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What started with prepaid mobile recharge scams around 2008 slowly evolved into ATM frauds and now to digital payment frauds in Jamtara, also known as the phishing capital of India, a small state in Jharkhand. 1/4
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Delhi AQI has been shit for over a week now. Air purifiers show consistent red indicator the moment a door or window is kept open beyond 10 seconds. But all outrage will follow only after cracker is burst on Diwali.
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Lanka was made of gold. Ayodhya celebrated with clay lamps. Think about that this Diwali.
Ravana had everything the world admires. A city of gold. Ten heads, the epic's way of saying he knew more than anyone around him. Scholar. Musician. Devotee of Shiva.
He still lost. He didn't lose to a bigger army. He lost to a man in exile, walking barefoot, with an army of monkeys and bears. Brilliance without restraint destroys the one who owns it.
Now look at the other side. Rama lost his kingdom overnight. No argument. No bitterness. He walked into the forest on the very day he was meant to be crowned, and he walked out smiling. Most of us can't let go of a small disappointment that gracefully.
Bharata was handed the throne. He refused to sit on it. He placed Rama's sandals there and served Ayodhya for 14 years in his brother's name. Love that asks for nothing in return. Duty without ownership.
Hanuman could leap across an ocean. He didn't know it. Jambavan had to remind him. So many people around us are Hanuman before Jambavan spoke. Sometimes the greatest gift you can give someone is to tell them you can do this at the right moment.
The bridge to Lanka wasn't built in one heroic act. It was stone after stone. Monkeys, bears and, as the old story goes, a little squirrel rolling in sand to do its part. Rama stroked its back in gratitude. No effort is too small when the cause is right.
Here's the part we forget.
Ayodhya didn't light lamps when Ravana fell. It lit them when Rama came home.
Diwali isn't a victory celebration. It's a homecoming.
Fourteen years of forest, loss and war, and he returned with his heart intact. The same man who left. That is the real triumph. Everything else is Lanka.
So this Diwali, as the lamps glow .. Ask what you're chasing. Gold or light.
Ask who's been quietly carrying your sandals. Thank them. Ask who needs a Jambavan. Be one. Ask if you're still the person who left home.
Light the diya. Then live like one. Small. Steady. Burning for others.
Happy Diwali. 🪔
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🪔 Wishing everyone in India a very happy Diwali. May India be victorious over the foreign forces trying to destabilize, divide, and destroy the country. And return to its former glory like Sri Ram won a difficult battle over Ravan and returned home glorious.
🇮🇳 Jai Bharath.
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Idk Who needs to hear this but start enjoying festivals.
Festivals don't feel like festivals because you're lying around at home and doing nothing.
Get up, do pooja, decorate the house, make namkeen, make mithai, invite people over, meet up.
That's what a festival is. The vibe doesn't just show up, you have to create it.
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So Deepinder Goyal posted about the Blinkit ambulance service, which was running free of cost.
People started using it for routine check-ups.
Now he has said that they'll charge ₹2,500 for such cases and ₹0 for genuine emergency cases.
People will always exploit good services in India and make everyone suffer.
Sometimes, it feels like we're becoming a low-trust society.
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More to come. We will not stop till every inch of our land is reclaimed.
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@CSMIA_Official Mumbai airport has perfected the art of making arriving passengers waste an hour at a minimum. Queue at every stage. For everything.
Landed last night after a long flight, and the experience at the airport was an absolute nightmare.
First, despite signing up for the frequent traveller programme, I spent 15 minutes waiting because there are only 4 gates and the software is cluncky each one had to try 2-3 times, why can't we have 20 gates. And this was after we had taken a bus from the aircraft. So it wasn't even a case of arriving after a long walk.
then the wait for bags on belt, understand little you could do here.
Then came the green channel at customs. An even bigger queue. Why? Flights don't just appear out of nowhere. Their schedules are published months in advance. Passenger volumes are hardly a surprise. Why can't customs plan staffing and keep enough counters open to handle arriving passengers?
And then, finally, the grand finale: getting out of the airport. Another complete mess.
Why are passengers made to pay with their time for somebody else's inability to plan, staff, manage or make technology work?
We are talking about Mumbai, India's financial capital and a city that aspires to be a global business hub. This is its international gateway. And yet, at 1 AM, after a long flight, the experience makes you wonder whether anyone in the system has ever thought about the passenger.
Unless the babu's and neta's are forced to go through the agony, nothing will change.
Technology doesn't work. Counters aren't adequately staffed. Queues everywhere. No sense of urgency. No accountability.
A flight arriving on time should not be followed by an hour of institutional inefficiency.
We deserve better. Much better.
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22 years married. Arranged.
Honestly, nothing on either family's checklist back then predicted what actually kept us together. Nobody asked about patience. Nobody asked how either of us handles a bad year, a sick parent, or a job loss. Those turned out to be the only questions that mattered.
The system isn't broken. The approach is. Both sides now walk in like it's an interview. Salary, property, family background on one side. Independence, in laws, household split on the other. Every answer gets scanned for red flags. People are planning their escape before they've even said yes.
I get why. Social media has made everyone's worst case look normal. One ugly divorce story and suddenly half the country expects betrayal before the first coffee. But no amount of screening gives you trust. No checklist covers the 2 am hospital run or the years when life gets hard.
Marriage asks you to commit without knowing how it turns out. You can't walk away easily. What you do get is someone who stays when things fall apart. If that scares you, fine. Don't marry. Staying single is a perfectly valid choice.
If you do, stop bargaining and start building. The best marriages I know weren't the best matches on paper. They were two people who decided early that the relationship mattered more than winning the argument.
Arranged marriage in India is heading towards a serious long term crisis. And I think we’re only seeing the beginning of it.
Talk to men, and you’ll understand their fears. Talk to women, and you’ll understand theirs. The uncomfortable part? Both sides have valid points.
From a man’s perspective, finding the right partner is becoming increasingly difficult. He’s expected to be financially stable, ambitious, emotionally mature, responsible, well-settled and ready to provide a certain lifestyle. Nothing wrong with these expectations individually. But many men feel that their own expectations of companionship, loyalty, respect and mutual effort are treated as secondary.
Some fear being valued more for their salary, package, property or family background than for who they are. Others worry that even after years of commitment, one disagreement or a failed marriage could cost them financially, emotionally and socially.
Women have their own set of fears. They worry about compatibility, controlling families, losing independence, unequal household responsibilities, dowry expectations, emotional neglect and being trapped in an unhappy marriage. These concerns are real too.
The bigger problem is that both sides are entering marriage negotiations with a defence mechanism instead of an open mind.
Every conversation feels like an interview now. Every expectation feels like a potential red flag. Every compromise feels like a possible future regret.
And social media is making it worse. Extreme stories become generalisations. Someone else’s failed marriage becomes a warning about an entire gender. People start looking for reasons not to trust each other before they’ve even had a chance to build trust.
Finding the right girl is becoming difficult for many men not because good women don’t exist, but because genuine compatibility is getting buried under an endless checklist of expectations, financial calculations, family demands and fear of being exploited. The same is true for women looking for a good man.
A successful marriage cannot be built on the question, “What am I getting out of this?” alone. It also requires asking, “What are we willing to build together?”
Not every expectation is unreasonable. Not every compromise is healthy. And nobody should be forced to settle for a partner who isn’t right for them.
But if both sides want all the benefits of marriage without accepting any responsibility, discomfort or adjustment, what exactly are we expecting marriage to become?
If this continues, the arranged marriage system won’t collapse because people stop wanting love. It will struggle because fewer people will be willing to trust each other enough to build it.
#Marriage #Love #Lifestyle
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As a neurosurgeon, let me tell you how frightening this injury actually is - an occipital compound depressed skull fracture treated with a WIDE craniotomy (outer staple line).
What's scary isn't the fracture; it's what's adjacent to the damaged skull. The axe blows (that tree-branch scar at the center) hit right over the posterior superior sagittal sinus, a large vein that runs lengthwise between the 2 cerebral hemispheres and carries blood from the brain to the heart.
Penetrating injuries to the sinus can carry upwards of a 40% morbidity/mortality - partially because a transection of the sinus can be difficult to repair and can result in extreme blood loss, venous air embolism, or thrombosis - all of which can be fatal.
There's scary, and then there's the "you go to elevate the fracture and risk unroofing the sinus, losing 2 liters of blood in a minute" scary.
The surgeons likely had their hands full and did an amazing job. Divine providence called many heroes into service that day. Damn fine work.
धन्यवाद
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History will remember that our LOP and not a single leader of Congress posted about Captain Smit Machchhar's bravery.
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We need thousands of such garment factories. Govt needs to prioritise this as this is the only sector that will not be disrupted by AI, also this sector creates high female workforce jobs. Very low hanging fruit.
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Note that they don't really step on the gas until half way through this video. I say that because you're going to spend the first minute saying, "yeah, that's pretty fast" and then they step on it and it becomes terrifying
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Never gonna respect Akhilesh Yadav for classifying Formula One as entertainment instead of motorsport.
His government withdrew the tax exemption and imposed a 25% entertainment tax on ticket sales, while the event was also burdened with service tax, income tax, customs duties, and withholding tax (TDS).
That combination of taxes Akhilesh Yadav role and regulatory hurdles became a major reason Formula One left India after 2013 and has never returned.
Credit where it’s due Vijay Mallya played a pivotal role in bringing Formula One to India and making the Indian Grand Prix a reality.
Whatever people’s opinions about him, India lost both the Indian Grand Prix and one of the key figures who made it possible.
Looking back, losing Formula One remains one of India’s biggest sporting regrets!!
@F1 @yadavakhilesh @TheVijayMallya
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My Great Grandfather x 5 came from Germany and landed in Pennsylvania in 1735. Hindus have done nothing but make great contributions. Low crime, high income and low key. Colour and dance is exactly what this world needs right now.
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A tribal-dominated region lived peacefully under a democratically elected former monarch who kept the ruling national party on edge.
The government’s response? Storm his palace, open fire on the monarch and tribals, and push the region into decades of Naxalism.
Now, nearly 8 decades after Independence, normalcy is finally returning. But what of the generations lost and years wasted?
Such is the bitter irony of democracy.
#WATCH | Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh | Deities from around 50 villages, once heavily affected by Naxalism, participated in the world-famous Bastar Dussehra for the first time following the end of Naxalism in the region.
(22.10)
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Boarding on AI 882 AMD-DEL is delayed by 20 minutes because Supreme Court Judge Vipul Pancholi & wife had to be VIP boarded first. They walk in with a posse of 6 guards + 3 AI staffers. Is this the VIP culture that India’s judiciary advocates? @MLJ_GoI ?
#VIPculture 🚨#lalbatti
