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<keyword id="6390428" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Chetan-Bhagat">Chetan Bhagat</keyword> is one of the most trolled people on twitter and one of the very few who always retorts back to each and every tweet trolling him. 
 His much awaited dream to make it big onscreen like his books was fulfilled at last. He made quite a performance on the <keyword id="7486" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="Nach-Baliye">Nach Baliye</keyword> stage, a dance based reality show. Though the world would have loved to see him as a participant, but he is one of the judges. Not literally a performance though, but his appearance in the show itself demands it to be called so. How can such a big performance go unnoticed by social media that gives him “so much love”? It did not. 
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			If Ultron attacks India a) RSS invented him b) Mamata renames him c) Ambani buys him d) Modi hires him e) Guest judge on Nach Baliye
		— samit basu (@samitbasu) <a href="https://twitter.com/samitbasu/status/592524745381253120">April 27, 2015</a></blockquote>
	

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			<a href="https://twitter.com/chetan_bhagat">@chetan_bhagat</a> it seems you have been assigned the job to promote the prog on social networking
		— GULSHAN KUMAR (@kumargulshan365) <a href="https://twitter.com/kumargulshan365/status/591553465341513728">April 24, 2015</a> 
		 From tweets trolling his book ‘<keyword id="2459041" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Half-Girlfriend">Half Girlfriend</keyword>’ to <keyword id="5357" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Twinkle-Khanna">Twinkle Khanna</keyword>’s ‘Chetali Bhagat’ tweets, he endured through all. 
		 
		Twinke Khanna's response to one of her fans who said she did not need to change her name to Chetali Bhagat:</blockquote>
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			I do!He gets to judge NachBaliye and i get to judge if that gross thing on my floor is dog puke or poop <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SuchIsLife?src=hash">#SuchIsLife</a> <a href="https://t.co/glVOtvREii">https://t.co/glVOtvREii</a>
		— Twinkle Khanna (@mrsfunnybones) <a href="https://twitter.com/mrsfunnybones/status/592614202881101824">April 27, 2015</a> 
		 
		Here are some of the hillarious tweets trolling his book "Half Girlfriend": 
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				Half Girlfriend RT <a href="https://twitter.com/4ever_PK">@4ever_PK</a>: Chetan Bhagat's Book in pictures ---&gt; <a href="http://t.co/dlCKtM2j7N">pic.twitter.com/dlCKtM2j7N</a>
			— Keh Ke Peheno (@coolfunnytshirt) <a href="https://twitter.com/coolfunnytshirt/status/496510445599997953">August 5, 2014</a></blockquote>
		
		<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
			
				Half girlfriend is okay but which half is the important question.
			— dorku (@Dorkstar) <a href="https://twitter.com/Dorkstar/status/496499777756864512">August 5, 2014</a></blockquote>
		</blockquote>
	But this time he seemed a little dull while defending himself in the show 'Beat the Tweet'. Did the mean tweets finally catch him by his neck or were they too trivial to react? We leave it to the readers to decide. 
	 

	But all will agree that even though he seemed a bit confused at the beginning, the end steals the show. 
	 

	“With all these love, I don’t miss my mother-in-law,” he said. 
	 
	(image credits: Twitter)

Chetan Bhagat beat the tweet and how!

He is one of India’s most successful writers, and with 3 Idiots, Kai Po Che and 2 States raking success at the box office, <keyword id="6390428" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Chetan-Bhagat">Chetan Bhagat</keyword> has become <keyword id="143" type="CITY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Bollywood">Bollywood</keyword>’s eye-candy as well. Maybe that was the reason that he was chosen as the additional screenplay writer in Salman Khan’s recently released movie Kick, despite the fact that all his previous filmy connections revolved around movies based on his books. 
 
As he announced the name of his new book on various social media platforms, there has been a lot of memes and jokes going viral because of his fetish with using numbers in the titles of his books. 
 
His books have been titled as 
<ul>
	<li>
		Five Point Someone – What not to do at IIT!</li>
	<li>
		One Night @ the Call Center</li>
	<li>
		The 3 Mistakes of My Life</li>
	<li>
		2 States: The Story of My Marriage</li>
	<li>
		Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition.</li>
</ul>
We all know that Chetan Bhagat is an alumnus of India’s premier education institutes IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad, and worked in banks for 11 years before turning to full-time writing. Being an engineer, an MBA and a banker has surely made him think numbers and even five years after he left investment banking, he shares a special relationship with numbers. 
 
His latest book, <keyword id="2459041" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Half-Girlfriend">Half Girlfriend</keyword> has a number too, although this time around, it has been reduced to half. This is a story of a young girl who becomes her friend’s “half girlfriend” because he wants a relationship and she doesn’t. 
 
The teaser of the book is getting a good response because of the loyal reader base that Bhagat has managed to make in all these years. 
 
Coming over to the other side of fame, which is criticism, Bhagat has always been criticised for his literary skills and even this time around, there have been many jokes and satires on him. 
 
Some of them: 
 
"Bihari ho?" 
"Haan" 
"English nai ati?" 
"What?" 
"English nai ati?" 
"What nonsense is that? Aren't you being overtly presumptuous?" 
"Oh sorry, wo Chetan Bhagat ki novel mein padha tha na..." 
Chetan Bhagat – reinforcing stereotypes since 5 Point Someone! [sic] 
 
~<a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheAnonymousWriters">The Anonymous Writer</a> 
 
You are supposed to Write the "other" half of the novel yourself after reading <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HalfGirlfriend?src=hash">#HalfGirlfriend</a> as homework. [sic] 
~<a href="https://twitter.com/anuragrekhde">Anurag Rekhde</a> 
 
If I marry my girlfriend, she will be my better half. So, if I marry my<a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/halfgirlfriend?source=feed_text&amp;story_id=804903509553682">‪</a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/halfgirlfriend?source=feed_text&amp;story_id=804903509553682">#‎HalfGirlfriend</a>, she will be my better quarter, right? [sic] 
~ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kaali-Zabaan/747108881999812">Kaali Zabaan</a> 
 
Chetan Bhagat - 
1st book: Five Point Someone. 
Last book: Point Five Someone. 
~<a href="https://www.facebook.com/rameshsrivats">Ramesh Srivats</a>

Chetan Bhagat, What’s With All These Numbers?

NEW DELHI: Billionaire <keyword id="45830" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Bill-Gates">Bill Gates</keyword> on Thursday called on the BJP government to take unpopular steps to accelerate growth, while pushing for an increase in the country’s healthcare spend. 
 “For the overall economy to grow, India needs to do unpopular things — do things that are good for the country. What good is a mandate if you can’t do unpopular things,” said the founder of <keyword id="10387" type="CITY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Microsoft">Microsoft</keyword> and the Bill and <keyword id="142497" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Melinda-Gates-Foundation">Melinda Gates Foundation</keyword>, who is in India this week. 
 
On healthcare spending, Gates said, “A few things are still unclear…when push comes to shove, health budgets will need to go up. It will be interesting to see if that goes up.” 
 His wife and co-founder of the eponymous Foundation, <keyword id="131379" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Melinda-Gates">Melinda Gates</keyword>, said, “We are enthused with the <keyword id="6360789" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Modi-Government">Modi government</keyword>. They will roll out four new key vaccines across India and that is huge. Nearly 1.4 million children die every year and this rollout will help a lot to bring down disease and improve health.” 
 In an indirect reference to the government’s <keyword id="6392137" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Jan-dhan-Yojana">Jan Dhan Yojana</keyword> scheme, which aims at financial inclusion, Bill Gates said, “It’s good that more people have bank accounts, but quality of those accounts also needs to improve.” 
 The Foundation was created in 2001 and started work in India in 2003. It is the world’s largest foundation with an endowment of around $40 billion. Since it started work in India, the foundation has spent $1 billion on projects including HIV/AIDS prevention, polio eradication, tuberculosis, educating couples on family planning and sanitation. The power couple was in conversation with author <keyword id="6390428" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Chetan-Bhagat">Chetan Bhagat</keyword>. 
 When asked about the <keyword id="44734" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Indian-Government">Indian government</keyword> targeting NGOs, Gates said, “It does not hurt us, but the FCRA (Foreign Contribution Regulation Act) approval process is long.” 
 
On being asked what made Gates opt for philanthropy and not start another company after Microsoft, Gates said: “In terms of a new path, Microsoft had a huge impact. Philanthropy also has a huge impact, but in a different dimension. We saw that a lot of the diseases were neglected by governments. And lot of the rich world didn’t have those diseases. Here we saw very unique opportunity to intervene.” 
 
Gates said the generation that begins a business doesn’t believe in dynasty, but once fortune is passed down in a dynastic manner, it’s hard to stop.” That’s like thinking the best way to get Olympic teams is to get grandchildren of winners sixty years ago to play — it doesn’t work that way. Fortunately, the trend now is in favour of philanthropy,” he said.

Take Unpopular Measures To Accelerate Growth: Bill Gates To BJP Government

<ul><li>Rajkumar Hirani’s 3 Idiots is the movie which most people want to be made into a franchise.</li><li><keyword id="1671" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="shah-rukh-khan" source="Orion">Shah Rukh Khan</keyword> dominated the list with four of his movies making it to the top 10.</li><li>The audience also picked movies like <keyword id="20062" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="hera-pheri" source="Orion">Hera Pheri</keyword> where the sequel was not successful at the box office. </li></ul>Shah Rukh Khan’s blockbusters this year — Jawan and <keyword id="12756474" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="pathaan" source="Orion">Pathaan</keyword> — have left the audiences longing for more. They, along with his earlier super hits <keyword id="21125" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="chak-de" source="Orion">Chak De</keyword> and <keyword id="227940" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="chennai-express" source="Orion">Chennai Express</keyword>, feature in the list of movies that have the most franchise potential, says a report by Ormax. The top most popular pick of the audience, however, is Rajkumar Hirani’s 3 Idiots ( 85% of the audience voted for it). The movie released in 2009 was a superhit starring Aamir Khan, Madhavan and Sharman Joshi and loosely based on Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone. The survey conducted amongst 3,000 Hindi-film goers analyzed films released between January 1990 to September 2023. The report which picked the top 100 movies, is based on audience equity. Ormax believes that franchises have a long way to go in the Hindi film industry. “Franchise films have been a dominant force driving the growth and stability for Hollywood over the past two decades. The contribution of franchise films to the Hindi theatrical domestic box office has grown from a mere 17% in 2019 to 45% in 2023,” said Sanket Kulkarni, head of business development (theatrical), Ormax Media. Hollywood has made popular movie franchises be it Justice League, Marvel, Star Wars and more. It also has long-running franchises like Fast and the Furious as well as Scream. The Indian film industry has recently kickstarted the trend with the highly successful Bahubali series as well as KGF. Top Bollywood movie franchises (current &amp; potential) <table style="border-width: initial; border-style: none;"></colgroup><tbody><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Movie </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Audience rating (%) </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">3 Idiots </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">85% </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Chennai Express </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">71% </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Hera Pheri </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">70% </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Jawan </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">69% </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Drishyam </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">69% </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Uri: The Surgical Strike </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">65% </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Gadar </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">64% </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Chak De! India </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">64% </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Dhoom </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">64% </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Pathaan </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">63% </td></tr></tbody></table>Source: Ormax Old franchises that have juice left This includes movies that have made franchises also. The audience also picked popular franchises of Gadar, which recently had a second superhit sequel this year. Then there was also Dhoom where three movies have been made starring John Abraham, Hrithik Roshan and Aamir Khan as protagonists. They also picked Sunil Shetty, Akshay Kumar and Paresh Rawal starrer Hera Pheri, even as its sequel bombed at the box office. Surprisingly, none of Rohit Shetty’s action films with a cop universe like Singham and Simmba feature in the list. But Ajay Devgn’s Drishyam, which is an adaptation of a Malayalam movie of the same name, made the cut. The other movie that made the cut is Vicky Kaushal’s Uri: The Surgical Strike. “As the theatrical landscape increasingly leans toward event-driven films, choosing the right film to expand or initiate the franchise can go a long way in creating a powerful theatrical product,” said Kulkarni. 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<ul><li>Charan joins a long list of celebrities like Shah Rukh Khan, <keyword id="6354486" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="virat-kohli" source="Orion">Virat Kohli</keyword>, Deepika Padukone, and <keyword id="5268" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="rahul-gandhi" source="Orion">Rahul Gandhi</keyword> who lost their ‘Blue ticks’. </li><li>Jr NTR or Tarak, SS Rajamouli – with over six million followers each, still have their blue ticks. </li><li>The Pope, Oprah Winfrey, and singer Beyonce lost their verifications, but Musk personally paid for three celebrities. </li></ul>Tesla cars might have danced to the beats of the Oscar-winning song Naatu Naatu, but the actor who thumped the ground to the beats on screen – Ram Charan of RRR has lost his validation from yet another <keyword id="6355315" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="elon-musk" source="Orion">Elon Musk</keyword> venture, Twitter. Charan, who has over three million followers on Twitter, joins a long list of celebrities like Shah Rukh Khan, Virat Kohli, Deepika Padukone and Rahul Gandhi to lose the coveted ‘Blue tick’ on their Twitter accounts. Many celebrities have refused to pay a fee that Musk had imposed to verify the accounts of celebrities. Blue ticks can differentiate the actual accounts of celebrities from the many fan-made and fake accounts made in their name. Rajamouli, Rana retain their blue ticks The other Naatu Naatu star, Jr NTR, or Tarak, the director of RRR, SS Rajamouli – with over six million followers each – still have their blue ticks indicating that they might have paid Musk’s fee. The star of Bahubali, Rana Daggubati, has a blue tick, and Prabhas is not on Twitter. The others who did not bother are — KGF fame Yash and Pusha actor Allu Arjun have also lost their blue ticks along with South heavyweight Rajnikanth. Even superstar Chiranjeevi, Charan's father and Arjun's uncle, who joined Twitter during the pandemic, lost his blue tick status. So did his Tamil counterpart Kamal Hassan who came back with a bang to silver screens with the recent superhit Vikram late last year. South heroines like Samantha Ruth Prabhu, with over 10 million followers, and Nayantara, with over 20,000 followers too lost their blue ticks. Many top cricketers like M S Dhoni and Rohit Sharma also did not bother to pay the price to retain their ticks, and neither did Twitteractive pulp fiction writer, Chetan Bhagat. There are only three exceptions Many international celebrities lost their blue ticks, including the Pope, celebrity TV host Oprah Winfrey, and singer Beyonce. Rihanna and Taylor Swift still have blue ticks, but their payment status is not verified. actress Halle Berry, however, tweeted, "Me joining you all tomorrow unverified," indicating she will not pay for the Blue badge. Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, also lost his blue tick. But looks like even Musk defers to the celebrity might of a few titans, including the King of Horror, Stephen King. Incidentally, King has been criticizing the verification payment and insisted that “It’s a matter of principle.” The other two celebrities that Musk is personally paying for are Captain Kirk of Star Trek, William Statner and basketball legend, LeBron James. (With inputs from IANS, Neha Das and Ananya Tawakley) SEE ALSO <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/ashneer-grover-wades-into-controversy-around-10-minute-delivery/articleshow/99578962.cms">The Big Fight: Ashneer Grover wades into controversy around 10-minute delivery</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/not-the-time-for-job-hopping-most-indians-plan-to-stay-put-this-year-indeed/articleshow/99556646.cms">Not the time for job hopping, most Indians plan to stay put this year: Indeed</a>

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<ul><li>The Supreme Court today delivered a verdict on the decades-long Ayodhya dispute — Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid. </li><li>The apex court, in a unanimous judgement, gave the land to a government trust which will aid the construction of a <keyword id="42499" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ram-Mandir">Ram Mandir</keyword>. The Waqf board was allotted five acres of land at a prominent place in Ayodhya. </li><li><keyword id="46425" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Anand-Mahindra">Anand Mahindra</keyword>, chairman of Mahindra Group took to twitter to applaud the ‘process of justice.’ </li><li>Former CFO of Infosys, Mohandas Pai welcomed the historic judgement calling it a ‘justice to India, Indians, our constitution and Hindus’. </li></ul>The Supreme Court today delivered a verdict on the historic dispute on Ram Mandir, <keyword id="43572" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Babri-Masjid">Babri Masjid</keyword> and Ayodhya. The apex court, in a unanimous judgement, allotted the land to a government trust which will oversee the construction of a Ram mandir on the disputed land. The Waqf board was allotted five acres of land at a prominent place in Ayodhya. Within the next three months, the centre will appoint board of trustees and the 2.77-acre complex will be handed over to the trust. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the <keyword id="399476" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ayodhya-verdict">Ayodhya verdict</keyword> said that the verdict will reaffirm the independence, transparency and far-sightedness of the judiciary. Political and corporate leaders alike welcomed the decision. Anand Mahindra, Chairman, Mahindra Group took to Twitter to applaud the ‘process of justice’. “What extraordinary courage it required to be on this bench &amp; what incredible application of mind it must have taken to reach a conclusion,” he tweeted. <div type="twitter" handle="anandmahindra" handlename="anand mahindra" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1053583782584807425/-7IRmY5u_normal.jpg" favoritecount="15679" retweetcount="2352" status="5 men. A decision that 1.3bn people were awaiting. What extraordinary courage it required to be on this bench &amp; wha… https://t.co/hzNJ4npKZu" createdat="1573282376000" id="1193058875370426368"></div>

 Former director of Infosys Mohandas Pai welcomed the historic judgement calling it a “justice to India, Indians, our constitution and Hindus. The sword in the heart of Indian civilization has been removed!” <div type="twitter" handle="TVMohandasPai" handlename="Mohandas Pai" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/563397282020618240/BsxVmVtk_normal.jpeg" favoritecount="4123" retweetcount="1002" status="SC has done justice to India,Indians, our constitution and Hindus:The sword in heart of Indian civilization has bee… https://t.co/22MM94x8F2" createdat="1573278751000" id="1193043671970504704"></div>

 Indian author Chetan Bhagat thanked the Supreme Court and the Hindu-Muslim communities for their patience. “Thank you SC. Thank you to the entire Muslim community for your grace and generosity. Thank you to the Hindu community for their patience. India remains intact, as does the birthplace of Ram. Jai Shri Ram,” he tweeted. <div type="twitter" handle="chetan_bhagat" handlename="Chetan Bhagat" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1029242665705992192/nQqnqCUG_normal.jpg" favoritecount="11611" retweetcount="1164" status="Thank you SC. Thank you to the entire Muslim community for your grace and generosity. Thank you to the Hindu commun… https://t.co/duH54UT3uj" createdat="1573282050000" id="1193057507352072193"></div>
 Photographer and producer Atul Kasbekar’s reaction was rhetoric. “I hope that as the very famous AK once famously said, ‘All izz well’” he said. <div type="twitter" handle="atulkasbekar" handlename="atul kasbekar" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1157383172436430849/pE8z0HR3_normal.jpg" favoritecount="148" retweetcount="6" status="Chalo it’s done Move along now everyone And for my country’s sake, I hope that as the very famous AK once famousl… https://t.co/pqTcYvfp1O" createdat="1573279757000" id="1193047890605879297"></div>

All the celebrities who have welcomed the Supreme Court verdict on Ayodhya dispute

Rational or irrational, from now on Gurgaon will be known as Gurugram. Yes, the Millennium City which houses some 250 Fortune 500 companies got its name out of epic roots. 
 
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar-led government said he was keeping his promise made during elections and changed the name to Gurugram as Guru Dronacharya, the guru of the Pandavas in the Mahabharata, had his ashram here. 
 
The news came as a rude shock to people of the Millennium City, especially those who were sitting at Cyberhub and sipping pinacoladas, who also suddenly realised they were in Gurugram now. 
 
People of ‘Gurugram’ were not even recovering from the news when Twitter took potshots at the government and the name 
 
 
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		That Awkward Moment When You Wake Up In <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gurgaon?src=hash">#Gurgaon</a> &amp; Going To Sleep In <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gurugram?src=hash">#Gurugram</a>.
	— Sir Ravindra Jadeja (@SirJadeja) <a href="https://twitter.com/SirJadeja/status/719972405448437760">April 12, 2016</a></blockquote>
 
 
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		What do IT guys who lived in Gurgaon call themselves? Programmer, Gurugrammer. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gurugram?src=hash">#Gurugram</a>
	— Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) <a href="https://twitter.com/chetan_bhagat/status/719922236560318465">April 12, 2016</a></blockquote>
 
 
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		Us-- Noida people at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gurugram?src=hash">#Gurugram</a> announcement. <a href="https://t.co/EUP8XEjEYM">pic.twitter.com/EUP8XEjEYM</a>
	— Tavleen Singh Aroor (@Tavysingh) <a href="https://twitter.com/Tavysingh/status/719891280793350144">April 12, 2016</a></blockquote>
 
 
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		gurgaon is <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GuruGram?src=hash">#GuruGram</a> 
		Kolakata will be Kilogram 
		Mumbai will be Milligram 
		Chennai will be Centigram.....
	— Tolerant Batman (@shantnoOo) <a href="https://twitter.com/shantnoOo/status/719890385825329152">April 12, 2016</a></blockquote>
 
 
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		Plan to make a quick trip to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gurugram?src=hash">#Gurugram</a>. I shall call it Instagram.
	— Ramesh Srivats (@rameshsrivats) <a href="https://twitter.com/rameshsrivats/status/719889207334817792">April 12, 2016</a></blockquote>
 
 
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		<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gurugram?src=hash">#Gurugram</a> more like baba ramdev's instagram
	— Aarushi (@the_weirdo__) <a href="https://twitter.com/the_weirdo__/status/719886988229287937">April 12, 2016</a></blockquote>
 
 
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		Pic 1: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gurgaon?src=hash">#Gurgaon</a> 
		Pic 2: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gurugram?src=hash">#Gurugram</a> 
		 
		. <a href="https://t.co/ZKOKZPz0eP">pic.twitter.com/ZKOKZPz0eP</a>
	— PhD in Bakchodi !! (@Atheist_Krishna) <a href="https://twitter.com/Atheist_Krishna/status/719884625716187136">April 12, 2016</a></blockquote>
 
 
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		"Gurugram" is how Sidhu orders cocaine
	— Rohan (@mojorojo) <a href="https://twitter.com/mojorojo/status/719886515812179971">April 12, 2016</a></blockquote>
 
 
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		Gurgaon is now <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gurugram?src=hash">#Gurugram</a>. 
		The city is now confident of winning next year's Graami awards.
	— Ramesh Srivats (@rameshsrivats) <a href="https://twitter.com/rameshsrivats/status/719884737217597440">April 12, 2016</a></blockquote>
 
 
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		<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gurgaon?src=hash">#Gurgaon</a> Renamed 
		In this age of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Instagram?src=hash">#Instagram</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gurugram?src=hash">#Gurugram</a> reminds me of something that's extinct <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Telegram?src=hash">#Telegram</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Facepalm?src=hash">#Facepalm</a> Can't decide which is worse
	— Dibang (@dibang) <a href="https://twitter.com/dibang/status/719889854092439552">April 12, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Good morning Gurugrammers; Twitter is rubbing salt into the wounds as Gurgaon will now be known as Gurugram

When sixteen year old <keyword id="2995608" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Saloni-Patil">Saloni Patil</keyword> ( in picture above) moved to <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Civic-Panel-Approves-Pune-Light-Rail-Project-Despite-Protest/articleshow/37172407.cms">Pune</a> for college, she’d already decided to start earning in order to support her family. But, she soon found out that it was easier said than done. 
 
Armed with nothing but determination, Patil visited school after school with hopes of landing up a teaching job. But, principals of every school seemed to have just one message for her- ‘No degree, no paid job.’ 
 
At the brink of giving up her search, she stumbled upon the students in Pune’s Blind School for Girls. What struck her what their eagerness to learn despite their obvious barriers. 
 
“I initially didn’t want to do it. But, I changed my mind looking at those girls and their need for education. That’s how I started volunteering here three years back,” recalled Patil. 
 
Since then, she has taught two batches of students appearing for HSC and SSC, and one batch of B.A students. The 30-odd students under her mostly needed help with English, though she taught them Maths, Economics, History as well. 
 
Apart from volunteering at the Blind School, Patil, a Mechanical Engineering student, writes for a few local publishers, keeps researching about the dots on the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Amazing-Blind-And-Deaf-Chinese-Girl-Can-Read-Braille-With-Her-Lips/articleshow/21965324.cms">braille</a> kit to improvise on the techniques, paints avidly, and last but not the least, converts English titles to Braille so that her students can also read them. 
 
“I’ve translated all of Chetan Bhagat’s titles to braille. Right now, I’m working on translating APJ Abdul Kalam’s Wings of Fire,” says an excited Patil. 
 
Determined to share another passion of hers with the girls, Patil started teaching them how to paint, as well. The process turned out to be quite ardous as she soon found out. 
 
 
 
“I start by sketching the outline of the portrait. Once that is done, I study the dots on the braille kit and try matching them in such a way that it resembles the actual portrait. Then, I jot down the patterns of the dots and their numbers and give it to the girls to memorize and practice. Once they have memorized the patterns and numbers and get as close to the portrait as possible, I make them use glue and help them in pinning those dots,” explains Patil elaborating on the steps followed to execute a painting. 
 
She added that there is another pair of girls who are entrusted with the duty of putting sparkles on the empty spaces of the portrait. “They also need to memorize which spots would be empty in the portrait in order to sparkle efficiently,” 
 
Then, Patil steps in once again to give the portrait a final polish by doing the remaining bits. 
 
A number of paintings later, Patil and her students started gaining exposure when she decided to exhibit their work in college exhibitions and some local art exhibits, after being egged on by her family. 
 
Later, she sought the help of a few relatives and friends settled abroad who helped her advertise these paintings in America and Australia. Soon enough, the cash registers started ringing. “Painters abroad started contacting me online requesting for a copy of these <keyword id="2995609" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="braille-paintings">braille paintings</keyword> so that they could exhibit them in their studio. This way, the paintings started fetching us USDs and AUDs,” explains a triumphant Patil. 
 
 
 
When asked about the decision involved behind the subjects of these paintings, she was quick to add that they make paintings of things and people making news. “During elections, we would paint symbols like the lotus, broom or some cartoon figures to depict a political incident in a funny way. Then, after the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/AIB-You-Have-A-Right-To-Offend-But/articleshow/46144426.cms">AIB roast</a> made national news and everyone kept talking about it, we started sketching the <keyword id="1875393" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="AIB">AIB</keyword> group members in Braille.” 
 
That was the jackpot, admits Patil. “Painting the faces of the AIB members gave us popularity and money. Orders for the same increased at a rapid rate in the last two months and what more? Tanmay Bhatt’s Braille painting helped us raise Rs. 1, 52,000” 
 
 
 
The money raised from these exhibitions is used for the daily needs of these children, some of whom have no family other than Saloni Patil, who bears their expenses. 
 
“There’s no going back now. These girls are my students and I intend to do everything to ensure they are taken care of, financially and educationally,” concludes Patil. 
 
Sky is definitely the limit for this young girl! 
 
Image courtesy: Saloni Patil

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