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A thought-wanderer who loves creating new names and new words for talking to himself. Filmmaker. Long-reads junkie.

India
Joined November 2009
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Mumbai: the next Shanghai, ha? Next thing you know, there will be advertisers up your nose, in your food, in your toilet. May as well make a city-sized mall.
🚨 Mumbai to get floating advertising barges and hoardings at waterfront sites across the city.
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#UdtaTeer records TERRIFIC growth on its Second Day with a 75% plus surge! 💥 After a better than expected opening day, The Word of Mouth has enabled the film to see a massive surge on its Day 2. India Gross Numbers: Day 1 Gross: ₹ 4.92 cr Day 2 Gross: ₹ 8.70 cr Total: ₹ 13.62 cr (Nett ₹ 11.35 cr) All eyes on the weekend biz! 👍🏻
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#UdtaTeer springs a wonderful surprise, witnessing a solid 76.83% jump on Saturday... The major multiplexes across urban centres have been recording strong occupancies, and the trend is expected to continue on Sunday. While the national chains doubled their business on Saturday, several centres also witnessed a significant jump, beyond #Mumbai... #Bengaluru, #Kolkata, #Jaipur, #Hyderabad, #Pune, and #Chennai reported solid footfalls. The film now needs to sustain this momentum through the weekdays to post a respectable Week 1 total. ⭐ #UdtaTeer [Week 1] Fri 4.10 cr, Sat 7.25 cr. Total: ₹ 11.35 cr. Official Nett BOC | #India biz | #Boxoffice
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Dear citizens of Mumbai , What are you afraid of ? You got literal l poop in drinking water, and poison in the air. Poison kills life, what’s worse than death ? Why does the richest civic body in the world @mybmc think they can GET AWAY by doing this to you ? There’s like 3 CMs, what is the plan of action for air? You’ve always had terrible roads, now you have shit air and water too. Why do you pay so much tax to die via slow poisoning ? Mumbai contributes so much tax to the centre, what does it get in return? 7500 more trees are supposed to be cut. Why should a handful of environmentalists be constantly raising their voice for you? Are you cowards ? Why have you outsourced all courage to the young ? Ask questions, raise your voice! You don’t deserve this !
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#UdtaTeer fares better than pre-release estimates... The slow start in the morning and noon shows suggested an opening in the ₹ 2.50 cr range... However, the evening and night shows picked up, taking the day's total to ₹ 4 cr+. The film's performance in urban centres, in particular, could help it post a respectable weekend... The business on Saturday and Sunday will be crucial. ⭐ #UdtaTeer [Week 1] Fri ₹ 4.10 cr. Official Nett BOC | #India biz | #Boxoffice
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Jai Hind The judicial custody of #AshutoshRanka and #SauravDas must be urgently reviewed and they must be released immediately. Hoisting the National Flag, even in a prohibited area, should not warrant such prolonged detention. The judiciary and the executive must rise to the occasion to ensure that the youth of this country do not lose faith in the rule of law and constitutional rights.
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People can have differences and nuanced takes on CJP but it is inexcusable to remain silent on the custody of Ashutosh and Saurav. This is an egregious violation of a citizen's liberty. Please speak up. If not on principle, than in self-interest, for this is setting a precedent.
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Could have Édith Piaf singing on top of the Eiffel Tower with a cigarette in one hand and a decapitated head in the other and it would still somehow be less French than this photo
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This viral image of a person in a Pink Panther costume running from a CRS water cannon in Paris was made with AI. It is not a real photo from the French protests. Fact-checkers including Newtral confirmed the image was created with AI tools. tribunanoticias.mx/la-pantera-ros…
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Tiny. Bootstrapped. Slightly terrified. But we’ve got the titles you won’t find on Netflix.

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Not even Black Mirror could predict this level of dystopia. A man found out his job interviewer was AI, so he let his own AI take over and walked away, leaving both AIs stuck in an endless goodbye loop.
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This video is a staged comedic experiment by YouTuber Graham Dot Zip, not footage from a real company job interview. youtube.com/watch?v=A0fECn… theregister.com/offbeat/2026/1… aistify.com/ai-job-intervi… mezha.ua/en/news/ai-job…
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HAHAHAHAH!!
Homies at 3 am on WhatsApp 😂 @HoeZaay got no chill What a piece of Art 🤓 And The Oscar For The Best Edited Reel Of The Year Goes To 👇
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Five days judicial custody for Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka. Their crime: trespassing. Bail in one day for Hindutva goon Ravindra Govinda. His crime: mercilessly beating up a peaceful protestor.
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The man who oversaw 2002 has an appetite for an infinite amount of violence. The question is whether he can afford it politically. He specialises in violence against Muslims. But what to do if Hindus are on the road, especially when a significant section is upper caste, upper class. There is no answer to that question in the saffron recipe book.
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To think of the repercussions one meticulously reported piece by the Indian Express has caused, just imagine if the Indian press had done this across the last 12 years where we would be.
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#EMERGENCY2 10 OCT 2026: Detentions so far: Abhijeet Dipke, Neha Bora, Saurav Das, Ashutosh Ranka, Ratna Singh, Dhruv Rathee, Arvind Kejriwal, Mamata Banerjee, Tushar Gandhi, Pinarayi Vijayan, Brinda Karat, Prashant Bhushan, Derek O’Brien, Saket Gokhale, Manish Sisodia, Yogendra Yadav… Basically any formidable opposition to Modi sarkar. Congress got Emergency 1.0. BJP got Emergency 2.0. One goal each. ⚽️ Now leave us the hell alone.
25-26 June 1975, India was put under #Emergency by the #congress PM Indira Gandhi, the darkest night that the democracy of India witnessed
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days like today are a reminder of how capable the government is they can move heaven and earth for their own benefit but will let entire states like manipur burn only to tell you that there are more important issues in the country
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Every political party ultimately wants an Emergency.
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This is disproportionate as hell....it's an admission of guilt, if there was any question about it.
In a rapidly changing situation with respect to protest in Delhi, demanding resignation of CEC Gyanesh Kumar, summing up the actions over the past 24 hours :- 1. Delhi Police @DelhiPolice has declared that permission to protest at Jantar Mantar has not been granted for 10th Oct. So any attempt to hold protest at Jantar Mantar would be deemed Illegal. 2. 57 Metro station in Delhi shall be shut after 9 pm tonight till 11th Oct early morning. Central Delhi would be inaccessible by common man. 3. All mail/super fast express trains reaching Delhi at New Delhi & Nizamuddin railways stations would be prevented from docking at these stations from 2 pm onward today till early morning of 11th Oct. 4. Buses plying to central Delhi would not be on roads from late evening tonight, till early morning on 11th Oct. 5. All borders of Delhi will be sealed from late tonight. Buses, Trucks, Tractors and other mass transport vehicles wouldn’t be allowed from tonight till early morning 11th Oct. 6. Students Union activities or known CJP activists either re detained or house arrested in their residence outside Delhi or being flushed out and detained enroute to Delhi via rail / road. 7. All alcohol shops run by Delhi govt within Delhi shut today and tomorrow. 8. 22,000 armed personnel from across the country brought on to Delhi for deployment on 10th. Delhi,police to also deploy over 10,000 security personnel across Delhi. 9. New CCTV cameras with Facial Recognition installed across New Delhi. 10. Delhi Police personnel visit Mosques to warn parents and elders that youth should be counselled to stay home and not venture around any protest march. 11. Massive appeal campaign organised by security personnel asking & appealing commoners from participating in protests to be held on 10th Oct. 12. A huge surge of videos threatening punitive action against so called, “anti-national’ who plan to demonstrate or join protestors. The so called right wing activists appear with rods, lathis and weapons in the videos. 13. Several Kisan Unions appeal farmers to join the protests on 10th Oct. 14. Khap Panchayat representatives are appealing to people to both join or detest, from joining the protests on 10th Oct. 15. Massive social media campaign organised in support of CEC Gyanesh Kumar. He is being projected as saviour of Hindu Sanskriti. 16. Security detail,of CEC Gyanesh Kumar enhanced. He is going to be one of the most protected individuals in the country. *****Can’t recall such a divisive environment in our country over Election Commission in the past 3 decades of professional journalism. No government in india has ever made such massive security arrangements and imposed embargoes to quell a students protest, such as the one we see now. Not even when anti-reservation protests were at its peak in 1990. I hope the intelligence inputs are sound, if the govt anticipates large-scale violence, organised by protesting students. But if not, then this is a very serious matter, with major ramifications.
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The crowd is gone. The injured students have been sent to the hospital with an ambulance. Some media people and police is here. Inside studenhave gheraoed the VC. Report from inside Satyajit Ray Film institute Who allowed this to happen ? How dare you do this to the Students!!
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In a nation governed by the rule of law, the police should by now have initiated a suo motu case against this handle and its handlers under Section 2 of ‘The Prevention Of Insults To National Honour Act, 1957’.
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