Gautam S. Mengle
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Journalist | Novelist | Cyber-awareness Warrior. Featured in Money Mafia & Wedding.con Insta: thatwriterfellow
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Finished watching Wedding.con, a docu-series on matrimonial and online frauds and now I am all the more proud to have featured in this painstaking labour of love .
All five episodes out now on
@PrimeVideoIN
Do watch!
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This is the actor that plays Lord Ram, but I guess that's okay because all our morality only awakens when there's a woman involved.
This is Kriti Sanon. She will play Sita in Adipurush. Kriti might be a decent person in real life, but her dance routines in Bollywood movies are completely vulgar. Definitely the wrong person to play the role of the pious Sita who is considered mother by Hindus.
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I'm in
#MiraRoad
. Spent the last few hours walking these streets, had tea with locals and ate at one of Naya Nagar's oldest Irani restaurants.
Nobody stopped me, nobody touched me, nobody attacked me. Nobody even asked me my religion.
Why?
Because I didn't provoke them.
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Hello
@MumbaiPolice
.
This Twitter user is promoting communal disharmony in Mumbai. May I please request some action against this? Happy to register an e-complaint if I have locus standi in the eyes of the law.
Thank you!
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Ok, how is Rishi Sunak an Indian for you buggers but I can't say I'm from Mumbai just because I stay in Thane?
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Sorry, teacher, but it's "your".
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This girl I met recently had come out of an abusive marriage. When I let it slip that I was having a tough week at work, her response was to ask, "Would it help if we stopped talking because I feel I'm bringing bad luck to you."
The extent of her trauma hit me in that moment.
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Requesting
@sushant_says
to please issue a clarification because I'm getting calls from my friends saying that this is me 🤣🤣🤣
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I turn 36 in four months, and yet last night I had a nightmare about being late for an exam and not being allowed to appear for it.
Some scars really do run deep.
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#BREAKING
: The Mumbai Cyber Police have arrested two employees with news portal Scoop Beats in connection with the hate campaign against journalist
@RanaAyyub
. The duo had morphed a tweet in her name and published a video filled with false information about her.
@NH_India
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Women who've had to put their husband's dreams before their own deserve an apology, not an ode.
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I was 7-8 years old when a group of drunk men from our building came to our door on
#RangPanchami
, ringing the bell incessantly, armed with water balloons and sprays. They knew my mother was a single mother. They saw the closed door. But they kept ringing and knocking.
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You're telling me we had a Prime Minister who liked being BEHIND the camera???
Mahatma Gandhi , Sarojini Naidu and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.
Photograph by Jawaharlal Nehru.
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Good afternoon to the lady who mistook a Ticket Checker at Prabhadevi station for a credit card salesman, and tried to walk past him saying, "No, thank you," before he could open his mouth.
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#Breaking
: 22 MLAs from
#XiJingping
camp traced to a resort in Guwahati after going missing from China two days ago.
#ChinaCoup
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I remember asking her why she wasn't letting me play Holi with them. She said they're not here for you, they're here for me. I didn't know what she meant back then and when I did realise it, I wanted to puke.
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That exchange of salaams between Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone in
#BesharmRang
is the kind of moment I'd want to have with my woman at some point in life.
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1. My mother wore red while marrying my father and later my step father. Didn't stop either of them from cheating or abusing her.
2. Writing long posts that won't fit into a single screenshot is a neat trick. You're still not getting any ad revenue from me.
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But women are the gold diggers, if dudebros are to be believed.
Her Wedding Cancelled Over BMW, Gold Demand, Kerala Doctor Dies By Suicide
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The Taliban, a terrorist organisation, has expressed regret at Danish Siddiqui's death.
Meanwhile, his own countrymen are celebrating his killing and his own government can not be bothered.
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On a hunch, I did a Truecaller search for the contact number of "Sam D'Souza" mentioned in Prabhakar Sail's affidavit.
This is what the number is saved as in Truecaller:
#AryanKhan
#NCB
#PrabhakarSail
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A friend's widow told me today that she started receiving a flood of Facebook requests from her late husband's male friends immediately after his passing and this is exactly why men are trash.
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Just cancelled an order on
#Zomatoin
because they said Vikas is coming with my order and I've already been fed that lie once.
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A 17 year old boy took to Twitter today saying he'd been raped. Here's what happened next.
Women offered love, support and all help possible.
Men either accused him of lying or tagged all possible authorities despite him saying he wasn't ready for it.
I rest my case.
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Very curious as to why Mr Wankhede would present WhatsApp chats with Shah Rukh Khan to prove that no bribe was demanded or taken. In 15 years of crime reporting, I've seldom, if ever, seen a case where a bribe has been demanded in writing. That's simply not how bribes work.
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Yes, NOW deepfakes are a threat. Not when women wrestlers - victims of sustained sexual harassment - were arrested for protesting and their picture was manipulated using deepfake technology to make them look like they were smiling.
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Infuriating to see the meltdown over a woman's photoshoot celebrating her divorce. My mother got zero support when she got divorced in the 90s. Result: she stayed in an abusive marriage with my step-dad for 15 years before she & I moved out.
If you haven't suffered it, shut up.
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In a small lane off Gokhale Road in Thane, bang opposite the Chitale Bandhu outlet, is Mast Masala, which I can only describe as a meat lover's paradise. Their thalis ars overflowing with delicious food and their solkadi goes straight to your soul.
Thank me later.
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“Prisoners are the most secular... they pray to every God, asking for freedom. The Gods are equally secular, they listen to none of them."
The indomitable Sudha Bharadwaj, a year after her release on bail, in an exclusive interaction with me.
Do read:
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I'm not implying anything, but
#RheaChakraborty
was placed under arrest merely a few hours after reports of fresh tensions at the Sino-Indian border started coming in.
Just saying.
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Started chatting with a girl through a matrimonial app today and in our first conversation, we've established that we both prefer text messages over calls.
Shaadi mein zaroor aana.
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Security reportedly increased around Gujarat CMO to prevent a certain Maharashtra politician from swearing himself in at midnight.
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My opinion on the
#KushaKapila
divorce is that I have no business having an opinion on her personal life.
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I will pay money to whoever gets my uncle off WhatsApp.
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@holland_tom
@neerjadeodhar
I am wheezing as I type this, but sincere aplogies on behalf of my fellow countrymen, Mr Holland.
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Thane walon ko neecha dikhaate dikhaate aana sabko idhar hi hai aakhir.
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Today in the train, a girl got into general compartment. Man near the door brushed by her, stood in the aisle behind her, hand resting on the seat-back inches away from her waist. I pointed my phone camera at his hand and he suddenly remembered there were handholds overhead.
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Here's a thought.
How is everything wrong with Maharashtra the current State government's fault, but everything wrong with the country the previous Central government's fault?
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Building conspiracy theories around victims of suicide should be made a punishable offence.
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Public service announcement for Bhakts: Just in case you want to start a boycott, it's spelled N-O-B-E-L.
Just trying to avoid a repeat of that memorable time when you boycotted MS Excel because a Surf Excel ad hurt your perennially hurt feelings.
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Everybody send congratulations and love for my cutie patootie who scored 87% in her Class XII exams.
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We've come to buy a new washing machine and from the store itself, Mom has called two of her siblings, who have in turn called their relatives and now there's a pan-Maharashtra discussion happening on What Machine The Mengles Should Buy.
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Thoda pehle kiya hota toh Amphan aata hi nahi.
We have renamed Kolkata Port to Kolkata Syama Prasad Mukherjee Port: Union Minister Prakash Javadekar
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Hello, good folk of Twitter,
As someone who's freshly gone from "employed" to "independent", I'm looking for freelance
#journalism
opportunities.
I have over 11 years of experience in reporting and feature writing in
#Mumbai
, spanning three organisations.
Kindly retweet.
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The Andheri subway has officially announced the arrival of the monsoon in Mumbai by immediately going out of action.
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The tragedy is that a large number of us will find ways to blame Shraddha Walkar for her own gruesome murder because she went against her parents' wishes and moved out to live with Aaftab Poonawalla.
It will, somehow, be made out to be HER fault.
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My mother supported the entire house, including my education, for 15 years while my step father pretended to be self employed because working under someone else was beneath him. And she did it while listening to his and his mother' s barbs till we finally moved out. Just saying.
🔹️When husband becomes successful:
Let us buy bigger house, better school for kids, upgrade from hatchback to sedan, have additional household help, & so on
🔹️When wife becomes successful:
Why do I need this man called husband?
Won't generalise, but this is very common…
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@softgrowl
For this
Kashi day 2. They tried to take it away from us .. but we stood strong and thriving! Har Har Mahadev!
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All due credit to his fitness, only a man can post a nude picture of himself on social media in this country. If a woman so much as shows a hint of cleavage, her morals, character, upbringing and God knows what else will be questioned.
Male privilege is very, very real.
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Next up: Government to make it mandatory to register Situationship, Benching, Complicated, Breadcrumbing, Cuffing, Cushioning, Dry Dating, Enmeshment, Fexting, Freckling, Groundhogging, Kitten-Fishing, Love Bombing, Pocketing, Roommate Syndrome, Slow Fade, Soft Launch,…
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Chalo chalo everyone wish my mother a very Happy Birthday ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️.
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One person who has been in the news almost as much as
#AryanKhan
since his arrest is NCP leader
@nawabmalikncp
. In an interaction with me earlier this week, the senior minister told me that he's just getting started.
My story in
@NH_India
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Got my press card, visiting cards and an official email ID and it has now sunk in that I, once again, have a steady job after a year and a half.
Nothing but gratitude.
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Despite the Bhakt meltdown over Taimur's name, Kareena and Saif have named their younger son Jehangir and I've literally never seen a couple with stronger trolling skills.
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From dragging minute details of Sushant Singh Rajput's personal life in public to declaring Pranab Mukherjee and Nishikant Kamat dead, the lust for being the first is really bringing out the worst in people.
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#ProfessionalUpdate
: I am from today joining
@htTweets
, Mumbai as Special Correspondent. I will be covering city crime, central agencies and cybersecurity.
Hoping for your continued support, without which I would have never come this far.
Gratefully yours 🙂.
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What we should be talking about in light of the
#ShraddhaWalkar
murder case:
Safety of women
Abusive relationships
Men exploiting women with the promise of marriage
Mental health
What we are talking about:
Love Jihad
Girls should submit to their parents' wishes
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Supremely honoured and grateful to be one of the recipients of the Hindustan Times Journalist of the Month award for January 2023.
A big thank you to all those who thought me worthy of this.
@HTMumbai
@htTweets
@writemeenal
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The irony is that whoever did this story would have probably been celebrated as "so savage, bro 🙌" in the newsroom.
We've not only normalised bullying, we've glorified it.
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With your good wishes and by God's grace, I have today joined
@sundaymidday
as Senior Assistant Editor. I shall be focusing on long-form features about Mumbai and hope for the same cooperation from your end that has got me this far.
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Ironical choice of background image because the Taj Hotel denied use of their washroom to scores of women who were protesting at Gateway of India in 2020.
What's more, their representative spoke to me in an extremely insulting manner when I sought a comment.
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Professional update: Very happy to share that I have joined
@NH_India
as a full time correspondent for their Mumbai edition. I'll be covering crime and poltiics for them, and, as usual, hope for all your love and cooperation 🙂.
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Just added "published novelist" to my bio and almost choked up. This day is the realisation of a dream that I have nurtured for decades.
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सर, नूपुर जी का रोल अक्षय जी करेंगे तो कंगना की क्या करेंगी?
7-8 साल बाद अक्षय कुमार कहेंगे कि इतिहास ठीक से नहीं पढ़ाया गया। एक फ़िल्म बनेगी। जिसमें अरबों को विश्वगुरु से माफी मांगते दिखाया जाएगा। नुपूर जी मुख्य भूमिका में होंगी। उनका रोल स्वयं अक्षय जी करेंगे।
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This time two years ago, I was staring at unemployment in the face after a career of 12 years, having been laid off from The Hindu at less than 15 days' notice and a joke of a severance pay.
Life has surely changed enormously since then and even better things are in the works!
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A privilege to team up with my mentor and first boss
@husainzaidi
to start
@CySpyIndia
, a news website focusing on cyber-crime and security.
We're going live on August 15th.
Stay tuned!
CySpy India is a journalistic endeavour that works towards bringing all news related to cyber-crime in or affecting India on a single platform as well as towards simplifying the concepts, breaking them down into easily understandable terms. (1/n)
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Gautam S Mengle feels Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and himself are last generation of fiction writers.
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Ok, this is huge AND uncanny.
For some time now I've been considering adopting a daughter when I'm stable enough. Never told my mother because I wasn't sure how she'd react.
Half an hour ago she asked me out of the blue if I'd want to adopt a daughter.
I could cry right now.
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Got back on dating apps after months only to match with a girl on Hinge who just admitted to being a Bhakt.
Now looking for retirement homes for single old men.
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Look, Ma, I'm in the papers today 🙂.
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Try taking a Tupperware box away from an Indian mother.
Even asleep with exhaustion after intensive training, they won’t allow anybody to take their guns away. This is what guns mean to Chinese soldiers.
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And why has the offender's face been blurred instead of the victim's?
A South Korean content creator was harassed while live streaming in Mumbai, India ⤵️
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Saala, I'm neither 420 appreciative nor apolitical nor easy going nor is my whole personality based on the places I've travelled to and I'm still single.
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Consistenly seeing the
#ArnabGoswami
WhatsApp conversations being referred to as "leaked", so putting this out again.
The conversations were not leaked, they were obtained as evidence and made part of the chargesheet - an easily accessble document - in the TRP manipulation case.
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There are times when I absolutely love the Twitter algorithm.
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At least 600 farmers have died while protesting against the three farm laws since last year. This is the number of deaths that could have been avoided.
Let that sink in.
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Today is a good day to identify who you want to un-follow on social media.
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My debut novel, Intersections, is now available in bookstores as well as on Amazon.
Have you got your copy yet?
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Yes, it was really mean to celebrate the end of Dr Manmohan Singh's tenure.
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So, today was my last day at Mid Day.
Working with Sunday Mid Day, transitioning from a daily news reporter to a full time features writer and learning the nitty gritties of newspaper production has enriched me in ways I can't even begin to describe. The decision to move…
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Professional update: By God's grace and with your good wishes, I'm joining the Free Press Journal from today.
Thank you all for your continued support and blessings. Approaching this new assignment with a lot of gratitude and hope.
@fpjindia
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Bhakts are more concerned about Aamir Khan's daughter's clothes than their own children's future.
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Years of spewing the worst kind of venom on a daily basis was okay. But one tweet implying that the Supreme Leader was behind the 2002 genocide "violated Twitter rules".
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Visual representation of people keeping all masalas ready to add to a story that they heard from someone else about somone else.
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I've purposely refrained from tagging him because God knows he's had enough today.
Must also salute
@hiyer
for being who he is.
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@rohini_sgh
: *exists*
Sanghi troll: FLAT FLAT FLAT FLAT FLAT FLAT FLAT HAHAHAHA I'M SO FUNNY
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