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Scam by telecom providers on the pretext of aadhar linking of mobile numbers

My family is a >5 years customer of Vodafone India. Infact, my inlaws too use Vodafone connection. initially my wife and my in-laws went. My father-in law is old and both of them are not into so much technicalities. So the vodafone store customer support representative convinced them to get Aadhar link you need to get post paid connection other wise it will not work and converted all of them into plan 149 per month rental postpaid customer. They told my wife and in-laws that they can easily convert it after 3 months as per rule to prepaid connection. Now they have turned away my wife stating that they dont have a "back end staff" to "verify". They wee supposed to provide a conversion form (every company has their own respective conversion form) . I will update this post once I get further update on the same. Please people be informed:- 1) to link your Aadhar you dont need to change your scheme 2) If you have been fooled like us, please use discretion and

A Bengalee's review of Hindi movie Toilet Ek Prem katha

The film is a realistic view of 2 India's that exist inside India. One, "Bharat" and the other one is "India". We see  a very realistic description of "Bharat" which is still rooted in backwardness, misinterpretation of religious tenets by senior members of the society and  even by senior family members (like parents). It also shows what difficulty Indian women has to face and the physical abuse risks they are exposed by the mere fact of going out for relieving themselves in the open. The most important fact is the film is based on true life event of real people,whose original pictures were shared at the end of the film. I hope people who has seen the film has not turned off their TV the moment the film ended. It still shocks me how can people think that a lady (Anushka Sharma), who is also  client, of Shakrukh Khan ( tour guide) in "Jab Harry Met Sejal" behave in the way she has been shown to behave in the film. The shocking thing is