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My big #thread on Delhi History, Heritage, Urban Legends and stories from the city's past. A collection of all my past #DelhiHistory and #DelhiHeritage posts:
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#Megathread 👇👇
In complete contrast to Modi who maintains a psychopath-like distance to pretty much everyone in his family, one thing that stands out is the love that the Gandhis and the Mainos share for their families.
Indira, making it a point to keep in touch with all her maternal and paternal relatives, even the most distant ones, and even Feroz's family; and Sonia Gandhi with all her distant cousins and grandparnets. Just so wholesome all around.
What also surprises me in the book is how ordinary the daily life of the PMs family was. The dinnertable mundanities, the vespa rides, ice creams at CP, shopping chores, the PMs son with an ordinary job..
So removed from the way we see 'VIP culture' today.
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What also surprises me in the book is how ordinary the daily life of the PMs family was. The dinnertable mundanities, the vespa rides, ice creams at CP, shopping chores, the PMs son with an ordinary job..
So removed from the way we see 'VIP culture' today.
Michael Mann Accidentally Shoots Himself in Leg at Los Angeles Gun Range tmz.me/48u5xaG
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flair's probably gonna outlive me at this point 😭😭😭 #woooooo
Ric Flair Returned to Same Bar the Night After Bloody Fall That Sent Him to Hospital ringsidenews.com/ric-flair-r…
ALT Ric Flair Returned to Same Bar the Night After Bloody Fall That Sent Him to Hospital
Not sure what is the easier option here.
Militarizing the capital or one man's resignation 🤔🤔
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.
