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Mint
10-07-2025
- General
- Mint
Earthquake in Delhi-NCR triggers meme fest online: 'Nature playing Squid Game with us'
A 4.4-magnitude earthquake jolted Delhi-NCR and parts of North India on Thursday morning, sending residents scrambling out of their homes, and quickly sparking a meme storm on social media. According to the National Center for Seismology (NCS), the epicentre of the quake was located in Jhajjar, Haryana, at a shallow depth of just 10 km. The tremors, recorded at 9:04 am, were short but strong enough to rattle nerves across Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, and nearby regions. 'EQ of M: 4.4, On: 10/07/2025 09:04:50 IST, Lat: 28.63 N, Long: 76.68 E, Depth: 10 Km, Location: Jhajjar, Haryana,' the NCS posted on X (formerly Twitter). While there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties, many online claimed it was the 'longest quake' they had felt in years, estimating the tremors lasted around 10–15 seconds. Unsurprisingly, the incident triggered a wave of memes and witty takes online. From Squid Game references to jabs at Delhi's chaotic weather, the humour was quick and relentless. 'People in Gurugram & Delhi NCR rushing out of their homes right now after experiencing strong tremors of an earthquake!' one user posted, alongside a dramatic GIF. Another shared a picture of a ceiling fan and cheekily captioned it: 'India's indigenously developed state-of-the-art earthquake detection device that almost every Indian home has.' Taking a swipe at recent floods in the region, a third user wrote, 'Delhi-NCR was hit by a strong earthquake. Just yesterday, the region was flooded due to heavy rainfall. Even nature seems to be playing Squid Game with Indians.' 'The earthquake here in Gurgaon was so massive that my entire table, fan, laptop, and me… we all literally started swinging,' another user posted. 'Govt politely said – don't step out due to waterlogged roads. Nature said – get out. Interesting morning,' read another viral tweet. And summing up the sentiment of the day, one user wrote: 'Dilli ka mausam trying to be the main character in every possible genre — thriller, horror, disaster & romance in rain, all in one.' While the tremors were brief, the social media reactions have ensured they won't be forgotten anytime soon.
Hindustan Times
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Delhiwale: A loss to Delhi cuisine
Late author Sadia Dehlvi's drawing room in Hazrat Nizamuddin East was a gossip adda for the capital's elite. Its other draw was Sadia's homemade meals. They offered the choicest of traditional Purani Dilli cuisine, including dishes that have become extinct. Sabir used to reside in a spacious barsati atop her second-floor apartment. One evening, he was standing outside the barsati, on the roof, with his young son. (HT Photo) Sadia's comrade in the kitchen was her cook, Muhammed Sabir. A friendly gent with carefully combed hair and a confident booming voice, Sabir had been a staffer at Sadia's household for 20 years. This was a period long enough for the UP native to himself become a master of Purani Dilli cuisine. Over the years, he had picked up culinary tips, techniques and authentic recipes from his historically minded employer, who inherited her formidable cooking skills from her ancestral roots in Old Delhi's Phatak Habash Khan neighbourhood. On Sunday, Sabir died, aged 47. The cause was heart attack. He is survived by his wife, Shaheen, and children Farida, Sahil, Irshad, Sirtaj and Farina. His remains were escorted to his village Fatte Purwa in janpad Bahraich. The ambulance drove over the same highways and country roads on which Sabir would travel during the 12-hour long bus ride to home for holidays. He was buried beside the graves of his elders. 'Sabir is my boss,' Sadia would say half-jokingly. 'He decides the menu every day.' On certain evenings, however, one of her moody drawing room guests might abruptly declare a desire for some fancy Dilli dish. No problem! Cheery Sabir seemed to be made for these emergencies. In no time, he would appear with his popular aloo gosht—the meaty flavour of the gosht so thoroughly seeped into the whole chunks of aloo that these humble potatoes would be more flavoursome than the gosht. Or perhaps it would be his equally popular safed daal—garnished with sliced ginger, bhuna pyaz and chopped pudina leaves. All along, Sabir's nonchalant demeanour would suggest supreme effortlessness on his part. As if this talented chef had a secret djinn producing tasty feasts from nothing. Being the sole cook for a society hostess who loved inviting people to her table must have been a trying job, but Sabir made it look easy. After Sadia's death in 2020, Sabir worked through a series of home kitchens. Having been for so long with a caring employer (whom he called 'apa,' sister), he struggled to find that same sort of comfort zone. At the moment of his passing, he was working in a 'kothi' in south Delhi's Panchsheel Park. When he was working in Sadia Dehlvi's kitchen, Sabir used to reside in a spacious barsati atop her second-floor apartment. One evening, he was standing outside the barsati, on the roof, with his young son. The sky was soaked orange with sunset hues. See photo.
Indian Express
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi turns 20: One of the best campus movies, this one is for the ages
It is amongst the best campus movies made not just in India, but internationally. Sudhir Mishra catches the zeitgeist of DU (Delhi University) in the early 70s– not just as a lookbook, with the exaggerated Bachchan hair cuts and the 48 inch bell-bottoms—but also the way the cool kids back then used to talk, hang out (no, they didn't just 'hang'), and do other fun stuff, including sit in on dharnas and feel very political while cutting classes, dreaming of the revolution. The idealistic Geeta (Chitrangada Singh) is madly in love with Siddharth aka Sid (Kay Kay), the privileged, entitled bungalow-dweller (these days, he'd be dubbed, straight off, anti-national, not just because he runs off to join the Naxal movement but because he is born into Lutyens Delhi), who goes off to fight against 'injustice and oppression'. Vikram (Shiney Ahuja) is the not-so-well-off street-smart fixer, as that most Dilli of all Dilli characters. There's also Ram Kapoor as the good-hearted 'babu' (bureaucrat), who adds to the slate of terrific acting in the movie. Hazaaron is a very Dilli film, a wonderfully life-like reflection of the Capital of the late 60s, and 70s, when sections of it were a hot-bed of hot-headed rebels who learnt how to 'lal salaam' like they meant it, with some following it up to actually fight the good fight in villages, and many, predictably, coming right back to their lives of liveried comfort. ALSO READ | Sudhir Mishra reveals Basu Chatterjee 'rejected' Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi from National Awards consideration: 'Unka haq tha' It's also a strongly political film, which, without being pedantic, trains its lens on the many Indias which collide with each other, and disrupt age-old power equations before being forced to find their level. There's unrest in the air, Emergency is around the corner, and our trio is learning how to come of age, in that most turbulent era, where erstwhile princes, and sharp commoners rub elbows while figuring out how to survive, and thrive. Very few parts of the film appear dated. The backdrop of the misty winter mornings in Delhi, the wispy smoke rising off joints in grungy rooms with the mandatory Che posters, the furtive couplings of young lovers, the heat rising off the ground in the villages, the cracks in the idealism and the naivete that the young all over the world wear as an armour, the harsh lessons life hands out to us when no one is looking, all of it feels as fresh and urgent as it did back when it came out in 2005. The performances are all top-notch. Kay Kay Menon was the only one who had had some acting experience; the sultry Chitrangada, rocking her crumpled 'sooti' cotton saris, was immediately dubbed the new Smita Patil, and Shiney (who has since disappeared, after being convicted for sexual assault of his domestic help) who was brilliant as the guy who always wants more, whose moral compass is shaky, but whose only redeeming feature is his love for Geeta, which remains unshaken. And finally, tell me, does anyone forget the time when they were young and foolish, and madly in love, and passionate about poetry, while, of course, determined to change the world? The film's music is sublime: 'Baawra Mann', written by Swanand Kirkire, composed by Shantanu Moitra, and sung by Shubha Mudgal, is a song for the ages.
