@vinijr might not be getting goals at the rate he would have liked, but he is definitely one of the best players currently in the team.
There is clearly a change in his work rate...
Super excited to see him in Kolkata tooooo
He stole the blames from all other players who played bad and came out fighting when everyone wanted him dropped. I wish Portugal luck for whichever next tournament they play as Ronaldo wont be holding them back now.
If someone had told me after Morocco 2022 that Ronaldo would play the 2026 world cup and get knocked like this, I would have still chosen this story just to see him one more time on the world stage. This person is an inspiration, he put Portugal on the match
I understand the frustration but let's try and understand what these protocols actually exist for, and what happens when they don't.
I know this might sting, but bear with me please.
The PM, any PM of any country, moves under a security protocol that assumes the worst case at all times. They're planning for the day someone tries to assassinate the head of government in your city.
India has lost two Prime Ministers to assassination in living memory. So, every road closure, every sterilisation, every choke point exists because of what happened in 1985 or 1992.
Now let's imagine the alternative.
The PM moves through Bangalore tomorrow without restrictions. He sits in regular traffic. Anyone with a basic understanding of his route can position themselves anywhere along a 30 km stretch with a clean line of sight.
A single drone with a payload, a single sniper on a balcony, a single vehicle ramming the convoy at a signal. India has active threats from at least four organised groups that have attempted attacks on senior politicians in the last decade.
A single security incident at a PM event triggers a national security review, which triggers tighter protocols across every state, which means every CM visit, every governor visit, every foreign delegation now operates under double-restriction.
One bad day in Bangalore leads to a year of worse traffic across every Indian metro.
Also, heads of state of other countries watch how India protects its leadership. If India can't move its PM safely, foreign leaders stop visiting, foreign investors get nervous about political stability, and India's diplomatic standing takes a hit.
A four-hour closure on a Sunday morning inconveniences maybe 200,000 commuters by an average of 30 minutes. Total cost in productivity is real but bounded.
The cost of a successful attack on a sitting PM is incalculable. Markets crash. Currency falls. The next government takes six months to stabilise. The disruption isn't even comparable.
I am sure nobody likes this, including SPG, including the cops working 18-hour shifts.
I am sure Modi Ji himself who would rather not have his every move planned by twelve people. But we need to tolerate it because the alternative is worse.
Yes we need wider arterial roads, parallel routes, faster metro, scheduling discipline. Until then, the four hours of inconvenience is the cheapest insurance policy for what is at stake.
I completely disagree with the last paragraph that @ShekharGupta has written. The onus of saving Indian secularism does not lie on the Indian Hindu alone. Secondly, this form of Indian secularism needs to die as it is an insult of the concept of secularism. As a secularist I find the Indian version of secularism an embarrassment.
The Indian Muslim is as much required to stand up for secular values as much as a Hindu. To use the bogey of partition will no longer work. The Muslims cashed that cheque once in 1947.
I want brutal secularism in India. And the biggest roadblock in achieving that goal is now the Indian Muslim community.
@BDUTT Multiple reasons:
1. The victim is an Indian
2. It is at a time when the news cycle is busy with the gruesome murder of Charlie Kirk.
3. Prominent Indian Americans have never been political and have barely made good media investments for the community overall.