Putting this on record: Messi coming to India is not a proud moment for India. It is a commercial transaction being projected as a cultural or sporting achievement.
Celebrity sports tours are rarely about fans or the sport itself. They are structured business deals built around contracts, branding, and optics. Such visits are typically initiated by Indian event promoters who approach the management of the celebrity with a proposal to purchase a tightly controlled public appearance.
The celebrity’s team then offers a predefined menu, brief stage presence, curated meet-and-greets, photo opportunities, unveilings, each governed by strict limits on time and access. Once agreed, a large, non-refundable appearance fee is paid upfront, along with expenses for travel, security, insurance, and image rights.
Funding comes primarily from corporate sponsors and local business houses. Public ticket sales largely serve to offset event logistics and production costs, not the celebrity’s fee.
VIP proximity is an integral part of the arrangement because these individuals are stakeholders, politicians, bureaucrats, major sponsors, business families, local power brokers. They are pampered because they enable permissions, security clearances, venue access, crowd control, funding flows, and media amplification.
In contrast, the general public functions mainly as a visual backdrop, necessary to manufacture the impression of mass enthusiasm and declare the tour a “huge success.”
It’s like Rihanna performing at the Ambanis’ wedding. She didn’t come because of any special affection for India, the Ambanis, or their celebration; she came because she was paid to. It was a professional engagement, a straightforward business transaction, not an emotional or cultural endorsement.
Happy birthday @RockyEatsX Sir.
Watched HOMP as a teenager and loved your quirky style. Now my 5 year old daughter watches your old HOMP episodes with the same excitement.
Police get rightfully criticised on social media for poor work ethics and corruption, but when they do splendid work, they deserve praise on the same scale too.
Until 2019, posters glorifying terror groups were a common sight in Kashmir. The police would usually remove them, but not every time was there a serious investigation into who put them up.
The busting of Faridabad's white-collar terror module began when on 19 Oct some police officers in Srinagar noticed posters praising a banned terror outfit, something that might once have been dismissed as routine propaganda. But this time, the J&K Police got curious. The SSP Srinagar GV Sundeep Chakravarthy insisted that the source be traced, refusing to let it pass as just another poster incident.
That single decision, to investigate promptly, set off a butterfly effect. CCTV footage led to Dr. Adil Ahmed Rather of Saharanpur, which led to Dr. Muzzamil Shakeel, the seizure of 3,000 kg of IED-making material, and finally to a full-blown terror module stretching from Kashmir to Delhi and Faridabad.
Yes, one blast did happen, but had the J&K Police not acted when they did, those explosives, ten to fifteen times more than Pulwama, could have unleashed devastation on a scale this country hasn’t seen since 26/11.
This is how policing should work: alert eyes, curious minds, and relentless follow-through. J&K Police, Haryana Police, UP Police, and everyone else involved, well done. Please keep giving us more opportunities to say good things about the police.
If you eat momos and on your way back a dog bites you, it doesn’t mean the momos caused the dog bite. Two events happening close in time doesn’t automatically create causation.
India has one Centre, 28 states, and thousands of local bodies. Elections are always happening somewhere every single year. So a blast occurring during some election season is not evidence that elections caused the blast.
Here, we have arrests, confessions, seized explosives, CCTV trails, and documented radical networks. This is open intel, not guesswork.
Denying all of this and peddling conspiracy theories based on a third-rate shayar’s “pata karo chunav hai kya” as evidence only shows that you are part of the problem. You defend and enable radicalism in India.
Arre kya bakwas concept tha. Tumne bank se loan against property liya hai, aur time par repay nahi kar paaye, to bank to property claim karega hi. Isme galat kya hai.
Is baat par Jackie Shroff khud ko maar leta hai aur uske bete bank se badla lene ke liye chor ban jaate hain. Aur aise khatarnak chor ki Chicago police, FBI, National guards pakad nahi paaye isliye India se Abhishek Bachchan aur Uday Chopra ko help ke liye bulwaya gaya.
@coolfunnytshirt 'ज़ेब देता है अंगूठी में नगीना जिस तरह, है दुआ मेरी रहो तुम दोनो हमेशा उस तरह'
I remember him fondly from my 2 most favourite movies - Hum Aapke Hain Kaun and Hum Sath Sath Hain.
If you're not in the condition where your food will stop or you will become homeless if you don't go out for job, then a woman should leave the job and take care of her child for at least initial 5 years.
A mother is the best person to look after a new born, no money is enough to leave your new born child with maid alone and go to work.