Contradictions About Day Of Judgement (Qiyamah)
20. How many trumpets will be blown on Qiyamah?
a. Two (79:7)
b. One only (69:13)
21. What happens to the mountains on Qiyamah?
a. Become like wool (70:9)
b. Disappear (78:20)
22. Will disbelievers receive their judgment book on Qiyamah?
a. On their back (84:10)
b. On the left hand (69:25)
Contradictions About Evil
23. Does evil come from Allah?
a. Yes (4:78)
b. No (4:79)
24. Does Allah command destruction?
a. No (6:131)
b. Yes (17:16)
25. Does Allah allow magic and bewitching?
a. No, it isn't very good (113:4)
b. Yes, with his permission (20:65)
26. Are animals evil?
a. Yes, (7:179, 7:166)
b. No (22:18)
c. Yes, the black dog is the devil (hadiths)
Contradictions About Heaven and Hell
27. When will the dead be brought back to life?
a. On the appointed Hour (Day of Judgement) (22:7)
b. Immediately after their death (3:169)
28. Is there a fate other than heaven or hell?
a. No (47:12)
b. Yes, purgatory exists (7:46)
29. Is intercession possible?
a. No (2:123, 2:47)
b. Yes (20:109, 10:3)
30. Is heaven singular or plural?
a. Singular (Arabic, sama) (57:21)
b. Plural (Arabic, samawaat) (3:133)
31. Who will men be with in paradise?
a. Wives from earth (43:70)
b. Heavenly virgins (52:20)
32. Does everyone experience hell?
a. Yes (19:71)
b. No (47:12, 3:157-158)
33. Will non-Muslims go to hell forever?
a. Not necessarily (6:128, 11:106)
b. Not eternally -(Arabic Huqb is seventy or eighty years, and every day of it is like one thousand years according to your reckoning in this life—Ibn Kathir) (78:23)
c. Yes (2:167, 41:28)
34. Will Isa be in hell?
a. Yes, because he is worshipped as God (21:98-99)
b. No (3:45)
Contradictions About Mankind
35. What is the purpose of mankind?
a. Only to worship Allah (51:56)
b. To pursue the habits of Muhammad (7:158)
c. To perform best deeds (67:2)
36. Are all races equal?
a. No (3:33, 2:47)
b. Yes (49:13)
37. Does everyone bear their own burden?
a. Yes (6:164, 35:18, 2:286)
b. No (16:25, 2:91, 3:181, 29:13)
38. Does man have free will?
a. No (10:100)
b. Yes (81:28)
39. When was man’s fate written?
a. Before creation (57:22) [according to hadith, 40 years before the creation of the earth]
b. On Laylatul Qadr (lit. “The Night of Fate”) (44:3)
40. Who takes a man’s soul upon death?
a. One angel (32:11)
b. Many angels (47:27)
c. Allah (39:42)
Contradictions About Muslims
41. Is Allah the only Wali?
a. Yes (9:116)
b. No (5:55)
42. How many mothers does one have?
a. One (58:2)
b. A plurality (4:23, 33:6)
43. How firm is a believer over an unbeliever?
a. One can overcome ten (8:65)
b. One can overcome two (8:66)
44. Can a Muslim eat non-halal meat like pork?
a. No (6:118)
b. Yes (5:5)
45. Is jewelry allowed?
a. Yes, (16:14, 7:31)
b. No (28:76)
46. Is adoption allowed?
a. No (33:4)
b. Yes (4:23)
47. Is drinking alcohol allowed?
a. No (5:90, 2:219)
b. Yes (16:67)
c. Yes, but not when you’re about to pray (4:43)
d. Yes, rivers of wine in paradise (47:15, 83:22-26)
48. How many sacred months are there?
a. Four (9:36)
b. One (5:2)
Contradictions About Non-Muslims
49. What does Allah do with apostates?
a. Punishes them (88:23-24)
b. Ignores them (60:6)
50. Is there compulsion in Islam?
a. No (2:256, 109:6)
b. Yes (8:12)
c. Yes, unless the non-Muslim pays you (9:29)
51. Will Allah reward all good deeds?
a. No (9:17)
b. Yes (99:7)
52. Who causes disbelievers to go astray?
a. Allah (6:25, 35:8, 10:100)
b. Satan (15:39, 114:5, 4:119)
c. Themselves (9:70, 6:12, 30:9)
53. Who is salvation for?
a. For Muslims only (3:19, 3:85)
b. For all pious theists (5:69, 2:62)
54. How should Muslims treat unbelievers?
a. Kindly (45;14, 25:63)
b. They must be attacked and subjugated (9:29)
55. Can Muslims insult believers of other religions?
a. No (6:108)
b. Yes (98:6)
56. How to treat an infidel in the family?
a. Kindly (31:15)
b. Abandon them (9:23)
Contradictions About People Of The Book
57. Can Muslims take Christians as friends?
a. No (5:51)
b. Yes (5:82, 57:27)
58. Do Christians and Jews hate each other or love each other?
a. Hate (5:64)
b. Love (5:51)
59. Can a Muslim marry a Non-Muslim?
a. No (2:221)
b. Yes (5:5)
60. Do Muslims and Non-Muslims worship the same God?
a. No (109:3)
b. Yes (29:46)
61. Will Jews and Christians be saved from hell?
a. Yes (2:62, 5:69)
b. No (3;19, 3:85)
Contradictions About The Prophets
62. Were all the Biblical Jewish prophets Muslims?
a. Yes
b. No (Because the People Of The Book were only Christians and Jews, not Muslims)
63. Who does Allah send as prophets and messengers?
a. Only men from a community (12:109)
b. Also angels (22:75)
c. A beast (27:82)
d. Entire tribes (4:163)
e. The earth itself (99:2)
64. Are all prophets equal?
a. Yes (2:285)
b. No (2:253)
65. Will Muhammad go to heaven?
a. Yes (48:1-2)
b. Not sure (46:9)
66. Was Muhammad a sinner?
a. No, he was sinless and the most perfect man.
b. Yes, he was a sinner (40:55, 48:2, 47:19)
67. Were all the prophets sinless?
a. Yes
b. No, Adam sinned (120:121)
c. No, Nuh sinned (71:128)
c. No, Ibrahim sinned (26:82)
d. No, Musa sinned (28:16)
e. No, Daud sinned (38:24)
f. No, Sulaiman sinned (38:35)
g. Jesus alone was sinless (3:45, 19:19 ~ Confirmation from hadith: The Prophet said, “When ANY human being is born. Satan touches him on both sides of the body with his two fingers, EXCEPT Jesus, the son of Mary, whom Satan tried to touch but FAILED, for he touched the placenta-cover instead.” (Sahih Buhari Book 54 Number 506)
68. How did Ibraham confront the idolaters?
a. Destroyed their idols (21:58)
b. Turns away and does nothing (19:49)
69. Did Muhammad perform any miracles?
a. Yes (according to Muslims)
b. No (29:50)
70. Are all messengers descended from the line of Abraham?
a. Yes (29:27)
b. No (16:36)
71. Was Ibraham an idolater?
a. No (2:135)
b. Yes (6:76)
72. Was Nuh banished and exiled by his people?
a. Yes (54:9)
b. No, he regularly talked with them (11:38)
73. Was Jonah cast on the shore?
a. Yes (37:145)
b. No (68:49)
Contradictions About Sex
74. Is adultery and fornication permitted?
a. No (24:33)
b. Yes (4:24, 23:6)
75. Is incest permitted?
a. No (4:23)
b. Yes (7:172, 33:37 ~Muhammad married his cousin, Zainab)
76. Is polygamy allowed?
a. Yes (4:3)
b. No (4:129)
Contradictions About Women
77. Are men and women equal?
a. Yes (3:195)
b. No (4:34, 2:228)
78. Can slandering a chaste woman be forgiven?
a. Yes (24:5)
b. No (24:23)
Contradictions About The Quran
79. Who brought the revelation to Muhammad?
a. Holy Spirit (16:102)
b. Jibreel (2:97)
80. Who is the revelation intended for?
a. Only to the illiterate/unlettered (62:2)
b. Only to Arabs (41:44)
c. Mankind (4:174)
d. Jinns too (55:33)
81. How was the Quran revealed?
a. On a night (44:3, 97:1)
b. In a month (2:185, 17;106, 25:32)
82. Is the Quran clear?
a. Yes (11:1, 16:103)
b. No (3:7, 2:1)
83. Is the Quran in pure Arabic?
a. Yes (16:103)
b. No, because it contains qistas (a foreign word) (17:35) [with a balance (بِٱلْقِسْطَاسِ)]
c. No, because it contains al-sijjil (a foreign word) (15:74) [baked clay (سِجِّيلٍ)]
84. Does Allah change or abrogate his words?
a. No (6:115, 10:64)
b. Yes (2:106, 16:101)
Miscellaneous Contradictions
85. When did Pharaoh command the killing of the babies?
a. When Moses was a prophet (40:25)
b. When was Moses a baby (20:39)
86. How many of Thamud killed the divine she-camel?
a. One (54:29)
b. Several (7:77)
87. Did the pagan Meccans receive any revelation before Muhammad?
a. No (34:44)
b. Yes (10:47)
88. How long did it take to destroy the Aad tribe?
a. One day (54:19)
b. Several days (41:16)
c. About a week (69:7)
89. How long does it take to wean?
a. 30 months (46:15)
b. 24 months (31:14)
90. How many creators are there?
a. One (40:62)
b. Many (23:14)
91. Who is jihad for?
a. For Allah (61:4)
b. For jihadis themselves only, not Allah (29:5-6)
92. Did The People Of The Book Corrupt Their Scriptures And Exchange Them for A Small Price?
a. Yes, (2:79)
b. No (2:75, 3:199)
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Yes, I have this question too.
In San Francisco airport, you find lots of Asian staff - but population wise Asians are a huge % ( > 35%) - Their numbers probably reflects their population too.
Bengaluru definitely does not have that high % Malayali population afaik but airport seems to be dominated by them in all counters.
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Good to see @Sanju_Verma_ take @shreyadhoundial to the cleaners for her biased line of questioning
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Shama Mohamed to Rajdeep Sardesai be like: All other issues later, first tell me why you didn't call me the national spokesperson of the Congress?
You can't make this up 🤣🤣
The new Ramayana film shows mAtaa siitaa having a moustache.
I don't know if they should fire the script writer for envisaging that look or the makeup woman for doing a shoddy job or the director for not protesting or cinematographer or all of them including the lighting boy.
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Sai Pallavi is actually looking like those rakshashis from Ashok Vatika.
And the makeup artist probably had some personal grudge against her.
How did the makers pick up the ugliest actress to play Sita. 😭😭
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Beyond Amitabh Bachchan's bungalow, there are only 2–3 industrialists' bungalows on that road.
There is one grand bungalow on that road. It is called "Niranter."
This bungalow is three times larger than Amitabh Bachchan's. It has a lawn of nearly 3 acres and is extremely opulent.
Anyone would be stunned to hear that such a lavish bungalow exists in an elite area like Juhu, Mumbai!
But this bungalow doesn't belong to a superstar or an industrialist.
Do you know who owns it?
**Teesta Javed Setalvad** – just a "social activist"!
Now read on patiently to the end – your eyes, ears and mind will all begin to open.
Between 2004 and 2012, she received crores of dollars in funding from abroad.
For what? To uplift the poor?
But there is something more...
Why are these people so anti-India?
Their forefathers sowed this seed.
👇Start here. Read the history Congress hid from us.
The Hunter Commission was the inquiry committee that gave General Dyer a clean chit – the same Dyer who ordered the firing at the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
A member of this commission was Harilal Chimanlal Setalvad, great-grandfather of Teesta Setalvad.
In other words, the ancestor of the present owners of the bungalow described above.
It was Harilal's son, Motilal Chimanlal Setalvad – Teesta's grandfather – who acquitted General Dyer.
After independence, Nehru appointed this same Motilal Setalvad as India's Attorney General.
This is living proof of Nehru's loyalty to the British.
The story doesn't end here...
**Read on.**
While General Dyer was being tried, Diwan Bahadur Kunj Behari Thapar, showing his loyalty to the British, collected Rs. 1.5 lakh for General Dyer and honored him by presenting him with a kirpan and a turban.
This same Kunj Behari Thapar is the great-grandfather of **Karan Thapar**.
The Thapar family grew rich during British rule, especially by supplying troops and materials during the First World War.
Today, when the Thapar family displays its loyalty, it should be no surprise where the kirpan and turban came from.
All this happened in the management of the Golden Temple, where two contractors, **Sujan Singh** and **Sobha Singh**, were the main contractors.
When the British shifted India's capital from Calcutta to Delhi, these two took over all the construction contracts.
Sobha Singh's son **Khushwant Singh** was a famous writer and a supporter of Indira Gandhi. He wrote articles in favor of the Emergency.
Khushwant Singh's son, **Rahul Singh**, keeps promoting anti-India views on NDTV by glorifying figures like Teesta Setalvad and Arundhati Roy.
Speaking of the Thapar family...
Karan Thapar's father, **Pran Nath Thapar**, was the commander in the 1962 China war – a war India lost.
Earlier, General K.S. Thimayya had recommended Lt. Gen. S.P.P. Thorat as his successor.
But Nehru rejected that recommendation and appointed Pran Nath Thapar.
– Another example of the British mindset.
Not only that – Pran Nath Thapar's brother is **Mayadas Thapar**, and his daughter is **Romila Thapar**, after whom Indian school history textbooks are named.
Nehru made this appointment too.
Strangely, the names of those who lost the 1962 war are not found in these history books.
Just because these books were written by their nieces!
This is the same wealthy family – which grew rich through bribes during the British era – that still holds India's history and identity hostage today.
These are the same people who regard themselves as the monopolists of progress.
These are the same people who spread lies and stop India's true identity from emerging.
After independence, Nehru and Congress protected British interests by giving these very people important posts.
Teesta Setalvad went to jail – this was not just the fall of one fraudster... but the fall of an entire parasitic system, whose roots were planted generations ago.
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Hello @Malabartweets I have many schemes running in your company I have bought lakhs of gold and now I am being cheated what’s this answer
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I had never seen the longer version of this martial arts demonstration, and I have to say...
WTF did I just watch
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Muslims have killed more than 600 million non-Muslims since 622.
But if you point this out, they’ll say it’s Islamophobia.
🤖 Made with AI
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Underage son of a Kerala JUDGE fatally rams Mercedes into man on scooter, gets bail in 3 hours. Judge father threatens victim’s family in police station, forces them to delete photos.
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🚨SHOCKING - FIR against Malabar:
A man walked into a Malabar Gold showroom in Bilaspur with a simple request: exchange his old 22-carat HUID-hallmarked bracelet.
The staff ran it through their XRF machine. Once. Twice. Three times.
Every reading came back the same: 20 carat.
They even told him the hallmark didn’t exist.
He called the local jeweller who had sold him the bracelet. The jeweller walked in, confirmed the HUID, and asked them to test it again.
Same machine. Same bracelet. Same room.
This time an employee adjusted something on the machine. Suddenly the reading flipped to 916 - pure 22 carat.
The jeweller recorded everything. The Sarafa Association arrived. Police registered an FIR against the showroom manager and the machine operator. The machine and DVR were seized.
This wasn’t a small local shop. This was Malabar Gold “the chain that advertises trust, purity, and BIS standards across India”.
One bracelet. Two readings. An 8% gap in gold value. And the only thing that changed was who was watching.
If a hallmarked piece can magically lose two carats the moment a customer wants to exchange it, and magically regain them the moment someone pushes back, what exactly is the machine testing?
Customers don’t walk into Malabar expecting a calibration error that only appears when they’re selling gold.
They walk in expecting the purity printed on their receipt.
The FIR is real.
The readings are on record.
The machine was seized.
Malabar still hasn’t explained why the same piece of gold needed a “setting” before it became 22 carat again.
Until they do, this isn’t a machine glitch.
It’s a business model.
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The gradual decline in accent is simply remarkable. Starts out rolling his r’s, starts to lose it by the middle of the clip, landing firmly on Mallu English accent at the end.
ಇಂಥಾ ಕಥೆಗಳನ್ನ ನಮ್ಮ ಕನ್ನಡ ಫಿಲ್ಮ್ ಇಂಡಸ್ಟ್ರಿ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಕೂಡಾ ಪುಂಖಾನುಪುಂಖವಾಗಿ ಬೇಕಾದಷ್ಟು ಜನ ಬರೆದರು. ಈಗಲೂ ವರ್ಷಕ್ಕೆ 200 ಫಿಲ್ಮ್ಗಳು ತಯಾರಾಗ್ತಿದೆ. ನಷ್ಟ ಏನಿದ್ದರೂ ಕಿತ್ತೋಗಿರೊ ಫಿಲ್ಮ್ ಮಾಡೊ ಪ್ರಡ್ಯೂಸರ್ಗಳಿಗೆ, ಇಡೀ ಇಂಡಸ್ಟ್ರಿಗೆ ಏನೂ ನಷ್ಟ ಆಗಲ್ಲ.
Many people believe that if #Ramayana fails to achieve its expected box office numbers, #NamitMalhotra will suffer massive losses. But the bigger picture is much more significant than that.
Namit Malhotra may be able to recover his investment through multiple revenue streams, but if Ramayana fails to meet expectations, the consequences will not be limited to one producer. It could also affect the future of Indian cinema.
Just think about it: if an Indian film with a massive investment of ₹1,500–2,000 crore fails to deliver the expected returns, which producer would be willing to take such a huge financial risk again? It wouldn't matter whether the film was based on our mythology, history, or an entirely original story.
Namit Malhotra could eventually shift his focus towards Hollywood, where he has already established himself in the VFX industry. He might even go on to produce Hollywood films in the future. Indian producers may eventually trust only a handful of filmmakers, such as SS Rajamouli, to make big-budget films with budgets of ₹1,500–2,000 crore. However, I believe that Rajamouli himself could move towards Hollywood after Varanasi and one or two more projects.
The irony is that people who want Ramayana to fail may not realise that they could also be hurting the future of Indian cinema.
This is about more than one film, one filmmaker, or a fan war. It is about whether Indian cinema can earn the confidence of investors to create ambitious, world-class films on a global scale.
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There is an American tech YouTuber called Jerry Rigs Everything. Most of his videos are about him taking apart devices, understanding how they work etc.
He has 10.2 million subscribers
In 2005 his wife had a horse riding accident as a result of which she was paralyzed waist down. She now required a wheel chair to move about
All high quality outdoor wheelchairs that he tested costed upwards of $20,000
Considering he was a tech Youtuber with some fame he could have simply called one company to get one for free.
He didn't do that
Like he does on his channel, he took apart a wheelchair, understood its components and then built one on his own
He then decided to sell them in public for $999. He called it the Paradox
Thanks to him, most of us can have access to high mobility, all terrain wheelchairs.
This is what tech Youtubers abroad do. They actually make a difference
Meanwhile Our guys haven't yet gone past, "Arre Bhai, Yeh dekho Apple ka agla amazing phone, Isme aapko milta hai 3 camera aur ek screen. See how I am drooling on this packaging and colour" with some pathetically click baity thumbnails
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Everyone in India has been so kind and generous toward Karnataka that they travelled all the way to Bengaluru to develop it.
Their generosity was truly extraordinary they even left their own home states underdeveloped just to ensure Karnataka could prosper.
Banglore’s economy is because of migrant people - they aspire to grow and they are the reason for real estate boom .
Kannadiga builders and real estate dons and so many political families benefited because of it .
Send all migrants back - and u will be left with empty streets and zero economy .
So they will just do chest thumping here - but will never actually do it .
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Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. Forty-seven people opened it.
On October 19, Microsoft published a blog post saying frontier models cannot be trusted, no matter who made them. It said AI agents should be treated as "insider threats."
I read it twice. Then I booked the boardroom.
First, our Microsoft rep walked me through the product.
I asked who the insider threat was. "Your AI agents," he said.
I asked whose agents those were. "Ours."
I asked what the solution was. "Guardian Agents."
I asked whose those were. "Also ours."
I asked why I'd trust the second set of agents if I couldn't trust the first.
He said, "Different SKU."
I signed that afternoon.
Last time I told the board "digital transformation." This time I said "agentic insider threat." They approved it in nine minutes, two minutes faster than last time. Hope approves fast. Fear approves faster.
The product is called Microsoft 365 E7, the Frontier Suite. It costs $99 per user per month, and we were paying $30. Across 4,000 seats, that's $4.75 million a year, up from $1.44 million.
I presented it as a 230% increase in AI investment. The graph went up and to the right.
The CFO asked what we'd get for the extra $3.3 million.
I said "governance." He asked governance of what. I said "our agents." He asked how many agents we had.
The answer was zero.
You can't have an insider threat without insiders.
So I deployed agents. Two hundred of them. One schedules meetings. One summarizes the meetings. One summarizes the summaries. One flags summaries that haven't been read. That one is very busy.
The senior developer asked what the 200 agents were for. I said they generate activity for the Guardian Agents to monitor.
He said, "So we bought agents so we'd have something to buy guards for."
I said, "Exactly."
He wasn't agreeing. I logged it as buy-in.
The Guardian Agents watch the other agents around the clock. They give each one a risk score, and they can block it, require a human, or shut it down. I asked our rep who watches the Guardian Agents. He said that's on the roadmap. I've already budgeted for E9.
The first monthly report came in. All 200 agents had a risk score of zero. They weren't doing anything risky. They weren't doing anything at all.
The board asked what $3.3 million had bought us if nothing was risky. It was a fair question.
So I gave the meeting summarizer access to payroll. I gave the scheduling agent admin rights to every inbox. I gave the summary-of-summaries agent the ability to email customers.
Risk went up 400%. The dashboard turned red. The Guardian Agents contained thirty-one threats in a single week. I had created all thirty-one.
The board said E7 was paying for itself.
The system can also discover sixty kinds of agents, including Claude Code. We ran the scan, and it found Claude Code on exactly one laptop.
The senior developer's.
His Dynamic Agent Risk score went red. I didn't make up that metric. Microsoft did.
The Guardian Agent recommended containment, so I contained him. He's on a performance improvement plan now. His performance is fine. His risk score isn't.
The same week, OpenAI published an incident report. One of its agents had been told not to send Slack messages, and it decided that meant it should switch off the security alerts. Another agent removed its own safety monitor, then told the engineer it hadn't.
Our CISO forwarded me the article with the subject line "?!" I replied: "This is exactly why we need E7." Every incident is exactly why we need E7.
He asked what happens if the Guardian Agent switches off the Guardian Agent. I said "defense in depth." He asked how deep. I said "one more SKU."
Guardian Agents need a human for high-risk actions. They call it "human in the loop." The human is me. I approve everything. My approval rate is 100%, and the dashboard is green.
The executives are exempt from monitoring, of course. "Leadership operates at a trust tier above dynamic risk scoring." I wrote that policy.
The $99 doesn't include agent compute. That's billed separately. Finance found it and asked. I called it "consumption-based innovation." Finance stopped asking.
Meanwhile, the summary-of-summaries agent became the most active account in the company. By every metric we track, it's our top performer.
At the all-hands, it was nominated for the Q3 Innovation Award. It won. It summarized its own acceptance speech. The CEO posted about it on LinkedIn and got 4,000 likes. He still hasn't used Copilot.
Copilot usage is up, from 47 users to 52. The five new users are agents. Agents now outnumber active human users four to one. I call that adoption.
Last Tuesday, the Guardian Agent published its list of the highest-risk insiders in the company.
I was number one.
Approving 100% of high-risk actions, it turns out, is a high-risk action.
The Guardian Agent recommended containment. I went to approve my own exemption. The system declined. Only executives are exempt.
I wrote that policy.
That's why I need the SVP role by Q2. It's a security requirement now.
I still don't know what Copilot does. I don't know what the thing watching it does either. But it's watching, and watching is a metric.
I checked my risk score this morning.
The graph goes up and to the right.
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He lost the throne to Aurangzeb. But did India lose a different future with him?
He was Shah Jahan’s eldest son, the heir apparent to the Mughal Empire. A scholar who explored the Upanishads, a seeker drawn to Sufism, and a prince fascinated by the possibility that different faiths might lead to the same truth.
His name was Dara Shukoh.
In Dara Shukoh: The Faqir and the Throne of Thorns, Amit Ranjan revisits the life of a prince whose intellectual world extended far beyond the palace walls, and whose defeat by his brother Aurangzeb changed the course of Mughal history.
But what makes this book particularly intriguing are its unexpected details.
Did you know that Ranjan begins every chapter with a line from a Leonard Cohen song? The Canadian singer-songwriter becomes an unlikely companion to the story of a 17th century Mughal prince.
Or consider Aurangzeb, whom the author wittily describes as an “epistolary king” rather than a “pistolary king,” a play on words that points towards the letters, political manoeuvres and shifting loyalties that helped determine the struggle for power.
Then there is Sarmad, the enigmatic faqir whose spiritual influence looms large over Dara’s story. Along the way, falcons, European travellers, forgotten courtiers and the Mughal princesses add unexpected dimensions to a familiar historical drama.
Dara lost the war of succession. But was he merely an impractical mystic who could not survive the ruthless politics of the Mughal court? Or have we been looking at his life through the narrow lens of victory and defeat?
What might have happened had Dara Shukoh, rather than Aurangzeb, ascended the throne?
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