Shivneet Singh
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Shivneet Singh
@Shivneet
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
شامل ہوئے Ocak 2009
468 فالونگ89 فالوورز

@dekhane_mukul I'll differ only on the pencils.... V Perumal Chetty was the gold standard!!
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Middle Class India of the 80s. This relates to all of us
For those who grew up during the 80s in middle class India , here are some things that you can identify with……
1. Though you may not publicly own to this, at the age of 12-17 years, you were very proud of your first "Bellbottom" or your first "Maxi" .
2. Phantom & Mandrake were your only true heroes.The brainy ones read "Competition Success Review".
3. Your "Camlin" geometry box & Natraj/Flora pencil was your prized possessions.
4. The only "Holidays" you took were to go to your grandparents' or your cousins' houses.
5. Ice-cream meant only - either an orange stick, a vanilla stick – or a Choco Bar if you were better off than most.
6. You gave your neighbour’s phone number to others with a ‘c/o’ written against it because you had booked yours only 7 years ago and were still waiting for your number to come.
7. Your parents were proud owners of HMT watches. You "earned" yours after SSC exams.
8. You have been to "Jumbo Circus"; have held your breath while the pretty young thing in the glittery skirt did acrobatics, quite enjoyed the elephants hitting football, the motorcyclist vrooming in the "Maut - ka - Gola" and it was politically okay to laugh your guts out at dwarfs hitting each others bottoms!
9.. You have at least once heard "Hawa Mahal" and "Binaca Geetmala" on the radio.
10. If you had a TV, it was normal to expect the neighbourhood to gather around to watch the Chitrahaar or the Sunday movie. If you didn't have a TV, you just went to a house that did. It mattered little if you knew the owners or not.
11. Sometimes the owners of these TVs got very creative and got a bi or even a tri-coloured anti-glare screen which they attached with two side clips onto their Weston TVs. That confused the hell out of you!
12. Black & White TVs weren't so bad after all because cricket was played in whites.
13. You thought your Dad rocked because you got your own (the family's; not your own own!) colour TV when the Asian Games started. Everyone else got the same idea as well and ever since, no one came over to your house and you didn't go to anyone else's.
14. You dreaded the death of any political leader because of the mourning they would announce on the TV. After all how much " Shashtriya Sangeet " can a kid take? Salma Sultana also didn't smile during the mourning.
15. You knew that " Indira Gandhi " was somebody really powerful and terribly important. And that's all you needed to know.
16. The only "Gadgets" in the house were the TV, the Fridge and possibly a mixer.
17. Movies meant Rajesh Khanna or Amitabh Bachchan.Before the start of the movie you always had to watch the obligatory "Newsreel".
18. You thought you were so rocking because you knew almost all the songs of Abba and Boney M.
19. Your hormones went crazy when you heard “Aap Jaisa Koi Meri Jindagi Mein Aaye” by Nazia Hassan .
20. Photograph taking was a big thing. You were lucky if your family owned a camera. A reel of 36 exposures was valuable hence it justified the half hour preparation & "setting" & the "posing" for each picture. Therefore, you have at least one family picture where everyone is holding their breath and standing at attention!
And we were really happy then....
Have a happy walk down the memory lane..
Cheers 🎸🎸🎵🙏🙏
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Completely cut off from the chaos no big cities around, just pure tranquility. A place where peace meets the true essence of architecture.
Still hidden from the masses, untouched and unaware to most.
I won’t name it, or I’ll get blamed for bringing the crowd but trust me, it’s one of India’s finest gems! 🫶🏻💯


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@Matt_Pinner 19. All except Blockbuster which wasn't available in my country.
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We have all have been inconvenienced by police stopping traffic lights to let their senior officers go through? DGP down to SHO .
Our time is as valuable as theirs.
Put a stop to this VIP culture. Be on time for your meetings!
@DGPHaryana
@CP_PANCHKULA
@WeArePanchkula
@cmohry
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@elitepredatorss Terr in white pants obviously less trained. Given sh0tgun rather than long gun. He was also overpowered by bystander. Main effective was black tshirt.
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Extended footage of #bondibeach shooting, the shooter was heavily armed and adequately trained.
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@parrysingh Saw your original post.
Felt the 2nd bhatura's pain.
Very well written, so followed you.
Have had the same forwarded to me as original content several times!
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Five days after my post goes viral, a LinkedIn “Life Coach” (Deepti Jandial) posts identical content.
On the left - my post. On the right - Life Coach!
I ask her about it - she says "pure coincidence"!
"Same words?", I ask further.
She deletes my comment, and blocks me.
How should this be handled?
Option 1: Move on. Accept that 'second bhatura' is proof that life is unfair - and so is LinkedIn!
Option 2: Report it.
Is there a third option?


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@ShivrattanDhil1 WRC in Ladakh?? Nope. Will never happen. The Raid faced so many problems...
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Absolutely love these pictures! Sadly, in India, we’re only obsessed with cricket while motorsports continues to be neglected even by the government, with no real support.
I truly wish we had at least one politician passionate about motorsport; the entire scenario would’ve been so different.
The only man who truly showed Indians what motorsport is was Vijay Mallya @TheVijayMallya . I really hope someone revives motorsport in India! Udaipur views with such cars can steal hearts!
I recently spoke with someone working to bring WRC to Leh, India. Hopefully, that dream turns into reality someday!
@PMOIndia @mansukhmandviya


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#TheBuckStopsHere | "Sonam Wangchuck in jail will be equally, if not more problematic as Sonam Wangchuck outside participating in dialogues and discussions": Activist @Wangchuk66's shocking claim on NDTV
#NDTVExclusive | @PadmajaJoshi | #SonamWangchuk
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🔴Watch #LIVE | Sonam Wangchuk's startling revelation: Why did he ask for 'Arab Spring' in India?
Watch this exclusive interview by NDTV's Padmaja Joshi (@padmajajoshi) in conversation with @Wangchuk66 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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@brinderdhillon You'll have to wait till the tree lovers approve. Hang on for another decade.
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Recently saw an article for chandigarh metro
" the delay , the red tape and rising traffic /cost"
And then a report in Hindu from Bengaluru about metro .
For chandigarh
Is metro the way forward for the tri-city?
Metro Makes the Difference
In Bengaluru, the Yellow Line of Namma Metro has already cut peak-hour congestion by 37.5% and reduced overall traffic pressure by 30.6%, as per Bengaluru Traffic Police data reviewed by The Hindu.
This is real, measurable impact — less congestion, smoother commutes, and relief even for smaller roads.
Now look at Chandigarh–Tricity:
Our Metro project has been hanging in limbo for over a decade.
Cost has already escalated from ₹23,000 crore to ₹25,000 crore, and may touch ₹30,000 crore if approvals drag further.
Every delay is not just hurting our pockets, but also denying citizens the very relief from congestion that cities like Bengaluru are beginning to enjoy.
If metros can transform Bengaluru’s traffic in just weeks, imagine what timely execution could mean for Chandigarh, Mohali, and Panchkula.
The question is: how long will we let indecision and red tape hold the Tricity back?
#ChandigarhMetro #UrbanMobility #PublicTransport #Accountability
@ChandigarhSmart @dc_chd @ShivrattanDhil1

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What you're witnessing is history in the world of Himalayan archives!!
Behold the FIRST-EVER image of the valley leading to PP-15/Jianan Pass recognized in the public domain 🔥 This view has never been seen in the public ever in history.
Credits @Sanjith_icon who dug this up!

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