SPIRIT OF MUMBAI

Roposo is India’s leading video-sharing social networking platforms, proudly made in India and owned by Glance. Available in English and 10 Indian regional languages, the app enables users to express themselves and connect with others using short-form video content. Roposo’s powerful video creation and editing tools allow users to share their life, showcase their hidden talents and voice their opinion on relevant issues in their native language. The platform has more than 50 million users and serves more than 5 billion video views a month. For more information visit   www.roposo.com . ‘If Pappu can’t dance, don’t make him’ says  Mayank Bhangadia ( Co-founder of Roposo and VP at Glance) When the internet spread to developing nations, it was like a text avatar of TV. Few big entities controlled what was on it. We, the people, just consumed. Then the first-generation 'bloggers' started to change this. Internet could now be used to express ones...

Like every year, the entrepreneurs excelling in their business were felicitated by the J agatik Marathi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JMCI) on the occasion of its silver jubilee this year. The glittering award function was held at Swantatraveer Savarkar Hall located at Veer Savarkar Marg, Shivaji Park at Dadar West in Central Mumbai. Former Lok Sabha Speaker and President of the JMCI Manohar Joshi, JMCI Working President and MP Shivajirao Adhalrao Patil, MP Rahul Shevale, former Mayor Shriddha Jadhav, BMC’s Works Committee  chairperson Priti Patankar,  noted actor/director/producer Mahesh Kothare, JMCI office bearers Prakash Chikhalikar, Pravin Shetye, Sudhir Samant, Ravindra Awati, Tushar Deshmukh, Parshuram Patil, Manohar Salvi, Dr Santosh Kamerkar, Suresh Mahajan and Prasanna Rege were present. On the occasion of JMCI’s silver jubilee the “Udyog Ratna Awards” were given at the hands of JMCI President Manohar Joshi and JMCI working President and MP Shivajir...

                                                                                          Mumbai is eternally blessed by Goddess Mumbadevi , that's how the Mumbai city got it's Motherly nature. Mumbai embraces all whether poor or rich. Mumbai celebrates all festivals irrespective of  religions , castes , languages & nationalities. Mumbai is an Island. Naturally we face many calamities due to it's geographical condition & situation and still we are one of the top most progressive , prosperous , happy citizens, envied by many. We have learned in Economics that root cause of majority of India's problems is over-Population. May it be Poverty , Unemployment, slums , scarcity of food , Pollution , deteriorating Infrastructure , corruption , disea...

               My favorite author is Jaywant Dalvi. He was one of the most handsome Marathi-author. He used to work in USIS, that might be the reason , he was always well groomed , Gillette -shaven. His short stories compilation ' Kashasathi ...Potasathi ' is a caricaturist comedy-par excellence. In one of the stories, a bearded, pseudo-social worker makes a dramatic entry into the native village of author. What follows next is best to be read in Mr. Dalvi's own tongue-in-cheek humored words.               The story starts with the arrival of a White-washed i.e. White-clothed , White-bearded, middle-aged, pseudo social worker Sokaji in a sleepy village of Maharashtra ( Konkan coast ).    He blows his own trumpet "I am Akhand Brahmachari ( celibate ), all ladies are like mothers to me."  Maharashtra is well known for social activism, social movements , social empower...