What are some dark secrets of Juhi Chawla?

 Keeping the current controversy aside Juhi Chawla has had a successful and clean career with no dark secrets. However there are some things that are under the carpet and it depends on the person whether to term it as dark or not.

The biggest secret was when Juhi revealed why she planned a secret marriage with Jay Mehta. They knew each other before she entered the industry. It was only when Juhi was expecting her first child the couple became the talk of the town. Juhi was under constant fear that she will lose her stardom if the secret is revealed.

Juhi made some bold statements in the Rapid Fire Section of Koffee with Karan. On being asked which actress in Bollywood needs a stylist and therapist, she promptly replied Parineeti Chopra.

On many occasions she took the credit of making up careers of other actresses mainly Raveena Tandon and Karishma Kapoor as the two benefited because of the films she refused.

In a live show where Juhi and Tabu were the anchors she clearly mentioned on stage that she is responsible for making Tabu's career as some of her left over films were Tabu's gain.

For Dil To Pagal Hai she said that she did not wanted to play a second fiddle to Madhuri Dixit. However years later she starred with her in Gulaab Gang.

Aamir and Juhi gave several hits but the two were not in talking terms for years as during the shoot of the song, “Ankhiyan Tu Mila Le" from Ishq, Aamir was constantly pulling her leg and the actress left the shoot and did not turned up the next day too.

Aamir and Indra Kumar went to her house and apologized. Aamir later confessed that he was a bit egoistic even after the incident but after a few years everything was sorted out through a phone call.

This is a bit funny. Juhi Chawla used to meet Imran Khan (Aamir Khan's nephew) as he used to accompany the star on the sets. It was at that impressionable age that Imran decided to marry Juhi which she accepted. Imran Khan even presented her a ring. However the relationship continued for 3–4 days until Imran thought of giving the ring to someone else and took it back.

Attitude, speaking her heart out or whatever, the talented actress was not a part of big controversies.

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What are the dark secrets of Kalapani jail which is also called as Cellular jail in Andaman that every Indian should know?

 " KALAPANI "....The name itself brings chills down the spines. Life here would be filled with torture, hunger and loneliness. They would be worked like slaves. Some would go mad, others would be driven to suicide. This place would form one of the darkest chapters in India’s struggle for freedom.Below are the real facts of Cellular Jail in which Britishers tortured our Indians in such a way that prisoners wish they could die instead of this brutal torture.

Source : All the images are taken from google and information is taken from documentary, books and various internet sources.

1) The Cellular Jail is also, termed as Kala Paani. Kal means “time or death” while Paani means “water“. The name itself gives shivers to prisoners.
2) Construction of this Cellular jail started in the year 1896 and ended in 1906 under the advise of the Demon named " Charles James Lyall". The main intention to build this jail was to decrease the spirits of our Indian freedom fighters who fought against Britishers. Whenever Britishers think that they have threat against a person, then they would simply put them in this jail.
3) Cellular Jail is a massive three-storeyed structure with seven wings of unequal lengths, radiating from a central watch tower, shaped like spokes of a wheel as shown in the below figure.

4) Once you go in then it is highly impossible to escape because your movements are constantly observed by guards.The watch tower housed the alarm bell and guardsmen kept an eye on the prisoners all the time. The concept of this design is that the prisoners literally have no idea whether they are being watched or not.

5) If you manage to escape from guards you have to swim across the sea with your wounded body which I think it is highly impossible. And also there is a small island nearby this jail and if you manage to reach there by facing difficulties, you will be killed by wild animals or tribes living there.Even if you manage to escape from these wild animals and tribes then you will see nothing but sea so death is the only option. This is the view from cellular jail. 👇

6) Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Batukeshwar Dutt, Barindra kumar Ghosh, Bhai Parmanand, Ganesh Damodar Savarkar, Hare Krishna Konar, Mahavir Singh, Mohan kishore Namadas, Mohit Moitra, Sachindra Nath Sanyal, Shiv Verma, Sohan Singh Bhakna, Sudhangshu Dasgupta, Yogendra Shukla were some famous revolutionaries who were tortured in this Cellular jails.
7) It has 696 cells, one for each person. The name Cellular Jail is derived from its unique feature as it has only cells and no dormitories. Each cell measures 13 1/2 ‘x 7’, secured by a heavy iron grill door with a specially designed latch system. Inadequate and congested jail.

8)Besides the barred door, the cellular wing itself had prison bars giving the whole area a double security.

9) Prisoners were forced to work on the oil grinding mill was all the more terrible and caused several deaths.

10)The most difficult work was coir-pounding and oil-grinding. Each one was given the dry husk of twenty coconuts. The husk had first to be placed on a piece of wood and then to be beaten with a wooden hammer till it became soft. Then the outer skin had to be removed. Then it was dipped in water and moistened and then again one had to pound it. By sheer pounding the entire husk inside dropped off, only the fibers remaining. These fibers had then to be dried in the sun and cleaned. Each one was expected to prepare daily a roll of such fibers weighing one seer.

11)Punishment was inhuman, it ranged from extra hours on the grinding mill to standing handcuffed for a week, to bar-fetters for six months, to confinement in solitary cells, to four days of starvation diet and crossbars for ten days, a punishment which compelled the victim to keep his legs apart.

12) If they fail to complete the task which were assigned to them, then that person would be tied on flogging stand wearing punishment dress(which is shown below) and then he gets continuous blows on his buttocks and purposefully they would hit on the same spot until the skin layer is blown away. Below are the pictures of that punishment 👇

13) There was no light in those prisons and was completely pitch dark. Only one prisoner was kept in each prison and there is no chance to communicate with others.

14) Three bowls were given to the prisoners. One is to urinate and pass stools ,one is for drinking water and the other is for eating food. Those three bowls were kept in their respective prisons. It was not sufficient for prisoners to urinate because the bowl was too small so prisoners used to urinate on the floor and eat on that same floor as well. There are no washrooms and bedrooms in this cellular jails. Those bowls were cleaned out by the prisoners when they were out the next morning.

15) Daily after working hard for hours prisoners would get unhygienic food which consists of worms, mosquitoes and stones.

16) Dirty Rain water was given for prisoners to drink.

17) Many Prisoners died in those prisons after getting exposed to these unhygienic conditions.
18) Mahavir Singh, Mohan Kishore , Mohan Moitra started hunger strike strike till 45 days for providing unhygienic food and for not having toilet seats but instead Britishers started a process called force feed where one is forced to eat food against his will. After doing so, those food particles got stuck in their wind pipes and they died eventually. Their bodies were thrown into the Andaman waters.

19) The place where prisoners were given meager meals, right opposite to that are the gallows. Though closed within a building, the cries of the men being hung could be easily heard across the mess. It was designed so that psychologically it would affect the other prisoners who ate in the mess.

20) Veer Savarkar and his brother Babarao Savarkar were put in different prisons. Untill two years they didn't had any idea that they were in same hell.
21) Britishers made our freedom fighters to build other jails for themselves without knowing that they will be placed in those prisons which they have made with their own hands.
22) Those who fight against Britishers were forced to drink Urine and eat poop.

23)You will be surprised to know that prisoners were tied to the mouth of cannons and they were blown up.

24) Barindra kumar Ghosh who is one of the greatest revolutionaries of India mentioned in his book - "The suffering we had to undergo was perhaps entirely due to our destiny. No individual person could be held responsible for that. All credit should be given to the jail regulations only and perhaps to a wilful God.".

25)Records suggest around 80,000 Indians were sent to Andaman as punishment over a period of some 80 years from 1860. Thousands of them were shot, hanged or tortured to death.

26)This jail was later taken over by the Japanese troops in the year 1942 at the time of World War II.

27) Scotsman David Barry, the jailor between 1909 and 1931, was infamous for his insane cruelty. “While you are here, I am your god,” was the cry with which he welcomed prisoners.

28)David Barry(jailer) once asked Ullaskar Dutta to glean three litres of oil in a day. Ullaskar refused because even oxen can glean only two litres a day. They fettered his arms raised to the ceiling, and his feet to the ground. He stood motionless for three days for he could not move. When they untied him finally, he collapsed senseless. He went mad after he woke up. It is believed that some of the prisoners went mad while going through this brutual torture.

29) Do you know what are the demands of our freedom fighters in this cellular jail?

We want soap to clean ourselves.
We want beds to sleep on.

We want edible food.

Let us study for we are political prisoners.

Allow us to communicate with each other.

In the end, the British relented and accepted the prisoners’ demands. I think you can understand the pain and frustration our beloved freedom fighters who have experienced in this prison. Finally prisoners were sent home between September 1937 and January 1938.

30)The Sikhs have made a lot of sacrifices in the freedom struggle and their number was the second highest even in the list of political prisoners imprisoned at the Cellular Jail. This is really great and sad as well because their names are completely whitewashed. Here is the list👇. Below numbers belong to only famous freedom fighters but we really don't know how many real fighters were imprisoned here.

Spending a single day in this jail is like nightmare for everyone. Just imagine the condition of Veer Savarkar who was improsined here for almost 13 years. Savarkar, then aged 28, was convicted for revolting against the Morley-Minto reforms and was sentenced to 50-years imprisonment and transported on 4 July 1911 to the infamous Cellular jail in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and was released on 6th January 1924.

The walls of this cellular jail truly knows the real pain of our freedom fighters.We should be really thankful to these legends. Their sacrifice cannot be measured in words and saddest part is even after experiencing trauma, their true stories are not mentioned in our so called social text books and how can we expect coming generations to remember them?

A big Salute to all the freedom fighters who fought for us selflessly and sacrificed their life after experiencing dreadful punishments.The reason we are enjoying today is all because of the freedom fighters who sacrificed their lives. Forgetting our freedom fighters is like forgetting our country.

If you are really interested to know how exactly our revolutionaries had spent their deranged life in kalapani jail, then definitely I would recommend you all to read this book.👇

INQUILAB ZINDABAD

JAI HIND 🇮🇳

What are some dark secrets of Govinda?

 Govinda was deeply unfaithful to his wife.

Despite getting engaged (and later married) at the time his career started in Bollywood he kept his marriage and child a secret for more than one year. During this time he had a storming affair with Neelam. He was almost ready to marry Neelam but Govinda's mother put her foot down. At one point Sunita and Govinda has regular fights over Neelam and Govinda decided to break off the engagement and told her to leave him. He even told Stardust magazine that if Sunita hadn't called him and coaxed him to come back he would have married Neelam. Interstingly he kept Neelam in dark about all this and introduced Sunita as his relative to Neelam!!

But he never really improved even after publicly recognising his marriage and child. Later on he had affair with Rani Mukherjee during the making of Had kar di aapne which again created tensions in his family.During that time, tabloids carried many gossip stories about celebrities, and it was reported that Govinda had gifted Rani many expensive items, including a luxury car and an apartment. Even recently when the news of Govinda's divorce were making the headlines and it was pointed out that Govinda and his wife are living separately, the fingers were pointed on Govinda for having an affair with a Marathi actress half her age.

In the early 90’s Govinda and his brother Kirti Kumar tried to launch a film Radha ka Sangam with Govinda and Divya Bharti. Govinda openly expressed his attraction towards Divya Bharti even though Kirti Kumar chucked her out of the film. They did worked in the film Jaan se Pyara.

Even in the chat with Kapil Sharma some time ago he and Shakti Kapoor agreed that they had affairs outside their marriage. He even shamelessly tried to defend his actions saying “Ek hi Life hai khul kar jiyo” (you have one life love it freely).

What's the dark side of Switzerland?

 Xenophobia.

You can be born here, of a Swiss mother; be bilingual in one national language, and conversant in another; perform well in the national education system; learn skiing and mountaineering, and all the names of the local peaks, rivers, and communes; learn the history; present yourself for military service; befriend your neighbours, get a job, pay your taxes, play Jass, buy and eat the local specialties, drink the local wine, sing by heart the Cé Qu’è Lainô (I was born Genevois), sing by heart the Cantique, be politically active at every level of democracy, and make pilgrimage to the Rütli on August 1st.

Then, after a lifetime of living, learning and working alongside those you considered your countryfolk, go ask one of your neighbours to attest to an evident truth on your behalf in a legal matter.

Or let your befreckled girlfriend’s mother, from the next village over, have one glass of wine too many.

And get told none of that matters; that you are foreign to the bone and always will be no matter where you were born, how you grew up, or what your official papers say; that you should put up and shut up, and that « vous devriez être reconnaissants qu’on vous aient laissés vivre parmis nous. »

“You should be grateful that we let you live among us.” After fifty years and two native generations, we remained not us.

Chère Jacqueline, si la Suisse est parfaite, pourquoi accepter la présence de nous autres sales étrangers? Sans leur contribution, y compris la nôtre, la Suisse serait restée pour la plupart pauvre et paumée dans les montagnes, avec quelques ville-états prospères éparpillées au dessous. Même la culture du ski et des stations de « l’Or Blanc » n’est pas indigène, le ski n’étant qu’un moyen de transport avant que le tourisme aristocratique Anglais en fasse un loisir, adieu! Quelle attitude à prendre lorsque la richesse Suisse dépend en majorité de son ouverture au grand monde.

I note this was for a family of palefaced Christian capitalists who look just like most of the indigenous Swiss. It’s troubling to think of what my more visibly international friends must have gone through.

The rules of paradise are never nice. I now live in Australia, land of many capable misfits, and the rules there aren’t that nice either. Living there often confronts me with the fact that I’m most adapted to a culture that doesn’t consider I belong to it in return.

But when Aussies give me a hard time, it’s for being a sh!tc\/nt, not because my grandparents immigrated years before my birth. The Aussies don’t need you to be exactly like them to value and accept you.

The Swiss do. I have undying love for the place and its people, but no amount of passport renewals or cultural imitation will ever make me one of them.

Then again, I’ve never heard any Swiss go as far as the Florentine Italians, who say you must have been in the city for, at minimum, seven generations to call yourself a local… so I suppose it could be worse.

14/08/2025 EDIT: nice surprise that this resonated with >1.1K people! Which makes it worth addressing a few comments along the lines of, “how is this even a dark side? Lots of places have some degree of xenophobic prejudice, and what you faced doesn’t sound so bad.” It’s a fair remark, and if just being told, “remember you are not really from here,” semi-regularly was the extent of it, I might not have bothered writing this - but, at least once, in the case of that legal matter I referred to, it weighed a little heavier than that.

Half my lifetime ago, my aging blood relatives applied to pave a 50 meter access road to our little chalet-home, so they could drive the car straight to the entrance instead of struggling to carry their week’s shopping up an uneven dirt trail. This would also have given our neighbours the same ease of access, so they were prima facie supportive.

Despite many assurances from paid local experts that our request complied with all pertinent regulations, the application was summarily rejected again and again, for years.

Later at one of the summer barbecues we’d organise for the neighbourhood to show a bit of face and share a little joy, we brought this up in passing. An Area Drunk Bloke we didn’t know well blurted out, in front of a dozen attendees, that we would never get anything like that done unless we first paid him a large sum of money. When we followed up with him a few days later, he soberly reaffirmed his position.

He turned out to be a local property developer, who had his own designs on our neighbourhood, along with connections in the commune government. We didn’t like being treated like this, so we went to the police and hired a lawyer.

Neither could or would do anything, because not one of the neighbours at that barbecue - most of whom had relationships with said blood-relatives that pre-dated my birth - would attest to the property developer’s outburst.

Their reasons? Variations of, “On vous aime bien, mais on ne va pas déranger l’ordre social pour des gens pas d’ici.”

We like you well enough, but we won’t upset the social order for people who aren’t from here.

Most showed every sign of actively disliking the developer’s loud and abrasive character; however, he was local and we were not, and that appeared to trump all feeling and legality.

Unable to live safely with the dirt path, my now elderly relatives soon left their community of forty years to live in a small apartment in a city 100km away, brokenhearted and feeling like strangers in the land where they thought their labours had earned a small place.

This is why I point to xenophobia as a dark side of Switzerland: because I witnessed “seniority of national community membership” overcoming sense, affection, justice, and law. I’m certain the majority of Swiss are not like this - the commenters pointing out that these issues arise mostly from the mostly rural ~30% of the population that votes UDC are right to do so. But that 30% was enough to destroy any feeling of “being at home among equals” built up over the decades, and replace it with, “you’re foreign at heart, so shut up and pay.” We still love the place, and always will, but we have no illusions about ever belonging there.

Like I said, it could be worse - my mother and her friends told me disturbing things about the enhanced sexism she faced as a first-generation Swiss citizen, which other commenters have also alluded to. But that’s not my story to tell.

What are the dark secrets about Rekha's (Indian actress) life?

Illegitimate : She was born to Pushpavalli and actor Gemini Ganeshan , a married actor

He refused to recognize her for years and did not pay for her upbringing.

Child actress : She was barely 14 years old ; when family problems made her join show business.

Exploited : She was allegedly exploited by film makers and actors for being barely educated girl.

B Grade movies : During her initial days as an actress ; she appeared in many B grade movies.

Helpless : Well, she had no option ;but to earn for her family members.

Vinod Mehra : A biography on Rekha by Yaseer Usman claims; she got married to actor Vinod Mehra in Kolkata.

Maltreated : When newly wedded couple met Vinod Mehra’s mom ; she abused Rekha and threw her out

Amitabh Bachchan : Film journalist Hanif Zaveri claimed that she was in a relationship with actor Amitabh Bachchan.

Warned : But, she was warned by Jaya Bachchan to stay off from her husband.

Imran Khan : According to news reports; he was in relationship with Rekha.

Left : But after dating her for some time ; he allegedly left her for an English girl friend.

Mukesh Aggarwal : She got married to a Delhi based business man.

Hurt : Her husband committed suicide within few months of their marriage.

Facts : Rekha deserves praise for her survival instinct in cut throat show business.

Despite name, fame and wealth ; Rekha , a wonderful actress, longed for true love.

Well : “Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.” : Oscar Wilde

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Dark oxygen: The ocean’s secret breath of life. 4,000 meters underwater.

In the year 2024, scientists probing the abyssal plains of the Pacific stumbled upon an impossible paradox: oxygen bubbling from rocks in eternal darkness. This “dark oxygen” could upend everything we know about how life began—on Earth and beyond.

The Discovery That Defies Logic

In the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a mining hotspot for polymetallic nodules (metal-rich rocks key to green tech), researchers found:

Electrochemical oxygen production: The nodules act like natural batteries, splitting water molecules without sunlight.

Aerobic life in the abyss: Microbes thrive here—without photosynthesis.

A 3.8-billion-year-old clue: Similar reactions may have powered Earth’s first oxygen breathers.

Key Players:

Deep-sea submersibles: Robots like ROV SuBastian that spotted the phenomenon.

NASA’s Astrobiology Institute: Suddenly VERY interested in ocean-floor chemistry.

Why This Changes Everything

Life’s Origins: If oxygen existed in darkness before photosynthesis evolved, early life had air to breathe sooner than thought.

Alien Life Hope: Icy moons like Europa and Enceladus have similar dark oceans—could they host oxygen too?

Mining Dilemma: These nodules are vital for EV batteries—but destroying them might erase cosmic clues.

Fun Fact: The nodules grow 1 cm every million years—making them slower than glaciers.

The Ethical Time Bomb

25+ nations are pushing a deep-sea mining moratorium.

Scientists warn: We’re bulldozing a library of life’s secrets for short-term tech gains.

Corporate race: The Metals Company (TMC) already has CCZ exploration rights.

📍 P.S. The CCZ is half the size of Europe—and 99% unexplored. What else is down there?