Some observations from Maha Kumbh:
1. Vimal Pan Masala is India’s number 1 luggage bag.
2. People actually get lost a lot at Kumbh. The lost and found people’s loudspeaker is on 24x7.
3. Biharis seem to love religious travel.
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- Delhi is amusing. Two guys running their own shuttle bus right outside t2. Taking Rs. 40-100 for t2 to t1. ONLY CASH. When I told him it’s supposed to be free, he said Delhi airport rules have changed, you now have to pay Rs. 40 for kids, Rs. 100 for adults, as @OfficialDMRC now
- 2 friends are getting divorced after 26 years of marriage and my god this is the NICEST divorce I’ve seen! Woman had left her job to take care of the house. Now the husband is buying her a house, doing it for her taste because he knows it better than her, building her multiple
- Why I feel getting a 10k steps per day in most Indian cities is so stressful: - Strays - Always under construction yet always broken roads - Insane amount of dust & smoke - Traffic - Garbage - Men! - Temperature Get a treadmill, because this is not changing anytime soon.
- Just got to know the amount paid for divorce “settlement” by my friend, a startup founder, for a marriage that lasted only 8 months. His entire savings corpus so far is gone! At 33, he will be starting all over again from scratch. Only reason - incompatibility. Women - pls stop
- Most of us spend 10-12 hours a day working to 'make a living' and the next 12 hours just recovering from the exhaustion of it all.
- GenZ is normalising video calling as normal form of conversation while millennials can’t pick a call without getting a text first
- Imagine being detained by Police and FBI for 8 hours, being questioned the most ridiculous things, physically checked by a male officer on camera, stripped off warm wear, mobile phone, wallet, kept in chilled room, not allowed to use a restroom, or make a single phone call, made
- Grooms crying on seeing their brides in wedding lehenga on the wedding day is the most fake thing ever perpetuated by Instagram. You’ve seen her in that lehenga when shopping for it, during fittings, during rehearsals. We know it.
- 14 year old Eva, makes handmade soaps on her bathroom slab and is selling them at Friday Night Market in Goa. This generation is exceptional!
00:00 - The number of patriotic politicians whose children have permanent US/UK resident visa is so funny
- “The Earth is littered with the ruins of Empires that once believed they were eternal.”
- If you have a roof over your head and a AC/fan/cooler - thank whichever higher power you believe in and be generous with giving water to people, plants, animals, birds. For as long as we can survive this.
