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[Abhishek AB @ABsay_ek]

Kemar Roach was born stubborn.

At 5'8" he should have been a batter or maybe a spinner. In Caribbean, fast bowlers are supposed to look like they fell out of a coconut tree & kept growing. Roach just ran in faster than physics suggested he should.
In 2009, when senior players went on strike. West Indies had to pick a 2nd string side against Bangladesh with 9 debutants. Roach took 13 wickets in 2 matches. When big names came back, he was the only one they kept.

Then came WACA, December 2009. He hit Ricky Ponting in ribs,then elbow. almost 150 kmph. Ponting's forearm went into spasm. He could not hold the bat. He walked off the field, embarrassed, for first time in a long career. Roach dismissed him in 2nd innings immediately. He got Ponting out 5 times in 6 Tests.

But speed kills the bowler too. By 2013 his shoulder was gone. Surgery in Jamaica.then car crash. Rain on a Bridgetown road & his BMW flipped multiple times. He walked away with a cut on his head. his shoulder though never came back the same. In Australia 2015 he took no wickets in 3 Tests. Dropped & forgktten. His pace had dropped from 88 miles per hour to 80. At that speed, at that height, you are supposed to disappear.

Instead he rebuilt everything. His action, angle, his mind. He became a seam surgeon. Round the wicket to left handers. A front leg brace. Late swing. Since 2018 he has taken 153 wickets at 24.34 average & 48.9 strike rate. Only Bumrah, Cummins & Rabada have taken more wickets than him with better average & strike rate. Mind You, Roach turned 30 years in 2018 itself.

In 2021 Surrey signed him. He took 97 wickets for them. Surrey won 3 consecutive County Championships.
West Indies dropped him again in 2025. Director of cricket wanted youth. Then injury crisis in New Zealand & they called him back. He batted for 233 balls for 58* in almost 5 hours to save a Test.

Then yesterday at Antigua, he bowled Asitha Fernando & became first West Indian to 300 Test wickets since Curtly Ambrose in 1997. 29 years between them. His teammates mobbed him. A shirt with 300 on the back.

West Indies cricket is supposed to be about pairs & quartets. Walsh-Ambrose & Marshall-Holding. Roach did it alone. 161 Test innings & 2590 overs without anyone truly sharing the load. And still he got there.

[ThePM @TheQuippingMan]

@Kritishere20 wrong info.
Real reason: Rohit Shetty's wife.

[ThePM @TheQuippingMan]

@Harshita511 but not weirdly hot.
It's like broccoli and icecream but not broccoli icecream.

[ThePM @TheQuippingMan]

@Jakhar_N étiquettes comes a few generations after opulence, India is still largely a poor country and very clique-ish. Indians abroad also largely mingle with other Indians/South Asians...
When traveling will start feeling like going to market, these clownish behaviour will stop

[ThePM @TheQuippingMan]

@Jakhar_N It has more to do with the idea that this generation lives for external validation amply available on social media.
Show how they are living the life and someone needs to appreciate it.

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

In a landmark judgment on May 22, 2026, the Delhi High Court held Google liable for trademark infringement.

The case was between Hindware and Google. The court held that, by allowing competitors of Hindware to purchase the keyword “Hindware” (a trademarked name) through Google Ads, Google enabled trademark infringement. The court said that “Hindware” is not a generic English word but a specific brand trademark. By allowing competitors to place ads on that keyword, Google is enabling competitors to divert traffic that should have legitimately gone to Hindware.

This has been a big challenge for companies, both big and small. Even today, if you search for Zerodha, you will see search results from competitors. This has been happening for well over a decade.

Although it is hard to quantify, we have lost a lot of business to this. Think about what happens. Whenever someone searches for "Zerodha", the traffic should rightfully come to Zerodha. But what often happens is that the first couple of results on Google Search are ads, leading the customer to a competitor's website. In the process, we lose business that should have come to us.

This is made worse by the fact that we do not advertise.

There is also an even more ironic thing here. A lot of brands, just to capture the traffic that should have come to them organically, end up bidding on their own keywords. Think about it. If you own a business and have a trademarked name for your business, you still have to pay Google just to hopefully make your name too expensive for your competition to run ads on it.

But now, thanks to the Delhi High Court judgment, we have the option of taking legal action whenever we come across instances of other companies squatting on our keyword.

The other brilliant part about this judgment is that it levels the playing field. And this matters even more for startups, who are already starved for resources and have the odds stacked against them. The last thing they need is for competitors to bid on their brand keywords and steal their traffic.

This judgment now opens up a route for legal recourse whenever such deceptive practices occur.

While keyword squatting is most visible in Google web results, it is an even bigger problem when it comes to app stores. Whenever someone searches for your brand, the first couple of results, both above and below your app listing, often tend to be those of your competitors. And in the case of app stores, I think the ads are even more problematic. When a user clicks on an app-store ad, they often end up installing an app. That is a much higher-commitment action than clicking on a competitor’s web search result and then just closing the page. Because the user has installed an application, the conversions, at least anecdotally, tend to be much higher.

Again, brands that do not advertise are at the receiving end of this. So I welcome this ruling and hope this changes the unfair norms we've been living by for so long.

[ThePM @TheQuippingMan]

@ShoneeKapoor Invents new interpretations of custody arrangement to harass ex-husband and child. She is powerless in new marriage of compromise and office, this 'only sense of power' validates her existence.
Lack of sensible family members rob women of dignity, & act with malice everywhere 2/2

[ThePM @TheQuippingMan]

@ShoneeKapoor I know a case whr she has child for 300-310+ days a year yet:
- Obstructs 1hr video calls 2-3 days a week (total time in a year is less than 1% of her time with child)
- even access of an additional week (2%+ of her time) is 3% in total
Yet she chooses conflict over peace!
1/2

[ThePM @TheQuippingMan]

was in Kolkata when TMC came to power for the first time in 2011, similar sentiments were then too.
The only thing that changes is the 'gamcha' around the neck of these goons... from Red it became Blue and soon it will be Orange. #ElectionResult2026

[Pradeep Bhandari(प्रदीप भंडारी)🇮🇳 @pradip103]

This the Diamond Harbour "Falta Model" of "Bhaipo"!

" Diamond Harbour model" where Hindu women are threatened of rape by TMC Men!

Last I recall Suharwardy giving similar threats to Bengali Hindus pre partition...

People of Bengal want "Mukti" From TMC!

#PaltanoDorkarChaiBJPSorkar

[ThePM @TheQuippingMan]

@onetiponehand_ actor will also change, from vicky to ranveer to animal next

[ThePM @TheQuippingMan]

@Sritika_ Cosmix is good.

[Eminent Intellectual @total_woke_]

Something remarkable happened last week.

We older people worried about GenZ not knowing about UPA horror but didn't know what to do. Insta is full of paid Congress influencers. Talking about the past can be questioned.

Then the answer came from GenZ. Some of them started a movement to dig up Congress era news from Twitter that will sound like parody if the links didn't exist. The contrast, the unbelievable incompetence, Hindu hate & pure degeneracy of Congress today stands naked thanks to these young Indians.

Here are 10 gems they dug up and made viral 1/10

Self explanatory

[ThePM @TheQuippingMan]

@AdityaDharFilms the Jinn, & Grihlakshmi ka Jinn was a pretty neat Easter egg.
Peak detailing in casting. Lovely.

#Dhurandhar2

[ThePM @TheQuippingMan]

@avarakai terror funders taking out each other... trash taking out itself... seems like end of kalyug

[ThePM @TheQuippingMan]

@Loyalsachfan10 @onetiponehand_ he batted so selfishly slow closer to his century. Result: India lost to Bangladesh.

[ThePM @TheQuippingMan]

@Sakshi50038 When was Nomura called Bain?🤣

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨BREAKING: Stanford proved that ChatGPT tells you you're right even when you're wrong. Even when you're hurting someone.

And it's making you a worse person because of it.

Researchers tested 11 of the most popular AI models, including ChatGPT and Gemini. They analyzed over 11,500 real advice-seeking conversations. The finding was universal. Every single model agreed with users 50% more than a human would.

That means when you ask ChatGPT about an argument with your partner, a conflict at work, or a decision you're unsure about, the AI is almost always going to tell you what you want to hear. Not what you need to hear.

It gets darker. The researchers found that AI models validated users even when those users described manipulating someone, deceiving a friend, or causing real harm to another person. The AI didn't push back. It didn't challenge them. It cheered them on.

Then they ran the experiment that changes everything. 1,604 people discussed real personal conflicts with AI. One group got a sycophantic AI. The other got a neutral one.

The sycophantic group became measurably less willing to apologize. Less willing to compromise. Less willing to see the other person's side. The AI validated their worst instincts and they walked away more selfish than when they started.

Here's the trap. Participants rated the sycophantic AI as higher quality. They trusted it more. They wanted to use it again. The AI that made them worse people felt like the better product.

This creates a cycle nobody is talking about. Users prefer AI that tells them they're right. Companies train AI to keep users happy. The AI gets better at flattering. Users get worse at self-reflection. And the loop tightens.

Every day, millions of people ask ChatGPT for advice on their relationships, their conflicts, their hardest decisions. And every day, it tells almost all of them the same thing.

You're right. They're wrong.

Even when the opposite is true.

[ThePM @TheQuippingMan]

@sachin_rt If all this gyan is available for free, what is lacking in Arjun to not able to be a regular for MI, let alone Indian team?

[ThePM @TheQuippingMan]

@choga_don yup, porta happens in Dubai only

[Amit T @amittalwalkar]

“So who’s going to bowl to him?” asked captain David Gower, calmly sipping his tea. No one volunteered. The room fell silent, eyes lowered, each player hoping someone else would take the responsibility.

Finally, Ian Botham stepped forward. It was not exactly an act of bravery - he was just two wickets away from overtaking Dennis Lillee as the world’s leading Test wicket taker. Botham asked John Emburey to bowl from the other end. As they walked out to the middle, Emburey turned to Gower and said, “If this shit doesn’t work, don’t just blame me. And whatever runs I concede, count them as runs conceded by all the bowlers combined.”

England had arrived in Antigua after suffering four consecutive defeats against West Indies. The first and fourth Tests had ended inside three days, and the third inside four. Desperate to avoid a humiliating whitewash, England were now hoping at least to salvage a draw in the fifth Test. Three days had already passed with England still batting their first innings, and everything seemed perfectly set for a draw. But one man stood firmly in their way, Viv Richards.

Before tea on the fourth day, Richards was already 28 from just 20 balls, having casually launched two effortless sixes. When play resumed, he continued exactly where he had left off.

Botham and Emburey tried everything they could. Botham peppered the pitch with bouncers, but Richards hooked them with disdainful ease. The assault was relentless. Years later, Emburey recalled the chaos of that spell, “One ball smashed a bottle of rum in the stands and came back with shards of glass stitched into it. Another sailed out of the stadium and landed near the prison where Richards’ father worked. Before Viv came in, my figures were 9-0-14-1. Five overs later, they read 14-0-83-1.”

Richards eventually brought up his century in just 56 balls, a record that stood for nearly three decades. England, meanwhile, were crushed by 240 runs.

Take any modern day T20 hitter and multiply his ability by 10. Even then, he would still be miles behind Viv Richards.

Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards turns 74 today ❤️