What are the biggest ironies in India?

 

I bet you don’t even know his name !!! Sad !

The biggest ironies of India is that he was forgotten by India and his kin. His own family refused to accept his dead body ! How many know who he was ? Nation has forgotten its heroes. The younger generation are not aware about him. We breath freedom due to heroes like him, but don’t know him. This is the biggest ironies of this country.

Be ashamed of your education , but do read this to know who he was 👇

*London, 1908 – India House*

A cold drizzle tapped against the windowpanes of India House. Inside, the air was thick with smoke. Maps of India hung on the walls, plastered with pins marking cantonments and rail lines of the British Raj.

Savarkar leaned across the table toward Madan Lal Dhingra, his voice low but burning.

Savarkar: “Madan, speeches cannot uproot an empire. The Englishman’s rule rests on the sword. Shall we answer it with petitions?”

Dhingra’s eyes darkened.

Dhingra: “I have seen Indian labourers mocked on London streets, my countrymen treated worse than others. My own comforts mean nothing now. If freedom needs blood, then let mine be the first.”

Savarkar slid a revolver across the table.

Savarkar: “Remember, martyrdom is not defeat. It is the seed from which nations grow.”

Dhingra picked up the weapon. In its cold steel, he felt destiny stir.

*The Imperial Institute, London – 1 July 1909*

The hall glittered with chandeliers and silk gowns. Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie moved with practiced grace, his wife by his side. Dhingra blended into the crowd, calm, almost invisible.

When Wyllie approached, Dhingra stepped forward.

Dhingra: “Sir Curzon, may I speak a word?”

The revolver spoke. Four shots struck Curzon in the chest. He collapsed instantly. But another figure crumpled too — Dr. Cawas Lalcaca, a Parsi physician who had rushed to intervene.

Lady Curzon screamed, clutching her dying husband.

Lady Curzon (hysterical): “Good heavens , you killed him. Alas, I did beseech him not to seek his ‘posting of preference’ in this accursed India! Oh! Oh! Will none deliver him? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Confound these blasted Indians! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! Ooooooooooooooooo!!!

Dhingra stood still, revolver lowered. His voice was steady.

Dhingra: “Sorry Ma’am. He had to pay for his sins. I did my duty to my country. I regret the other man’s death. He was not my enemy. For that, I am sorry.”

Policemen stormed the hall. Dhingra offered his wrists without resistance.

*The Trial, Old Bailey Court*

The court was tense with whispers. Indian elites in London denounced him; some turned their faces away.

The Judge’s gavel struck.

Judge: “Madan Lal Dhingra, you stand charged with the murder of Sir Curzon Wyllie and Dr. Cawas Lalcaca. How do you plead?”

Dhingra’s chin was high.

Dhingra: “I plead not guilty to murder. I killed an enemy of my nation. That is war, not crime. But I regret the death of the Parsi doctor. He was innocent. For that, I apologise.”

Gasps rippled through the hall. The Judge’s voice hardened.

Judge: “You are sentenced to hang by the neck until you are dead.”

Dhingra smiled faintly.

Dhingra: “So be it. The gallows are but a gateway to my motherland. If I meet that bugger Curzon in afterlife, I will kill him again!!!”

*Pentonville Prison, August 1909*.

The jailor entered with his last meal.

Jailor asks uneasily : “Why die for a country that has abandoned you? Even your family has renounced you.”

Dhingra looked up, eyes burning softly.

Dhingra: “They are not my family anymore. My true family is India. My next of kin are those yet unborn, who shall breathe free.”

He left behind a note under the candle flame:

“Patriotism is religion, and religion is love. Let me be reborn again and again, until I see my motherland free.”

*The Gallows – 17 August 1909*

The hangman adjusted the rope.

Hangman: “Any last words?”

Dhingra: “Tell my countrymen I am content. My body dies, but my spirit goes to my mother.”

The lever was pulled. Silence fell.

Epilogue

Back in Amritsar, his own family disowned his memory, refusing even to claim his body. For decades, his remains lay in a foreign prison yard. To countless young revolutionaries, he was proof that courage could strike at the very heart of empire.

Madan Lal Dhingra left no heirs. But in truth, we are his family — every Indian who walks free because a young man once dared to stand alone.

What are Bollywood's biggest flops of all time which came with high expectations?

 You may not have seen this movie…But I went to theatre to watch this movie called DRONA starring Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Kay Kay Menon and Jaya Bachchan.

BUDGET - 45 Crores.

With such a big starcast you would expect a value for money movie..But it was a disaster.

IMDB-2.2/10

Yes 2.2 !!!!

Made on a budget of 45 crores the film earned less than 15 crores and was a disaster at the box office.

It was filmed in Prague, Bikaner, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Namibia.

It was an untied and unpredictable movie which you never wanna see.This Movie can literally make you run outside the theatre in order to save your life.

What are the biggest myths about cricket?

 Myth #1: Whenever Sachin Tendulkar scored a century, India mostly lost the match.

Fact: In the 49 ODI matches Tendulkar scored a century, India won 33 and lost only 14 with two no results match. This means India won 67% of the ODI matches when SRT scored a century.

In tests, out of the 51 centuries SRT has, India have won/drawn 40 of them! Which means India won 79% of the test matches when SRT scored a century.

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Myth #2: Sourav Ganguly has never won a major ICC tournament.

Fact: Ganguly did win a major ICC tournament. Way back in 2002, India and Sri Lanka were crowned as joint winners of the Champions Trophy.

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Myth #3: Only four Indians →Uthappa, Kohli, Rahul and Gaikwad have won the orange cap in the IPL.

Fact: Tendulkar won the orange cap too in IPL 2010.

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Myth #4: The highest number of runs conceded in an over is 37.

Fact: In a domestic match of New Zealand, 77 runs were conceded in an over by RH Vance.

What was one of the biggest wastes of money ever?

The longest bridge in the world: the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (costing approximately 20 billion dollars) is a marvel in the history of engineering, but in terms of usability, it has become the biggest failure in world history. To date, three years after the bridge was completed, there is hardly any traffic on it.

When the Zhuhai-Hong Kong-Macao Bridge was about to be opened to traffic, the decision-makers suddenly realized a major problem: who will use this bridge?

Vehicles from mainland China cannot use it because license plates from mainland Hong Kong and Macau are not allowed to enter or leave. Vehicles from Hong Kong cannot use it either, because vehicles with Hong Kong license plates are not allowed to drive to China and Macau, and vehicles from Macau cannot use it because Macanese license plates are not allowed to drive to China and Hong Kong.

Only vehicles with license plates from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau can use the bridge, and such vehicles are very rare, and those that need to cross the bridge are even rarer.

What are Bollywood's biggest flops of all time which came with high expectations?

 

• DRONA

This movie came in 2008 starring Abhishek Bacchan with an estimated budget of 45 crore at that time and it was a commerical disaster , grossing less than 15 crore. So basically it was a Super flop movie.

• JOKER (2012)

This movie had an unique concept with comedy but this movie was failed so miserably at the box office it had a budget of 47 crore but ended up collecting only 20 crores

(I personally enjoyed the movie😌)

• BOMBAY VELVET

This movie came in 2015 starring Ranbir Kapoor and Karan Johar it had a huge budget of 118 Crores and ended up collecting only 30 crores so it was a superflop movie.

and the list goes on

Mohanjodaro,Rangoon,Jab Harry Met Sejal

etc etc

What is the biggest mistake a large company has made?

 Nokia’s CEO once said: “We didn’t do anything wrong, but somehow we lost.”

Nokia. Its biggest mistake was trying to avoid mistakes.

For a long time, Nokia was the world’s leading mobile phone manufacturer—until Apple, Samsung, and the rest of the world shifted to smartphones.

Nokia’s strategy was to stay the course and avoid risks. They didn’t want to change or take bold steps. In the end, their attempt to avoid mistakes by resisting change cost them everything.

Edit (expanded point):
In particular, their stubborn refusal to adopt Android and their insistence on sticking with their Symbian operating system proved to be critical errors. Over time, Symbian failed to keep up with competitors, and this resistance to change ultimately led to Nokia’s decline.

What are some of the biggest Hollywood and Bollywood oops moments?

 1. Amitabh Bachchan and Zeenat Aman in a swimming pool.

2. Amitabh's moment with Zeenat in a film.

3. Amitabh's moment with Tina Ambani.

4. Amitabh's moment with Aishwarya Rai.

5. Amitabh's moment with Deepika Padukone.

6. Amitabh embraces Deepika.

Image(s) courtesy: Google

What is the biggest solar system in our galaxy?

 We know definitively what the biggest solar system in our galaxy is. It’s ours! Our sun and planets.

Because it is the only one called the “solar system”, since “solar” comes from the word “sol” or “sun”. So it’s literally the system of bodies around the sun.

But when we correct that to “star system”, we really have no idea what the largest one is. As strange as it sounds, we know orders of magnitude more galaxies than star systems. So the odds are overwhelming we have not found the largest star system in the galaxy.

However, all jokes aside, it is possible that our own solar system may be up there. The largest star system we have found to date is Kepler-90, with 8 known planets. That happens to be the same number of planets in our solar system. However, smaller planets are difficult to find in other star systems so Kepler-90 very well could have more hiding in there.

What are the biggest culture shocks people face when coming to Germany?

 I was waiting for one of the cars to cross the junction in Leonberg, Stuttgart, so I could cross the road and go to my office.

But the car stopped near me and the German asked me to cross the road. I said to him Sir please go ahead. He told me No No you please proceed after you I will.

I was surprised with his behaviour but I moved ahead and crossed the road and went to my office.

Still my inner curiosity forced me to asked my German colleague about this incident why he stopped he told me in Germany it's a rule Pedestrian will be given the highest priority where a traffic light is not present and if they find someone intent or near to roadedge they will stop and wait for them to cross.

This made me happy until he asked me what happened in India. I just smiled and asked Do you know Salman Khan? He said no. I again smiled and told we follow first come first go policy.

That's the first shock I faced when I was in Germany on the road.

What is the biggest discovery that archaeologists found in the pyramids?

 The most significant discovery inside the Great Pyramid wasn't gold or a mummy. It was crude, red-ochre graffiti hidden in a pitch-black chamber no human was ever meant to see.

Most pyramids were thoroughly looted thousands of years before modern archaeology even existed. When explorers finally penetrated the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid, they found only a massive, empty granite sarcophagus. But in 1837, an Egyptologist named Howard Vyse blasted his way into the "relieving chambers"—five small, structural rooms stacked above the King’s Chamber. These rooms were designed solely to distribute the immense weight of the masonry overhead and were completely sealed during construction.

Inside these unlit spaces, Vyse discovered graffiti left behind by the ancient builders. The workers had painted names, dates, and accounting marks on the massive limestone blocks before they were hauled into place.

While this might not sound as glamorous as finding a solid gold death mask, the graffiti provided something far more valuable to historians. The marks included the names of the specific work gangs, such as "The Friends of Khufu Gang."

These markings struck a fatal blow to the enduring myth that the pyramids were built by enslaved people. The casual, almost boastful nature of gang names points to organized teams of skilled laborers, likely conscripted citizens who were well-fed, housed, and proud of their monumental task. Furthermore, the presence of the pharaoh Khufu's cartouche inside permanently sealed structural voids conclusively dated the pyramid to his reign, silencing centuries of wild speculation.

Archaeologists have made many remarkable finds around the pyramid complexes, from the intact 143-foot wooden solar ship buried at the base of Khufu's monument to the recent discovery of hidden internal voids using muon radiography. Yet, it is the simple red paint of the builders' graffiti that remains the most illuminating find. It reached across millennia to replace myths of forced labor with the real voices of the people who actually stacked the stones.

What was the biggest mistake made by Lord Krishna during the Kurukshetra War?

 

Biggest mistake?. Does it mean, Krishna committed several mistakes and the question is about the biggest mistake of those several mistakes?.

Is he a common man to commit mistake?. When he was born in jail, he gave darshan to parents Devaki and Vasudeva as a child with four hands and his usual weapons. He clearly declared that he is Lord Vishnu.

He killed Pootana and other demons as an infant. He lifted Govardhan hill with a finger.

Still is there any doubt about him?.

Bhishma, the most powerful warrior on kaurava side, said “ had Krishna not been with Pandavas, I would have killed all Pandavas with a single arrow “.

Krishna is Adiguru. Guru means a person who guides disciples from darkness to light.

Krishna has not done any mistake, infact he corrects mistakes of devotees and makes their lives meaningful and fruitful.

Krishna does only right actions always.

Krishnam vandE jagadgurum.

Subhamastu

What are the biggest casting mistakes in Indian Film History?

 

• Stupid Khan in Tubelight.

Remove Salman Khan from this movie and this becomes a great movie. The producers forgot that Salman Khan just cannot act which was required in this movie.

• Akshay Kumar in Jolly LLB 2.

Agree or not Akshay ruined the charisma that Arshad Warsi created in the first film. Well Akshay Kumar has destroyed most of the sequels he worked on.

• Hrithik Roshan in Super 30.

Okay the movie wasn't that bad, it's just that Hrithik doesn't look much rural, he's a handsome urban hunk. And the main character is from a rural village in India. In this movie Hrithik looks more like a Egyptian God.

• SRK in Zero.

What really pissed me off about this movie is that they spent so much to make SRK look like a dwarf. They should have instead hired a talented dwarf actor, saved the budget, SRK and Katrina could have done a cameo and the movie would be much better and realistic. It's not a bad movie, it's just that watching SRK forcibly trying hard to make unrealistic things look realistic is just not what this movie required.

• Shraddha Kapoor in Haseena Parker.

Shraddha Kapoor just cannot play the negative role. Give me a break. She more looks like a candy canny, the next door girl trying to lose her virginity. The Filmmakers tried to make her look ruthless in this movie by just applying soot beneath her eyes. The movie, obviously tanked.