Vani Herlekar

‘Citizens are conscience keepers of government in any democratic nation’

@GabbbarSingh @juhimohan 😢

These guys are brave. For a pittance salary they put themselves in harms way to report, where they get 15 secs of airtime, before they are cut off and the anchor moves on to an “expert” sitting in an AC room :)

Put your last name in the GIF search and post the first one that pops up. 🍿

Like in films you’re only as good as your last Friday, in cricket the tendency is to believe you’re only as good as your last match. But this is a team with many once-in-a-gen players, together for the last time. And they showed us a dream. Grateful for the dream. WC phir kabhi.

💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 #TeamIndia #INDvsAUSfinal #MohammedSiraj #ViratKohli #RohitSharma #JaspritBumrah

Team INDIA, you played solidly well through the tournament! Win or lose - we love you either way and we will win the next one. Congratulations to Australia for a well deserved World Cup victory.

Friends in Mumbai, please help find a blood donor for dear Leo.

@VandanaJain_ We retuned to India as planned after working with H1B for 5 years. Never applied for a Green Card. Enjoyed our stay there, worked with some fantastic people, made lifelong friends. And very happy here as well. Closer to family, doing fulfilling work, building organizations. :)

Saw this on LinkedIn. Seems pretty accurate. What do you all think?? The 12-step Script that an Indian Software Engineer, who arrives in the USA, mostly follows 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟭 As a student, work hard to fulfil 3 goals (A) Pay off the Student Loan (B) Get a job anywhere in USA (C) Get H1-B approved (This one is the most important goal). Simultaneously make elaborate plans to return back to India within 5 years 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟮 H1-B approved Enjoy the influx of Green Currency. Buy a Toyota Camry or Honda Civic or Nissan Altima. Also, buy a property somewhere in India 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟯 Invite Parents from India on Visitor Visas. Take them on the Char Dhaam Yatra- Niagara Falls Statue of Liberty Charging Bull in the Wall Street White House 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟰 Go to India, finalize a Girl, and get married in 3 weeks - Of course it's arranged marriage Come Back to the USA with your newly married Spouse 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟱 During weekends & lunchtime with other Indian friends, endlessly discuss 3 topics (A) When are you going to get your Green Card, & what is your priority date currently? (B) How Modi is transforming India (C) Cricket 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟲 - Buy a Home in the U.S Have 2 kids. Spend the next 15 years dropping them off to various Classes, attending Birthday parties, & visiting Home Depot for various Home projects. Invite in-laws from both sides (him/her) every six months to help in house & for kids. Step 7 Green card waiting is over. You got it. 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 8 By the time, you are in 40s, you have saved enough Funds. The plan for returning back to India has not worked out. Now find new ways to spend money. Buy a Tesla or BMW or Mercedes Also your India properties aren't lucrative anymore as INR has further depreciated against USD so enroll into a difficult struggle of selling off the properties in India, paying a hefty Capital Gains Tax in India and remitting the funds back to the US 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 9 Now comes the time for a midlife crisis. Another shiny new Car, bigger Home, Green Card, & a High-paying job doesn't add anymore substance to your life. Now do something exotic to add flavor to your existence. A Marathon Race, intermittent fasting (or) maybe opening a new start-up. 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 10 In your 50s and 60s, after your kids have graduated from Stanford or MIT or Princeton, discuss how your life would have been Very different, had you returned to India 5 years after coming to the USA. Charitable donations come to mind mostly to save taxes. Step 11 With Children going away and enough time in hand, cram each year with trips to Europe, visiting Pyramids in Egypt, enjoying Turkish Delights, and visit Italy. Start rediscovering India and share with friends back in the US how India has improved a lot in the recent Decades. Get surprised with different ways the children ended up in life Step 12 When Functional Mobility decreases - ponder over the big Question - whether to Go back to India (or) stay in an Old Age Home or Assisted - living in US Add if anything missed in comments #whatsappforward #india #usa

Congratulations team #ISRO and fellow Indians. We are all on the moon today! Today we celebrate our scientific acumen, our space scientists, and our ambitious goals for space exploration. #Chandrayaan3 #MoonLanding

When Chandrayaan 2 partially failed, there was no uproar in India, as to why a poor country is spending so much on risky space missions. In fact, everyone's heart went out for K. Sivan and Team ISRO, hoping they would succeed the next time. This is not normal in many parts of the world. This is not normal in a poor country. Even countries far richer than India have made tradeoffs when it comes to funding for their space agencies. It would have been easier sell that idea in a poor country, at many times across decades. Especially when India was much poorer than it is today. But we didn't even consider it. ISRO has been at it consistently, with modest resources and big dreams. Thousands (especially children) gathered once again, to cheer for ISRO at the launch of #Chandrayaan3. People shared the visuals with pride on WhatsApp groups, even if they fully didn't understand the nitty-gritties of the mission. Religious groups are doing poojas and hawans for the success of the Vikram Lander. Again, this spirit - to cheer for science, has faded away in many parts of the world among the common public. India must never lose that spirit of wanting to test the boundaries of scientific advancement. It has thrived in India since ancient times, it is thriving today, and may it thrive for centuries to come.

This is the sweetest thing I’ve seen in a long time. The beautiful couple Vandana and Shailesh Inamdar recreate Rimjhim Gire Sawan, and this keeps getting better with every frame.

Aweeeeeeeee this is so beautiful. twitter.com/kaz22532418/st…

The parliament inauguration ceremony is next level cringe.

संसद लोगों की आवाज़ है! प्रधानमंत्री संसद भवन के उद्घाटन को राज्याभिषेक समझ रहे हैं।

John Searle circa 1984 discussing artificial intelligence and his analogy of the Chinese room.

I found this torn page at the sabziwala yesterday. Daughter, raisins and nuts, small handprints; I instantly knew what story it was from even though it’s been 30+ years since I read this classic, that too in comic book form. The power of stories ❤️

Women continue to face challenges at workplaces. #thread

Beaut.

@sarahhepola I am the founder of @City_Collab, a research and strategic communication consultancy focused on urban development sector. We do a lot of writing for our clients, everything from annual reports, policy briefs to social media captions. :)

@vdehejia @Columbia 🙏🏻

Very saddened to learn of the passing of Padma Desai yesterday, aged 91. Photo by @Columbia with her husband, Jagdish Bhagwati, my principal dissertation supervisor. Padma was one of the greatest scholars of the Soviet economy. She was kind, witty, and caring. RIP, Padmaben.🙏