1. Rahul Catches Modi Off Guard With a Hug at End of Lok Sabha Speech
Too bad Members of Parliament don’t do mic drops at the end of their speeches. Rahul Gandhi, however, improvised and decided to walk up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and give him a hug.
In a rush of adrenaline after his fiery rhetorical speech against the BJP-led central government, the Congress president on Friday, 20 July said: “PM Modi, BJP and RSS have taught me what it means to be a Congress person, the meaning of being a real Indian, and what it means to be a real Hindu. For this, I thank them.”
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2. Breaking Views: Rahul Has Stolen From Modi’s ‘Hugplomacy’ Playbook
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi ended his no-confidence speech against the Narendra Modi-led central government in Lok Sabha to a round of applause on 20 July.
Referring to Gandhi’s "hugplomacy" move, The Quint’s editorial director Sanjay Pugalia said that Gandhi had “stolen a play from Modi’s communication book of theatrics”.
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3. Fighting Fake News: WhatsApp to Cap Forwards to 5 Chats in India
After a series of social media rumours triggering mob violence and lynchings in the country, WhatsApp, in India, has decided to put a cap on the number of chats one can forward a message to in one go. Users will be allowed to forward messages to only five chats at once.
In a blog post, WhatsApp noted that its users in India "forward more messages, photos, and videos, than any other country in the world". The Facebook-owned company has over one billion users globally, of which over 200 million are in India.
WhatsApp said it was launching “a test to limit forwarding that will apply to everyone using WhatsApp.” Further, the company said it will also remove the quick forward button next to the media messages for users in India.
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4. Review: Dhadak Fails to Rise up to Might of Sairat
There is something irresistible about the first flush of young love. There is an innocence and a youthful rebelliousness that make you take on the whole world for the sake of that one special person. Nagraj Manjule brilliantly married this heady feeling with staggering cast and class realities of our times in the Marathi superhit film Sairat.
With Dhadak as its official remake, the comparisons are going to be inevitable and so, it must be stated – if you have seen and obviously loved Sairat, Dhadak will not even come close to the emotionally compelling narrative and the gut-wrenching climax of the original.
It simply isn’t on the same wavelength as Sairat, and probably wasn’t even intended to be.
Read full review here.
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