♦️The Union Govt has to announce a relief package to be supplemented by State Govts ♦️If Kerala and West Bengal (and even Delhi ) why not the Union Govt ? ♦️There are daily wagers, temp labourers, farm workers, rickshaw pullers, auto and cab drivers, delivery boys, courier boys, maid servants (who have been banned from […]
♦️Who takes care of the poor, the underprivileged, the deprived, the daily wagers, the farm labourer, the people living on the pavement, the beggars, the homeless, the old, the disabled and the penniless? ♦️What is social distancing and lockdown for them? ♦️Social distancing is a privilege. ♦️It means you live in a house large enough […]
♦️ #CoronaVirusTimeBomb ♦️The Mumbai Slums are a ticking time bomb! ♦️Will we be able to defuse it in time? ♦️Do we have the wherewithal to defuse it at all? ♦️Just one infected patient could spell catastrophe for the entire city ♦️And then for the whole country ♦️What are we doing? ♦️At the Juhu Nehru Nagar […]
🌺WHEN A MUSLIM QUEEN BUILT A HANUMAN TEMPLE AND STARTED THE HINDU FESTIVAL OF BADA MANGAL (BIG TUESDAY) 🌺 🇮🇳This is MY INDIA 🇮🇳Isn’t it YOURS? 🌺Begum Janab-e-Alia, the second wife of the third Nawab of Awadh (of which Lucknow was the capital) Shuja-ud-Daulah (1753-1775 A.D.), dreamt of a divine presence commanding her to build […]
🇮🇳DIWALI CELEBRATIONS FROM MOHAMMED BIN TUGHLAQ TO AKBAR TO BAHADUR SHAH ZAFAR 🇮🇳AND SHAH JAHAN strengthened THE TRADITION OF FIREWORKS ON DEEPAWALI 🇮🇳THIS IS MY INDIA 🇮🇳ISN’T IT YOURS? 🇮🇳Muhammad bin Tughlaq, who ruled Delhi from 1324 to 1351, was the first non-Hindu emperor to celebrate a Hindu festival at the court. It was celebrated […]
If Balasaheb Thackeray had been around today he would probably be unable to call Byron his laughter and his pride; laughter at what his son Uddhav Thackeray has managed to do as in cobble 3 hostile parties together and beaming with pride at finally seeing a Thackeray as Chief Minister of Maharashtra! Balasaheb was a […]
When Narayan Rane left the Shiv Sena everyone (apart from a few idiots like me) were writing the obituary of the Shiv Sena They said Uddhav Thackeray will never be able to hold his flock together That Uddhav Thackeray is more interested in his wildlife photography and badminton That he does not have what it […]
WHY DO THEY HATE MUMBAI By RKB ♦️There is a stay on further construction of the Mumbai Coastal Road! ♦️My problem is the damage that even this amount of work may have caused the Worli inter-tidal ecosystem is already irreversible! ♦️And whereas an argument exists for the Metro Yard at Aarey (only I don’t buy […]
WHYEVER NOT? HOLLYWOOD’s BEEN DOING THAT FOR 75 YEARS! ♦️Now watch Bollywood come up with a movie on repeal of Article 370 and 35A ♦️”Return Of Kashmir Ki Kali?” and NO #ShammiKapoor or #SharmilaTagore ♦️However in the same vein “GADAR; EK PREM KATHA” was among the best that reduced everything to a dualism that works […]
