Lords ODI could be Rohit Sharma's last match for India. Nah, I'm not ready to say goodbye. He deserves to play one last World Cup before he calls it a day.
I'd like to believe a citizen on a 16day hunger strike warrants a conversation with the government whose actions brought him to that place. I say ‘a citizen’ because perhaps any citizen fighting for a cause, for students, would expect the same. Acknowledgment at some level of govt. I cannot imagine a person who wants harm to come to Mr Wangchuk. I don’t see why a mere dialogue is this hard. As a citizen, I don’t pretend to understand any sort of political manoeuvring. As a citizen, I’ve certainly been proved wrong more than I have been right. Political strategy, alliances aside, as a citizen…you cannot dispute what he is fighting for. Younger citizens. Happy to be called naive, simplistic, or ignorant. But I see students crying for help, a citizen on a hunger strike, and I request my govt to engage in dialogue.
An Open Letter to the Jantar Mantar protestors:
My dear young friends,
I address you today not as a politician or an MP, but as someone deeply troubled by what is happening to your generation of young Indians.
This is personal for me. I was born to a middle-class family: my father was a salaried newspaper employee, my mother a homemaker, with three children to educate on one income. For a family like ours, merit was not a slogan. Scholarships, fair examinations, honest results — these were the only way one salary could carry three children's dreams.
I went to school in Mumbai and Kolkata, to college here in Delhi, topped the University and earned admission into IIM — and chose instead to follow my passion for international affairs, in America, on a scholarship. Nothing was inherited; everything was earned by hard work and yes, Exams.
So I know that a fair, merit-based system is the only ladder for young people from lower and middle-income families to climb up. When that ladder is broken — papers leaked, examinations cancelled, trust destroyed — the children of the rich and powerful do not suffer. They have other ladders. It is your dreams, and your families' sacrifices (and tragically, in some homes, young lives themselves) that are betrayed.
To the young people gathered at Jantar Mantar, and those raising your voices peacefully across India: this country hears you. Your anger is not indiscipline — it is the anguish of a generation that did everything right and was still betrayed . You are not alone.
And to the millions of young Indians watching quietly: your generation is not a problem to be managed. You are the answer to India's future. Do not lose hope. This ladder will be rebuilt — by you, and by every Indian who stands with you.
To Shri Sonam Wangchuk-ji, my heartfelt appeal: please end your fast. You have awakened the conscience of the nation; that is what a fast is meant to do. India needs your voice for the long road ahead.
With Parliament in session again from Monday, we will have an opportunity to raise the students’ issues in the highest forum of our democracy. That’s where the problem should be addressed, not by fasting unto death. Please heed my plea.
And finally, to the Government: I respectfully urge you to reach out and engage in the dialogue our democracy owes its young citizens. That is not weakness; that is statesmanship.
Indians live in delusion. They find happiness in pointing out flaws in other people’s lifestyles. They use slurs like dehati, gawar, and chhapri as insults because they don’t want others to be compared to them or have a lifestyle similar to or better than theirs.
They’ll call someone dehati for trying to improve & uplift themselves.
They’ll call someone unemployed simply because the other person is earning ₹20–25k/month, and they think their corporate job (70k/m) is superior, assuming everyone else must be jobless.
They’ll mock someone for what’s on their plate, even when that person is just trying to survive. They’ll call someone a carbmaxxer and abuse them because they can’t afford enough protein.
They’ll call someone gawar because they don’t know English, as if English were the SI unit of intelligence.
They’ll insult someone for living in a modest home because they think their tiny 2BHK pigeonhole apartment is superior.
They’ll call someone dehati and say they have no fashion sense because they don’t follow Korean-style fashion or wear wide, loose pants and linen shirts.
In the end, everyone is living in the same shithole. The only difference is that some people cope by convincing themselves they’re superior after finding flaws in others.
They create that delusion to feel better about themselves and believe they have a higher standard of living than everyone else while surviving in the very same shithole.
Look at how human traffickers operate in plain sight, without any fear of the law or a shred of humanity:
On June 18, a minor girl in Sriganganagar boarded an e-rickshaw from her friend's house to her home. The driver, who was on the payroll of human traffickers, was tasked with identifying, manipulating, and earning the trust of vulnerable girls among his passengers. He would then deliver them to specific hotels designated by the traffickers in exchange for money. The traffickers would subsequently sell these girls to clients as part of an organized prostitution syndicate.
This e-rickshaw driver, Rambabu, delivered the girl to Hotel Joy Inn, trapping her in a horrific, multi-day criminal network. Over the following five days, the hotel owners repeatedly handed the minor over to different individuals, forcing her to endure horrific rape by up to six men daily. This totaled an estimated 32 perpetrators, who drugged her with alcohol to suppress her cries.
Though police initially suppressed the case to shield high-profile suspects, leaking details sparked massive public protests. Under pressure, authorities arrested 12 individuals, including hotel managers, and exposed over 150 illegal, unregistered hotels operating district-wide.
150 hotels doing this in just one city! Just one small city! Horrific to even think whats happening nationwide in this country.
(Kindly don't post girl's video from the hospital bed in replies without blurring the face. It's against the law to post minor rape victims pictures and videos).
WTF!!!!
A 13 years old girl gangraped by 30 different man? Unbelievable. This is beyond evil & all of them should be given capital punishment & this case shouldn't be dragged for decades.
& those men activists who paint all women same for a crime committed by women should also speak on this.
KIERON POLLARD - THE GOAT OF MI FAMILY 🐐
Seattle Orcas needed 14 runs in the final over, Pollard came to bowl:
1st ball - 6
2nd ball - W
3rd ball - 1
4th ball - 0
5th ball - 0
6th ball - 1
He is doing the magic at the age of 39 🥶
Its world sports journalist day, I acknowledge India's favourite sports journalist Vikrant Gupta since last 2 decades.
Ever since 2007, I used to watch all his 7:30 shows. When live games are happening, I watched all mid inning & post match Aajtak shows.
Now, I watch almost all his youtube shows on Sports Tak. Thank You @vikrantgupta73 for entertaining us over 2 decades. Keep going strong♥️
Absolutely wrong!
1500 cc has less torque & bhp
An engine like 1.0 TSI or 1.0 GDi from Hyundai can smoke shit out of this lousy 1.5 on highways
An absolute Uncle Bullock Cart Engine tailored for Uncles like me who are born in a 3rd World and look for reliability only because of the fuel quality only. Zero performance!
@IndianGems_ Yes for the ones living in gated colony, have drivers to drop them at school and swimming classes, have home tutors and access to foreign foods.