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The first song from my boy @rishirajesh03 ‘ s album is out and I’m so proud of what he’s created… go listen and share..The song ‘Only You’ is out on all platforms.. #music #zultonsays music.apple.com/in/album/only-…

Popped in to say hi and then stayed on and on remembering why I used to love this space so much when it had just started.. so may amazing connections and such fabulous exchanges..

@udupendra I hope she gets better soon. The infection ca be brutal at times.

Amma's been diagnosed with an E. coli infection, and she's wondering how she got it despite not eating chicken.

@krishashok I’ve known a friend who would add eggs to rasam.

Thus my public request to restaurateurs. GIVE ME THE OPTION TO ADD EGGS TO ANY DISH Dosa → egg dosa Podi idli → top with sunny side up Sambar vada → add a poached egg Puliyodharai → fried egg on top (like SE Asian fried rice) Roti sabzi → just crack 2 eggs on the sabzi Poha → Top with eggs! This isn’t some bold new idea. Places like Erode Amman Mess do it beautifully. I order the “chinna vengayam omelette” with the meals!

India has a strange blind spot when it comes to eggs. For starters, we have, against all common sense, declared it non-veg, which automatically comes attached with moral baggage, and then on top of that, even in families that eat meat, the idiotic idea that eggs are “heating” (taseer) reduces its daily/weekly consumption.

@prempanicker Hahahaha this is interesting

My apolitical wife: Are you listening to Modi's speech? Me: Can't help it when you play the damn thing at top volume 🤬 Wife: Why did the Opposition vote against women's reservation? Me: They didn't. WRB was passed into law in 2023. Wife: Then why is Modi saying Oppn jashn mana rahe the? Me: Because he lies all the time. Wife: Wait... explain to me exactly what happened? +++

@IndiaHistorypic Pune

This City Has The Only Airport In India Where After Arrival Passengers Have to Go to a Nearby Mall to Get Taxis Name of This Indian City ? Photo - 1928

Rest in peace Ashaji

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@monikamanchanda Just rock it Mons. Hugs

Leaving it here very gently and hesitantly dealing with one million feelings in my head. Yes, I am on GLP-1

@saffrontrail I’ve loved this place since they started may decades ago. There is one in Malleswaram too

Shopping at Desi is an old world experience - if you walk by too fast, you’ll miss this signage and the shop #jayanagar 📍Bookmark and visit maps.app.goo.gl/k2i7NjxY3DZxEW…

I needed a creative recharge today - walked nearly 10000 steps around Jayanagara 🥻Shopped at Desi Trust- a quaint beautiful store located in an old house with red oxide flooring and a poster that tells you to shop just enough and not much- high quality pure cotton kurtas, tops, sarees, shirts all dyed with natural dyes 🌻Bought handmade kolhapuris at Lidkar - estd by Govt of Karnataka in 1976 for pure leather goods ☕️Coffee at Hundal and bought home their ground arabica 🥄Smol lunch at Old Bangalore Cafe of Nucchina unde and majjige huli

@SiddharthS85 Medical needs you can contact Sukino Agency- on this no 90089 49191

Ok reaching out to Twitter fam for a personal help. I am looking for a 24-hour help for my parents (Bangalore). Tried multiple agencies but most of them send untrained professionals or have a high turnover rate. Does anyone know a reliable agency / person for this? Would really appreciate any leads!

And so.. I watched #durandhar-2 Went in with bare minimum expectations and more importantly the stress that I had to sit through 4 hours.. I have to say.. there is a lot of gore and unimaginable semantics to the story telling..but I came away.. impressed. @AdityaDharFilms 🔥👏🎬

@bhatnaturally Around 2000-3000/sft

What’s a practical budget for interiors and furnishings for 3BHK of 2000 sq ft? Premium but not luxe.

Escalators get overloaded Accidents are waiting to happen Delay in reaching platform n missing trains Why? Why?

Dear @OfficialBMRCL What is the thought behind this nonsense move to allow only descending traffic on the stairs and escalator and leaving just one way up or take the round about stairs to go up from platforms 3and 4 to platform 1?

Oh man!!! These girl are totally killing it today #CWC2025

@Pixel_Stripes Wow that’s like a lifetime experience

7 tigers sighted by our group in Tadoba this evening 🥳 There first 2 safaris were dry (no tiger sighting) and today afternoon I got to hear-“ kya sagarji tadoba mein tiger to hai hi nahi” 😂 This season is crazy in all Tiger reserves. Dm to book if you wish to have a time of a lifetime!

@flirtingshadows Thank you S. How have you been?

@prats_39 Belated birthday wishes!

This invitation from history of Jayanagara’s inauguration in 1948 is a reminder of how Bengaluru went from Jayanagar’s planned blueprint to today’s maddening chaos. The invitation reveals the seriousness with which our leaders once approached city-building. It wasn’t merely an inauguration. It was a declaration - that urban development was an act of nation-building. Jayanagar was conceived by the Bangalore City Improvement Trust Board (CITB) - precursor to today’s BDA - guided by the spirit of Sir M. Visvesvaraya and the Mysore Maharajas’ foresight. It was one of Asia’s earliest and most thoughtfully planned urban layouts. It was built on principles that cities like Tokyo, New York and London followed: • Grid-based planning • Dedicated civic zones and markets • Wide tree-lined roads and footpaths • Abundant public parks and playgrounds Even the act of inviting the Governor-General to inaugurate a neighbourhood showed how civic growth was seen as a matter of pride, not paperwork. Urban planning was driven by engineers, architects, and visionaries - not contractors and consultants. Every road had a logic. Every park had a purpose. Every design decision carried dignity. Leaders like the Maharajas and Visvesvaraya believed that cities reflected a civilisation’s discipline. The Mysore administration treated urban growth as a long-term institution-building exercise. They built universities, dams, townships, and layouts that still function after seven decades. Their belief was simple: a city must be engineered, not improvised. Today, unfortunately, we live amid the ruins of that foresight. Where there were walkable boulevards, we have potholes and parking chaos. Where there were civic squares, we have encroachments and flyovers. Where there was once planning, we now have “projects.” Our political leadership - cutting across parties - has confused construction with development and visibility with vision. Institutions like the BDA, once envisioned as planning agencies, have been reduced to contractors’ departments. The result is what we see daily: • Roads without design logic • Footpaths that begin nowhere and end abruptly • Drainage systems built after the rain • Metro alignments retrofitted into chaos It’s not just inefficiency; it’s the absence of imagination. Lack of commitment and sincerity. The 1948 Jayanagar inauguration invitation is is a mirror showing us how much dignity our forebears attached to civic order, and how little we have preserved of it. That single event symbolised urban governance as a national calling. Today, our cities are governed by short-termism and populism - with no professional planning cadre, no respect for design, and no accountability for outcomes. Just sheer opportunism. We have lost the plot of urbanisation. And in losing that, we are losing the very quality of urban life. If we are to rebuild Bengaluru - or any Indian city - we must go back to the ethos that created Jayanagar: • Plan before you build. • Design for people, not for vehicles. •Let professionals lead, not politicians meddle. • Treat civic dignity and urban quality of life as non-negotiable. The story of Jayanagar should inspire a new generation of urban reformers to ask: “What kind of city do we want to leave behind - a monument to neglect and greed, or a model of vision and inspiration?” Urbanisation is India’s destiny. But without leadership like the Mysuru Maharajas or Sir Visvesvaraya’s, it may also become our greatest failure. @narendramodi @yaduveerwadiyar #urbanindia #urbanisation

@saffrontrail Came here after ages and saw this. Thank you Nan. Those days were such precious ones and I’m so blessed I met you 🥰

A friend made on Twitter over a decade ago - proof that social media can introduce you to some of the loveliest people ❤️ happy birthday @prats_39

@ashoklalla @saffrontrail Thank you

@saffrontrail @prats_39 How lovely, a dhanteras birthday! Enjoy a blessed year, both of you.