Same to same, sir!
People across India leave their homes, move to different cities, and live away from their families in search of jobs and a livelihood.
Sadly, many never make it back home! Not because they don’t want to, but because of falling in open drains or due to potholes, coming under collapsing bridges and falling billboards, electrocution at public places, building collapses, stampedes, waterlogged roads, manhole deaths, speeding vehicles, hit-and-runs, road rage, illegal construction, fire accidents, hospital negligence, overcrowded trains, railway track deaths, building fires, gas leaks, food adulteration, contaminated water, workplace accidents, construction-site falls, industrial disasters, drowning, snakebites, dog bites, police brutality, custodial deaths, sexual violence, civic negligence and so many other preventable tragedies.
When I look back at Messi’s career, it’s almost unbelievable how cinematic it has been.
There are so many layers of complexity to it that I could never fully articulate, but even the rough roadmap reads like a story written in chapters.
Chapter 1: The beginning. Signing for Barcelona on a literal napkin. Moving halfway across the world at just 13 years old, leaving everything familiar behind, while needing treatment just to give his talent the chance to express itself.
Chapter 2: The ascent. From prodigy to getting GOAT shouts at 23. From the boy breaking through at Barcelona, to becoming the gold standard of footballing greatness. I’d argue forever.
Chapter 3: The heartbreak. For all the joy with Barça, the heartbreaks with Argentina were seemingly perpetual. Final after final, loss after loss, and then eventually rock bottom: international retirement.
Chapter 4: The redemption. He came back. Then came the Copa América, then the Finalissima, and finally the World Cup. The one chapter people spent years telling him he needed, done in the most emphatic way conceivable.
This is literally a movie.
Messi, genuinely, is a titan-era figure. A god walked amongst men. And now we will spread his myth to those that come after us, and after them, and after the world is a billowing swirl of ashes.
I did mandatory humanities classes back at IIT Kanpur, some of which I thoroughly enjoyed - Philosophy of Cognitive Science and Economics the most in particular. I have batchmate friends who also had good experiences and can attest that humanities courses including Art, Sociology etc. really helped them expand their mind, their worldview and greatly complemented their STEM education. Throughout my own childhood I've also been a huge fan of English literature and fiction novels!
I think it's very important for those of us building technology, and especially those working in something as instrumental as AI, to be aware of, and to understand the potential it possesses to impact humanity and the broad effects & implications it can have on society. I think doing humanities classes definitely helps with this, and I would encourage STEM university students to consider taking them up.
Having humanities departments has also contributed to IITs becoming full fledged universities like Harvard & Ivy Leagues, instead of merely being deeply technical institutes, and has expanded their diversity of thoughts, education, learnings and experiences, which imo is very welcome!
Finally some sense.
But if India’s best IIT really wants to bring an end to this cycle of tragedies, they must push for an unbiased inquiry into every case in the last decade (three cases already in 2026) and bring systemic changes - both mental-health and caste-oppression awareness to be taken seriously and as ongoing programs, rather than the arrogant, outright denial about them.
There’s an angry influential mob (clearly fanned by the provocative first statement put out by the Institute) already asking for caste-based segregation and untouchability to be brought back. The IITs (of which am an alumnus), founded on the ideals of modernism and rational thinking, must bring an end to this horrible right-wing language of apartheid by doing serious self-reflection.
If any institution in India can do it, it’s you @iitbombay.
Atletico selling Julian Alvarez to Barcelona is entirely their choice.
Sell him. Don't sell him. Ask for €200m if you want. He's your player and you're perfectly entitled to do what you think is best for your club.
But please, spare me the holier-than-thou act about "ethics", "professionalism" and Barcelona negotiating in bad faith.
Where was all this concern for good faith when Atletico had an agreement with Barca that would require them to pay €40m for Griezmann if he played 45+ minutes in 50% of the games he was available for?
Their solution?
Keep one of their best players on the bench and repeatedly bring him on around the 60th minute so those games wouldn't count towards the clause.
Everyone knew what was happening. Griezmann knew. Simeone knew. Barca knew. The entire football world knew.
And eventually Barca, who desperately needed the money at the time, settled for roughly half the original €40m fee.
Was it within Atletico's contractual rights? Sure.
Was it this wonderful display of "good faith" and sporting ethics that they suddenly seem so passionate about in 2026?
Come on.
Football clubs look after their own interests. Atletico did it then. Barcelona are doing it now. That's the game.
So keep Julian. Sell Julian. Send him to Arsenal. Do whatever you want.
Just drop the saint act while doing it.
You cannot spend years playing the transfer market with every trick available to you and then suddenly discover the moral high ground when the sword falls on the other foot.
#FCBarcelona #Barca #Atleti #JulianAlvarez #AtleticoMadrid
In 2026 a court is having to rule that a married Indian woman need not take permission from her husband or in laws to visit her parents. And men are so furious they are losing their minds under the post. "When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression".