14/ 1948 sees the release of two Tamil movies on the life of Bilhana. Two Tamil movies on a Kashmiri Sanskrit poet. How about that?

Charlie Munger lived to be 99. Buffet is about 94. Eats red meat twice a day. Has dessert after every meal and Buffet’s breakfast on most days is at McDonalds. They lived long because they were having fun, a sense of purpose all while not taking things too seriously.

#PoojaKhedkar is just the tip of the iceberg. Also from Pune, today Ajit Ranade, VC of Gokhale Institute of Politics & Economics was fired for irregularity & corruption. The details are shocking & shameful! 1/6

When you get something for free, you’re the product.

Probably the the best picturised song of the Hindi films ever...Raj Khosla apparently used to "fall in love" with the artists he worked with...he in his later life was heart broken...he clashed with W Rehman massively&hence missed out on Guide...1 of the best directors of India

Local Congress municipal body destroyed my great high school at Miraj from 1972 onward when they snatched it from the private society that was running it so excellently till then, now it it one of the worst schools there

Bought it almost 4 years ago, NOW starting to read..price at The Hindu eshop 299

#LaurenBacall100 Lauren Bacall Billboard, 1948 King Syndicate , illustration by Dal Holcomb

Pune-Hubballi #VandeBharatExpress on the Shindwane Ghats. A great pic by Ashwin Rao.

Saver turns investor in a rebalance of household financial assets. Bank deposits move from 53% to 42% between 2020 and 2024. Future is a holistic approach to financial services. Time for mindset change.

Ahilyabai Holkar's contribution in building lasting infrastructure at many religious sites is unparalleled in the history of India's middle ages, indeed many river ghats I have visited were first built by her, Marathas need no further validation beyond her work

True spirit of #Bengal awakens. Thanks #MamataBanerjee 🙏 "Kalli Nrutyam " by Woman Doctor protesting Ghost of R, G Kar in Kolkata, a Lady Doctor became as Bhadrakali 🙏🙏🙏

Sangam completed 60 years on June 16 2024. It's not my favourite film but it has moments. One of them is this: When Radha and Sundar go for honeymoon to Rome, they visit Trevi fountain. There Radha tosses a coin into it. searchingforlaugh.blogspot.com/2024/09/sangam…

"Addressing these challenges will require more than surveillance and China’s usual diet of “win-win” rhetoric." the-tls.co.uk/politics-by-re…

Will India bat like this in Australia? Very disappointed...#testmatchcricket #bordergavaskartrophy

To curb smuggling, 1970 were so rotten partly because of smuggling of gold, watches, clothes, cigarettes, fountain pens... just about everything. Roots of funding of later terrorism were there. They said some state actors were lynchpins.

#brahmputrahostel #IITMadras This is were I lived from July 1982- July 1983...I had always been fond of name Brahmputra...so when the opportunity came, I worked in Doom Dooma, Upper Assam (then infested with ULFA terrorists), closer to China/Burma/Thailand than to Maharashtra

History that we read and write!....John Buchan, Greenmantle (1916): "Some day, when the full history is written – sober history with ample documents – the poor romancer will give up business and fall to reading Miss Austen in a hermitage."