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@theskindoctor13 My brain to me after I watched Jawaan:

Dhurandhar 1 had a different kind of craze. Pure mania! Almost everyone you meet has seen it and talks about it. It felt organic, like a cultural wave you couldn’t escape. The film pulled in around 1300–1400 crores. On the other hand, Pathan and Jawan? I’ve hardly come across anyone who has actually watched them or discussed them in real life as if they’re “the thing.” No street buzz, no random conversations, no everyday recall, just silence outside their fanbase. Yet somehow, both films magically ended up collecting almost the same numbers as Dhurandhar1, 1100–1200 crores. How?

@khanumarfa Translation: I really liked Dhurandhar so much l, that I went in for a paid preview. It was a great movie that all my fellow liberandus should watch in secret or when it comes out on OTT. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

DHURANDHAR 2- Full Review coming soon on my Youtube channel.

@SahilBloom Doing nothing. Most problems go away on their own. Maturity is knowing which problems are worth an intervention.

Complete this sentence with your hottest take: A lot of problems in life are solved by…

@islxlli Those friends better not be married, else this cul de sac is where friendships go to die.

Everyone's dream

@Worship_SRK Raone was a terrible movie that does not deserve a sequel

#Raone Director #AnubhavSinha in His Latest 🎙️ "I Am Really Interested in #Raone2 But It Will Take 2 to 3 Years To Make #Raone2. So Have To Check When #ShahRukhKhan is Available For That 2 to 3 Years as He Is Doing Back To Back Movies Now A Days."

@seledka_vodka Open secret among Indians, Nigerians, Chinese : tutoring your kid to the max for a grammar school is an investment in the future. There's no shame in it. In a dog eat dog world, why wouldn't you want the best for your kids future?

Standing in the queue outside a South London grammar school, waiting for my children to finish their 11-plus exam, I noticed something that would surprise anyone who thinks selective education is a middle-class white preserve. I was in the minority. The families around me were overwhelmingly East Asian, South Asian, African. This pattern repeated at nearly every grammar school entrance in London where I found myself over the years of preparing my children for these exams. The queues are enormous. And they tell a story that contradicts the received wisdom that stopped Britain building new grammar schools decades ago. The argument went like this: grammar schools were becoming a way for well-to-do white families to secure elite education for free, since only they could afford the tutoring that gives children an edge. But look at who is actually competing for these places. Most applicant families earn less than their white equivalents. What they possess instead is something harder to measure and impossible to purchase - a cultural orientation toward education as the primary vehicle for a child's future. I watched an East Asian mother in that café, her older child inside taking the exam, her four-year-old beside her watching what I assumed was Peppa Pig. It was maths exercises in Mandarin. Some families begin preparation at age six. This is real, and it is widespread. The willingness to sacrifice runs deep. Immigrant families take fewer holidays, and cheaper ones when they do. Parents deny themselves things that British culture has come to treat as baseline entitlements - the weekend away, the new car, the kitchen renovation - to pay for tutoring. They have children earlier, in less comfortable circumstances, in rental properties in rougher areas, because children are understood as the point of everything else rather than something to be fitted around an established lifestyle. I saw this firsthand working alongside Asian colleagues at major firms in London. Even among those who had reached professional success, the cultural inheritance was identical: children are the future, marriage is an accomplishment, sacrifice for the next generation is simply what adults do. This is uncomfortable for white British parents to hear, myself included. But honesty requires acknowledging that when it comes to parental investment in children's prospects, immigrant communities are often willing to go further. Yet the real scandal is not cultural. It is political. The competition for grammar school places has become so brutal not because demand is unusual but because supply was deliberately strangled. We stopped building grammar schools entirely, driven by ideological commitments that sound generous in seminar rooms but have produced catastrophic results in practice. The theory was that comprehensive education would lift all boats. The reality is that state schools have not improved enough to compensate for eliminating the selective alternative, and now children who would thrive in an academically focused environment are forced through years of intensive preparation simply because there are not enough places to go around. Grammar schools work. When you gather children from families that value education - children who are curious, driven, competitive - and free them from the drag of disruption and the influence of peers whose families couldn't care less, something powerful happens. Teachers can teach. Students can learn. The result is not privilege being hoarded but potential being released. The artificial scarcity we have created serves no one. It forces six-year-olds into tutoring regimes. It turns the 11-plus into a high-stakes lottery that rewards test preparation over genuine ability. It tells capable children from families without the resources or knowledge to navigate the system that this path is not for them. ⏩⏩⏩

@Simon_Ingari These sort of conversations happen in the public sector and not for profit sector with junior staff. Never in corporate.

Boss: I have noticed that you are late signing in nearly every day. Employee: I am at my laptop at 8:00 a.m. and log in at that time, so I’m unsure what you are referring to. Boss: If you are only opening your laptop at 8:00 a.m., then that is late. Employee: And how so? Boss: When are you preparing for your day? Employee: At 8:00 a.m., when I start working. Boss: I start at 7:00 a.m. most days, so when 8:00 a.m. rolls around, I am very well prepared to begin my workday. Employee: Well, preparing for my workday is part of my workday. Boss: It’s fairly bold to start late every single day. Employee: And it’s fairly bold to suggest that I should be working prior to when I’m getting paid to do so. Boss: And let me guess, you also log out for your whole lunch hour. Employee: Yes, my hour for lunch is unpaid, as per company policy. Boss: I work through my lunch. I even eat at my desk. Employee: Okay. Boss: Moving forward, I want to see you online 30 minutes earlier so I know you are prepared to begin your day. Employee: (Declines a scheduled meeting.) Boss: Did you just decline my 4:30 p.m. meeting tomorrow? Employee: Oh yes, you just said you wanted me to shift my work hours to begin at 7:30 a.m., meaning that I will be done at 4:30 p.m., as I am contractually obligated to work eight hours a day. Boss: (Silence… unimpressed.) (Briefing ends.)

@Its_CineHub Still struggle to find any person that has actually seen Jawan. I questioned my life choices after trying to watch it on OTT. It was an incoherent mess of a movie.

#Jawan VS #Dhurandhar Comparison :- ⭐️ Screens :- 4500 / 4500 ⭐️ Opening Day :- 75cr / 28.60cr ⭐️ Opening Weekend :- 207cr/ 106.5cr ⭐️ Lifetime India Net :- 642cr / 895cr* ⭐️ India Footfalls :- 3.92cr / 3.55cr ⭐️ Overseas Gross :- $49M / $32.75 ⭐️ Worldwide Gross :- 1060cr / 1350cr Verdicts :-ATBB / ATBB ✅ Both the FILMs are HUGE BLOCKBUSTERS and made INDIA PROUD 🔥 @iamsrk @RanveerOfficial

@ShivamVahia @whizkidd If it sounded andu gundu, it was probably Telugu. 😊

@whizkidd Good question. Could've been any. I used Tamil as an example but it all sounded Andu Gundu to me.

I'm sometimes jealous of Southern India languages. Sala kya encryption hai. Hear someone speak Tamil in a local train and you won't understand a single thing. Totally clueless. Speak Gujarati, Punjabi, or even Bengali and the entire coach will know you've got lose motions, or your girlfriend ditched you for a guy from Mozambique.

@levelsio Know a few retired rich British Indians, who spend the cold UK winter in India, and come back to enjoy the mild summer in the uk

One thing I learnt living all around the world for the last decade is that there really is no perfect place Some places have clean air like Portugal and Spain but that's also because they don't really have industry and their economies are in many ways broken Then you have the booming South East Asia where everything seems to be growing at all times, you can live in skyscraper penthouses with infinity pools for less than you pay rent in Europe, but then you also just have really bad air quality and the highest traffic deaths in the world You can go live in Japan and Korea where people are so polite and it's so safe, silent and tidy but then you realize they're also some of the most socially isolating places on Earth, kinda because of it You can move to the US, have the most functional economy in the world, with the largest product and service offering, where people actually want to work, but then in general most places aren't walkable and you're driving everywhere because that's just how most of the country was designed You can then live in Europe where you have actually do have walkable streets, a pace of life that's more about life than work, but then you have the issue everything is slow and many things don't really work properly and you're lucky to get a plumber to come, because people don't really care about work (how's that slow pace of life, huh?) So yes there's no perfect place, and the longer you are in one place, after the honeymoon of a new place is over, you often start getting annoyed with all the things that are wrong about that particular place One solution to this that me and my friends have found is to mix at least 2 places to live (and we even have friends with many kids that do this), this is kind of a brain hack: you let your brain never adapt to one place by switching to the other place every 6 months or so. Your brain keeps thinking it's getting the novelty of a new place (honeymoon vibe) and you can have the pros/cons of two places that are counter in many ways to complement each other: For example Portugal and Thailand: - Portugal has clean air and mellow lifestyle near the beach, but services and gov stuff doesn't really work well - Thailand you can have the 10 million people big city lifestyle in skyscrapers with amazing convenience and everything works, but you have really bad air quality much of the year There's lots of combos that can complement if you think of it like that

At this stage, the statement, " India is not for beginners", is a cop out. An excuse for mediocrity.

@bollocks1126149 @aditya_kc0 @rishabhm Tax payers need to feel insulted and need to question the government on why temple towns and historical sites are such shit holes. There's pollution, trash on the streets, zero development & monkeys attacking you from buildings . Stop hiding behind " India is not for beginners"

@aditya_kc0 @rsn @rishabhm Temples pay taxes laadle, thoda jaan me behes krle

Dude, there is no novelty in preserving this mess. European cities are not a mess of illegal, unsafe and unsanitary buildings. Banaras is an absolutely stinking city and this is after what the locals tell me has been a massive improvement after PM Modi became the MP. Cities can't improve as long as this mess isn't torn down.

@naveenkopparam I find putting together IKEA furniture therapeutic. It's not for everyone, especially in India, which doesn't have a big DIY culture as in the west. People who can't make tea for themselves, won't pick up a screwdriver to put up a bed.

Cheap labour in India has made us believe that daily chores and self help tasks are supposed to be done by someone else.

@Ravisutanjani Penalties. But won't work if govt doesn't do it's job properly. Bangalore implemented penalties and put up bins on some busy streets. The bottoms of those bins broke, and people were dropping their rubbish into a hollow bin, which fell right on the street. They shut it down.

🚨 How Can India Fix Bad Civic Sense? Education, Incentivise People or Penalty?

@sonaljay8 Your average Indian tourist does not believe in shutting down for a few days, read a book and do nothing. A holiday is another rat race to tick things off a bucket list and Instagram able photos.

Speaking to a few Indian tourists currently in Sri Lanka, all of them quite well travelled but it was their first time in Sri Lanka. They absolutely loved it; the food, the people, the culture. They loved it all. But their complaint; “we ran out of things to do in a few days.”

@ImAkashPatil My UP Wali wife took me for breakfast in Allahabad and fed me "Bun Makkhan Jalebi" ( Yes, that's exactly what you think it is) for breakfast. My South Indian brain now understood why South Indians have a higher life expectancy than Northerners.

Travelled across several North Indian states last year and was stunned to see chole bhature, poori, samosa, kachori, and jalebi being regular breakfast choices. Truly blessed to be born in Karnataka where breakfasts are rich in taste, variety and health..

@Incognito_River He lost his rights to privacy, when he invaded the personal space of others through his loud reels. It's give and take in a public space. Live and let live, else be shamed in public. More people should be publicly shamed, fined, banned etc. The soft touch approach DOES NOT WORK

So instead of politely asking him to lower the volume, I decided to body-shame him publicly because I’m a cultured human being. I also took and posted his picture without his consent, because, as I said, I’m a cultured human being.

@it_unprofession This here kids, are really good examples of Relationship Building, Multi-Level Stakeholder Management and Cross Functional buy-in. @it_unprofession is teaching you life skills, that you won't get in an MBA!

I took the VP of Sales out to lunch today. We went to that sushi place downtown. Expensive. I paid with the corporate card. Expensed it as "cross-departmental collaboration meeting." We talked about his golf game for 40 minutes. But here's why I did it: next quarter, I'm going to ask for budget approval for a new CRM integration. Sales is going to complain that it disrupts their workflow. They always do. But the VP now thinks we're buddies. He owes me for lunch, even though it wasn't my money. When I pitch the CRM project, he'll be more likely to say yes. Or at least less likely to actively oppose it. Relationships are currency. And lunch is a cheap investment. My boss would never think to do this. He thinks sales and IT are "separate domains." That's why he's been in the same role for eight years and I'm making basically the same as him. You don't get promoted by being good at IT. You get promoted by being good at people.

@ritujoon2j Use a camera and record them. They lose their rights to privacy when their actions encroach in your personal space. I've found that most of these scumbags shut up when you have a camera pointed at them.

Today’s flight experience was horrible. A child around 10–12 years old kept shouting constantly at his parents just to get attention, and his parents seemed to find it cute. I was reading a book, so I politely asked him to keep quiet. His mother replied, “This is not a library.” After that, they started playing antakshari. Some people clearly lack civic sense and unfortunately pass the same behaviour on to their children.