Maneesh T

Wish is to spam your feed some day with sports, cinema and politics. Journo @the_hindu. Previously @Xpresstn.
@ACJIndia alumnus,
മലയാളി.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Massive hike in #petrol prices is a prime example of the failure of Congress-led UPA. This will put a burden of hundreds of crores on Guj.

[Muneef Khan @Muneef_Khan]

“Journalism of Courage”?

[Siddharth @svaradarajan]

Proud of my old newspaper, @the_hindu, take a bow @nambath, the only paper to have the correct headline for what transpired in parliament yesterday. All other newspapers seem to have bought the government’s spin that the ‘opposition defeated women’s reservation’!

[Congress Kerala @INCKerala]

Dear @Ceokerala,

BJP candidate from Nemom constituency, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, has not disclosed his residence, a 49,000 sq.ft mansion in Koramangala 3rd Block, Bengaluru, in his affidavit.

This is a 1.07 acre property in one of the most expensive locations in the country, where many Indian billionaires live. Land here costs around ₹35,000 to ₹50,000 per sq.ft or more. By a fair estimate, the land value alone could be around ₹200 crore.

The property number is 408. You can download the property tax receipt using Application Number: 1600322463 from the link below:
https://t.co/0ajN6mffBU

The tax was paid just six days ago on 17th March, which you can verify yourself.

If there is any doubt whether this belongs to the same Rajeev Chandrasekhar, his 2024 affidavit lists the same address, #408, Koramangala 3rd Block, as his residence.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar is a habitual offender and appears to believe he can mislead the Election Commission of India repeatedly. His affidavit even suggests that he owns no residential property or car despite being a billionaire businessman.

We request you to intervene in this matter and disqualify the candidate as per the People's Representation Act. Otherwise, it's only fair for the public to question whether the office is acting impartially.

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

Imagine raping 13-year-old girls on private islands and killing +153 schoolgirls in Iran, and still talking about "freedom for Iranian women." The audacity.

[Korah Abraham @thekorahabraham]

Imperial war.
Imperialist terror.

Deccan Herald and The Hindu editorials today. Mincing no words. Taking a strong stand against the Us-Israel strikes on Iran. Calling it what it is. Must read.

[Cyrus Janssen @thecyrusjanssen]

An Iranian man left this comment on my YouTube channel. This is without a doubt the single best explanation of the reality facing Iranian people today👇

"As an Iranian, I can tell you the situation is no longer just political—it's existential. We are trapped between two collapsing structures: one internal, one external. On one hand, we face a deeply dysfunctional government, led by the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Republic’s unelected institutions.

Decades of economic mismanagement, suppression of dissent, and brutal ideological control have alienated multiple generations. No one believes in reform anymore—because every attempt has either been co-opted or crushed. But here's the paradox: We are also terrified of regime collapse—because we've watched the aftermath of Western intervention in countries like Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan. Each was promised freedom; each descended into chaos, civil war, or foreign occupation.

So no, we don't trust the U.S. or Israel. Not because we support our regime—but because we know how imperial powers treat ‘liberated’ nations in the Middle East.

Freedom, in their language, often means vacuum, fire, and permanent instability. Right now, many Iranians live with three truths at once: The Islamic Republic is morally and politically bankrupt. The alternatives offered by foreign actors are not liberation—they’re collapse.

A bad government is survivable. No government is not. We are not silent because we agree. We are cautious because we’ve learned—too well—what happens when superpowers decide to "help." In a sentence: Iran is a nation held hostage by its own regime, but haunted by the fate of its neighbors. We are stuck in a house we hate, surrounded by fires we fear more."

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

Pretty brave of Sri Lanka to allow Hanumankind after what he did in an earlier visit.
#INDvsPAK

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

In eastern Uganda’s Jinja district, groups of older women have embraced cricket as a way to stay active and socially connected.

Referred to locally as “cricket grannies”, they take part in informal games and training that combine light exercise with elements of the sport

📸 Luis Tato

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

I have no idea what happened in Kolkata in the Messi event. But I couldn't help thinking that we Indians really do not like sport. We like stars.
What else could explain the millions, and I mean millions of dollars we spend to fly in superstars, when they will not even play a proper match.
I am ok with paying whatever it takes to bring in a top football team to play in India, like Messi did in 2011 or Tata Steel did for a long time in the 80s and 90s.
But getting them to come here just to shake hands and pose for pictures defies all reason. They will sell real estate, take pictures with every sponsor and go back with more money in two days than say the I League used to spend in a year.
I don't blame the organizers for getting into this, its a really profitable business, because the politicians are getting serious free mileage and the sponsor is spending his, or his company's money to fulfil his childhood fantasy. The journalists are overawed just to be there with a generational superstar, lots of folks are spending a reported Rs 10 lacs for a handshake and a photo op and the real estate guys are busy pushing deals.
That's millions of bucks spent on a footballer, whose closest attempt at action would be kicking a few footballs at the crowd or dribbling for a few minutes. Money that is desperately desperately needed elsewhere in actual football. Real camps, matches, ground level sponsorships. Or even to revive a football league.
And then we expect India to be better at sport!

[Maneesh T @ManeeshT4]

Nothing more annoying in life than people with half-knowledge thinking their false assumptions are expert opinions.

Just shut up, will ya!?

[Chinmayi Sripaada @Chinmayi]

Gowri did an amazing job. The moment you call out a disrespectful and an unnecessary question - a whole lot of shouting down happens.
So proud that someone so young stood her ground and pushed back.

No male actor gets asked what his weight is. No idea why they asked a female actor 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Maneesh T @ManeeshT4]

Yes, criticise Deepti Sharma for the slow-running or lack of big-hitting prowess. But demeaning her with all the memes? At your own peril!

50 and a fifer in a WC final. What a champion! 🏆

[Maneesh T @ManeeshT4]

JEM! 💎

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

Norway fans unveiled a massive Palestine flag during their match against Israel tonight, with the message “Let children live.”

Many Palestinian flags can also be seen throughout the stadium.

[Pratik Sinha @free_thinker]

#MyModiStory

I used to be on a BJP-affiliated WhatsApp group where one day a Google document was shared. It contained a bank of tweets for different people to post. Since the document was public, I was able to edit it and make small changes, like turning “Working for middle class is high on the agenda of Modi Government” into “low.” I made many such tiny edits. Multiple people, including a Union Minister, tweeted them out as they were. This thread has a few examples.

That was 6 years ago. Nothing has changed. All the coordinated tweets on Modi’s 75th birthday today follow the exact same strategy, only now expanded to a much larger base.

[Stanly Johny @johnstanly]

So the effective Trump tariffs on India will be 50%. China, which imports more oil from Russia than India, pays 30% as of now (Trump clearly prefers China over India for trade). Turkey, the biggest importer of Russian oil in the western hemisphere (and an American-Nato ally), pays 15%. The EU, whose trade with Russia ($77.9 bn) was bigger than India's trade with Russia ($68.7bn) in 2024, pays 15%. Look at Asia. It's 15% for both Japan and South Korea, and 19% for Indonesia. The only country, besides India, that was slapped with 50% is Brazil--and the reason Trump gave for the tariffs on Brazil was that Bolsonaro was facing a trial in his own country.

This is not about Russia. This is not transactionalism. India should not fold before this onslaught on its economy.

[Maneesh T @ManeeshT4]

Waiting for Jassi bhai to say, "Believe in miyaan bhai" ❤️

What an athlete, @mdsirajofficial!

[Maneesh T @ManeeshT4]

Gill might as well put a 5-year captaincy experience in his CV after a month like this. 🫡

[Maneesh T @ManeeshT4]

Long live, Test cricket! <3