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Entire Amritsar can feed on langar, my sense of hunger comes from New York: Watch how casual racism of BBC was exposed by chef Vikas Khanna
In an interview with the BBC, Michelin star chef Vikas Khanna sharply corrected the anchor who conjectured that the chef’s generosity of feeding homeless and destitute in India amidst coronavirus lockdown was triggered by his own sense of hunger while he grew up in India.
“Therefore my sense of hunger came from New York when I was living in Grand Central and sleeping around. It came from the United States, not from India,” Khanna emphatically added.
chef Vikas Khanna
“You have been famous now. You have cooked for Obamas, you have been on Gordon Ramsay’s show. But, you were not always like this. You are not from a rich family so I dare say you understand how precarious it can be in India,” the BBC anchor said imperiously.
However, Khanna, with his cool demeanour, tersely dispelled the unfounded notions held by the BBC anchor.“My sense of hunger did not come from India so much because I was raised in
Amritsar and we have a huge community kitchen where everyone gets fed. The entire city can be fed from the community kitchen,” Khanna said while referring to the pervasive langars in the city that provide food to people.
Vikas Khanna's reply to BBC anchor wins the internet
He further added that his sense of hunger came from the sprawling American city of New York during his struggling days. “My sense of hunger came from New York, when I was struggling and really at the bottom. It was difficult for a brown kid to rise through, someone who had a dream of winning the Michelin star,” he said.
Vikas
Khanna helps migrant labourers and poor with cooked meals
The
stark images of migrant labourers trudging on their foot empty stomach to their
native places across the breadth of India moved the celebrity chef into launching an initiative for those who had been adversely
affected by the coronavirus induced lockdown in the country.
Khanna
wanted to express his solidarity with those who were going hungry during the
lockdown in the wake of coronavirus pandemic. So he put out an appeal on social
media for those who were in the need of food during the pandemic and within no
time, he received a flurry of responses on social media requesting food for the
needy.
As of June 3, Khanna had supported the distribution of sanitary napkins in
Diamond Harbour, West Bengal and bankrolled 57 food stations within petrol
pumps in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to offer cooked meals to migrant workers
hoofing it towards their respective villages. Till June 3, he had approximately
distributed
DERC must extend the time for submitting Suggestions/ objections on Tariff Petitions of DISCOMs
Secy. DERC,
Dear Sir,
In such adverse circumstances, while the entire city is in the grip of a deadly virus, while Delhi is still under an unofficial #LockDown, while the city has got the highest number of positive cases, while there are no visible signs of its earliest recovery, while the red zones have increased significantly, while there are over 2000 deaths in a month due to #coronavirus, how DERC is asking the residents to submit the objections/ suggestions on the Tariff petitions/ ARR, of DISCOMs, by 30th June 2020?
We hereby request you to please EXTEND the date, until the situation becomes normal.
Thanks
B S Vohra
President,
East Delhi RWAs Joint Front - Federation
www.RWABhagidari.com
RWAs - Please online submit the MPD 2041 filled form using any of the links below
Dear Vohra Sir,
I hope you are doing well and keeping safe during these unprecedented times.
The MPD team at NIUA in collaboration with DDA is currently in the process of preparing the Vision for Delhi 2041. In order to arrive at a collective vision for Delhi, we are in the process of engaging with varied stakeholder agencies and citizen groups. RWA's are key beneficiaries in the future development of Delhi. It is pivotal for MPD 2041 to document the priorities/ visions of the RWA's.
We thus invite you to submit your vision statements for Delhi-2041. Please find links below to Visioning Slips (both English and Hindi) via google forms.
Link to English Visioning Slip:
Link to Hindi Visioning Slip:
This will take approximately only 7-8 minutes of your time.
We look forward to your active participation and hope to receive a lot of ideas. Requesting you to share these links widely among your RWA networks.
Thank You
Warm Regards
Benjamin Mathews John
Research Associate – Master Plan Delhi 2041
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Please SAVE our DELHI from #COVID19 #coronavirus
CM Saab,
Do you want us to just sit idle and keep on waiting for the disaster? The new positive cases have already risen from the mere 300 - 400 per day to almost 4000 per day, in a month. Almost 2000 persons have already died, in the last 30 days, in this city.
Shockingly, the worst is yet to come. You yourself had mentioned that by July End, we will have almost 5.50 Lakh or more fresh cases. Does it mean, scores of persons will die in Delhi, in the absence of suitable health facilities, by the July End or Mid August?
All the Beds & Ventilators that you have added so far, include a majority at the Private hospitals, for which one has to pay huge sums, while the SARKARI facilities are just negligible. The overall health facilities are absolutely inadequate in the National Capital.
We don't have even the adequate quarantine facilities in our city, forcing a huge influx of positive cases to remain at their homes.
In such circumstances, we hereby request you with FOLDED HANDS, to please SAVE our DELHI from #COVID19, before it's too late. We don't want it to become the yet another #Wuhan, #Lombardy, or #NewYork, with dead bodies & foul smell all over, in any case.
Say a Big No to the #HerdImmunity as even our lives are precious. Please go for an immediate #LOCKDOWN, else be prepared to add more & more cremation grounds, to serve the masses.
Really worried!
Thanks & with best regards,
B S Vohra
President,
East Delhi RWAs Joint Front - Federation
rwabhagidari@yahoo.in
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Mumbai Police’s latest social distancing advisory post :What to say to your ‘party-animal’ friends who ask you to ‘get together?’ Mumbai Police answers
Who would
have thought that a line from the song Ek Main Aur Ek Tu from 1975
romance-thriller Khel Khel Mein could be used so creatively to send across an
important message on social distancing. However, Mumbai Police just did that.
Taking to Instagram, the department shared such a post which is not just
creative but is also winning people over.
In the post’s caption, they shared what
one should say when their ‘Party-Animal’ friends ask them to ‘get-together’.
The department used the line from the
song to reply to the question. The line says, “Dooriyan waqt ane par mitayenge
[we will be closer when the time is right].”
“Nailed it,” wrote an Instagram user.
“Mumbai Police got no chill,” expressed another along with a heart emoji. “You
guys are killing it,” wrote a third.
“This is epic,” wrote a fourth and we do
agree.
Two Bihar cops are stationed outside Navjot Singh Sidhu's Amritsar home for 4 days : WHY ?
Two cops from Bihar have been sitting outside Congress MLA Navjot Singh Sidhu's residence in Punjab's Amritsar since June 18. For four days, they have been waiting for the former Punjab minister to sign a piece of paper so they can go back to their home state.
The wait does not seem to end.
Two Bihar cops outside Sidhu's' resident in Amritsar
On Monday, when the two Bihar Policemen - one decked in full
uniform and the other in plain clothes - were asked about the purpose of their
stay, they said they have to get his signature on a bail bond paper in a case
that was registered against him for his remarks at a poll rally in Katihar in
2019.
The cricketer-turned-politician is, however, not ready to meet
the police personnel.
"We have been sitting
outside MLA Navjot Singh Sidhu`s residence since June 18 to get his signature
on a bail bond paper in a case that was registered against him for his remarks
at a poll rally in Katihar in 2019. He is not ready to meet us," said
Bihar Police Sub-Inspector Janardan Ram in Amritsar.
Congress MLA Navjot Singh Sidhu was booked for violation of the
code of conduct for making objectionable remarks against a community while
addressing an election meeting in Katihar district of Bihar in the 2019 Lok Sabha
elections.
Since June 18, two
sub-inspectors of Bihar Police are coming to Navjot Singh Sidhu's residence to
involve him in the investigation, in that case, waiting 4-5 hours daily outside
his house. Bihar Police Sub Inspector Janardhan says that if there was a common
man, he would have come to the police station himself but Navjot Sidhu is a
former minister, so they themselves have come but Sidhu is not meeting them
despite being in the house.
"Though everyday people
are coming to meet him and Sidhu is also meeting people, but he is not signing
on our papers," said Janardhan.
The cop said he has
apprised his higher officials about the situation and he will remain stationed
till further orders.
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