Lavindra de Silva 🌱

Unabashedly Vegan | Wildlife Photographer | Humanist | Restorative Food Evangelist

[Damaan, AKA 'Philly's Finest!' @Damaan4u33]

Border Czar Tom Homan, following the death of the 58th person in ICE custody: We're not gonna apologize. You can hate us all you want; we're not going anywhere. ICE will continue, you got my word!"

Do you still need another reason to vote these sadistic maniacs out of office?

[Krishna Yadav @Control_Krishna]

He had Cambridge on his Resume, Oxford behind his name, the RBI in his career, economic reform in his record, and 10 years in the Prime Minister’s Office.

Yet,
They called him “weak.”
They called him “accidental.”
They called him “Maun-Mohan.”

Dr Manmohan Singh never needed a camera to look powerful, never needed noise to look intelligent, and never needed propaganda to build a legacy.

“History will be kinder to me.”

Every passing year makes this line hit harder. 🔥

Sir, history didn’t just become kinder. It became your loudest reply.

And the funniest thing about history?

It eventually separates STATESMEN from showmen.

You were a Brilliant Statesman, sir.

Happy Birthday, Dr Manmohan Singh. ❤️🇮🇳

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

Still can’t believe people lost their minds over the “40 beheaded babies” and “babies in the ovens” fake stories, then went silent while Palestinian and Lebanese children were being blown apart in real time.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

War criminals

[Namini Wijedasa @nimilamalee]

1) Airbus provided Sri Lankan investigators with documents indicating that Namal Rajapaksa communicated directly with Airbus during the 2013 procurement of 10 aircraft for SriLankan.

2) An Airbus email dated March 23, 2013 reportedly states that the “President’s son” would present Airbus’s case for the aircraft sale to Cabinet through President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

3) Airbus representatives visited Sri Lanka and gave statements to investigators in support of the local probe.

4) Then Civil Aviation Minister Priyankara Jayaratne submitted a Cabinet paper on March 27, 2013, seeking approval for SriLankan Airlines to purchase the 10 Airbus aircraft.

5) On April 13, 2013, Mahinda Rajapaksa, then also Finance Minister, told Cabinet that SriLankan Airlines did not require Cabinet approval because it was a Companies Act-registered entity with an independent board empowered to make decisions.

6) Police told court that Namal Rajapaksa met Airbus delegations visiting Sri Lanka to discuss the deal.

7) When Airbus offered to establish a training centre in Sri Lanka as part of the large aircraft order, Namal reportedly asked that it be located in Hambantota, his electorate. Emails allegedly corroborate this.

8) Nimal Perera affidavit says Namal Rajapaksa had requested from him a foreign bank account number to receive money from a foreign consultancy, at which instant he had provided the Sabre Vision account.

9) Once the money was received by the Sabre Vision account, Nimal withdrew it and paid Rs 100mn to Mr Rajapaksa “in cash”, the affidavit states.

10) Namal maintains that he did not get this payment and that there is no physical or scientific evidence corroborating the alleged cash handover. His lawyers also questioned the credibility of Mr Perera and his statements.

Namal Rajapaksa has been in remand since September 4 in a CIABOC investigation into an alleged Rs. 100 million bribe connected to the SriLankan Airlines aircraft procurement.

Important: This case is still at the stage of reporting facts to Court.

https://t.co/NpSM2c0UCm

[Rula Jebreal @rulajebreal]

Israel has lost the battle of global public opinion…irreparably.
No amount of propaganda, disinformation, bullying, censorship, corruption, threats, kompromat or indoctrination will erase the memory of the depraved crimes committed against Palestinians.

[mummeryt1994 @cutebritboy94]

The reason the world is upset with Israel is because of the 700,000+ innocent Palestinians they've murdered.

It's not because they're Jewish.

Hope that helps.

[Lavindra de Silva 🌱 @SalesPundit]

@ImtiazMadmood That’s is how you deal with sadistic rapist that the justice system refuses to put away. Salute the women who delivered what the authorities failed to deliver!

[Lavindra de Silva 🌱 @SalesPundit]

@NayanaGeneva Other than US college kids who drink beer in excess, most adults in the US drink very limited amounts of hard liquor and in the nearly 25 years I lived there I rarely saw anyone get inebriated like I see frequently in Sri Lanka :(. Smoking is also lot more prevalent.

[Lavindra de Silva 🌱 @SalesPundit]

Zionist scum!

[Peter Daou @peterdaou]

My father was from an ancient Christian village in the mountains of Lebanon. It's hard to describe how revered olive trees are. They are a symbol of the Biblical land. You only uproot them if you have no connection to it.

[Sann @san_x_m]

A man in Bangalore bought 3 tickets for an afternoon film.He got to his seat on time.

Then the cinema played 25 minutes of advertisements before the film began.

Because of that, the film finished late. He had work calls booked afterwards. He had to cancel them.

So he took the biggest cinema chain in the country to court.

His name is Abhishek M R.

He is a lawyer in Bangalore. He was 31 at the time.

The date was 26th December 2023. The film was Sam Bahadur. The cinema was a PVR INOX.

His ticket said the show would begin at a certain time. It did not begin at that time.

What played first was 25 minutes of commercials. Not trailers for other films. Advertisements.

Now, everybody has sat through this. You reach the hall on time, and then you sit in the dark watching advertisements while the film waits. It is so normal that nobody even thinks of it as a problem any more.

He thought it was a problem.

He filed a case at the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission in Bangalore.

His argument was simple. He had paid for a service. That service was advertised to start at a fixed time. It did not start at that time. His own time was taken from him without his agreement, and it cost him his work calls.

The cinema chain defended itself. It said the law requires cinemas to play about 10 minutes of public service announcements before a film, so some delay cannot be helped.

The commission accepted that 10 minutes may be required.

It did not accept that 10 minutes explains 25.

The order went against the company.

It was told to pay him 20,000 rupees as damages, and 8,000 rupees towards the cost of fighting the case. It was also told to pay 1 lakh rupees to the Consumer Welfare Fund, which is a government fund for consumer protection work.

The wording of the judgement is the part worth remembering.

The commission wrote that in the new era, time is considered as money, and each person's time is very precious. It said that 25 to 30 minutes is a considerable amount of time to sit idle in a theatre watching unnecessary advertisements. It said people have tight schedules and do not have time to waste.

PVR INOX runs more than 900 screens across India and Sri Lanka.

He had 3 tickets and a bill, and he did not let it go.

[Lavindra de Silva 🌱 @SalesPundit]

@pradeeban A failed state that can’t pay its workers a living wage or provide services like healthcare, education and public transport wants others to pay, while billionaires rake in the dough and manipulate elections!

[Lavindra de Silva 🌱 @SalesPundit]

@nomadic_sanjee FACT: Generation Z drinks about 20% less alcohol on average than Millennials did at the same age, and they are significantly more likely to abstain completely. FACT: Latest medical consensus indicates that no amount of alcohol consumption is entirely safe or beneficial for health

[The Lucky Heron @LuckyHeronSay]

There had never been a ‘war’ in history where 80% of the country was destroyed, 100% of the population was displaced, and in which 50% of the deaths were children - until Israel invaded and blockaded Gaza.

It’s not a war. It’s genocide.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

This video got 5.4m views already 😱

[Caught At Silly Point @atsillypoint]

Sanath Jayasuriya scored more ODI runs than Brian Lara and took more ODI wickets than Shane Warne. He is the only cricketer in the history of the sport to score 10,000 runs and take 300 wickets in a single format. He sits fifth on the all-time ODI run list, above Lara, Kallis, Gilchrist, Jayawardene and Sehwag. I hope people never forget how good he was. He was one of a kind, a genuine unicorn.

Look at the batting first. 13,430 runs from 445 matches, fifth on the all-time list, and every single name below him on it is one of the most celebrated batters who has ever lived. Read that list again. Lara. Kallis. Gilchrist. Jayawardene. Sehwag. All of them behind him.

And with the ball, at exactly the same time, 323 ODI wickets at 36.75, with four five-wicket hauls and twelve four-fors. More than Warne, more than Vettori, more than Harbhajan, more than Saqlain. His best figures of 6 for 29 against England at Moratuwa in 1993 stood as the finest by any Sri Lankan in ODI history until Muralitharan finally beat them seven years later.

But how rare is the double, really? Jacques Kallis is the most complete all-rounder of the modern era and he is the closest anybody has come, finishing with 11,579 runs and 273 wickets, short on the bowling side. Nobody else in the history of cricket, in any format, has managed both halves. Not one other human being.

And then there is what he did to the sport itself. At the 1996 World Cup he scored 221 runs at a strike rate of 131.4, which even now, thirty years on, would raise eyebrows. He and Romesh Kaluwitharana simply decided to attack the first fifteen overs while the field was up, and within a few years every team on the planet had rebuilt its batting order around the idea. He was named Most Valuable Player of that tournament, and Wisden broke a long-standing tradition to name him one of its Five Cricketers of the Year.

Ah, and btw, that same year he became the first cricketer in international history to reach a century in under fifty balls, getting there in 48 against Pakistan.

Then Sharjah in 2000, which might be the most absurd innings anybody has played. Jayasuriya made 189 against India. That was 64% of Sri Lanka's entire total and 54% of every run scored in the whole match. India were then bowled out for 54, meaning one man outscored the entire opposition by 135 runs on his own.

He finished with 100 ODI catches, a winning record as captain, 48 Man of the Match awards and 11 Player of the Series awards, both of them second only to Sachin Tendulkar in the whole history of one-day cricket.

The real destructor. Nobody has done what he did, and nobody is close.

[Dewdrop @OyinAtiBode]

🚨 BREAKING:

THE UNITED NATIONS HAS ADOPTED THE NEW WORLD MAP SHOWING THE TRUE SIZE OF AFRICA THANKS TO TOGO WHO PUSHED THE RESOLUTION.

THE CURRENT MAP FOR CENTURIES WAS DELIBERATELY DRAWN TO MAKE PEOPLE THINK AFRICA IS AS SMALL AS ICELAND WHEN IT IN FACT IS MORE THAN 14 TIMES BIGGER AND EUROPE, THE US, INDIA AND CHINA CAN FIT INTO AFRICA ALL AT ONCE.

THE RESOLUTION WAS VOTED MASSIVELY IN FAVOUR AND ONLY THE USA VOTED AGAINST IT.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA FOR RECLAIMING THEIR RIGHT AND THANKS ESPECIALLY TO THE REPUBLIC OF TOGO FOR MAKING THE MOVE 👏👏👏

[✎𝒜 πundhati🌵🍉🇵🇸 @Polytikles]

– SHOCKING REPORT –

AN INDIAN EXPRESS INVESTIGATION

Delhi Police Plotted Facial Recognition Biometric Cameras hidden inside Police Van has Backfired now.

"Out of 205 Identified by Facial Recognition Cam planted by Delhi Police At Jantar Mantar atleast 25 Were Hardcore Criminals from TIHAR JAIL, MANDOLI & ROHINI JAILS, charged with Rape, POCSO, Murder, attemp to Murder..!!"

"Indian Express cross checked Police Records, Courts & Jail Registers & found this Appalling Details."

Now, who has the Power & Audacity to release the accused Criminals languishing in Jails & why were they roaming at Jantar Mantar Students Protest Site ?