UPSC is slowly turning into an exam of absurdity rather than merit.
For the last 2-3 years, the same pattern has repeated — random GS papers, unpredictable questions, and CSAT becoming unnecessarily brutal. At this point, it feels less like a serious examination and more like survival through luck.
Students spend 5-7 years preparing for this exam, studying beyond their limits, sacrificing everything, only to walk out feeling cheated despite doing honest preparation.
There’s a difference between testing intelligence and making papers so disconnected from preparation trends that even teachers struggle to solve them properly.
Aspirants are ready for difficult papers. What they are not ready for is an exam where years of hard work can be destroyed by pure unpredictability and tukka.
This is neither the first nor the last such case.
Over the years, many Muslim men have spent years in jail on terror-related charges, only to be acquitted later when the allegations couldn't be proven.
The arrest gets headlines. The acquittal rarely does.
For many Muslims, the punishment often seems to begin with the accusation itself. Years are spent fighting cases, reputations are destroyed, families are broken, and by the time an acquittal arrives, the lost years can never be returned.
Whether it's Congress or BJP, governments change, but for those who lose years of their lives and are later found not guilty, the story often remains the same.
At home, on pitches tailored to their strengths, Bangladesh can beat almost anyone.
Outside Bangladesh, they're still a side that gets exposed regularly by top teams.
Let's not confuse home dominance with global consistency.
The "used and dumped" angle has nothing to do with this win. It's simply a narrative looking for an opportunity.
Credit them for beating Australia, but until Bangladesh delivers a genuinely impactful World Cup performance, all this romanticism is a bit premature.
@Rajiv1841 Yesterday it was "global aura". Today it's a "useless war". The aura was always loud when there was credit to claim; strangely silent when it's time to ask who killed an Indian civilian and why.
Fitness and injury are two different things.
Even the fittest athletes get injured, and passing a fitness test doesn't automatically make someone the fittest player around.
Since you're talking about injuries, let me remind you that the same 38-year-old guy missed half the IPL due to injury and has been playing as an Impact Player since 2024.
Nobody said six-packs make you injury-proof.
The same belly brigade mascot who has been playing as an Impact Player since 2024, missed half of IPL 2026 due to injury, and returned as an Impact Player in the remaining matches, is somehow the poster boy for fitness debates.
The jokes write themselves.
Clearing a driving test doesn't make you an F1 driver.
First came the filters.
Then came the "ifs", "could haves" and "would haves"...... and so on
Now come the imaginary superlatives.
The amount of narrative-building required to elevate a mediocre T20I player into an all-time great should be studied.
When stats fail, filters arrive. When filters fail, fan-fiction arrives.
How can someone "sacrifice" a position that never belonged to him in the first place?
Be thankful to Ganguly for promoting him up the order occasionally. That's where he got the opportunity to showcase his talent and build his career.
A few clips of Dhoni batting at No. 3 don't rewrite the scorecards. Calling it a sacrifice is the height of idiocy.
Delusion isn't a bug in Rohit fandom, it's the operating system.
The same Siraj they're mocking won his last Player of the Match at The Oval against England on 04 August 2025, dragging India back into a Test that was slipping away and helping seal a 6-run victory. He also bowled the most overs of any bowler from either side in that series.
Since his debut, he's been available whenever India needed him—across formats, tours and conditions—without hiding behind workload management narratives every other month.
Yet people are comparing years of international performances to a conveniently filtered stat just to push an agenda.
When your agenda is stronger than your argument, this is what the tweet ends up looking like.
Selective criticism is the last refuge of fanboys who can't argue with actual performances.
Dhoni sacrificed his No. 3 spot for Kohli" is pure fan-fiction.
Dhoni debuted in 2004 and Kohli in 2008. By the time Kohli arrived, Dhoni had already played 66 ODI innings at No. 7 and just 11 at No. 3. You can't sacrifice a spot that was never yours to begin with.
The funniest part is people acting like Kohli was gifted No. 3. India already had Dravid, Gambhir and Raina around the top order. Kohli took the position with performances and then turned it into the most dominant No. 3 career the format has ever seen.
Try using scorecards instead of nostalgia edits.
@jod_insane "Bring back those 21 days" is certainly one way to celebrate a 19-year career.
Bro had to specify days because years would've been factually incorrect.
@kamaalrkhan@Varun_dvn The only thing KRK has successfully destroyed is his own timeline's consistency.
One tweet says David Dhawan ruined Varun.
Another says "I ruined Varun."
Pick a fantasy and stick to it, clown.
Rohit fans have turned self-pleasure into an art form.
Every week, they discover a new stat, a new excuse, or a new conspiracy to convince themselves of things that never happened.
Ignorance isn't just bliss for them—it's a survival mechanism.
At this point, delusion isn't a bug in the fandom; it's the operating system.
@Shubham513@WorshipRohit From "no spectators allowed" to "50% capacity allowed" somehow became "no restrictions" in your head. Impressive mental gymnastics.
Being an eyewitness and still being factually wrong is actually more embarrassing than not watching the match at all.
Interesting selection policy.
A player stays out of the T20 setup for nearly two and a half years, makes a comeback, and is handed the captaincy straight away, despite several others being regular members of the setup and available for leadership consideration.
Also, does workload management exist only for Bumrah? Because Siraj appears to be the designated all-format workhorse, and nobody seems remotely concerned about his workload.
"Surya is on par with Kohli?"
Mr. Kaif, please get your cricketing vision tested.
A bilateral minnow basher is nowhere near Kohli as a batter. Kohli dominated across conditions, ICC tournaments, and against the best attacks for over a decade.
Some comparisons are opinions. This one is comedy.
How exactly did someone "keep Test cricket alive" when his own Test career was on life support by the end?
His white-ball captaincy deserves praise, no doubt. But claiming he kept Test cricket alive and that fans watched every ball because of him is pure fan-fiction.
The same captain under whom India got whitewashed in a home Test series is now being credited with saving the format itself. At some point, admiration turns into delusion.