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@VishalBhargava5 @AlokPatel Rail enthusiasm must be tempered: it lacks direct connectivity,has hassle of to n from station travel. Globally, 8‑lane hiways r d norm—right futuristic move for hubs like Mumbai‑Pune. Rail/HSR is needed but only as complement 2 road networks.

@AlokPatel We already have a robust expressway - and have spent 6600 crore on a Missing Link. We need a strong alternative in mass-transport.

I don't see how the money is wasted if it is a tolled road. How many times over will the expressway pay for itself over its life?

Our Shri Siddhivinayak Temple complex and premises is all set to get this look and upgradation. We performed Bhumipujan for it today. Ganpati Bappa Morya 🙏🏽 #Mumbai

@PenduProfessor "Dil aisa kisi ne mere toda" from Amanush

If somebody says Kishore Kumar only sang happy and playful songs, which one sad song of his would you play first to change their opinion? #KishoreKumar #OldHindiSongs #HindiMusic

A beautiful sthānaka murti of Trivikrama Vishnu standing with Lakshmi and Saraswati in silver, 10th Century CE, Pala dynasty, found at Shigarj, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Identified by Bhattasali in 1929. Supposed to be at the Indian museum (Kolkata)

@PenduProfessor Tere Mere Sapne

If someone has never seen a Dev Anand classic before, which one film would you suggest first for them? #DevAnand #ClassicMovies #Oldisgold #HindiCinema

@PenduProfessor Sham-E-Gham Ki Kasam... Thread worth a treasure.

If someone has never heard Talat Mahmood before, which one song would you play first for them? #TalatMahmood #Oldsongs #Nostalgia

@SHEKARSUSHEEL What a gem along with "Saranga teri yaad mein".

Sudesh Kumar passed away recently on May 3. He was 95. He was the hero in Saranga, and this very beautiful Mukesh song is picturised on him. Sardar Malik Anu Malik 's father composed the music. Bharat Vyas, penned the beautiful lyrics. Jayshree Gadkar was the heroine. Contd...

All politicians, with rare exceptions, remember their humble beginnings only when they’re out of power. And they behave accordingly when they are not surrounded by the trappings of power. This incident happened when I was a virtual rookie in journalism. One evening in our pigeonhole of a newsroom, the editor was discussing the stories for page 1 with me since I was doing the page that day. A politician who had been an MP of the city walked in. He had a book in his hand. He greeted the editor and handed over a book, requesting him to get it reviewed. The editor didn’t smile or even rise from his chair to greet the politician. He just looked up at him over his glasses and curtly nodded. The ex-MP stood there while the editor rifled through the pages of the book and then said three short words, “OK. Thank you.” The ex-MP hadn’t even reached the door when the editor, without looking back, flipped the book over his shoulder into the dustbin! I was shocked. The editor saw my face and said, “Take it if you want to read it.” What he had not seen was the politician watching him throw the book in the bin. But I don’t think it would have mattered. I mustered up my courage to ask my editor why he did that, and, normally not one to sit and chat with the juniors, he replied, “When he was an MP, I took a group of citizens to meet him to discuss issues about the city. He rudely turned us away saying, ‘I’m the country’s MP. I have to worry about the nation now. Don’t come to me with these civic issues. I don’t have time.’” That day, in the newsroom, it was payback. It was an experience I have never forgotten.

@nimishdubey @alawyerwrites @fredfertang @CraigNelsy @tds122 @WG_RumblePants @Koushik_laribee @indranil9 @ushrit2020 @TheGrou75062162 @VatsMusings Wonderful write-up.mainly bcos of Marshal that series lingers in memory as one that we lost badly.your post clears that up a bit.on a different note if not rank turners why did it take us so long to prepare pitches that suited our spinners?

“Forget Viv. He will get one or two big innings, chew gum and swagger around but won’t do much real damage. THIS is the chap we need to really worry about…” Imagine being told those words by one’s cricket coach in the early eighties. But that is exactly what seemed to be the case in a lot of places in India. While many in England and Australia seemed to be in complete and utter awe of Isaac Vivian Alexander “Viv” Richards, in India, the West Indies batsman to be feared was his captain, the tall, loping, bespectacled Clive Hubert Lloyd. Super Cat. I suspect that the relative lack of awe for Viv (in the eighties, at least, now everyone seems to be in awe of him), seemed to stem from the problems he had in India against spin and against Chandrasekhar in particular. Although Viv did score a massive 190-odd in his debut series in India, his struggles were not forgotten by many and while he seemed to have most of the rest of the world, in many parts of India, the broad consensus was: tie him down with spin, he will hit out and most probably get out. The fear of Lloyd also seemed to stem from his success in India and the ease with which he seemed to handle spin. And also as Narottam Puri once pointed out in commentary, from his seeming to have multiple gears - he could buckle down and play the long innings without getting ruffled and also thrash an attack into submission. Richards could take you to shreds when in the mood. But with Lloyd, mood never seemed a requirement. Unlike Richards, he did not make a statement with his presence at the crease. He just made runs. Viv was the king holding court, Lloyd was a professor shuffling into a class. There was no doubting who cut the more striking figure, and who was the darling of the crowds. But for many experts, the really dangerous customer was the quiet, tall fella who came after Viv. And never was this more visible than in the 1983-84 series at home. Every time India sniffed a chance, Lloyd would snuff it out. Although Richards did get a stunning hundred at Mumbai and played a swashbuckling knock of 60-odd at Delhi before receiving a shocking leg before, he always seemed on the verge of doing something rash. Lloyd on the other hand, scored a careful hundred at Delhi to ensure India did not get the initiative after piling on a huge score, then rescued a innings that was falling apart at Ahmedabad with a careful fifty, and then sealed victory in the series with a epic 161 at Kolkota, when the West Indies top order had caved in. By the end of the series, we pretty much had got what our coach had been talking about. Viv was easily the more destructive of the two (and the most devastating batsman in the whole world), but Lloyd simply seemed to get the runs when his team needed them. And unlike Viv, there seemed to be no real plan to get him out - he played spin and pace equally well. He could get a century at a run a ball or could bat out entire sessions without hitting a boundary. “You never knew whether he was in form or not. He could look out of sorts and STILL get runs,” was how a commentator on TMS described him during the 1984 tour. It was not just against India. From 1981-82 till his retirement in 1984-85, Lloyd actually out scored Viv Richards. The fact that he was over 35 years of age at this time tells you something. Oh we loved seeing Viv bat in India, but we were terrified of the tall fella loping out to bat with a railway sleeper-like bat in his hand. #VivRichards #CliveLloyd #Cricket #WestIndies #Nostalgia (@Raja_Sw, @anandkumarn, @drippingashes, @RVarmaMD)

⁦@WesternRly⁩ ⁦@AshviniVaishnav⁩ ⁦@PiyushGoyal⁩ ⁦@RailwaySeva⁩ ⁦Borivali 11.23 AC to ccg local not arrived yet or no any information or no any announcement - public just waiting on foot over bridge - and it’s a regular practice- is there anyone to solve ?

@nimishdubey He definitely should have played more.guess we did not miss him much overseas.we won the 86 tour of England and batted strongly in 85-86 tour of Australia.SA was not on the scene.he probably would have retired by the 90s when we batted poorly in the SENA countries.

The ease with which we got rid of Sandeep Patil was a ghastly mistake. There are those who will say that Azhar was better but Patil was streets ahead while playing pace bowling, which is what mattered overseas, and was a better ODI player.

My Top Songs. B & W. 139 Anari 1959 It is considered one of Shankar-Jaikishan's signature "heavy orchestration" sad songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar. Known for its intense, power-packed orchestration, including the use of accordions, violins, and flute. Lyrics Shailendra. Contd...

Thanks a lot my friend Upjeet @Upjeet7 , for sending me this absolutely absolutely beautiful song by Asha bhosle. A very rarely heard song picturised on Pradeep Kumar and Shakila from the movie Ustadon ke ustad, released in 1963. An interesting thing is the opening lines Contd..

The phenomenon known as Human Chimerism is the result of two embryos merging early in embryonic development and therefore creating one being which will have two genetically distinct populations of cells. If the reproductive system of the chimera develops primarily from the absorbed twin, there will then be differences in the DNA found in sperm versus that extracted from blood or saliva during traditional paternity testing; therefore, a DNA test may say that the man is an “uncle match” (i.e., approximately 1:4 or 25%) relatedness instead of an actual paternal match. In addition, if additional testing is done on multiple tissues, the additional DNA profiles may become evident, confirming the presence of human chimerism in the individual. This means that while the child is still his biological child, the child will now have come from a different inherited genetic cell line within him. #FactCheck

My Top Songs. 130 Saath Saath 1982 It is a duet by ghazal maestros Jagjit and Chitra Singh. Javed Akhtar wrote the song in 10 minutes (or nine minutes) . Music Kuldeep Singh. Picturised on Faarooq Sheikh and Deepti Naval. Directed by Raman Kumar.

I remember buying this one at Majestic bus station in Bangalore on the evenig of 25 January, 1980. We were living in Madras, but had come over to Banaglaore to visit my uncle. The publication date of the magazine read 26 January 1980, and it was technically published on a Saturday, but we all knew you could always get The Sportstar on Friday (or sometimes even Thursday) evening. It was tabloid sized, unlike the conventional sized Sportsworld and Sportsweek. Which meant it would sometimes tear from the middle as it was almost always kept folded up. But hey, reading it gave us such newspaper feels "just like mum and dad," and BIG PHOTOGRAPHS! All for Rs 1.50. "For a ringside view of the world of sport" delivered by authors who seemed to have no agendas, but just wanted to tell us what was happening and make us understand sport better. The Sportsworld and Sportsweek were more opinionated. The Sportstar was seen as objective and balanced. And as my father pointed out "Better language. Come from the House of The Hindu, after all." I was pretty annoyed that even though the issue contained a report of India's win over Pakistan at Madras (which I had watched from the stands), David Gower was on the cover. "It should have been Gavaskar," I wailed. My father patiently told me that Gavaskar had been on the cover of the previous issue, which had hit the stands as he had scored 166 in that Test, which had been still going on when the issue had gone to print. Sportspersons were not "repeated" on covers frequently. Mum did not follow cricket at all. But she loved the cover. David Gower, after all. The caption reads: "Gower Strikes it Rich Left-handers in England Test cricket are few and far between. One among them is DAVID IVON GOWER of Leicestershire. The lithe six-footer strikes the ball without inhibition and with utmost elegance. Gower's present form in Australia was causing concern but he struck it rich at the right moment when, o​n a none-too-easy pitch at Sydney, the 23-year-old played with admirable resoluteness and remained unbeaten with 98." "Lithe, six-footer..." perfect! The Sportstar. Part of so many childhoods. @sportstarweb @the_hindu #Nostalgia #Cricket #80sCricket (@g_rajaraman, @Raja_Sw, @alawyerwrites, @fredfertang, @CraigNelsy, @tds122, @Koushik_laribee, @indranil9, @ushrit2020, @TheGrou75062162, @VatsMusings, @anandkumarn)

We have forgotten an essential habit in India. I have an uncle at whose house we meet to celebrate some festivals. I had been frequenting the house on a daily basis since childhood, (so it's like a second home to me), while others are guests. When I visit during the said festivals, those gathered there are slightly taken aback when I ignore them and move on indoors. Usually, they expect handshakes and hugs. But they often wonder why I rushed to the bathroom. To wash my feet. It is a habit imbibed in me since childhood, to wash hands and feet before sitting down anywhere. But, nowadays, this habit is slowing fading away as modern culture choose to forget it. Then, we get diseases. In cities like Mumbai, washing feet goes a long way in curbing leptospirosis during the monsoons. One can prevent foot fungus, and many such disease, by just a simple habit. Maybe, we can take small steps towards reeling in the habit again. Have a guest/common bathroom, lead people to it, keep proper amenities like soap, and towels and doormats, then have them sir down. And serve them water (another habit which is fading away).

My Top Songs. B & W. 116 Bandini 1963 The song and the scene brings goosebumps. It is considered one of SD's most iconic vocal performances, where he brings a raw, earthy quality to the "Bhatiali" (boatman's song) style of Bengal. The song plays during the emotional Contd...

Dehradun boy who sang in Bollywood … now runs a US tech company! #MukulAgarwal #90sBollywood #InspiringJourney