1n #FrugalIndian is relieved to eat her first restaurant meal in 6 months: started with a popcorn & vodka cocktail followed by Indian street style potato baskets a la “ragda”, stuffed with a spiced potato salad, organic yoghurt, salsa verde “lucknowaise” & a tangy tamarind sauce
2n followed by poulet frites “a la 65” flavoured with coromandel spices & verdant green curry leaves; and assorted kool-shah “amritsaraise” stuffed with beetroot, truffled cheese & daikon served with traditional accompaniments “poonjabaise”
3n crowned with a fillet mignon done rare (is there any other way to eat a steak?) served with pomme dauphinois, assorted spring vegetables & drenched in a luscious jus. Finished with a banoffee pie
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DELHI MEDIA GOSSIP 🧵: Gujarat Police sources telling me @LangaMahesh was paid the following:
• Reliance: ₹18 crores over 3 years
• Torrent: ₹ 10 crores over 4 years
• Adani: ₹ 20 lacs per month over several years
• Essar: use of the private jet on several occasions
He + wife stayed in 5 star hotels for a total of 99 days in 2023-24. Not one of these bills was paid by the couple. Instead several 3rd parties footed the stay. This is basically 1/3rd of the year spent in suites at 5 stars.
• The tacky “desi bridgerton” birthday party (of which videos have been doing rounds) of his wife was hosted at the highly exclusive Jade Ahmadabad. The owner of Jade has last week filed a police complaint claiming extortion and criminal intimidation by Langa over the party
DELHI MEDIA GOSSIP: Police sources say @LangaMahesh will be charged with Hawala and Extortion soon. they say he has named several extremely senior central bureaucrats as aiding him & profiting from his dealings. As of now the Police say that Mahesh was the glue of a cartel of
Babus, industrialist and journos all opposed to the Ambanis and Adanis (A&A). This rival group was headed funded and supplied documents by one major industrial rival (MIR) of A&A curiously he was also approaching A&A for favours and remuneration running into crores which the
Police say was basically extortion. Police also say that the Media Communications Chief (MCC) of a major opposition party was part of this cartel and Langa double/triple dipped on funding from all these sources. Moreover Langa drafted statements for MCC and acted as the liaison
DELHI MEDIA GOSSIP: Gujarat Police sources: @LangaMahesh was peddling sensitive documents on critical infrastructure which never made it to the @the_hindu. Instead they were shared with the media cell chief (MCC) of a major opposition party. WhatsApp convos reveal that Langa was
not only sharing these docs but also drafting the statements that the MCC was putting out + what MCC should or should not say at the presser. Police say these docs were also peddled for consideration to corporates & that they have the entire WhatsApp trail. Police also say two
Gujarat bureaucrats are now in deep soup. Police will be making the names public in the coming weeks, but the question worth asking is why MCC has been quieter than a mouse since Langa’s arrest? MCC has neither tweeted nor acknowledged the arrest and hasn’t even provided the
Every communist is a traitor. To betray their country is hard wired into them. Let’s start with Lenin. He considered his own countrymen a bigger threat than Germans. Despite being just 8 months away from victory, Lenin signed the catastrophic Brest-Litovsk treaty giving away huge
Chunks of Russia to the Germans. To note Lenin was sent by the kaiser in a sealed train to Russia precisely to undermine the Russian Government. Today’s Ukraine war traces its roots to this exact treaty. Lenin’s successor was Stalin who was worse
Stalin you see killed more Soviet citizens than the German army in WW1 & WW2 combined. Mind you for most of the 30s Stalin was happy to coochie coo the Germans. German tanks & aircraft were secretly tested in the USSR due to restrictions of the treaty of Versailles. These same
The Agarwals have 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 more money than Salman. So worth remembering what happened in the Salman hit & run case. This country is a joke, this country’s entire “law and order” apparatus is a joke. And make no mistake 𝗩𝗲𝗱𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗱
2002
• salman kills 1 & injures 3 driving his car
2013 (𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿)
• first charges are laid
May 2015
• found guilty, confirms salman did not have a license till 2004, his driver who lied saying he and not salman was driving the car charged with perjury, is given bail hours later - pending appeal
The biggest tragedy was prime witness Ravindra Kumar - a former commando - who was isolated & mentally tortured by his own Mumbai police, then arrested and due to impoverishment died of TB before the case concluded. All this was done by his seniors to force him to retract his statement.
December 2015 (𝘀𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿)
• Salman is acquitted - for lack of evidence
July 2016
• MH government files appeal against his acquittal. Supreme Court admits it - but no fast tracking - court said not laikely to even have first hearing for at least 4 years
May 2024
• no news of the appeal
11 years to frame charges
2 years to find guilty
7 months to acquit
8 years and no hearing of appeal against acquittal
.Meet Sujata Shroff a pune builder. In 2017 she crashed into a median killing a 3 year old girl, her mother & injuring 3 others badly. She was granted bail within hours & cancellation of bail plea was rejected. Since 2017 no news of the case. indianexpress.com/article/cities…
.Meet Mukund Abhyankar head of Cosmos Bank. His rash driving killed Arundhati Hasabnis in Pune in 2016. He was convicted 7 years later. His punishment? 6 months simple imprisonment & a fine of …. hold your breath ……. 1200 rupees. Yes One Thousand Two Hundred rupees.
🧵 Thank you @IsraelinIndia & Amb @NaorGilon for a spectacular dinner with chef Shaul Ben Aderet. Lemme talk you through what I ate. BTW did you know if you’re vegetarian you’ll be totally comfortable in israel? We started with a masterclass on a proper shakshouka. The table was lined with wayyyy too many starters (typical Israeli style stay fit trick - by the time the main arrives, you’ve gotten full on veg)
Israeli salad. Beetroot & Pomegranate salad. An insanely delicious baba ghanoush with tarragon oil, and my favourite - Sabich filling (there’s nothing quite like sabich - fried eggplant, boiled potatoes, tahini, mixed with pickled lemons and an Indian-Iraqi Jewish sauce called AMBA made of mangoes)
Israeli cous cous (which is technically a pasta, with slivered almonds, the ubiquitous hummus, walnuts with crunchy spinach & a matbucha (roasted tomato salad) on side, served with is awesome salty sweet challah (I forgot how much I love challah)