In this week’s column, I try and figure out why restaurant/hotel chefs and even people who cook for friends at home - are so secretive about their recipes? What do they think will happen if they share the real recipe?
It’s not that Nestle adds sugar in baby food that is shocking. It’s that they’re using third world countries almost as testing labs to see the adverse effects of sugar on babies. It’s almost criminal.
Nestle is the absolute epitome of evil and corporate greed.
Cerelac wheat-based cereals for six-month-old babies sold by Nestle in France and the UK had no added sugar, while the same product contains over 2 gms per serving in India, 5 gms in Ethiopia and 6 gms in Thailand.
The Zomato delivery chap eating from various orders is depressing. It's what happens when you make people who can't afford a square meal, keep handling mountains of food. All food deliveries should offer 1-2 square meals a day for their delivery people. It's only fair. Great CSR.
So surreal. The prime minister of a country reeling under a pandemic, running out of vaccines, unable to cremate its dead - just spent 19 minutes telling a dying nation that he's done a spectacular job. We are in the ninth circle of Dante's Inferno, with Virgil Modi for company!!
14 days in jail because her boyfriend who had depression, killed himself a week after she moved out. And because the family wanted someone to blame, BJP finally found an electoral peg for Bihar and the media played cheerleaders to creating a villain to the piece. Shame on India.
Stop calling Jyoti Pandey, Nirbhaya. Her mother said it as well. She had a name. This ridiculous moniker is an insult to her. She was not on some quest to be fearless, she was just expecting to get through a day without being raped & killed. Now we've coined Nirbhaya 2. Sick.
Sri Swami Narayan temple of Mumbai has converted itself into a Covid hospital. The temple head has said that the treatment cost will be taken care of by the temple committee.
Have to say, this Curly Tales interview of Rahul Gandhi is a very clever move. Good way to tap into a younger upwardly mobile voter base, while making Gandhi more personable. This is how you do an entertainment interview, unlike the Akshay-Modi interview.
I find the media vilification of Rhea Chakraborty vile. But I am so glad that she's given interviews. I do wonder why the words of an absentee father who also didn't speak to his son for 5 years and an ex who hadn't spoken to him for 4 years - is being taken as the gospel.
How convenient that the room in which Ankita stayed, the reception area and lobby and with it I’m sure any CCTV footage, has all been demolished. How do these things even happen in India?
The lack of understanding that clinical or situational depression has nothing to do with how educated, successful, loved or rich you are, is glaringly evident if you turn on news TV today. You can't be "talked through" depression. Just don't have these discussions. It's fine.
They told their wives that they were visiting Bangaluru for business and actually visited Bangkok . However, after returning home, Police visited their homes with their travel records and pasted on the gate & explaining to their wives why their husbands need to be quarantined.
Finally saw this interaction. There is something seriously wrong with this woman - a deadly mix of delusion, illusions of superiority & a persecution complex to top it all. And she's become what she is thanks to our "feminist" media who've celebrated her ill-mannered behaviour.
One bragged about grabbing women by the pussy & has many other sins to his name. The other was in-charge of a fake sting against a schoolteacher claiming she was having sex with students. Ruined her life while getting on with his. Birds of a bouffant.
Wow, he's really an idiot. He thinks it's a good thing that people who were Covid-positive came to work and infected others? He should be sacked for endangering other employees. They aren't committed professionals, they're idiots for coming to work instead of quarantining.
Team
@ZeeNews
is on the frontline, while social media stone pelters spread rumours. Those who are infected had the option of sitting at home & sharing memes.They came to work because they’re committed professionals.If you can’t show them respect,don’t expose your spiteful selves!
While I understand the good intentions behind this act, this celebration and adoption of the hijab by women who aren't forced to wear it from childhood - is frankly quite reductive and ill-informed.
Wow. Because women who are having consensual sex, have no agency. Ridiculous. And shame on every idiot woman who screamed "rape" when a relationship went south.
CNN New 18 seems to be finding totally unknown "actors" as commentators on Bollywood. The latest find is someone called Manvi Taneja. Also Abha Singh just addressed Zakka Jacob as Arnab. No insult can be worse than his.
Ever imagined that a premier warship of the Indian armed forces could be used as a taxi for a personal holiday?
One Dynasty did it and that too with great swag.
Read this and share widely!
Not to stir up a hornet's nest, but Delhi people who are continuously raving about chicken and mutton momos, please buy a ticket to Calcutta, go to Elgin Road and eat some proper steamed pork momos made by locals from Darjeeling.
And it seems both the parents get their own pension as well. What a way to remember your son. Just scum. And none of this would have come out if they hadn't kept giving interviews to the media to vilify their daughter-in-law.
Amid allegations made by the parents of late Captain Anshuman Singh against their daughter-in-law Smriti Singh, Army sources clarified that the AGIF of ₹1 crore was split between his wife and parents while the pension goes directly to the spouse.
@dperi84
reports.
Bengal win aside - I wish news channels would report on the Covid cases and deaths in places like Jamshedpur and Jharkhand. Been speaking to residents there and people are dropping like flies, but no one is reporting on it. The focus is always on the metros.
What is this new money-making scam under the guise of law enforcement in Delhi? Was drinking water in the car & suddenly my car was surrounded by all these men claiming I have to pay them money. No lady cop in sight, despite repeated requests. No ID cards shown, kept turned away.
My favourite picture of Soumitra remains this one. So casually cool and elegant. These are stars. Shashi Kapoor, Jennifer Kendall, Madhur Jaffrey and Soumitra at Berlinale, 1965 - when Satyajit Ray’s ‘Charulata’ was awarded Silver Bear Award for best director.
Only an absolutely dimwit would think that Rahul Gandhi said that every man in India is a rapist. You also have to be totally disconnected from reality - like most MPs are - to not realise how unsafe India is for women. Oh, unless they think it's normal to sexually harass women.
Still reeling from the 3-hr PR campaign disguised as a film. Ridiculous how much
#Sanju
whitewashes Sanjay Dutt's crimes, actions & stupidities and leaves out massive chunks of his life. And what's with the media bashing? The media didn't buy & store the AK 56s or grenades. Crap.
Her successor was a Punjabi Indian woman from Delhi, Anvee Bhutani (who didn't make racist comments against the Chinese or Jews) so the claims of racism by Rashmi are an outright lie. Whoever the publisher is, should hang their head in shame.
What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger!
At 22 years of age, as the first Indian Female President of the Oxford University Students Union, my historic election victory rapidly transformed into a distressing nightmare of bullying, harassment, & threats. It was declared that
How is this news, leave alone front page news? The girl who was flying business class waited for an hour on the street for her cousin to pick her up. The 5-star hotel her dad called, didn’t have rooms.
This is why this country is a hellhole. DGP Gurgaon is coming to cyberhub - for the gurgaon litfest, so all normal citizens have to get dropped off at the gate & walk even if going to Medanta. Because DGP saab can’t have ordinary people walking alongside him. Sick.
How empty must your life be that every evening, the only way of finding people to talk to, is by appearing on a news channel's panel discussion? How can someone have nothing better to do?
I hope
@SrBachchan
&
@akshaykumar
are proud of their role in supporting the death of
#AareyForest
. Their gift to their grandkids and kids. Their cars should be taken away from them and they should be forced to take the metro everywhere.
How come no media house has written about whose home Amit Shah stayed at and dined in when he came to Calcutta? It's highly telling which media magnate played host to him. If not in bed with the ruling party, they're definitely breaking bread and luchi with them. Shameful.
@Memeghnad
When you try to use it, a virtual Modi-ji will appear from your phone and slap you really hard for being unpatriotic. Then your phone will just blank out.
Barbarians. Shame on
@narendramodi
&
@AmitShah
and all the BJP politicos & their lackeys like Rajat Sharma who keep whining because they say they were persecuted because they were involved in student politics. To beat up defenceless students, you have to be a super wimp.
Video from inside a washroom at Jamia University in Delhi. One student with a smashed eye, another unconscious on the floor, mirrors smashed by
@DelhiPolice
@CPDelhi
, stop the violence.
Republic TV & Times Now should form a detective agency and start solving crimes. Head detectives would be Arnab & Navika. First job would be self-implicatory though: to find out which one of them killed journalism first.
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT:
#TheKashmirFiles
has been shortlisted for
#Oscars2023
in the first list of
@TheAcademy
. It’s one of the 5 films from India. I wish all of them very best. A great year for Indian cinema. 🙏🙏🙏
Wow, this is beyond ridiculous. Private airlines be damned. That the Aviation ministry has nothing better to be involved with speaks volumes about govt priorities. Also
@flyspicejet
didn’t think they should suspend Pragya Thakur after she inconvenienced passengers? Ass-lickers.
My young colleague
@Tejasvi_Surya
is smart, passionate & talented. But i urge him to avoid this kind of behaviour:
Humanitarian needs must prevail over communal politics. Unity across political & religious lines is indispensable when lives are at stake.
Only in India is it okay for hundreds to stand on train tracks and celebrate a festival, and then blame the train driver for not stopping for them - even if he wasn't aware of their presence and even if it's impossible to suddenly brake a train going at that speed. Ridiculous.
West Bengal is one of the few states which had proper thermal scanners which did a full body temperature scan as far back as mid-Feb. Immigration is smooth despite proper checks. Sports facilities are being converted into quarantine facilities. Good to check ground realities.
Good read. But as
#IndiaFightsCorona
we must remember health is a State List subject. If State Govts decide to be obstinate to score political points (West Bengal, eg) there is little or nothing the Union Government can do.
(Those who have not read Constituion need not reply.)
Wow. This is like the US president tweeting a talk by evangelists Tammy and Jim Bakker to explain US policy. Might as well have got a video from Nityanand explaining the benefits of CAA.
Do hear this lucid explanation of aspects relating to CAA and more by
@SadhguruJV
.
He provides historical context, brilliantly highlights our culture of brotherhood. He also calls out the misinformation by vested interest groups.
#IndiaSupportsCAA
While I understand Jaitley was dear to everyone, the copious statements by journalists about their close relationships with him, prove why our media is so compromised. Because every day they socialise with the very people they're supposed to question & report on.
I’ve lost my Guiding Light my mentor.
@arunjaitley
, Arun Sir for me, who will I call every morning now? Your wit, your humour, your anecdotes, your knowledge of history & your intellect was unparalleled. The brightest star in the sky will remind me you are watching & guiding us.
No, your film is a joke. Much like all your other films
@vivekagnihotri
And while your ancestors were supporting the RSS (if they even bothered to do that), my ancestors, especially the women, were fighting for independence. Read up a little, best to do so before tweeting. Idiot.
For Brown Sahibas 👇Kashmir Genocide is a joke. You know why? Because when poor Indian women were killed during partition, Brown Sahibas like these 👇 were playing rummy with British masters sipping colonial wine. It’s that wine made of blood of our mothers which still lingers.
My favourite news report on Jaggi Vasudev. Odd how all links referring to this small incident of a wife dying under mysterious circumstances, his father-in-law accusing him of murder and a police investigation into the death, have vanished from the online world.
You should come to our colony of journalists - inflated maintenance bills, ridiculous rules, happy to let part-timers lose their jobs. The president of the committee once called in people to kill a monkey and its baby and dump the body outside. Very classy people.
TMC should thank BJP, because all of us who voted TMC into power to oust out the Left - rued the fact that TMC was seeming worse than the Left. But BJP has made us see TMC in a whole new favourable light. The known devil is definitely better than the known bigot.
In India, first of all Modi or any politician would not be walking around without a retinue and security. Second, you'd be arrested - and be lucky if you ever emerged alive from prison. Third, before being arrested, you'd be beaten shitless. So just enjoy this picture.
Please don't adopt a dog if you can't look after it. This is not a status symbol or a box to be ticked. Get a stuffed toy instead. Glad this dog was rescued.
Always amazed by this statement by the seemingly bright. When someone blocks you, it's not a curtailment of free speech. You're still able & allowed to write & say what you want to anyone you want. It's just that they as individuals are not interested in listening to your views.
I also like that Hema Malini in the rare moment when she manages to make contact with the ground, sweeps her trash towards Anurag Thakur to sweep up. Smart.
Only Jawab is not a Bengali word. And Bangla is the language. So the phrase "JawabChayBangla" loosely means, "we want reply Bengali language". Okay then.
One of the best and most no-nonsense columns I've read on the mythical "bliss" of parenting and one of the main reasons why people have children. And I can imagine the outrage which must have come
@veenavenugopal
's way after she wrote this. Must read.
Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Smriti Irani, has lambasted Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone for visiting the Jawaharlal Nehru University in an expression of solidarity with the protesting students.
#DeepikaJNURow
First, the lack of understanding by Smriti-ji on how the Global Hunger Index is calculated, is shameful. Second, it's okay for any of us who eat 3 square meals every day, to not eat food for 12-16 hours. Such ridiculous conflation.
As a doctor who studied about these index in depth in our MBBS (Social and Preventive medicine) it hurts. As a citizen I feel ashamed on the ignorance of our politicians on science and health.
Global Hunger index (2023) India ranks 111 out of 125 countries in terms of ‘hunger.
Sickening to see the level of sycophancy amongst politicians. Smartypants Panda wasn’t as affronted when his colleague Pragya Thakur held up a flight & inconvenienced other passengers? Modi’s boys & girls are a really special lot.
As a pilot who’s done & certified in the DGCA-required 6-day AVSEC aviation security course, I can tell you that heckling &/or verbal abuse on a flight is among the four levels of disruptive behaviour that can lead to arrest &/or being put on a no-fly list.
Just so you know 🙏🙏
She seems to be the only one who speaks sense. The others are doing some war dance and wanting to bathe in the blood of the 4 accused who've been murdered. But then when most politicians have criminal charges against them, can we expect them to understand and uphold due process?
So the 2 tailors in the colony - both Muslim - have informed me that the landlords in most of the shanties and buildings in Nathupur, Gurgaon are asking Muslim tenants to vacate their rooms. They and others are now looking for a place to stay. Just too sad and scary.
my favourite consequence of the covid-19 societal lockdown is aquarium penguins roaming around freely and when this is all over I for one welcome them as our new overlords
My Exclusive: Brajesh Thakur is not in a jail barrack, but resting in a jail hospital ward for last 40 days. After being in a city hospital for 3 weeks after arrest. Jail Superintendent tells me: Thakur has diabetes, fluctuating BP, possibility of heart attack, kuch ho gaya toh?
Under Taliban rule, I don't think Ghazala or any woman will be encouraged to throw words around - or use social media. She'd be lucky if she was allowed to speak in private or public in Afghanistan. Why would any thinking person,especially a woman, support the Taliban in any way?
Pleased to learn that not one of the hundreds of staff members - gardeners, sweepers, waiters, cooks - at Tolly Club were laid off, all salaries were paid every month in full, members paid Rs 1000 extra every month despite the club being closed to make sure of this. Some good.
My
@newslaundry
review of boys gone not-so wild, the tamest episode of Man vs Wild which I have ever seen - featuring
@BearGrylls
&
@narendramodi
. But what a great PR campaign.