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Re: Nukkad

Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2018 4:20 pm
by chetak
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Re: Nukkad

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2018 6:30 pm
by hanumadu
Funny thread of people whose names sound like private parts.

https://twitter.com/natalieweiner/statu ... 5839450113

Re: Nukkad

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2018 8:23 am
by chetak
twitter

Asia Argento is the epitome of toxic femininity. #AsiaArgento #ToxicFemininity

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Re: Nukkad

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2018 8:07 am
by chetak
twitter
I stared at this photo, of the Army Chief bowing & touching the feet of a war-widow, and realised some Indian traditions can be so beautiful


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Whenever I am sad and depressed at the largely ungovernable, mostly unliveable, and generally impossible state of our great country, I return to this photo, of a four month-old Faizan Khan looking at his rescuer SHO Sanjay Kumar. It helps.


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Re: Nukkad

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 6:09 am
by chetak
twiter


Lambeth Country Show has really outdone itself this year

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Re: Nukkad

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 6:17 am
by chetak
twitter

MK Gandhi letters one by one slowly r getting auctioned in London --who is Providing it? His erstwhile PA Cum typist Kalyanam supposed to have collected all of it after MKG death--will Govt probe?:)) RT

Re: Nukkad

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 6:59 am
by chetak
S V Badri@svbadri

My grandfather Sriman. Kalyanam Iyengar (1905-1976) attained Acharyan Tiruvadi this day in 1976. We remember him for each morsel of food we eat today. 🙏 to TAtha who gave Tirupati laddu to the world and loads of love to everyone around him.



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Re: Nukkad

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2018 7:49 am
by chetak
Bengaluru to host Aero India air show in February
Saturday, 08 September 2018


Bengaluru to host Aero India air show in February


The Defence Ministry on Saturday announced that the next edition of the biennial Aero India air show would be held here from February 20 to 24, 2019.

"The government has decided to hold the Aero India 2019 in Bengaluru from February 20 to 24, 2019," said the ministry in a statement from New Delhi.

The five-day event will be held at the Yelahanka base of the Indian Air Force (IAF) on the city's northern outskirts amid tight security.

Re: Nukkad

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2018 12:49 pm
by Sridhar k
Chetak sir, what's your Twitter I'd?need to follow

Re: Nukkad

Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2018 3:03 pm
by chetak
Sridhar k wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 08, 2018 12:49 pm
Chetak sir, what's your Twitter I'd?need to follow
Sorry Saar,

am not active on twitter.

Re: Nukkad

Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2018 3:03 pm
by chetak
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Re: Nukkad

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 4:07 am
by chetak
When believing is seeing

When believing is seeing

Ravi Shanker Kapoor
September 15, 2018,

The protests of intellectuals appear as the fulminations of has-beens rather than the roars of revolutionaries.


Witnessing any gathering of intellectuals, whether it is a Not-In-My-Name protest or a meeting against the legal action against urban Naxals, is quite an experience. The look, the feel, the atmospherics—everything has a surreal quality about it. Having attended quite a few such meetings in recent times, it would be appropriate to make some observations about them.

First the look. Lesser mortals like us (LMLU) wear, or want to wear, good clothes. Men go for Raymond, Reid & Taylor, J. Hamstead, Arrow, Louise Philippe, Van Heusen; women love Nalli, Satyapaul, Manish Malhotra. Intellectuals, however, prefer khadi and FabIndia. The duller the colour, the coarser the fabric, the more depressing the look, the better.

When an LMLU couple is alone, they make love; when an intellectual couple is alone, they discuss “sexual politics”.

When LMLU attend a marriage party, they rejoice in good tidings. Intellectuals, on the contrary, don’t approve of any marriage unless both partners are of the same sex. The normal marriage they view with suspicion, often as a fodder for the perpetuation of patriarchy.

If you ask LMLU, who their favourite film actors and actresses are, they would say Dev Anand, Dilip Kumar, Rajesh Khanna, Dharmendra, Shah Rukh Khan, Madhubala, Suraiya, Hema Malini, Madhuri Dixit, Kangana Ranaut, and so on. If you ask an intellectual the same question, the answer would be Balraj Sahni, Smita Patil, et al.

I wonder what kind of man would like to take his girlfriend to watch Do Bigha Zameen. So, let’s have a closer look at intellectuals. A quick Google search will give you delectable quotes: “an intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex” (Aldous Huxley); “an intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows” (Dwight D. Eisenhower).

Instead of defining them, however, I would like to focus on their distinguishing features, the most important of which is: while for LMLU seeing is believing, for intellectuals believing is seeing. We perceive phenomena and then come to some conclusion; mostly, experience guides us. But intellectuals know the Truth—yes, that’s how they look at it—and cherry-pick facts to embellish it.

They know before any inquiry into a communal riot that the main culprits are RSS and other “communal” elements. They know before investigating the killing of alleged Maoists that the police version is “full of holes”. In their scheme of things, what they perceive and conceptualise is knowledge; the opposite is a malevolent construct of “false consciousness”.

They know that socialism and communism are good, period. This is the truth that intellectuals stumble upon usually in schools and colleges. Like the first love, they cherish it all their lives, notwithstanding the mountain of evidence suggesting the opposite. The truth is that over 100 million people perished under socialist and communist regimes. For decades, intellectuals all over the world disputed that, rubbishing it as Western or bourgeois propaganda.


The mendacity of Leftist intellectuals and liberals was unbounded. Paul Johnson wrote in The Modern Times: “The famine of 1932, the worst in Russian history, was virtually unreported. At the height of it, the visiting biologist Julian Huxley found ‘a level of physique and general health rather above that to be seen in England.’ Shaw threw his food supplies out of the train window just before crossing the Russian frontier ‘convinced that there were no shortages in Russia’…”

Further, Johnson wrote, “Self-delusion was obviously the biggest single factor in the presentation of an unsuccessful despotism as a Utopia in the making [in Russia]. But there was also conscious deception by men and women who thought of themselves as idealists and who, at the time, honestly believed they were serving a higher human purpose by systematic misrepresentation and lying… The Thirties was the age of the heroic lie. Saintly mendacity became its more prized virtue. Stalin’s tortured Russia was the prime beneficiary of this sanctified falsification.”

Saintly mendacity and heroic lies are the warp and woof of the narrative that intellectuals peddle all the time. They claim to be the champions of individual liberty and privacy, thus opposing the Narendra Modi government’s efforts to link Aadhaar with welfare measures, administrative mechanisms, and money movement. But it was many of these people, big state enthusiasts as they are, who conjured up targeted welfarism; this is how Aadhaar got conceived in the first place. This happened when Sonia Gandhi ruled the country by proxy and filled her National Advisory Council with all manner of intellectuals.

Intellectuals claim that they are the champions of human rights and civil liberties; and they practically act as the over-ground activists of Maoists, the sworn enemies of not just human rights and civil liberties but all that is good and glorious in human civilisation.

Intellectuals claim that they want the uplift of the poor, yet the economic philosophy that they favour, socialism, has been discredited all over the world (if the Modi regime is troubled today, it is primarily because it has been unwilling or incapable of dispensing with the vestiges of socialist structures, but that’s another story). Socialism perpetuates poverty; this reality no intellectual wishes to acknowledge. In Irving Krystal’s phraseology, few Indian intellectuals “got mugged by reality”.

Unsurprisingly, the frequent protests of intellectuals appear as the fulminations of has-beens rather than the roars of revolutionaries.

Re: Nukkad

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 6:16 am
by chetak
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Re: Nukkad

Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 7:43 am
by chetak
twitter
Remember the last time Communism worked? Me neither


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Re: Nukkad

Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 11:28 am
by chetak
twitter
Final attempt at catching Mallya. ..hope they are successful

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Re: Nukkad

Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2018 2:13 pm
by vishvak
In case anyone is watching bollywood news, hear first 20 seconds which then begin to be a blame on society and so on.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BjMoJ526QkI

Re: Nukkad

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2018 4:21 am
by Vyoman
Paging Dileep!

I am planning India visit. It would be nice to meet you at your dera-maha-bali. Last time, I couldn't.

Cheers!

Re: Nukkad

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2018 12:13 pm
by Dileep
Send e-khath to dileepks on jeemeyil

Re: Nukkad

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2018 1:03 am
by Vyoman
e-khath-O-khath bejified!

Re: Nukkad

Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2018 4:55 pm
by KJo
In one way it's good the creeps of Bollywood are exposed.
I am sure some BIG BIG name will be exposed soon causing a big dhamaaka.

Vikas Bahl put his hand inside my dress, masturbated on me: sexual assault survivor recalls shocking incident
https://www.timesnownews.com/entertainm ... ews/295363

Kangana Ranaut accuses Vikas Bahl of harassment, says he’d hold her too tight, brag about casual sex
https://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywoo ... 9dVPK.html

Re: Nukkad

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 6:19 am
by Vikas
I am sure few more big names will tumble out.
I care two hoots about Bollywood but these other fake liberal ecosystem creeps where everyone is oh-so-holier-than-thou but sex starved and pervert behind the doors.

Re: Nukkad

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 3:58 pm
by AdityaM
any inputs on buying a good but cheap telescope in delhi. Even poor quality telescopes seem to cost nothing less than Rs24000.
want to be able to see Jupitor-saturn clearly and other deep space as well.

Re: Nukkad

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 4:04 pm
by AdityaM
this forum is so dead, that Nukkad posts from Aug to October can be found on 1 page!

Re: Nukkad

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 5:44 pm
by KJo
Accused of sexual harassment, actor Rajat Kapoor apologises on Twitter
https://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywoo ... pS1ZN.html

Re: Nukkad

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 6:27 am
by Gus
social and cultural nukkad stuff is subsumed into political thread...

what to do..some thread discipline on behalf of poster is needed.

if we get a lot of traffic and posts, we can look to enforce discipline, but at this low volume it does not make sense.