R.Deshpande

STORY OF DELHI GYMKHANA CLUB Total Land: 28 Acres - Prime Lutyens Delhi 🏛️ Membership fee: ₹30 LAKH ⏳ Waiting list after paying fees: 37 YEARS 🇮🇳 Yearly rent paid to Government: ₹1,000/year 💸 Tax dues: ₹2.93 CRORE You pay ₹30 lakh upfront. Then wait 37 years to get in. While they pay India just ₹1,000 a year. For 28 acres in the heart of Delhi.

old cashier lady at the register asked if I would like to donate $50 to charity. My bill was $49.50. I heard her ask if I would like to round it up to $50, so I said yes. She started complimenting me a lot and even told her colleagues that I was donating. I was wondering why she was being so nice for 50 cents, then realised she had moved the POS machine towards me and it showed $99.50., couldn’t even say no as they were all looking at me. On top of that, had to act nonchalant while paying to avoid aura loss 🥲, have started using self-checkout since then, no matter how long the line is.

Hatred for Tamils is reason for hatred of Madras. Else there are far worse cities in Vishwaguru many under multiple engines. With not even fraction of Madras economic, educational & commercial output. Anywho, people are free to hate.

A decade of BJP rule has done overwhelming damage to public discourse in India. It's not just Whatsapp university, but even serious scholarship that has gone to shit. Never has independent India's intellectual landscape, which was not exactly overflowing with rigor to begin with, looked this degenerate. The article below is a typical example. Until a decade ago, this sort of civilizational fan-fiction would've been dismissed as fringe crankery, and laughed out of respectable publications. Today, it has become mainstream and is marketed as serious scholarship. Putting aside the unstated (and false) claim of this article that Hindu rulers and dynasties were all saints, unlike those evil Mughals, note the other equally horrific implication: that the old Nehruvian obligation to appease Muslims has expired. Of course you can't say "Muslims" directly, whether in a speech in Gujarat in 2002, or in an online history article in 2026. At least not yet. So you use euphemisms, like "Mughals". In 1947, the logic goes, when India was a newly independent country, we had to tolerate those pesky Muslims for the sake of national unity. We had no choice but to put up with their shenanigans (i.e. treat them as equals). But now, the time has come to remind them of their "proper" place in the hierarchy.

English has penetrated into our Indian languages so much that even older folk have started filling their sentences with English words. 🥲🥲

Sizce erkek şort boyu kaç numara olmalı? 🤔

went to wedding reception in a 5-star hotel. the girl's father kept many dowry items lined up in a connected hall. - a double bed with beddings and pillows - 1 refrigerator - 1 AC - 2 Stainless Steel Almirahs - Crockery Dinner Set - 1 dining table with 6 chairs Atleast someone is saving the culture 😊

A Prince George, BC, school has launched an afterschool Punjabi language program. The school is described as 40% "Indo-Canadian" and had heard "worries from parents who wanted to keep their children connected to their language and culture".