Majaz

I don’t have any grand illusions about myself. 😆Was reading about Ashoka when I created this @X handle!

Nuns in the house and what a point to break!

@_amitbehere Look at the delusion though! Duffer calling it a Pearl Harbor moment 🤣🤣

Thailand per capita is almost 3x that of Bharat. Thailand HDI rank 76, Bharat HDI rank is 130 (below Bangladesh). Bharat is far lower quality country than Thailand. No shame in admitting that. We are a far lower quality country than 80% of the world. The biggest zhopadpatti in history of the world calling itself a 4T economy with pride. The sooner we accept we are trash, the sooner we can start making things better instead of constantly farting VishwaGuru Saar, 4T Saar, VishwaGuru Saar.

@nimishdubey Was having an argument with someone and when I said “kitaab meiN padha tha” on an inquiry about my source, the looks I got!!!!

This is so true and at a disturbing level. The number of folks whose source of information is some sort of “podcast” is scary when you consider that most podcasts are not exactly great in information terms. No one has “time to read.” They have time to doomscroll.

@Bij_uji The contrast of the bonfire against the snow capped mountains always gets to me. Wonderful!

they went from "clean girl aesthetic white turtleneck" in a random meadow to "goth mf doom winter romance" next to a bonfire in the himalayas real quick. the duality is insane.

@PenduProfessor Tu Pyar Ka Sagar Hai

Of late I have been asking here on Twitter about musical choices related to singers from the bygone era like Hemant Kumar, Talat Mahmood and others. The purpose honestly is not only music, but also understanding people a little better through their musical taste. Music, and to a slightly lesser degree food, are perhaps the two things which connect Indians emotionally across regions, language, caste and community, Bengali, Punjabi, South Indian, Christian, Brahmin, everybody somewhere meets through these shared memories. So, continuing in the same vein from the last few days, today’s question is: If somebody has never heard Manna Dey before, which one song of his would you play first for them? #MannaDey #OldMusic #HindiMusic

@PenduProfessor My friend lived a minute’s walk from here. One of Delhi’s best tikkis. Ras gullas too! They sprinkle rosewater on them while serving

Sindhi Tikki Corner near Khalsa Evening College in Dev Nagar, Karol Bagh is one place I still remember very fondly from my college days. From 1982 to 1985, I must have eaten there countless times. The owner's son studied with us in the same B.Com section and that is how I first came to know that his family owned the shop. Their identity was and still remains their famous heart shaped tikki. In Delhi everybody makes round tikki. These people somehow decided theirs should have a heart. And honestly, the tikki deserved that shape. Properly crisp outside, soft inside, the filling carrying that particular balance of aloo and matar where neither one dominates the other, with a dal undertone that gives it body. The green chutney was sharp and fresh, the tamarind one had real depth, not the sweet bottled kind. And despite being fried on the tawa it never felt greasy the way many market tikkis do. In winters and during light rainy evenings that tikki tasted even better, the kind of food that knows exactly which weather it belongs to. Their samosas were excellent too. Nicely crisp and properly filled. Gol gappe had very sharp teekha pani which could easily make your eyes water if you got overconfident. And the gulab jamuns were always soft and fresh. The shop was always crowded. Yet somehow they served everybody very quickly. In those days it was proper old Delhi style standing khana. You stood there somehow balancing plate, spoon and chutney while talking to friends and eating together. That balancing act was half the experience. Last time I visited, the shop had been renovated quite nicely. They now have proper covered standing space inside where people can comfortably eat, though still no sitting arrangement. Thankfully the taste still felt exactly the same. Some months back I had taken my dear friend Satinder Singh @SatiiSingh there and introduced him to this old gem from my college days. Now he too has become completely addicted to those heart shaped tikkis. We already have a plan to visit again soon and may be take our dear friend Varoun @varoun3883 along this time.

@PenduProfessor @anindianonearth Where would you rank it in Bimal Roy’s own filmography?

Sujata remains one of my most favorite films ever. It had two of the finest actors of Hindi cinema, Nutanji and Dutt Sahab, both so effortless that they never seemed to be acting at all. Every song in Sujata was special, but if one stayed with me forever, it was Jalte Hain Jiske Liye. Talat Mahmood did not merely sing that song… he sighed it into immortality.

@anwesh_satpathy @nehavermani @himganj153 Gulati and Havemore, you mean! 😆

@nehavermani @himganj153 It is better than the overpriced slop they serve at those two abominable outlets at pandara road

Good resto, unnecessarily hated.

@MrZainRaza She doesn’t know the navrasa, the history of tamasha and nautanki in the subcontinent, she doesn’t understand the rich history of the place’s fabrics. Inhe kahaN pata hoga Devdas kya hai!

I'm sure Dananeer has no clue that Devdas was based on a novel from Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, one of the most prolific authors from the Bengali Renaissance. This is what happens when you become an actor due to viral reels. She probably thinks Ismat Chughtai is a medical lab

@nimishdubey Couldn’t spot Moody. My God he looks unrecognizable

Twelve years later, two players from this photograph were part of the team that won the 1999 World Cup.

@HarmeenSoch Paid a visit here in early 2023 last. Amazing

Someone was saying that I should list down eateries in Amritsar that are popular and have been running for generations. At first I thought that I am not an influencer so there is no need for me to do this. Then I thought it isn’t a bad idea either. If / when I visit a popular eatery in Amritsar, i’ll share so that you all know of the genuine stops that you need to make on your Amritsar trip! This is Gurdass Ram Jalebi Wala, a 65 year old shop that sells Jalebis and gulab jamuns. This shop is so famous that the chowk where it is located is called ‘Jalebian wala chowk’, Katra Ahluwalia. It’s just a few steps away from Harmandir Sahib. The crispiness and flavour of the Jalebis here is out of the world! So if you visit Amritsar, make sure to visit Jalebian wala chowk right next to Darbar Sahib 😊. #GurdassRamJalebiWala #Amritsar

@sabyaster @aajtak @TimesNow @anjanaomkashyap @RubikaLiyaquat Liyaquat is busy counting the rupee that’s falling, Kashyap is busy searching for the chips in our bills

@aajtak @TimesNow Kuch toh sharan kar lo bhai @anjanaomkashyap @RubikaLiyaquat

@RShivshankar Aur chaat

3% fuel hike in India. Here's the INDIA VS WORLD comparison.

@Fintech03 Wonderful!!!!!!!

Most Indians call it 'Hapus' with a sense of patriotic pride, unaware that they are speaking the corrupted name of a Portuguese Duke who arrived 500 yrs ago to claim the coast, but ended up losing his identity to a fruit. The alphonso mango is named after Afonso de Albuquerque (1453-1515), the Portuguese general & the 1st Duke of Goa. The Portuguese did not bring the mango to India (mangoes have been in India for 1000s of yrs). What they brought was the technology of grafting. Before the Portuguese, Indian mangoes were mostly suckers grown from seeds. This led to unpredictable quality & stringy textures. The Portuguese introduced European grafting techniques to cross-breed the best local varieties. The Alphonso is the Version 1.0 of this genetic engineering. If you go to the Ratnagiri markets, nobody calls it Alphonso. They call it Hapus. Hapus is a linguistic corruption of the Portuguese word Afonso. Over centuries, as the word traveled from the elite Portuguese circles in Goa to the local Marathi-speaking farmers in the Konkan, the "A" was dropped & the "f" shifted to a "p" sound. Alphonso grown in Goa/Karnataka tastes nothing like 1 grown in Ratnagiri/Devgad. The Konkan coast is rich in laterite rock (iron & aluminum-rich soil). When the Alphonso was grafted onto trees in this specific volcanic-sedimentary soil, it triggered a chemical reaction that produced the specific aroma molecule: Gamma-octalactone. This is what gives the Alphonso its distinct creamy-coconut scent. W/o this specific hardware (the soil), the software (the Alphonso graft) produces a generic mango. The Alphonso's global fame skyrocketed in 1937. For the coronation of King George VI, baskets of Ratnagiri Alphonso mangoes were shipped from Bombay's Crawford Market to London. The British elite, who were used to stringy, acidic fruits, were so shocked by the butter-like texture that they declared it the "King of Mangoes." It was a Marketing Patch that stuck forever. This summer, while eating a Hapus, remember: you are not just tasting a fruit, you are tasting 500 yrs of biological warfare, Jesuit alchemy, & the very soil of the Konkan coast trying to tell you that some symmetries are simply too sweet to be accidental.

@anamicaarya Ditto! Tabhi toh mujhe woh donoN gaane yaad aaye gaye! 😂

@EdictsofV So sweet, I know 😝, but seriously it was fun, I remembered you and me tried in on space once

I attempted singing ‘kya Khoob lagti ho’ with Kartik! instagram.com/reel/DYTdwO3p2…

@anamicaarya Zara halki. Lekin aawaaz meethi 😂😍

@EdictsofV Bhai how was my singing lol

@anamicaarya And my goodness! The guitar skills! Ufffff

@EdictsofV check this out, being a mukesh songs fan.

@anamicaarya Was on my list for our duet 🤣😂 and this one too: “aap yahaN aaye kisliye” 😂

@CherieDamour_ @_amitbehere And this is right after graduation. In 12 years, you can’t imagine the “gorakh dhandha” I have seen committed by the “desis”. In quotes because not just the Indians.

@CherieDamour_ @_amitbehere The word is desi. Not Indian. 1/2a decade after being here & secured my OTP (not even H1B), I knew of innumerable folks from the subcontinent who were abusing the system. Of course there are more of us, but if you consider %, other nationalities would be ashamed to say the least

The word is Indian, not desi. Don’t include others in your scam world