Bollywood appalled over Delhi taxi rape, expresses anger on Twitter

Much like the rest of the country, Bollywood is shocked over the news of a 25-year-old woman's rape by a taxi driver in the national capital. 

While filmmaker Karan Johar says he was appalled by the incident, Bollywood star Akshay Kumar wonders "how many more such incidents before we have stricter laws?"

A 25-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a cab driver on Friday night after she took the cab around 9:30p.m. from Vasant Vihar area in Delhi - the city where six rapes and 14 molestation cases were reported every day the first four months of 2014. Angered by the incident, here's what the stars tweeted:  

Akshay Kumar: You hire a cab thinking its safer and pay more but sadly even that isn't an option anymore. Not sure how many more such incidents before we have stricter laws! #DelhiShamedAgain 

Karan Johar: Appalled at the @Uber incident!! If they didn't do an adequate background check of the driver they have no reason to operate anywhere!!!! 

Rohit Roy: Just the other day, a friend was recommending Uber very highly... Now this!! Appalling. It's like the guard at ur home robbing U!! 

Vishal Dadlani: Taking a cab alone at night? Take a picture of the driver, with the numberplate, & send it to a friend. Should act as a basic deterrent. 

According to a recent compilation of data by Delhi Police, 616 rapes and 1,336 molestation cases were registered between January 1 and April 30 - a 36 percent increase in rape cases compared to around 450 cases registered in the same period last year. 

Data of the first four months of 2014 show that six rapes and 14 molestation cases have been reported every day. Police, however, claim to have solved almost 90 percent of the cases. 

Source: hindustantimes.com

Airtel - Shittiest mobile and customer service and the employees as well

Date:- 03-Dec-2014

I was out of the country for a month, today I came back and wanted to top-up my mobile prepaid balance. So first of all I recharged with Rs. 79 i.e. National roaming pack for a month, the recharge was successful and there were no issues. But the problem comes now.

After a few hours, I realised that I was running out of balance so I went to www.airtel.in from my mobile (Nexus 5), I am mentioning my mobile's model number just because I want the executive to know that it is a smartphone so they won't raise stupid questions as they raised over the call with customer care executives. So coming back to the point now, I did a top-up of Rs. 330 i.e. full talktime recharge from my smartphone's browser (Chrome). The top-up was successful but when it redirected back to the website after authorising the payment from the payment gateway they have put a button on their website which a customer can mistakenly click and so did the thing happened with me, I clicked it mistakenly and Rs. 249 were automatically deducted from my balance which I did a top-up for Rs. 330 saying that 3GB data of 2G has been activated on your number for 28 days. I mean WTF! no confirmation or nothing as such. The website also generated a message saying that it has been deducted from your balance, even the message was not proper, it was full of errors/bugs, please see the screenshot below, also I have attached screenshot from my bank account transaction details for the transactions which I have done today on airtel's website. please see the bottom of the blog to see both the screenshots . I feel so cheated with Airtel everytime. I am really frustrated with the service they provide. But wait, the biggest issue happened when I called up customer care.

I dialed 121 to report this issue, but I was surprised what I get to hear.

Mr. Rahul took my call, I reported him what happened, so he has to say that I deliberately recharged it from the website and I had never done a recharge of Rs. 330 before.
I asked him to forward the call to his senior and he did.
Mr. Vijendra Chauhan - Senior Executive, now this guy has got some guts, first of all he also says that I deliberately recharged it, so I said that I didn't and I have not used even a single KB of that internet pack and I do not want this internet pack, so now listen to this, his answer was really amusing, he says that "Sir, aapne hi recharge kiya hai, ab use kar lijiye na". So I said that I do not want to use this internet pack only and I want my refund back. So he has to say "Sir, to aap kehna chahte hai ki aap internet pack use hi nahi karte hai? Kabhi use hi nahi kiya aapne? Aapne hi toh recharge kiya hai". He was trying to play around word-games with me. So I asked him that which region he is speaking from, he says "kya sir?", I asked again "konse region se baat kar rahe ho tum?", then he has to say "sir shayad aap clearly nahi bol rahe hai", I was already furious by now, I said "English bol raha hu, konse region se bol raha hai tu? ab samajh aaya? konse raajya se baat kar raha hai tu?". To this he has to say that "Ohh accha sir aap state jaanna chahte hai, raajya ka matlab state hota hai sir, region nahi hot hai, shayad aap English thik se nahi bol paa rahe thhe". I lost it over there.
Bloody, what is this, is he over there to serve customers or to teach them English. Then I started talking in English only to which he could not respond really well and he was teaching me English, I mean WOW! He says "Sir you speak to Vijendra chauhan, and I cannot refund you the money back, please talk to our senior" and I interrupted him and said first of all "It is not you speak to Vijendra chauhan", it is "you are speaking to Vijendra chauhan, you bloody bastard". And he transferred his call to his senior.
Now I was speaking with Rakesh Sharma - Customer Care Manager from Rajasthan, first of all I spoke to him about the entire incident that are these executives here to teach English to the customer or to serve their needs. Then he has to say that I recharged for Rs. 249 and not Rs.330 and if the recharge was done from 3rd party website or their own website, when I said that it was airtel.in then he tried to change the topic and started giving me some random bullshit and he says I will further forward your call to my senior I mean WTF is going on, everybody is transferring the call to their seniors, so does it means that the junior level guys are hired just to fool around and do bullshit with customers, customer is given no priority and treated with such bullshit and the customer is charged money fraudulently. 
I want my money back which has been charged unethically i.e. Rs. 249. If not I am definitely scaling this matter to consumer court. Because such incidents have been with me since a long time but this time I just could not take it.

1.) Screenshot from my bank transaction history

2.) Screenshot which I get after the amount was deducted from my balance

RESPECT SHOULD NOT BE BASED ON THE STATUS OF A PERSON

 
|| RESPECT SHOULD NOT BE BASED ON THE STATUS OF A PERSON ||

Yesterday during the usual rush hrs I was travelling back to home from rajiv chowk metro station (the MAN in picture below was standing next to me taking support of the pole).As most of you who commute by Metro must be aware that getting space to even stand properly during peak hrs is a distant dream.I suddenly noticed that there were three men who had problems only with this MAN but no one else in the compartment. Though it was a small incident but I was thinking how many people go through this everyday.

Metro stopped at the next station the MAN was still clinging to the pole at his place and one person entered and shouted
"ABE SIDE HOJA HERO BANKE KHADA HA" ….
This MAN was still quite and moved a bit to the other side but I could see the changing expresions on his face.The ordeal continued on the next metro station and yet again a middle aged person
“PUSHED THE MAN BADLY AS HE DEBOARDED THE TRAIN”

I could see that it was intentional, i mean one can feel it and while getting out he looked at the MAN in a strange manner as if it was fault of this MAN but hats off to this MAN who still kept his eyes down.It had been long time I was observing now.On the same station one more well dressed ,educated youth entered the compartment and murmured to which i guess we both listened
"PATA NAI KAHA SE AAJATE HAI AISE LOG" and said "SIDE HO"

I felt this Man (who had spent his entire day slogging to earn his daily bread) was about to cry and my patience gave way now, I could not tolerate it any further and gave him some place where i was standing ,kept my hand on his shoulder and i said
"BHAI TU YAHA AAJA"
and I replied to the well dressed educated youth in a very sarcastic manner
“YOU LOOK EDUCATED”…..the youth looked down and said SORRY

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Sorry doesn’t make anything perfect but yes a sensitive behavior and manners do. People should be courteous and ask for a place ,how can sumone be rude like this to anyone??????.
What I personnaly feel this happens majorly because since the time we are born we are taught to respect old people, females, family, teachers and not everyone I just want to ask
ONE QUESTION WHY NOT RESPECT EACH AND EVERYONE ??
i have never seen anyone saying respect the people who are below poverty line we are always taught to help them ethically or a bit financially but no one tells their son to touch their feet’s too!!!!!!! if they are old age because old age with poverty is not a good enough reason to respect someone.
such a HYPOCRISY
I want to ask one question here ,isn’t a person whos below poverty line even judged as human being in this country???. I would have clicked the pictures of all these rude people and posted but things would have not changed like this, as most of the us are like this. We demand change,we go for candle marches but when it comes to CHANGE a few simple things , we lack in our attitude,
WE ,WE LACK SENSITIVITY we are no less then everone who ill treated this MAN and many would have not even said sorry .
“PROBLEM HERE IS MANY OF US JUDGE OTHERS BY THEIR CLOTHES AND THEN WE DECIDE HOW TO BEHAVE WITH THEM.” we don’t know with how many we would have behaved like this but when one day we will be at other side of the fence,we will realise how it feels inside when each and every time people behave like this.
RESPECT AND SPREAD SMILES IT COST NOTHING

-Rahul Saharan

A DAD'S SPEECH AT HIS DAUGHTER'S WEDDING

 

A DAD'S SPEECH AT HIS DAUGHTER'S WEDDING

I thought I would start my speech by addressing you as the "new" family of my daughter. But I think it would be inappropriate because now that she is married, you are "the family" for her. Believe me; I don't have a problem with that. I, in fact, want my daughter to have "you" as her priority now. Its time for us to take a backseat in her life. We would happily accept it but would surely request one thing- please keep her happy!

I am more than sure that you will keep her very happy. She will perhaps be happier than what she used to be here. But like all fathers, I obsess over my daughter's happiness which is making me say this over and over again- please keep her happy!

She never was and will never be a burden for me. She is in fact the reason why I breathe and smile. I am getting her married because this is what the law of nature demands. I am helpless in the face of our culture and therefore sending her to your home. She was the happiness of my home and will now light up your home. I am giving my world to you.  Please make sure it remains beautiful. I am giving away my princess to you. Please make sure she stays as a queen. I have raised her with my sweat and blood and now she is wonderfully perfect. For all the care, love, beauty and warmth my daughter will bring into your lives, I just want her happiness in return please keep her happy!

If at times you think that my daughter has said or done something wrong, feel free to scold her. But handle her with love. She is very fragile. If at times she feels low, be with her. She just needs a little bit of your attention. If at times she feels sick, show her some care. It's the medicine that works best for her. If at times she fails to fulfill a responsibility, feel free to chastise her. But empathize with her. She is still learning. Do understand her please keep her happy!

I don't mind if I don't get to see her for months. I don't mind if I am not able to talk to her on a daily basis. I would be more than happy if she doesn't remember me much. But, my only motive in life has been my daughter's happiness which is now in your hands. I beg you, please keep her happy.

Dear son-in-law, these words may not mean much to you now but if you are lucky enough to father a daughter someday, you will appreciate them better when you will find every beat of your heart shouting   "please keep her happy"!

Read it... Will surely make u cry.....When a girl gets married, she steps out of her own heaven and enters into a world full of uncertainties just to keep a family running and lives blooming. For this great sacrifice of hers, even the heavenly angels request just one thing   "please keep her happy"!! :)

15 things that make a Mumbaikar different from the rest. Hell yeah!!

Mumbai is not just the City of Dreams and hopes; Mumbai is another way of life. While people carry their culture to every place they go, there is a lot that Mumbai transforms in its locales. “Once a Mumbaikar, always a Mumbaikar.” You know you are a Mumbaikar if:

1. Bollywood is in your blood
You identify addresses by Big B, Shah Rukh and Salman’s homes. You go to Marine drive to get that one filmy shot. You’ve heard about every film all set for release. Oh yes! Bollywood is boiling in your blood.

2. Sachin Tendulkar is your God, Wankhede your temple
In a city with a population of over ten millions, there is just one God and one temple. Sachin Tendulkar and his home ground Wakhede, that inspires every little kid in the gullies of the city to aspire to be a cricketer like the Little Master!

3.Vada Pav is your happy meal
McDonald’s and KFC, Burger King or any other snack joint is a complete failure before the staple meal of the city, Vada Pav. Sweet, spicy, quick, filling, a Vada Pav is all you need to satisfy your taste buds and your hunger cravings.

4. Marine Drive is your dream spot; Beaches are your sunset points.
You don’t need hotels or scenic locations. You’re probably flooded with a zillion pictures in different shades and angles of the Marine Drive and you’d still go for more. While the Girgaum and Juhu chowpatty are your happy sunset spot.

5.Traffic is forever your reason to get late
Signals, potholes, people, rains, drains, there could be a million reasons to cut short to just one for being in a hurry everywhere, but always being late-TRAFFIC. It’s old school and we know it, but when we blame traffic, we aren’t faking!

6. Jugaad is your way of life
In Mumbai, everything is possible and nothing is impossible. From a pauper to a piper, everyone has their own chances with luck, fate and hard work. And then of course, there is the most important way- Jugaad! No tension, only solution to all problems and crisis.

7. Multiculturism is your way of life
You have a Gujarati neighbor who speaks fluent Marathi, a North India chaiwala who makes poha for breakfast, a Marathi uncle who offers you Idli Sambhar.Too many regions, too many religions, too many cultures which together dissolve together to form the culture of Mumbai.

8. You know how to get in and out of a local train
While most new comers will fret at the very thought of boarding a Virar local, you well know how to get in and out of the train. And in that case, you’re also automatically skilled and entertained with your daily dose of local gossips and fights!

9.You can bargain till you can afford it
Colaba, Linking road or Lokhandwala, you well know how to buy a good looking product at a bargain price. So even after Flipkart and Jabong taking a front seat, a true blue Mumbaikar can’t miss shopping in these areas.

10. Sleeping before 12 is taboo
Sleeping before 12 in Mumbai? You gotto be kidding me! The city famous for its nightlife known for being the city that never sleeps is vibrant with lights and traffic much past the midnight. You needn’t wonder where the party culture comes from!

11.You’ll come across the most jazziest professions.
Nobody here anymore wants to be a doctor, engineer, lawyer. The jazziest careers begin here. Currently, it’s all about event managers, bloggers, digital media marketers, and struggling actors.

12. Your neighbor is an acquaintance but even a stranger is your friend
Mumbai might sound cold, but it is extremely warm in nature. There are days when one may not even know the name of his neighbor, but if need be, he shall go help a stranger with his life for the sake of humanity.

13. Energy and action is the core theme of life
You don’t find a lazy Mumbaikar, you never find a Mumbaikar jobless. Energy and action are the essentials of the life of a Mumbaikar, cause you either work for yourself or others to make a living here. Same for all men and women.

14. Time is money and speed is the need
Time is money and that is why you need the speed. No other city has a pace like Mumbai, life drives past before you’ve realized. You’re quick, you’re active and you’re with the pace. And Mumbai promises you the best of comfort, wealth and opportunities.

15.Above all, you can’t think of surviving in any other city of the world.
I’ve lived in Mumbai. I know it is not perfect. I know it rocks. And I know for all that it is and it isn’t, I possible can’t think of surviving anywhere else in world.
Because once you’ve lived and loved Mumbai, you’ll lose your heart and soul to the city!

Come India, Let us All Hate Arvind Kejriwal

Funny country, ours is. We love to hate. We are so fed up of our own miserable problems and pathetic administration that we just need a media-created effigy to direct our hatred and burn. Beyond logic. Beyond rationale. Beyond the levels of tolerance and sophistication that one can expect from a country that boasts itself as the world’s largest democracy.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal humbled in the recent national elections. Just four members from his party got into parliament and Kejriwal himself lost by a mammoth 337,000 votes at Varanasi to the next PM of India, Narendra Modi. Honestly speaking, it was a stupid move by AK to challenge Modi at Varanasi. He could’ve contested from his home constituency, won his seat in parliament and actually made a difference from inside over the next 5 years. Isn’t that why he split from Anna Hazare in the first place??
The hate for AK started earlier this year when he resigned as CM of Delhi within 49 days of being voted the majority government. Yes, he betrayed the trust of Delhi, and the whole country, the eyes of which were constantly upon him. The disappointment turned to hate and we coined terms like Farjiwal, Fekriwal, Bhagoda and some of our trademarked Hindi swear words which never cease to evolve every-time they’re mentioned. In more ways than not, justified.

All he asked for this week was forgiveness and another chance. He apologized to the people of Delhi, and India. He conceded his mistake and inexperience. Gave his reasoning, and came out pleading for a chance to make things right.

And what do we do?? We lambaste him on social media, accusing him of dramatics, calling him all sorts of things, talking about flogging him publicly and what not! Not to mention his supporters being called AAP-tards and baboons (which, thankfully, is not racist in India).

Nobody wanted to touch AK before the elections. He came out and blasted the most influential people in India for corruption and money laundering, and nobody had the balls to do anything more than denying and reverse accusing him on the news. But now that BJP has swept off the elections, Nitin Gadkari comes along and files a defamation suit. Amazing things power does to people. [Correction: The case was filed a few months ago. Yet, of all the crimes people can commit, we see sense in filing a case for calling someone 'corrupt'.]
Kejriwal, sent to judicial custody, refused to pay the bail/bond amount of Rs. 10,000 and said that he’d defend himself in court. Why do we accuse him of being above the law? Any defendant has the right to not pay the bail money. It’s an option, not a law. And he said he’d defend his stand in his court hearing. He’s not answerable to the pedestrian unappreciative masses on social media. Wake up and see sense, people. Hating him won’t get you anything.

Back in 2011, he went to jail for similar charges. Back then, he was just an activist, not a political leader. It was easy to pick on him. He didn’t pay the bail even then. He was seen as a hero back then. Why wasn’t that perceived as above the law? Our very own national hero, Mahatma Gandhi, was sent to jail by the British. He was offered bail for as little as 1 Rupee, but, he still declined.

We reelect criminals to parliament. People with blatant corruption charges, people who have more black money than most people earn legitimately their whole life, rapists, uneducated, worthless ministers. Everyone is forgiven and voted back to parliament.
Why not Arvind Kejriwal? A clean record, a degree from India’s premiere technology institute and so many more qualifications that could bring the more than half of the current parliament to shame… and most of all, clean intentions a good heart.
I don’t expect this article to be received well by most of you. I’m probably just another AAP-tard baboon on your timelines. Your hate for Congress and AAP has blinded you too much to read or hear anything against anyone remotely related to BJP, let alone trying to look at it objectively.

But, to those who see sense like me, I hope you’re in Delhi. Give him another chance. He’s a good man.

15 Incredible Pictures Of India’s First Elections

India's first Lok Sabha elections were held between 25 October 1951 and 21 February 1952. 

At the time, the Congress  was pretty much the strongest contender.

The CPI (Communist Party of India) was in the fray as well.

This is how they did campaigning in those days.

An election speech in full swing.

There were over 173 million voters. Most of them were voting for the first time in their lives.

Even the women came out in force.

Here's a polling centre from those elections. 

 

And here's how the votes were counted.

Even then, these elections were the biggest experiment in democracy anywhere in the world.

The Congress won and Jawaharlal Nehru became India's first democratically elected Prime Minister. 

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15 Things Indian Romeos Do When They Have A Crush On Someone

We Indians love romance. In our movies, in our songs and in our lives. But like every human being, when we get a crush on someone, we do a lot of strange things. Perhaps we’re not good at expressing our feelings. Or maybe we are. You decide. Here are 15 Things That Indian Romeos Do When They Have a Crush on Someone:

1. Destroy the repeat button on Atif Aslam songs.

2. Watch Kuch Kuch Hota Hai multiple times as though the key to their love life is in there somewhere.

3. Like every goddamn thing their crush puts up on Facebook. Even her Candy Crush scores.

4. Tell your crush that she resembles some really good-looking Bollywood star although the truth is far from it.

5. Always always keep an eye on the crush’s FB/Whatsapp chat status so that the moment she comes online they can say ‘Hey! I just got online. You?’

6. Invite the crush to their’s brother’s shaadi or their cousin’s shaadi or their friend’s brother’s shaadi or their friend’s brother’s cousin’s shaadi.

7. Even if they are having a tiny samosa they will still split it with their crush.

8. Engrave/write their initials and their crush’s initials/love message on trees and benches or any other place they can find.

9. Purposely hang around the Metro Station/local train their crush takes to board the same train so they can spend some quality time together jammed in between 1000 people.

10. Pray to every God that exists in the Indian Culture before sending a friend request to their crush.

11. Say obnoxious obvious things to their crush just to start a conversation like ‘Oh, you have an iPhone? Ok…’

12. Try a hundred different ‘love calculators’ till they get at least a 95% compatibility with their crush.

13. Share their childhood photos with their crush hoping that if she finds that cute, she will find the current version cuter.

14. SMS their crush every possible joke that they have on their phone just to get a ‘LOL’ from the crush.

15. Write original rhyming love songs on pieces of paper that can give Gulzar a run for his money.

Source: www.scoopwhoop.in

14 Joys Of Growing Up In An Indian Joint Family

There’s nothing greater than family. That’s the universal truth every human being comes to realize at some point or the other in their life. Especially in a country like India, the closeness and attachment we have for our family is very strong. And it becomes twice as much when we grow up in a joint family. We absolutely respect nuclear families and believe they are as strong as a joint families. But there are some little joys that you only experience when you grow up in a joint families.

Here are 14 such amazing upsides of growing up in a joint family.

1. Listening to the amazing stories your grandparents have to tell you isn’t a once in a while affair.

2. You are taught the invaluable lesson of sharing from an early age itself.

3. At times, there are things kids just can’t share with their parents.

Fortunately, in a joint family there will be people of all age groups and the kids will eventually find someone they feel comfortable talking to.

4. There will be family members of different nature and temperament in one home.

There’s no greater coaching you’ll receive in learning how to be accepting, accommodating and adjusting to the needs of others.

5. Every person’s joy is multiplied a dozen times and the sorrow divided equally.

6. There’s no end to how many hours you can while away with your cousins.

7. Every family outing becomes a major larger-than-life event that turns into a celebration.

8. Even if your parents are caught up at work, you’ll never feel neglected or left out because you have your pick of aunts and uncles to spend time with.

9. And when there comes a grand occasion like a wedding, festival or birthday, the entire home changes into a grand spectacle.

10. There will never come a day when there’s absolutely no home-cooked food.

11. If ever there comes a point you need advice on something, you’ll get tons of amazing and insightful opinions.

12. The phrase ‘all for one and one for all’ is literally true in a joint family.

13. God forbid if there’s an emergency at whatever time of the night, you’ll have your entire family right by your side to assist you.

14. The importance of working together as a team through thick and thin is instilled in you and remains with you forever.

At the end of the day, family is all you have and in a joint family you get to cherish that fact every single day.

Source: www.scoopwhoop.in