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Just curious, which company is making headphones with such INSANE noise cancellation? Girl standing right in the middle of the road, holding up all the traffic, and can't even hear the horns blaring around her !
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There’s an entire generation of people who have never experienced the emotional roller coaster of burning a CD and having it fail at 98.7%
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I watched cartoons like this as a child and you expect me to be normal 😹
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hes giving her a tattoo while being professional, not fucking her. thats the difference dumbass. no blue check either, youre just being stupid and cringe for free huh
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Until I saw this post below, I scrolled past this video on my TL, and had mentally slotted it as ‘new age wannabe Gwen Stefani music artist from somewhere in the West’.
It is too dark, too flowerless, too joyless, too graceless to strike me as anything related to Diwali.
Apple’s new Diwali film (Step Into the Light) is visually stunning. But there’s something oddly outside-in about it, despite Juhi Chawla.
The ingredients are beautifully Indian... Raw Mango textiles, Tijara Fort, a 90s Bollywood song. The gaze *feels* international. It celebrates the appearance of India without quite capturing the experience of being Indian. It plays more like a luxury fashion film than a Diwali ad rooted in how the festival is actually lived.
Diwali isn’t just an aesthetically pleasing celebration of light. It’s family, rituals, food, noise, neighborhoods, memories, and many small human moments. The film captures India’s visual vocabulary beautifully (which makes sense for a camera demo), but it’s far less interested in its emotional texture.
The contrast with Apple’s Chinese New Year films is striking. 'Three Minutes' (2018), 'Daughter' (2020), 'The Comeback' (2022), 'Little Garlic' (2024) and 'I Made a Mixtape for You' (2025) are built around recognizably Chinese people... relationships, family dynamics, inter-generational tension, etc. The festival isn’t a backdrop, but woven into the story. The iPhone is shown off through the storytelling, not the other way around.
'Mixtape' is the telling illustration. It has the same ingredients as this Diwali film - 90s songs, dance, nostalgia. But they’re built around a young man dodging his family’s marriage questions on his way home for the New Year. Same toolkit, totally opposite result!!
And it isn’t about who’s behind the camera. Several of the China films were directed by Westerners; the Diwali film was directed by an Indian. The gaze probably comes from the brief.
So, China gets 15–20-minute short films. India gets an Instagram reel. YOu could argue that market size explains part of that. But still doesn't explain the difference in curiosity (or the lack of it).
Apple’s Chinese films are interested in what it feels like to be Chinese.
Apple's Indian films are interested in what India looks like, as seen from the outside.
P.S. The song, 'Roop Suhana Lagta Hai', is credited to Anu Malik, but it’s A R Rahman’s uncredited 'Ottagathai Kattiko' from the Tamil original.
#advertising #marketing #deepavali #diwali
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We don't. Our kidneys automatically shut down during menstruation. That's literally why it's called a period. Because everything stops. Hope this helps! 🥰
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No KRAs, syncophantic staff, housing in premium areas and free transport plus no accountability means they think they can lord over people dependent on them for signatures.
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Posted this in 2024.
No heroine poster.
Most dismissed the film just by looking at the casting.
An 8 hour cinematic experience shot in just 16 months.
Released in two parts.
No paid PR campaign needed.
The edits became a massive trend.
No Gulf or China release.
Record breaking box office collections despite being A rated.
Incredible repeat value.
Toxic even postponed its release to avoid the embarrassment of clashing with it.
No other film will ever match the phenomenon that Dhurandhar created. 🔥
This is what movie dreams are made of! 🔥
Thank you @RanveerOfficial @duttsanjay #AkshayeKhanna @ActorMadhavan @rampalarjun #JyotiDeshpande @LokeshDharB62 @jiostudios @B62Studios and my entire team for giving me this opportunity!!
Now, Let’s create HISTORY
See you all in cinemas! 🙏❤️
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A relationship is partly two people learning to live with the fact that they experience the same events differently. One remembers the conversation. The other remembers the tone.
Both are convinced they remember it correctly.
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My scooty is over 15 years old, and today I was fined ₹3,000 simply because its 15-year registration validity had expired.
But what is the logic behind this?
My scooty is in perfectly good running condition. I get it serviced regularly and maintain it properly. Just because it has crossed 15 years, does that automatically make it unsafe?
If the government can penalize me for using a well-maintained scooter because of its age, then who is going to hold the government accountable for potholes and broken roads that damage our vehicles and put our lives at risk?
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Have ISRO & NASA considered using upma as heat shield or heat exchanger? While the first bite can burn the roof of your mouth, by the 3rd bite, it is as cold as the room.
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Journalists are licking sarkari boots.
Meanwhile, an 18-year-old boy is presenting precise facts and asking pertinent questions.
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to the most respected finance minister. i have a doubt. please find time to answer me.
you say that the venue for a debate is the parliament.
you say that my home minister, amit shah has offered a special session to debate.
you say that if rahul gandhi - the leader of opposition, wants to debate my prime minister, he should come to the parliament.
ma'am, let's start by pointing out some facts.
jul 20 - the parliament session opens. narendra modi, the ever so hon'ble prime minister - addresses the media - outside the parliament. he asks for a fact-based debate.
jul 24 - Amit Shah's National Honour Bill is introduced in Rajya Sabha, by Nityanand Rai, who is MoS for home affairs. Jairam Ramesh asks "Where is the Cabinet Minister". This is present in the RS Transcript.
jul 29 - Rahul Gandhi, the leader of opposition - asks "why is the Home Minister not here today?". This is also present in the LS Transcript.
jul 30 - Rahul Gandhi asks "why Shah is so scared of coming to Parliament"
aug 4 - Amit Shah, is seen in the parliamentary complex. at an NDA Parliamentary Party Meeting. He Doesn't enter the house. as per reporting from Navbharat Live.
aug 6 - Mallikarjun Kharge, in Rajya Sabha, asks "Why is the Prime Minister not coming? Why is the Home Minister not coming?" as Per Kerala Kamudi - this is consistent with the RS transcript.
aug 11 - congress MP Manickam Tagore attacks the absent home minister. as per reporting by the ANI.
aug 12 - Amit Shah says to the media, "have been coming to Parliament regularly since the Session began; I sit in my chamber."
talking to the media, at around 12:30 PM, Amit Shah offered "If the Opposition wrote to the speaker, there would be a debate from 3 PM wednesday (12 aug - the same day) to 3 PM thursday (13 aug - the next day)
this was roughly a 2 hour window to submit the letter.
he further said "I will sit in the House; I will listen to everyone and respond to every point."
Rahul Gandhi said "We are not interested in listening to his lecture, Who shot those students? Who blinded that student? Who ordered the lathi charge?"
this referred to the Pellet Shots fired at the Student, Sahil Lochav. He asked about the Lathi Charge that happened in the protests on July 20th.
The Opposition wanted a statement from Shah about this, Shah wanted them to submit a letter to the speaker, in a window of roughly 2 hours - after not being present for 17 straight settings. with no recorded appearance.
aug 13 - Lok Sabha sits for 4 minutes. 11:00 AM to 11:04 AM. The National Song, Vande Mataram, is played. and then, the house is adjourned sine die. Both ever so honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Shri Amit Shah were present on these days. for the 4 minutes.
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Respected Finance Minister Ma'am,
These were the facts I have pointed out. I have not said anything that was my own opinion. I have not framed the facts in a way that support any party. My facts were gathered by scraping Documents from the LS and RS portal, OCR'ing the PDFs, then parsing them and then Aggregating News Sources. - and pointing out facts from them. Cold, Hard, Records.
I have not asked any questions yet - which I will do now.
I am a human. I have evolved Pattern Seeking skills.
I spot a pattern here. I see that for the entirety of the Monsoon Session, Prime Minister Modi, and Home Minister Shah, did not utter a word on the record of the Lok Sabha. They were not present in the house except for the last 4 minutes, on the last day.
Shah says "He was sitting in his cabin",
Ma'am, I don't think debates happen when you sit alone in a cabin. It happens on the floor, where the other side can ask questions too.
I don't see a meaningful debate happening in an environment like the Parliament. I say this with utter disappointment.
If Parliament is the venue for debate, why did the two most senior members of the government not speak there once in 19 sittings? And why was the one offer to debate made to the press on the 18th day, with a deadline of a couple of hours?
Why are there "offers" even? I think it is your responsibility to be in debates because that is your entire job.
As you say, "Demanding answers also carries an obligation to hear them." -- Well, were Amit Shah or Narendra Modi, hearing the Questions being asked? They were not in the house even.
Please Answer my Doubts. I would be very obliged if you do so.
Regards,
Sarthak