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Kiran Manral
5 years
So here are all my books, a couple of them on the Juggernaut app, so not in this link. But do check them out, and I do hope you read some. You can pick from humour, chicklit, romance, horror, thriller, parenting.
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4 years
This is so brave and so humbling.
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2 years
Why are so many kids going abroad for their education, from the undergraduate level to professional qualifications. Perhaps we need some introspection as to what is broken in our education system first.
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Kiran Manral
2 years
Uddhav Thackeray has been a good CM. He's been sensible, practical, understated, addressed citizens regularly without hectoring them or talking down to them unlike some others. I honestly can't think of anyone else who could do a better job amongst the current lot of contenders.
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2 years
A 16 year old boy tries to break into a bank because he needed to buy a mobile to attend online classes. His family couldn't afford one. These are the stories that break your heart.
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4 years
@starstrickenSF Did have a man try to explain childbirth to me once. It broke my mentions.
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3 years
Fashion icon in one’s youth, they said.
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4 years
What is courage? Courage is standing up. Courage is standing your ground.
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4 years
“God has no religion.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
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3 years
For those who state they don't waste time reading fiction. “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.” ― Terry Pratchett
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2 years
An appeal to restaurant owners, managers. We middle aged folk cannot make conversation over the incessantly loud music you insist on playing. If your restaurant is meant only for a younger demographic that enjoys such loud music even with meals, please state that right up front.
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4 years
“No sign of depression on his face.” After all the conversations on mental health, our media still has NO EFFING CLUE.
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3 years
Cry, beloved country.
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2 years
Some of the best fiction writing these days is happening on Linkedin.
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Kiran Manral
4 years
MPLAD funds are tax payer funds. Meant for use for the country. What is this naach gaana about donating it?
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Kiran Manral
5 years
With all due respect Ma'am, there's a difference between a briefcase and a suitcase.
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Chennai: For #Budget2019 , I didn't carry a suitcase. We aren't a suitcase-carrying govt as suitcase also denotes something else, suitcase-taking, suitcase-giving. Modi ji’s govt is not suitcase govt.
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4 years
This photograph broke my heart.
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Kiran Manral
2 years
And with that, it is 51.
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Kiran Manral
4 years
Reporters doing their jobs are vultures. And what about those not doing their jobs, sir?
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5 years
A 12 year old killed by seniors in a boarding school in Dehradun. School quietly buries body without informing parents. Is there no humanity left anymore in this world?
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5 years
I don't normally fangirl. But...
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5 years
Very surprised to see @priyankac19 not get a ticket to contest after the stellar work she's been doing for the past decade for the party and a newbie being taken in purely on perceived star value. @inc needs to walk the talk.
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2 years
Is it just me or does everyone feel they've aged two decades in these past two years?
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5 years
“It’s a public health emergency in Delhi. I am seeing 28-year-old non-smokers with stage 4 lung cancer. I am very angry because I am losing young patients to air pollution.” Dr Arvind Kumar, chest surgeon, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
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5 years
People in North India may lose 7 years of life due to air pollution: Study (report by @jayashreenandi )
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Kiran Manral
6 years
We don't need statues. I'd rather we built libraries. Huge sprawling libraries. Where everyone could go, spend the entire day, browse, read. Those would be monuments to live by. Those would be monuments to leave behind for our children.
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Kiran Manral
4 years
Can we also have a Do Not Rape advisory for men?
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TheNewsMinute
4 years
Hyderabad police issue safety advisory to women after brutal rape and murder of vet
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4 years
Coronavirus in Mumbai: 90% of COVID-19 survivors refuse to donate plasma
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Kiran Manral
5 years
Flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood. Happy 16th.
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Kiran Manral
5 years
Mom turns 80 today. Will never be one fourth the person she is. Happy birthday Mom!
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Kiran Manral
5 years
CBSE toppers getting 99/100 are regretting losing that one mark in English, and here I am sitting with Grammarly open as I write, full of self doubt.
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5 years
Just hit send on a formal, professional email where auto correct changed my name to Korean Manual. And how is your day going?
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Kiran Manral
5 years
And this makes it 23. Happy anniversary @KiritManral
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Kiran Manral
5 years
Seriously people? You've turned a Nobel win into veg versus non veg debate. The joblessness crisis is real.
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Kiran Manral
6 years
Mere Apne. Aandhi. Mausam. Maachis. Angoor. Oh give us more directors who fail as magnificently as this.
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BollyHungama
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#Gulzar : A poet and lyricist par excellence but a FAILED director
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Kiran Manral
5 years
What was the first thing you bought yourself with money you had earned? Mine was a leather bag from Dharavi when I began work at 19.
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5 years
School in Bangalore has LKG test with kids needing to learn the spelling of Hippopotamus and Cauliflower. And a hall ticket for the kids to take the test. We're getting beyond ridiculous.
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Kiran Manral
2 years
What have we been reduced to as a nation? For shame.
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Mohammed Zubair
2 years
When Muslim girl arrives at PES College, She's been heckled by several 'students' wearing #saffronshawls #KarnatakaHijabRow
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2 years
Did we only just realise that a majority of men in this country have NO idea about consent and bodily agency?
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Kiran Manral
4 years
What I love about this: That the President of the US is doing one on one interviews. The journalist knows his numbers, is grilling him, totally not intimidated. That disbelieving foot twitch, the expressions. As it should be. And this is something we have long left behind.
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4 years
Oh my god
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5 years
There was a child in that meme. And her mother. There is a bar of public crassness that has forever been lowered today.
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Vivek Oberoi: People are saying apologise, I have no problem in apologising, but tell me what wrong have I done? If I have done something wrong I will apologise. I don't think I have done anything wrong. What's wrong in it? Somebody tweeted a meme and I laughed at it.
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5 years
And it continues. Policing what women wear. Fully covered in trousers and long sleeved tops but folks frothing at the mouth that they aren't wearing 'serious' clothes for Parliament. a) No one asked you. and b) No one asked you.
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Kiran Manral
5 years
All these years, and I still miss Dad giving me Eidi.
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Kiran Manral
4 years
The CBSE marksheet was ready and available to prove minor status?
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Kiran Manral
11 months
And it is 52!
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Kiran Manral
5 years
She is on the Forbes 100 most powerful women in the world. #JustSaying @TheCut @mRiah
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Kiran Manral
5 years
The boy makes me so, so proud. Not putting up percentages because that's not something I believe in, but trust me, he went beyond my wildest, wildest expectations.
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Kiran Manral
2 years
“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.” ― Aldous Huxley
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Kiran Manral
2 years
40 years today of a Daddy shaped hole in my heart. You never stop missing a parent, do you?
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Kiran Manral
4 years
What if we use this same caller tune method we're doing for Corona Virus for Communal Harmony messages?
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Kiran Manral
2 years
We need to make financial literacy a subject from school level itself. Teach kids about money management.
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Kiran Manral
5 years
Interesting that when Udit Raj shifts parties, despite being a MP, there's barely a flutter but when @priyankac19 joined the SS there was an entire tsunami of "how dare she." And then they called her inconsequential.
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Kiran Manral
4 years
A fight has broken out at the street corner below. Am delighted to report they are maintaining social distancing and yelling threats at each other from respectable distance.
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Kiran Manral
4 years
If you are silent about what happened last night, you are complicit. No matter who you are.
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Kiran Manral
4 years
Today everyone is a mental health expert on the timeline.
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Kiran Manral
5 years
Nobody is against the Metro. Folks are against trees being hacked down in Aarey for the Metro Car shed. That's all. Why has it become into people are against the Metro?
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Kiran Manral
2 years
@iamsrk @yrf @TheJohnAbraham @deepikapadukone I have only three minutes left to ask my question but I don't have one. All I want to say is thank you for your grace, your dignity and for the movies.
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Kiran Manral
3 years
He turns 18 today. I'm not allowed to post any pic except the ones from his insta. Happy birthday to the offspring. As I wrote in a dedication to him in Karmickids, the sprog of my womb, the sparkle in my eye, the tenor in my yell, the grey in my hair, and the beat of my heart.
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Kiran Manral
1 year
Horrific videos from a preschool in Kandivali West. Received via WhatsApp. There are more videos. Just look at how these teachers are treating the children.
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Kiran Manral
5 years
Hello twitter, my brother in law, an ex army veteran of 22 years, part of Operation Bajrang, Operation Rhino and fought the Kargil War Operation Vijay, 7 years experience in security and transport, ex-national level swimmer is looking for a placement. Any leads would be welcome.
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Kiran Manral
4 years
24 and counting. Yes, I greyed him up. With @KiritManral
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Must say, @iamsrk proves he is the boss. Haven’t seen such love for a movie across the board for yonks! I can’t even remember the last time folks spoke about first day first show!
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Kiran Manral
2 years
This is how it should be. Kudos @nitin_gadkari
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Kiran Manral
4 years
@BeingSalmanKhan I hope you take a strong stand on this. This was completely unacceptable.
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Kiran Manral
4 years
Dead men tell no tales. Quite an interesting movie that was.
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Kiran Manral
6 years
Dear people of India. Does it not worry you that a man who claims Darwin's theory is wrong because 'ancestors' didn't see apes turning into man is in charge of education and human resources?
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Kiran Manral
4 years
Raise your hand if Maggi is now an essential staple to you.
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Kiran Manral
4 years
Coronavirus: Meet The Woman Behind India’s First Testing Kit via @shethepeople
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Kiran Manral
4 years
It is rather embarrassing when we rush to claim someone who has long been not from India as one of our own when they achieve something on international shores. They're citizens of another country. They're born and brought up there. We have enough folks to celebrate right here.
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Kiran Manral
4 years
#BiggBoss watchers, how is Paras wearing those shoes he destroyed again today? 20 marks
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Kiran Manral
7 years
We don't effing need patriot tests, dear channels. We need to know why oxygen was cut off to children in a hospital causing their deaths.
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Kiran Manral
2 years
For everyone who has lost a lover, a partner, a spouse to the pandemic. Strength, love and hugs today.
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Kiran Manral
5 years
"63 degrees Celsius under direct sunlight." Kuwait and Saudi Arabia record highest temperature on earth
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Kiran Manral
4 years
Four hours for a national lock down. Two days for a stand in the balcony and clap hands. Two days for put your lights off and light candle. Stop infantilising the citizenry.
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Kiran Manral
4 years
How does someone issue rape threats on video and not get arrested immediately?
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Kiran Manral
4 years
Where are the women?
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today held an extensive interaction with business leaders to discuss ways to improve growth and job creation in the country.
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Kiran Manral
2 years
There is @iamsrk and then there are the others.
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Sayantan Ghosh
2 years
Koffee with Karan is our periodic reminder that Shah Rukh is the only film star we have who can be witty, sardonic and philosophical all within the span of a single conversation, and everyone else is just water in comparison.
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2 years
Some angels have no wings, they ride delivery bikes.
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Kiran Manral
5 years
I'm 48, and say the forties have been the best decade of my life. Bring the fifties on.
@karunanundy
Karuna Nundy
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I'm 43, and in the best time of my life.
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Kiran Manral
5 years
The Amazon is burning. Polar ice is melting. If we still haven't got the message, we really are doomed.
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Kiran Manral
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Anyone who watched Kalank till the end deserves a bravery medal.
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Kiran Manral
4 years
These chappies got the fairy tales wrong. Sometimes it is also the prince who needs to be rescued.
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Kiran Manral
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@SauravDatta29 What is the problem with this photograph? She's won an election, she's attending Parliament, she's happy about it. It is absolutely superb.
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Kiran Manral
4 years
Menz. Sorry to break it to you. No webinar is going to help you learn how to impress the ladies.
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Kiran Manral
5 years
Just exactly what is threatening so many grown ups about Greta Thunberg? That she is demanding the right to have a livable planet when she becomes a grown up herself, something we grown ups have completely ruined for her and her generation?
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Kiran Manral
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Periodic reminder. Tick as applicable.
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Kiran Manral
1 year
We have forgotten as a nation, the agony and despair of April 2021. Of our collective helplessness, how loved ones passed away, how bodies were dumped into rivers, burnt on the footpaths. We have forgotten. And we have not asked for accountability.
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