Beijing: China is intent on erasing the memories of the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 and has banned public commemorations on the 33rd anniversary of the country's most dubious instance of State oppression. The draconian National Security Law will be used to crack down on anyone showing public dissent or remonstration or organising memorial functions on the occasion.With all dissent smothered on mainland China, the communist government is focusing its energies on the autonomous region of Hong Kong where it is worried pro-democracy sentiments may surface while remembering the thousands of people who were gunned down by Chinese soldiers following explicit orders of the communist government to disperse a large crowd of students and activists who had gathered at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. For the first time, even the Catholic church has decided not to provoke the communist police. The Hong Kong Catholic Social Communications Office, the communications department of the Diocese of Hong Kong has announced that there will be no memorial Mass on the massacre's anniversary.For the last one week, the media covering Hong Kong is unanimous in thinking that they "will see more state-sponsored Chinese oppression against any event to remember the Tiananmen Square event, which exposes Beijing's authoritarian and repressive style of governance". The government has in the last two years systematically progressed towards cessation of all dissent on the anniversary date of June 4. In 2020 it brought in the draconian security law. Then it said protests are anti-national and would attract the provisions of the security law.In December 2021, it went a step ahead and removed the 'pillar of shame,' an iconic memorial dedicated to the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989. The memorial designed by Danish sculptor Jens Galschiot "symbolised the ruthless killings committed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) in June 1989 when thousands of students gathered in central Beijing demanding political reforms and democracy". The same month, "the Chinese University of Hong Kong tore down the Goddess of Democracy statue, a replica of the one created by protesters in Beijing during the Tiananmen protests". A museum set up in Hong Kong in memory of the Tiananmen victims was forcibly closed down.And this year, it has ordered that all dissent shall remain buried. The only opposition to the communist decree is from Taiwan where, according to media reports, "a scaled-down replica of the 'Pillar of Shame' statue honouring the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre will be unveiled at a commemorative vigil in Taipei, Taiwan on June 4 evening". In effect, nowhere in China will the massacre be allowed to be remembered on its anniversary this year. Taiwan will be the only exception as it stands up to the anti-democratic orders of the Chinese government.Over three decades since the mass killing, the day haunts the Communist Party of China. Soldiers of the PLA army ruthlessly killed the Tiananmen Square protesters through a "bloody crackdown after CCP imposed 'martial law' in June 1989 to forcefully end the months-long protest". At least "10,000 civilians, mostly students," were killed by the PLA. The incident led to internal condemnation of China and till today, the country's claims about respecting human rights is always suspect. The country was virtually isolated by the global community. It shook the communist leadership so much that the then top leader, Deng Xiaoping, used the occasion to purge several party leaders for creating the "chaos". They were the scapegoats. Deng also used the occasion to tighten the CCP's grip over the country.The CCP tried to protect the Tiananmen protests as the result of provocative actions by "counter-revolutionaries". However, everybody saw through the fake propaganda.Since then, the government has hyped the propaganda in the run-up to every anniversary of the killings. Obviously, the propaganda failed to work and that is probably why the government has in 2022 decided to ban all ceremonies. The government asked the Hong Kong police to issue warnings to residents to desist from organising any memorial functions. It also warned that "sharing social posts" describing their mood on the occasion of the anniversary could be grounds for "incitement". The police also forced the disbanding of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements, the original organiser of the Victoria Park vigil. The police started probing whether the Alliance was an "agent of foreign forces", forcing it to disintegrate.This year's "June 4" - that is what the Tiananmen Square Vigil is known in Hong Kong - will be the first occasion when Hong Kong will fall silent, without any protests or commemoration. That will be the beginning of a new chapter of CCP aggression against the island which, in 1989, played a crucial role in organising the escape for the Tiananmen activists who survived the 1989 massacre.—IANS

China is intent on erasing the memories of the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 and has banned public commemorations on the 33rd anniversary of the country's most dubious instance of State oppression. The draconian National Security Law will be used to crack down on anyone showing public dissent or remonstration or organising memorial functions on the occasion.

China erasing Tiananmen memories fearing resurrection

Washington: According to researchers at Queen Mary University of London, along with an international team of scientists, bumblebees don't seem to keep memories of how sweet a flower was, but instead only remember if it was sweeter than another flower.
In new research published in the journal eLife, bumblebees were first trained on two flowers, learning that one flower was sweeter than a second flower. Later, they learned that a third flower was sweeter than a fourth flower. Then bumblebees were given the choice between two of the flowers they hadn't seen together before, for example, the second and third or the first and third.
Over a series of experiments, bumblebees' preferences during the tests indicated that they could only retain very basic ranking memories for the flowers for very long. The bumblebees could only remember that a flower had been better or worse during the training phase. Bees couldn't seem to remember for more than a few minutes how sweet or rewarding the flowers were on their own or even how much sweeter they were compared to other flowers.
Previous research shows that we humans actually keep memories for both absolute information (e.g. how sweet something is) and comparisons [Palminteri and Lebreton, 2021]. Starlings, a bird native to Europe, and the only other animal for which this question has been examined, similarly use a combination of absolute and comparative information when remembering options [Pompilio and Kacelnik, 2010].
Ms Yonghe Zhou, the co-lead author of the paper and currently a PhD student at Queen Mary University of London, says: "Our results reveal an intriguing divergent mechanism for how bumblebees retain and use information about options, compared to humans and birds."
Prof Fei Peng, a senior author currently at Southern Medical University, China, states "It may be that the different strategies used by bumblebees and humans may have evolved because of their different diets. Maybe because bumblebees evolved to mostly only eat flower nectar, they never needed to remember the details and could survive and thrive simply using simple comparisons."
Ms Yonghe adds: "Despite what may seem to be a poor memory strategy, bumblebees do very well in finding the most profitable flowers. It's fascinating to consider how different animals, in their own ecological niche, can be similarly successful using such different strategies." —ANI

According to researchers at Queen Mary University of London, along with an international team of scientists, bumblebees don't seem to keep memories of how sweet a flower was, but instead only remember if it was sweeter than another flower.

Research Finds Bumblebees' Memories Are Poor But Useful

Cambridge (Massachusetts): As cells go about their daily business, they activate a number of genes and cellular pathways. MIT engineers have now coaxed cells to record the sequence of events in a long protein chain that can be imaged with a light microscope.
Cells that have been programmed to generate these chains continuously add building blocks that encode specific cellular events. The ordered protein chains can then be labelled with fluorescent molecules and read under a microscope to reconstruct the timing of the events.
According to a study published in the journal 'Nature Biotechnology', this method could help shed light on the steps that underpin processes like memory formation, drug response, and gene expression.
"There are a lot of changes that happen at organ or body scale, over hours to weeks, which cannot be tracked over time," says Edward Boyden, the Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology, a professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, and a member of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.
If the technique could be extended to work over longer time periods, it could also be used to study processes such as aging and disease progression, the researchers say.
Boyden is the senior author of the study. Changyang Linghu, a former J. Douglas Tan Postdoctoral Fellow at the McGovern Institute, who is now an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, is the lead author of the paper.
Biological systems such as organs contain many different kinds of cells, all of which have distinctive functions. One way to study these functions is to image proteins, RNA, or other molecules inside the cells, which provide hints to what the cells are doing. However, most methods for doing this offer only a glimpse of a single moment in time, or don't work well with very large populations of cells.
"Biological systems are often composed of a large number of different types of cells. For example, the human brain has 86 billion cells," Linghu says. "To understand those kinds of biological systems, we need to observe physiological events over time in these large cell populations."
To achieve that, the research team came up with the idea of recording cellular events as a series of protein subunits that are continuously added to a chain. To create their chains, the researchers used engineered protein subunits, not normally found in living cells, that can self-assemble into long filaments.
The researchers designed a genetically encoded system in which one of these subunits is continuously produced inside cells, while the other is generated only when a specific event occurs. Each subunit also contains a very short peptide called an epitope tag -- in this case, the researchers chose tags called HA and V5. Each of these tags can bind to a different fluorescent antibody, making it easy to visualize the tags later on and determine the sequence of the protein subunits.
For this study, the researchers made production of the V5-containing subunit contingent on the activation of a gene called c-fos, which is involved in encoding new memories. HA-tagged subunits make up most of the chain, but whenever the V5 tag shows up in the chain, that means that c-fos was activated during that time.
"We're hoping to use this kind of protein self-assembly to record activity in every single cell," Linghu says. "It's not only a snapshot in time, but also records past history, just like how tree rings can permanently store information over time as the wood grows."
In this study, the researchers first used their system to record activation of c-fos in neurons growing in a lab dish. The c-fos gene was activated by chemically induced activation of the neurons, which caused the V5 subunit to be added to the protein chain.
To explore whether this approach could work in the brains of animals, the researchers programmed brain cells of mice to generate protein chains that would reveal when the animals were exposed to a particular drug. Later, the researchers were able to detect that exposure by preserving the tissue and analyzing it with a light microscope.
The researchers designed their system to be modular, so that different epitope tags can be swapped in, or different types of cellular events can be detected, including, in principle, cell division or activation of enzymes called protein kinases, which help control many cellular pathways.
The researchers also hope to extend the recording period that they can achieve. In this study, they recorded events for several days before imaging the tissue. There is a tradeoff between the amount of time that can be recorded and the time resolution, or frequency of event recording, because the length of the protein chain is limited by the size of the cell.
"The total amount of information it could store is fixed, but we could in principle slow down or increase the speed of the growth of the chain," Linghu says. "If we want to record for a longer time, we could slow down the synthesis so that it will reach the size of the cell within, let's say two weeks. In that way we could record longer, but with less time resolution."
The researchers are also working on engineering the system so that it can record multiple types of events in the same chain, by increasing the number of different subunits that can be incorporated. —ANI

As cells go about their daily business, they activate a number of genes and cellular pathways. MIT engineers have now coaxed cells to record the sequence of events in a long protein chain that can be imaged with a light microscope.

Cells Have 'Memories' Stored In Protein Chains: Study 

Washington: When organisms pass on their genes to future generations, they include more than the DNA code. Some additionally transmit chemical indicators that guide cells on how to use the code. The transmission of these markers to subsequent generations is referred to as epigenetic inheritance. It is very frequent in plants. So, significant findings here may have implications for agriculture, food supplies, and the environment. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professors and HHMI Investigators Rob Martienssen and Leemor Joshua-Tor have been researching how plants pass along the markers that keep transposons inactive. Transposons are also known as jumping genes. When switched on, they can move around and disrupt other genes. To silence them and protect the genome, cells add regulatory marks to specific DNA sites. This process is called methylation. Martienssen and Joshua-Tor have now shown how protein DDM1 makes way for the enzyme that places these marks on new DNA strands. Plant cells need DDM1 because their DNA is tightly packaged. To keep their genomes compact and orderly, cells wrap their DNA around packing proteins called histones. “But that blocks access to the DNA for all sorts of important enzymes,” Martienssen explains. Before methylation can occur, “you have to remove or slide the histones out of the way.” Martienssen and former CSHL colleague Eric Richards first discovered DDM1 30 years ago. Since then, researchers have learned it slides DNA along its packing proteins to expose sites needing methylation. Martienssen likens the movement to a yo-yo gliding along a string. The histones “can move up and down the DNA, exposing parts of the DNA at a time, but never falling off,” he explains. Whrough genetic and biochemical experiments, Martienssen pinpointed the exact histones DDM1 displaces. Joshua-Tor used cryo-electron microscopy to capture detailed images of the enzyme interacting with DNA and associated packing proteins. They were able to see how DDM1 grabs onto particular histones to remodel packaged DNA. “An unexpected bond that ties DDM1 together turned out to correspond to the first mutation found all those years ago,” Joshua-Tor says. The experiments also revealed how DDM1’s affinity for certain histones preserves epigenetic controls across generations. The team showed that a histone found only in pollen is resistant to DDM1 and acts as a placeholder during cell division. “It remembers where the histone was during plant development and retains that memory into the next generation,” Martienssen says. Plants may not be alone here. Humans also depend on DDM1-like proteins to maintain DNA methylation. The new discovery may help explain how those proteins keep our genomes functional and intact. —ANI

When organisms pass on their genes to future generations, they include more than the DNA code

Study Reveals How Plants Pass Down Genetic Memories

New Delhi: By celebrating her 90th birthday with a live performance in Dubai on September 8, Asha Bhosle will be proving yet again that she not only has a tremendous zest for life, but also an ebullience that has enabled her to rule Hindi film music across many genres, from classical to cabaret numbers, sing for generations of composers and audiences, and bring home every award that counts, barring the Bharat Ratna, which she rightfully deserves.&nbsp;
I first met Asha Bhosle after the release of 'Hare Krishna Hare Ram' (1971), where I was assisting Dev Anand, and met her last as recently as in 2019 at a music festival in Jaipur, where she was surrounded by friends and admirers, and yet she mentioned to all those present how long our association has been.&nbsp;
I have had the good fortune of writing the lyrics of two of her ageless hit numbers -- 'Jab Chhaye Mera Jadoo' ('Lootmaar'; 1980) and 'Suniye, Kahiye, Kahate, Sunate Baaton Baaton Mein Pyaar' (with Kishore Kumar in 'Baton Baton Mein'; 1976). Over these years, I have viewed her as a warm and affectionate person, and a thorough professional. And I have never seen her sloppily dressed, even during rehearsals.
She had this magical quality of hearing the words of a song and start singing it. She would of course follow the music composer and yet, wherever necessary, not hesitate to lend her own touch. She brought spontaneity to her singing, but it was the way she grasped her songs that would take us by surprise. In the 1950s and 1960s, songs used to be recorded over multiple takes, but Asha Bhosle, unlike many others, never complained.
Not surprisingly, having spent her opening decade in the film industry being completely overshadowed by the established greats of her time -- notably Shamshad Begum, Noorjehan and Geeta Dutt -- she went on to be sought after by composers spanning generations.
She can look back to working with composers from Hansraj Behl and Sardul Kwatra, to Shankar-Jaikishan, who were behind her first brush with national fame with the 'Boot Polish' (1953) song, 'Nanhe Munne Bachche Teri Mutthi Mein', to O.P. Nayyar, who made her the lead female voice of B.R. Chopra's 'Naya Daur' (1957), to the southern masters Ilaiyaraaja and A.R. Rahman.
What was wonderful about her was that even if she was singing for a young composer, say, an Anu Malik, an Anand-Milind, or a Jatin-Lalit, she would sing with the same passion as she would for a Rajesh Roshan, or a Bappi Lahiri.
In her crowded life, Asha Bhosle suffered a lot personally -- she had to end her abusive marriage with Ganpat Rao Bhosle, with whom she had eloped when she was 16; she was the single mother of three children, two of whom -- music composer Hemant Bhosle and Varsha Bhosle, a singer and journalist who committed suicide -- died when they were young and showed promise; and even her best years with Rahul Dev Burman, whom the world knew as 'Pancham' but she lovingly called 'Bubs', after their marriage in 1980, was terminated by fate because of his death in 1994.
In between, she was romantically linked with O.P. Nayyar, but they parted ways in the 1970s, by when Pancham had become very much a part of her life. Pancham enabled Asha Bhosle to foray into multiple genres of music, with 'Teesri Manzil' being the turning point, which went on to define her career. Interestingly, Pancham's father, the great Sachin Dev Barman, once had a fight with Asha's sister, Lata Mangeshkar, and started giving the younger sibling all the songs that had been assigned for the elder one!
It was Asha Bhosle's joie de vivre that helped not to let the tragedies in her life diminish her. At work, she could come across as quite cut and dried, but at home, she exuded sweetness and warm hospitality. I remember one Diwali, when we were at Pancham's house playing cards (Shakti Samanta and Rajesh Khanna were among those who were at the table), and we had the most memorable prawn curry cooked by Asha Bhosle.
On another occasion, it was Saraswati Puja, and in the Bengali tradition, she insisted on serving us 'khichuri' and 'baigan bhaja'. It was this hospitality and good food that she was able to introduce in Dubai, which she would visit frequently, when she launched her restaurant Asha. She did not join the venture as just another investor, but she was very much a part of the menu planning and food trials.
Talking about her hospitality, I remember the time I had to pick up Javed Akhtar from the airport. Asha Bhosle was also returning to Mumbai by the same flight, but her driver did not show up. So, I gave her a ride to her house and when we reached there, she wouldn't leave us without serving us tea.
The only time I saw her being slightly socially awkward was when I went for lunch with a producer friend of mine and Rekha -- the two were in a relationship then -- to the Juhu Hotel, which is still around in Mumbai.
As we were having lunch, Asha Bhosle, dressed uncharacteristically in bell bottoms and a top, walked in with Pancham, but seeing us, she did not exude her usual warmth.
The two sat at a corner table and quietly left in a short while. Maybe, she did not want industry people like us to start talking about them at a time when Pancham was still married and in the process of getting a divorce.
As Asha Bhosle prepares for her 90th birthday concert, which may be another world record in a career studded with many, one can wonder how many artistes would be able to pull off a live show of this magnitude in the eighth decade of their singing career? Having sung more than 20,000 songs in 25-odd languages, without anyone ever complaining about her diction or pronunciation, Asha Bhosle, I am certain, must be unfazed.
(Amit Khanna's association with Hindi cinema goes back to 1970, when he joined Dev Anand's Nav Ketan Films as an executive producer, writer and lyricist. He went on to produce and direct well-received films and became the founder-chairman of Reliance Chairman, apart from leading media initiatives of FICCI and CII.)&nbsp;
—IANS

By celebrating her 90th birthday with a live performance in Dubai on September 8, Asha Bhosle will be proving yet again that she not only has a tremendous zest

Asha Bhosle's career has been defined by her versatility, her personality by her zest for life

New Delhi: As they got ready to say goodbye to the old Parliament building in preparation for moving into the new complex for the following session, ten female MPs displayed a nostalgic exhibition by sharing their memories, messages and experiences of the building in handwritten notes. This was done as they were getting ready to say farewell to the edifice.
The Members of Parliament (MPs) representing the various political parties in India paid sincere respect to the structure that has been at the centre of India's journey towards democracy.
Harsimrat Kaur Badal, a member of Parliament for the Shiromani Akali Dal, wrote a note in which she recalled her travels around the sacred chambers of the previous location of Parliament.—Inputs from Agencies

As they got ready to say goodbye to the old Parliament building in preparation for moving into the new complex for the following session, ten female MPs displayed a nostalgic exhibition by sharing their memories, messages and experiences of the building in handwritten notes.

In handwritten notes, 10 women parliamentarians share memories of old Parliament building

Los Angeles: Actor Kate Winslet says she and her ''Titanic'' co-star Leonardo DiCaprio ''clicked immediately'' when they met on the set of the blockbuster movie.
The Oscar-winning actors played doomed lovers Jack and Rose in James Cameron's romance drama that went on to become one of the most successful movies in 1997. In a behind-the-scenes featurette from the film's upcoming 4K Ultra HD DVD release, Winslet, 48, also reflected on her bond with Dicaprio.
''Once I started working with Leo, we were able to kind of find our own rhythm," she said in a clip shared by Entertainment Tonight. ''And it's amazing to kind of look back and think about it all over again," she said adding that they ''clicked immediately, right away.'' ''He was this kind of mess of long, skinny, uncoordinated limbs, and he was just very free with himself, and he had this effervescent energy that was really magnetic. And I remember thinking, 'Oh, this is gonna be fun. We're definitely gonna get along.' And we just really did. We just really did." Calling DiCaprio, 49, as a ''ferociously intelligent man'', Winslet said he was fascinated with the period.  The actor, who like DiCaprio has gone on to establish a successful Hollywood career, said they still take out time to speak to each other.  ''You know, if you think about it, in the world that we live in now to have friendships that bind you, and that shared history, it's really something," she said.
—PTI

Actor Kate Winslet says she and her ''Titanic'' co-star Leonardo DiCaprio ''clicked immediately'' when they met on the set of the blockbuster movie.

Kate Winslet on friendship with Leonardo DiCaprio: It's really something

New Delhi: Actress Shraddha Musale on Tuesday expressed her grief over the untimely demise of her ‘CID’ co-actor Dinesh Phadnis, and recalled fond memories with him, adding that he was ‘dil ka saaf insaan’.  Dinesh, who played the role of 'Fredericks' in the India's longest running television show 'CID', passed away in Mumbai.  Talking to IANS, Shraddha expressed her condolences, saying, “This was kind of sudden for us. Like we knew he was a little unwell, a little bit of liver and heart issues. For the past six months the health issues had increased a bit, so we knew that his health is not good. But in the past 3-4 days it has deteriorated more.”  “He was hospitalised, but he was okay. Suddenly one night it got worse liver and kidney, then into heart. Then he had to be on the ventilator. We still had hopes, dialysis was also going on, but last night he passed away,” she shared.  The ‘Porus’ actress further said: “We often get together. He didn’t come in the last few get-togethers, and he said that he is not keeping well.”  “On phone we were in touch. And everybody, even the past CID officers, people very fondly remember him. He was the sweetest soul of today’s times. He was very pure at heart; and you rarely find such people. He was ‘dil ka saaf insaan’,” said Shraddha.  The actress continued: “We are very close to his wife also. She is a sweetheart too.”  Speaking about the fond memories shared with Dinesh, Shraddha told IANS: “What I feel is that we had a ‘dil se dil wala’ connection. We had many hearty one-on one talks with each other. He used to listen to everything that you share with him.”  “We both used to talk in Marathi. The Marathi language brought us together. He used to bring tiffin from home. There used to be heart to heart conversations with him on sets, and also outside. We had an attachment with the star cast of the show, but there was also a one on one attachment with Dinesh ji. And that was something different,” she said.  Shraddha continued: “I miss having those conversations with him. He had a particular place in the green room. Off set he used to wear a black T-shirt. I can visualise him right now at his place, doing his things, and talking.”  The 39-year-old concluded saying the cremation is almost done, adding that she was with his wife.  The actor was 57 years old, and was on ventilator support.  Dinesh was suffering from extensive liver damage, and was hospitalised on December 1.  As per reports, the 57-year-old actor was admitted to Mumbai's Tunga Hospital. Earlier, there were reports that the actor had suffered a heart attack which actor Dayanand Shetty had dismissed.
—IANS

Actress Shraddha Musale on Tuesday expressed her grief over the untimely demise of her ‘CID’ co-actor Dinesh Phadnis, and recalled fond memories

Shraddha Musale of 'CID' fame calls Dinesh Phadnis 'dil ka saaf insaan'

New Delhi: Actor Aditya Srivastava expressed his grief over the untimely demise of his ‘CID’ co-actor Dinesh Phadnis, and shared they were like a family, calling him the 'pillar of strength'.  Aditya, who played Senior Inspector Abhijeet in the show, told IANS: "At midnight 12.08 he left us. He got a reaction with a medicine due to which there was a problem on liver, and then there was a multiple organ failure situation. He was hospitalised for the past two-three days and yesterday he passed away."  The 'Super 30' fame actor said: "We had a long association with each other, it was like family. We were together for more than 20 years for the show. We used to meet on different occasions, and situations. The way he was on the screen, similarly he was in real life. 'Bahut zinda dil tha'. He was jovial, caring, and a good friend. We are still in shock."  The actor called the "core 'CID' team was like a family only".  "We have spent a lot of time together. A team goes for a long time, when you have like-minded people together, and everything is smooth. He was a pillar of strength," said the 55-year-old.  The 'Lakshya' fame concluded, saying, "Kisi bhi situation me khada rehne wala, or saath dene wala insaan tha. He used to make us laugh all day, crack jokes etc."  Dinesh gained popularity by playing the fun-loving Fredericks' in 'CID'. He breathed his last in Mumbai aged 57.
—IANS

Actor Aditya Srivastava expressed his grief over the untimely demise of his ‘CID’ co-actor Dinesh Phadnis, and shared they were like a family

'CID' star Aditya Srivastava says 'pillar of strength' Dinesh Phadnis 'bahut zinda dil tha'

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India]: Actor-turned-author Twinkle Khanna, who shares her birthday with her father Rajesh Khanna, on Friday, shared a special post on his 81st birth anniversary. The 'Mela' actor took to Instagram to mark this day, she dug out a throwback picture from her childhood memories.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C1bn-cRxhVg/ In the picture, Rajesh Khanna can be seen holding baby Twinkle in his arms after she was born. Sharing the picture, she wrote, "Our birthday! Now and forever."  As soon as the picture was uploaded, fans and industry members flooded the comment section. Dia Mirza wrote, "Happy Birthday." Saif Ali Khan's sister Saba Pataudi commented, "Happy Happy Birthday." One of the users wrote, "Happy birthday to you. do miss Khanna Sahab."
Another user commented, "Happy Birthday Rajesh Khanna sir. we miss you legend." Few hours ago, she took to Instagram and shared that she celebrated her special day in an adventurous way. She, along with her husband Akshay, went snorkeling.  Twinkle also dropped a video in which she and Akshay can be seen spotting a sea turtle, colourful fish and corals. Twinkle also kissed Akshay through her mask. In a note, she wrote, "On my 50th birthday, my eyes and heart are still filled with wonder when I look at the world around me and at my family." Making her feel special on her special day, Akshay took to Instagram and dropped a hilarious yet sweet post. He posted a video in which Twinkle is seen posing in front of a Hulk statue and calling herself the real Hulk. "Long live my hulk!! Thank you for adding so many years to our life through your humour. May God add many more to yours. Happy Birthday, Tina," Akshay captioned the post.The video begins with a gorgeous picture of Twinkle posing against a scenic background. It has the words "Who I thought I married" written on it.  After this picture, there is a clip in which Twinkle unleashed her fun avatar and posed in front of a Hulk statue.She cutely said in Punjabi, "Ae hega putla, ae hega asli Hulk (this is a dummy, and I am the real Hulk)."Akshay edited this particular clip with the text "Who I actually married". Akshay's post left netizens in splits. Rajesh Khanna fondly referred to as Kaka, made the world record of having 17 successive super-hits in three years from 1969-71, including 15 consecutive solo super-hit films. The actor won the Filmfare Best Actor Award on three occasions and was nominated 14 times. The actor-turned-politician was posthumously awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian honour.
—ANI

Actor-turned-author Twinkle Khanna, who shares her birthday with her father Rajesh Khanna, on Friday, shared a special post on his 81st birth anniversary.

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