Mandar Kulkarni

Do not make airports from taxes Prime Minister 🙏. Ask Adani & GMR to build airports & charge from the customers who are using it. Our money is for building education, healthcare, pensions, cleaning river and air. A middle class don't earn to build airports from his money.

This is how a child loses trust in their parents; - Asks a genuine question. Gets dismissed. - Shares excitement about something. Gets mocked. - Comes home with a problem. Gets lectured instead of heard. - Cries. Gets told to stop being dramatic. - Fails at something. Gets compared to someone else. - Achieves something. Parents barely look up. - Tries to talk. Parent is on the phone. - Learns that home is not a safe place to be honest. - Starts hiding things. - No quality time. Only correction. - No "I'm proud of you" without a condition attached. - No listening without an agenda. - No apology when the parent is wrong. - No curiosity about who the child actually is. - Child raises themselves emotionally. - Grows up. Moves away as fast as possible. - Calls home out of obligation, not love. - Becomes a stranger who shares blood. And the parent wonders why their child never opens up. To raise a child who actually trusts you, do this; - Put the phone down and look them in the eyes when they talk. - Ask questions about their world without judging the answers. - Apologize when you're wrong. They're watching everything. - Celebrate who they are, not just what they achieve. - Make home the safest place they know. - Listen to understand, not to respond. - Show up to the small moments. Those are the big ones. - Tell them you love them without them having to earn it. - Be the person they run to, not from. NON-NEGOTIABLE.

This mixed reality app lets you create and ride thrilling rollercoasters in your own living room. It uses physics-based tools to design tracks that adapt to your space and then simply hop in the front seat for a first-person ride like no other.

@SouleFacts @NaniBellary Illegal immigrants Bangladeshi driving Rapido in Mumbai. Please 🙏🏻 look for women's safety in Maharashtra. @Dev_Fadnavis ji @mieknathshinde ji @PratapSarnaik ji @nitin_gadkari ji @NiteshNRane ji @MumbaiPolice @MTPHereToHelp

Instagram is not how real life works

₹19,000 crore. That is what Banks collected in last 3 years just for not maintaining ‘Minimum Account Balance.’ Not from the rich. Not from big borrowers. From the poorest accounts in the system. Their crime? They didn’t have enough money. A farmer misses the minimum balance - Penalty. A pensioner withdraws money for medicine - Penalty. A daily wage worker falls short by a few hundred rupees - Penalty. The poor keep money in banks for safety. Not to be quietly fined for being poor. Financial inclusion should protect small savings, not punish small balances. In Parliament today I proposed ending minimum balance penalties so the banking system stops charging people for their poverty.

MANN-PISHACH A zero-budget film experiment by Rahi Anil Barve. An 80-minute film built on a home PC using two actors (Yaaneea Bhardwaj, Deepak Damle), a 60-page script, hand-drawn storyboards, iPhone recordings, Photoshop, generative AI and After Effects. Total cost: ₹33,000. If even one broke filmmaker realizes something can be created from nothing, the experiment was worth it. Trailer + upcoming full film in 4K: youtube.com/watch?v=gcC8Jo… #MannPishach #IndianHorror #AIFilm #IndieFilm #ZeroBudgetFilm

Matinee Idol the late Dev Anand explains his mantra of life and death. A beautiful explanation of life well spent. His words remind us that death is only the closing chapter of a story, but the beauty of that story depends on how courageously, joyfully, and purposefully we live each page of our lives.

At any airport round the world, u can come out to the kerb at arrivals and can be picked up by your car It is of course a quick 5’, ‘load bags n jump in’ pit stop At @CSMIA_Official (Mumbai Airport) you have no such choice. You HAVE to go into the parking to collect the passengers. Then wait in line to exit and get slammed for some ₹300 (P6 rates). A 3-4’ pick up results in a 20-25’ headache This is such a waste of time and a rip off. The math of this extortion fleecing patrons runs into a massive number for the airport Should be illegal or poorly planned intentionally

"Agar early de*th hui to insurance wale iss tarah se torture karte hain." This woman shares how an early claim can result in a painful investigations, and claim rejections. IMPORTANT FOR ALL TERM INSURANCE BUYERS: Don't let lack of awareness, be the reason for claims getting rejected when you are not around. It's important to educate your family about Term Insurance, the coverage, the processes, the regulatory rights, as much as it is important to buy right. I have prepared THIS NOTE that can help you achieve this, effectively Just copy this note below in a doc file, and enter details. Then share it with your family. Best use of your weekend :) DOC VERSION: If you want a doc version, just comment "document" below, and I will DM the document in an open doc format. You can make a copy and use. -------------------------------- TERM INSURANCE BRIEFING NOTE Enter your details, and share with your family today: 1. Policy Details I have the following life insurance policies. A table comprising of: Name of Insurer Cover Amount Any Riders Year Purchased Nominee Name 2. Important Links Link to my policy folder (contains policy copies, proposal forms, and emails sent to the insurer for each policy) 3. Whom to Contact In case I am not around, please contact: My trusted agent: Name: Mobile: Landline: Insurer's claims helpline: (find on the insurer's website under "Claims") My trusted friend who already has all these details: Name: Mobile: Landline: 5. Documents You'll Need Keep these ready when filing the claim: –Policy copy –Death certificate –All Hospital records (if death due to illness) –FIR copy, Post Mortem copy (if accidental death) –Nominee Identity Proof (Aadhaar, PAN, Passport, or Voter ID) –Nominee Address Proof –Cancelled cheque or bank passbook with account details –Duly signed payout mandate form 6. About Early Claims If I pass away within 3 years of buying the policy, the insurer is likely to investigate more carefully. The most common reason for rejection is non-disclosure when information (especially health related) was not shared honestly at the time of buying. I have shared everything correctly. You will find the proposal form copies in the policy folder link I have shared. 7. Know Your Rights After 3 years of continuous renewals from the year the policy was purchased, no insurer can reject a life insurance claim FOR ANY REASON. This is as per Sec 45 of the Insurance Act, 1938 (amended in 2015). 8. How to Escalate a Rejection: Contact the insurance expert. You can escalate claim rejections to the Ombudsman for free. For claims above 50 Lakhs, you will have to go to the Consumer Court. Do not lose hope. This is your money. Fight for it.

The Case for Childhood Boredom. A strange thing has quietly disappeared from childhood. Boredom. For most of human history, boredom was unavoidable. Childhood unfolded in long, uneven stretches of time that nobody bothered to organize. Summer afternoons drifted by without a schedule, car rides lasted hours with nothing but the passing landscape, and children spent entire days outside with only a loose instruction to be home before dinner. And something curious tended to happen in those empty spaces. Children invented things. A stick became a sword, and then a fishing rod, and then, without warning, a wand capable of defeating imaginary monsters. A patch of grass became a battlefield. A cardboard box became a spaceship. Entire worlds emerged out of nothing more than idle time and a restless mind. Neuroscientists now understand that the brain behaves differently in those moments. When external stimulation fades, a network deep in the brain called the default mode network begins to activate. It is the circuitry associated with imagination, memory integration, and abstract thinking. When the mind has nowhere specific to go, it begins to wander, and while it wanders it starts connecting dots that rarely meet during structured activity. Creativity often lives in that wandering. Modern childhood, however, has undergone a quiet redesign. Empty time has been steadily replaced with organized activity. Sports leagues, tutoring sessions, music lessons, enrichment programs. Even the small gaps between activities tend to be filled with screens engineered with extraordinary precision to eliminate boredom the moment it begins to appear. Parents worry when boredom surfaces. A child announcing “there’s nothing to do” can feel like a problem waiting to be solved, a signal that the environment lacks sufficient stimulation. But boredom is simply the brain beginning a different mode of operation. The mind starts generating its own stimulation instead of consuming someone else’s. Look closely at the childhoods of unusually creative people and a pattern emerges. Steve Jobs spent long stretches wandering the neighborhoods of Silicon Valley, exploring electronics shops and experimenting in garages. Albert Einstein famously described hours of quiet daydreaming as a child, staring out windows and imagining physical problems in his head. J.K. Rowling began inventing elaborate stories long before she had any audience for them. Each of them had something that has become surprisingly rare. Psychological whitespace. Modern childhood often resembles a corporate calendar. Every hour accounted for. Every activity supervised. Every quiet moment quickly filled by a glowing rectangle designed by teams of behavioral scientists whose job is to make sure attention never drifts into silence. And yet many of the qualities parents hope their children will develop—creativity, resilience, independence—tend to emerge from precisely the conditions we have learned to eliminate. Unstructured time confronts a child with a deceptively simple problem. What should I do next? That question trains the brain in powerful ways. It forces the mind to generate ideas, to tolerate the mild discomfort of inactivity, and eventually to invent something interesting enough to fill the gap. Children who rarely encounter boredom often struggle to resolve it on their own. They wait. They look outward for stimulation rather than inward for possibility. Childhood boredom, in that sense, becomes a kind of workshop. It is the place where imagination practices building things from nothing, where the mind experiments freely without instruction, and where curiosity slowly learns how to entertain itself. Left alone long enough, the mind begins to wander. And wandering minds have a peculiar habit of discovering entirely new worlds.

WORTH THE WATCH: his name is Azeem Banatwalla and this is one of the most creative and hilarious comedy bits you will ever hear. someone's definitely going to try and replicate it. 😭

They don't call him a Champion for nothing.🔥 20 seconds of DJ Bravo making the impossible look easy!

There is this story about Brian Lara. Facing spin against Australia in the early 2000s, he scored a boundary. Adam Gilchrist was the stand-in captain and he changed the field to plug the field from where Lara found the gap. With Gilchrist standing up to the stumps, Lara noticed the field change and looked back at Gilly saying, "Uh, oh! wrong move." Next ball, Lara scored a boundary through the area Gilly had vacated to cover the gap earlier. That is how good he was. He would toy with the bowlers as well as the field and sometimes with the opposition captain’s psyche as well. Hence, he could entertain like very few other batters have done. In 50 days between April 18 and June 6 of 1994, Lara piled on scores of 375, 147, 106, 120*, 136, 26, 140 and 501*. The first and the last score in this streak were record-breaking innings for the highest score in Test and First-Class cricket. To get to that 501*, he scored 390 runs in a day which is even in current day and age, an insane number of runs to score in a day’s play. If Shane Warne saw Sachin Tendulkar in his nightmares, Lara mastered facing Muttiah Muralitharan. During the three-match Test series in Sri Lanka, Lara scored 688 runs with scores of 178, 221 and 130. His tally was alone 42.3% of the total runs WI scored in the series. He was way ahead of his peers with his audacious strokeplay. Few left-handers have made batting look as breathtaking as him. And definitely, no other batter has piled up as many gigantic scores as him. 19 out of his 34 Test hundreds were above 150, including a 400*. At the end of his final international game, he asked in the post-match fixture: “Did I entertain?” The answer was a resounding YES Brian Charles Lara ❤

काल रश्मिका मंदाना-विजय च लग्न झाल… बऱ्याच जणांना त्यांचे लग्नाचे फोटोज पाहून आनंद झाला… त्या दोघांचा राणाबळी हा चित्रपट येतोय…त्यातील हे गाणं लग्नाच्या दुसऱ्याच दिवशी आज रिलीज केलय… ते शेअर करायचं प्रमुख कारण म्हणजे ते गाणं आपल्या “अजय-अतुल” ने बनवलय 🩷 #AjayAtul

Plot twist: 67 was a mathematically significant number long before it became a meme. Here’s what makes it cool: It is a prime number (can only be divided by itself and 1). But it’s not just ANY prime number. 🧵⬇️

And then there was this guy who stayed calm even after facing a beamer when he was on 98 Sachin Tendulkar THE MONK WHO PLAYED CRICKET 🙏😌

Lessons from the grocery store owner to customers who don’t know how to behave.

"I got you, soldier! There's enemies on the right, fire!"

Samashti Gubbi has sung Durandhar in #sanskrit version. Super 🙂👍👌