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Rita Bahuguna and Sylvestor Stallone have a lot in common. Let us take the character Rocky Balboa. The greatest story ever from Hollywood about the underdog and his fight for recognition. Apart from the initials RB, Rita Bahuguna has a lot in common with Rocky Balboa. Rocky began his career in difficult circumstances, lived in a one room house and had to work in the docks for his existence.
Rita came to the UPCC when it was in dire straits, no one cared to even drop into Nehru Bhavan for a peek. She was most definitely the underdog here. For her survival she had to struggle against well-entrenched forces in the state and the city, some of them even former Congressmen and some of them soon to become former Congressmen. .
Now Rocky to survive has to fight the world heavyweight-boxing champion and win the title. Rita had to fight against the well-entrenched local powers of Lucknow but in 13 days she created a miracle of sorts in the state.
Rocky Balboa or Sylvestor Stallone lost his house in a financial scam; he had to shift to a small tenement till better days came along. Then came Rita’s turn. Rita Bahuguna was arrested and at the same time in a remarkable coincidence her house was set on fire in a high security zone. But determined to fight on she stayed in the lone surviving bedroom of her house till her house was repaired by the workmen. (see also Talkindia.org).
Have Indians become a nation of cowards. Lets us celebrate this Diwali the homecoming of Lord Rama and hang our heads in shame for indeed we have – despite such heroes in our history – become a nation of complacent cowards. I say this that we could easily top the list for cowardliness in all our behaviour.
Let us take a count of the reasons why I say we have become a nation of cowards. (see Talkindia.org).
When the Babri Masjid was demolished by a group of people bent upon tearing apart the fabric of secular India and its democracy we showed our cowardliness by keeping quiet.
When a Maharastrian leader suddenly decided to beat and harass and throw out North Indians from Mumbai we kept quiet.
When a political leader like Mayawati decides to spend crores of public money on wasteful statutes of her and her party symbol we kept quiet.
When the mafia entered politics in our country and now runs large areas as a parallel government in states like Uttar Pradesh, we kept quiet. (See talkindia.org)
Jaipur loses its daughter
Ganga Atal the daughter-in-law of the former Prime Minster of erstwhile Jaipur state died in the wee hours of Tuesday November 6, 2009. see also (Talkindia.org) Her son Ajai Atal and daughter in law Nandini were with her at that time. Her husband Raja Jai Kumar Atal an ICS officer of the Central Provinces had predeceased her. Mrs Atal an octogenarian, had been ailing for some time before her death.
Hailing from a family of Allahabad her father a senior and respected lawyer was the Minister of Justice of Patiala state. She was married before Independence to Raja Jai Kumar Atal an ICS officer who held several postings abroad and was related to Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and to Mrs Indira Gandhi.
It was always said that there were two queens in Jaipur, they were known as the two most beautiful women in the world. Rani Sahab Atal as she was known was referred to as the queen of Atal Ban a sprawling 11 acre estate in the heart of Jaipur city near the Railway and Bus Station. Today the Rajputana Sheraton Hotel run by the ITC group has been built on this estate on a lease agreement.
Her husband held several important postings and was the Indian High Commissioner to Islamabad during the Bangladesh war of 1971, he was later President of the special appeals commission of the Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome. Before being sent to Pakistan he was the Indian Ambassador in Italy.
Ganga Atal became the matriarch of a large family; her son Ajai has two sons Amar Tej Atal and Anant Anand Atal and a daughter Devika Tankha.
She was a daughter the city was proud of even though she was its Daughter In law and today the city is poorer without her. Ganga Atal the daughter-in-law of the former Prime Minster of erstwhile Jaipur state died in the wee hours of Tuesday November 6, 2009. Her son Ajai Atal and daughter in law Nandini were with her at that time. Her husband Raja Jai Kumar Atal an ICS officer of the Central Provinces had predeceased her. Mrs Atal an octogenarian, had been ailing for some time before her death.
Hailing from a family of Allahabad her father a senior and respected lawyer was the Minister of Justice of Patiala state. She was married before Independence to Raja Jai Kumar Atal an ICS officer who held several postings abroad and was related to Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and to Mrs Indira Gandhi.
It was always said that there were two queens in Jaipur, they were known as the two most beautiful women in the world. Rani Sahab Atal as she was known was referred to as the queen of Atal Ban a sprawling 11 acre estate in the heart of Jaipur city near the Railway and Bus Station. Today the Rajputana Sheraton Hotel run by the ITC group has been built on this estate on a lease agreement
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Is Air India an unsafe airline and should it be rated as one now? An international rating list for tourists exists on unsafe and unreliable airlines and Afghan Airways heads the list here. But if things continue the way they are then Air India despite the best efforts of the Tata scion and the government and the ministers concerned may be heading there. (See also Talkindia.org).
If a Times of India report is to be believed then the pilots of an Air India flight bound for the Gulf molested the air hostess when she walked into the cockpit, then when she resisted she was shoved out of the cockpit, Soon the two pilots emerged from the plane’s cockpit even as the craft was in midair as they saw the crew gathering in support of the girl.
Then a virtual cockfight is reported to have broken out in front of the cockpit and the hapless passengers. The passengers could only gape helplessly and clutch their safety belts for support
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Is Air India an unsafe airline and should it be rated as one now? An international rating list for tourists exists on unsafe and unreliable airlines and Afghan Airways heads the list here. But if things continue the way they are then Air India despite the best efforts of the Tata scion and the government and the ministers concerned may be heading there. (See also Talkindia.org).
If a Times of India report is to be believed then the pilots of an Air India flight bound for the Gulf molested the air hostess when she walked into the cockpit, then when she resisted she was shoved out of the cockpit, Soon the two pilots emerged from the plane’s cockpit even as the craft was in midair as they saw the crew gathering in support of the girl.
Then a virtual cockfight is reported to have broken out in front of the cockpit and the hapless passengers. The passengers could only gape helplessly and clutch their safety belts for support
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Ban Pati Patni or voh show. NDTV Imagine’s Pati Patni aur voh show should be banned for two reasons. One it gives small town Indian audiences the wrong message that live in relationships are fine. Secondly it amounts to downright cruelty to the children who have been separated from their parents to provide cheap TRP for NDTV Imagine.
The worst possible case is that of Rakhi Sawant who’s comment Mujhe Aisay baccha diya hai jo sota hee nahi hai --- they have given me a child who does not sleep is an insult to all Indian mothers.
Indian parents have been known to do too much for their children, they will starve but ensure that their child gets the best education, the best spouse and the best job possible, they will skip meals to pay exorbitant coaching fees and travel long distances to settle their kids in a campus hostel of a renowned college far away from their home, they will look forward to his or her bimonthly visits and shower gifts and affection on them
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September 19th 2009 12:21
For the first time in Lucknow you can get the famous kakori kebab over the counter and along with mutton and chicken seekh kebabs too. Priced at Rs 5 a kebab it is a steal. Available in the evening at the famous eating market of Akbari Gate in the old city the kakori kebab is already doing brisk business.
Imran Quereshi the young man who is the proprietor of this new hotel or barbeque joint has a multifaceted track record. He is not just a kebab maker he is a kebab eater too and therefore knows what his customer wants.
How’s the taste? He asks his customers in English, and boy are they impressed. Quereshi comes from a family that calls itself Avadhi chefs. His kebabs are served with mint sauce and onions and the romali rotis are available in plenty nearby, as during the holy month of Ramadhan the Akbari Gate area becomes an eating market, which remains open till late at night
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No Indian will marry item girl Rakhi. The Rakhi Sawant show is a great exposure of Indian mentality, while everybody wants to be seen with rakhi, flirt with Rakhi and let their small town relatives know that they can take Rakhi around they are not ready to marry her. Why is this so?
Obviously because small town India is not ready for item girl bahus and this is because they do not think well of item girls in India.
Parents still want an unpaid domestic servant in the form of a daughter in law and who will control an independent super rich item girl? Not a small town mother in law, she will find herself helpless in such a situation. So for Rakhi it seems she has no choice but to go abroad where she will be welcomed by an Indian family simply because she is an Indian girl
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Like Joan of Arc, Rita Bahuguna Joshi the UPCC chief, has been tried by fire and not found wanting. Free now as she has been enlarged on bail Rita has now become an icon of the common man’s struggle against misrule and corruption in Uttar Pradesh where the rulers have become larger than the statues they build in the parks that nobody in the state wants.
Rita’s agnipariksha began the day she inadvertently uttered a statement that caused grief to the chief minister Mayawati. She expressed regret for it and so did the Congress President Sonia Gandhi, but still she was arrested and was charged under several acts and lodged in Moradabad jail. Within seconds she had become the most well known face in Uttar Pradesh politics after Mulayam and Mayawati. At last in a state where personality cult rules the voter, the UPCC chief was now at par with the BSP and SP chiefs.
Her popularity soared even higher as the common man’s heart went out to her when suddenly and mysteriously the house in which she resided in Lucknow burst into flames. What was most surprising was that this bungalow was in a high security zone where the Vidhan Sabha, Mall Avenue where all the Ministers stay, and CM Mayawati herself resides, where a thousand policemen are always present and the Governor is within hailing distance and so are several IAS, IPS officers in Raj Bhavan Colony. This house was suddenly surrounded by a mob after her arrested almost 400 km away and the mob torched the building
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