Hum Fit Toh India Fit

Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Minister of State for Sports and Youth Affairs has started a Twitter campaign with the hashtag #HumFitTohIndiaFit , urging the citizens of the country to take up fitness goals. Thousands of people, including prominent personalities from all the walks of life including PM Narendra Modi, Anand Mahindra, Virat Kohli, Saina Nehwal, Amitabh Bacchan and many many more have responded enthusiastically, posting videos of their exercise routines.

For all of us who pick up the exercise ball and drop it multiple times out of sheer laziness, such a campaign is a much-needed kickstart to get in shape before it's too late. We don't need to be Olympic-fit, we don't have to set records in push-ups and crunches and dips and weights, we don't have to post pics and videos of we sweating it out to the world. But we owe it to ourselves.

Let's do this. #FitnessChallenge

The Dark

The alien spacecraft orbited the Solar system for decades, with no sign of any activity. Scientists across the Earth tried to study it via various means, while the politicians grew restless with anxiety. At the long last, they decided to destroy it as a precaution.
Gary Singh of India launched aboard a US SpaceX rocket, from the Xinghou spaceport in China. After parking the spacecraft at a safe distance, he launched his missiles armed with thermonuclear bombs and braced for their impact.

And that was when he was startled.
When the missiles hit the alien spacecraft, instead of a giant explosion, there was a hole, darker than the space around it.
And the blast wave, instead of rippling away, seemed to pull Gary towards the epicenter.
"Houston," Gary called the mission control center, "We have a problem. "
"Roger- go a-ahea-dd Ga-a-ry-y..." Words from the mission control seemed to be stretched out and distorted. As he quickly explained what he saw, Gary saw the dark emptiness engulfing his spaceship.
And that was when he realized.
"My God... By smashing nuclear bombs, we converted the alien spacecraft into a rapidly expanding black hol-

And that was when I woke up last night, perspiring, only to find that the darkness engulfing me due to bedsheet that had somehow crept up over my eyes.

Nagpur to Mars

When ISRO plans its first human mission to Mars, they ought to pick a Nagpurkar. Here's why:
1. Nagpur folks are used to living in hot and arid weather. 47 degrees in the shade? No problem.
2. They can live happily on the diet of tarri poha for years. Less storage needed for food.
3. Most Nagpuri folks live outside Nagpur, so they are quite used to living away from their families for extended periods of time.
4. Nagpur doesn't have an IPL team or a Kabaddi team or even a kho-kho team. So, no distractions from work.
5. Nagpurkars are excellent at infrastructure development, especially transport modes. ?? This would be crucial skill for first settlers.
6. And, Mars night be pretty cool at -55 degrees, unlike Nagpur which barely goes below 30 degrees. So chances are, the astronaut would actually prefer staying on Mars without any complaints.