Alankrith Shankar

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[Alankrith Shankar @AlanzArena]

Just finished watching #Thappad

- Powerful story telling.
- Brilliant acting.

Fell in love with Tapsee's character. She was brilliant as ever. And even Kumud Mishra's portrayal of the dad. What a movie. Few movies come as close to hitting all tones.

[Alankrith Shankar @AlanzArena]

@VAAChandran Germany are as shite a football team now as WI is a test cricket side. The odd miracle here and there.

Majority of the time, they are a dire watch and a sad excuse of the stalwart it was. Deservingly getting knocked out early in world cups 3x in a row.

[Alankrith Shankar @AlanzArena]

@VAAChandran That doesn’t matter for squat 😂 some silly stat. It’s like saying WI cricket team beat everyone in the 70s and 80s so they must beat everyone today. Is that the case? No. They quite evidently get dragged by Tom dick and Harry nowadays.

[Alankrith Shankar @AlanzArena]

@VAAChandran This Germany side are utter dog shit in football. Penalties or not.

Been the case since 2016. Roughly when all the German stalwarts retired and Bayern started prioritising French and Spanish markets.

Oh what a surprise

[Alankrith Shankar @AlanzArena]

@VAAChandran And what is this post 2006 time horizon. What does it even matter. The ONLY player in the Germany side since 2012 is the goalkeeper 😂

If we had the likes of Lahm, Schweini, Muller - Paraguay would have gotten rammed 7:0 in 45 mins. Let alone penalties.

[Alankrith Shankar @AlanzArena]

@RohithNair Mighty Germany? That’s some 12 years ago 😂

[Alankrith Shankar @AlanzArena]

@VAAChandran Which comp were you watching? Harry Kane is our main penalty taker. Hell freezes before he misses a penalty!

Last pen shoot out Bayern lost was 2012! We haven’t taken part in a penalty shoot out in the last 5 seasons of the UCL

How are we poor in something we don’t partake?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your standard tub of ice cream is held together by emulsifiers, gums, and stabilisers, ingredients most people would never keep in their own kitchen. This M&S one uses egg yolk instead. That is why the label stops at five.

Those additives are not there for flavour. They stop ice crystals forming, keep the fat and water from separating, and slow how fast the tub melts on a warm day. Egg yolk does the emulsifying, and skimmed milk powder firms up the texture. That swap is the whole trick behind a five-ingredient ice cream.

Additives like these are one of the main lines between a food that is simply processed and one that counts as ultra-processed. A UK market study found the three most common flags for ultra-processing were flavourings, emulsifiers, and colours. More than half the calories the average person in Britain eats now come from ultra-processed food.

In 2019, an NIH team ran the first controlled test of whether the processing itself matters. Twenty adults lived in a research ward and spent two weeks eating ultra-processed meals, then two weeks on whole-food meals, with both diets given the same calories, sugar, fat, salt, and fibre. On the ultra-processed weeks, people ate about 500 calories a day more and gained about two pounds in two weeks. On the whole-food weeks, they lost weight.

A few of those specific additives are now getting a closer look. In mice, an emulsifier called polysorbate 80 and a thickener called cellulose gum thinned the protective mucus lining the gut and stirred up mild inflammation. A 2025 trial in 60 people found emulsifiers lowered the helpful compounds gut bacteria make, though broader inflammation did not shift over six weeks. Stronger in animals so far, early in humans.

It is still cream, honey, and saturated fat, and easy to eat by the bowlful. No supermarket tub is a health food. What makes this one unusual is plain on the label: five things you could buy yourself, and none of the additives that put most ice cream in the ultra-processed bracket.

[Alankrith Shankar @AlanzArena]

1 year since he moved on from Bayern and I was reminded today how much he would piss me off during our games

[Bayern & Germany @iMiaSanMia]

Sané 1v1 with the keeper, can't hit the target. Great pass by Tah to send him through

[Alankrith Shankar @AlanzArena]

To each their own, but I personally feel Bhogle catches too many strays now. Sure he may be on the downward slope but who is coming through at better quality?

When Bhogle retires, English comms for India home games will see a massive hole with Murali Kartik, DDG etc. leading it

[Jacob Bethell Enthusiast @BethellBlaster]

Sky coverage, English grounds, Atherton, Nasser Hussain and Broad back on air what a privilege after listening to Bhogle for months.

Life’s back. Joy’s back . Test Cricket’s back.

[Alankrith Shankar @AlanzArena]

Micky, Van Hecke, Danso, and Senesi.

That’s a massive upgrade from Romero, Davies and Dragusin.

[The Spurs Express @TheSpursExpress]

🚨🥇| #Tottenham have made a concrete attempt to sign Jan Paul Van Hecke from Brighton & Hove Albion.

According to sources, the bid is significant enough that the two clubs have now entered negotiations in an effort to reach an agreement.

On a personal level, Van Hecke is also believed to be open to a move to #Spurs. The defender feels ready for the next step in his career and is keen to secure a transfer.

@joost_blaauwhof

[Alankrith Shankar @AlanzArena]

@cricket_U You didn’t get my point. Leave it.

[Alankrith Shankar @AlanzArena]

@BarryOKeeffe68 They usually bowl 80-82 overs. Very rarely see a day of test cricket that bowls more than 84

[Alankrith Shankar @AlanzArena]

Ireland have bowled 94 overs in a day of test cricket.

94.

No excuse for teams like England, India or Aus to bowl less than 90 a day.

[Josh Newton @JoshuaNewton]

https://t.co/VbpGc9Qt5D

[Gray-Nicolls @graynics]

You won't find anything else like this.

The Legend is back.

[Alankrith Shankar @AlanzArena]

@ChatilPandi Too many cooks and all that

[Alankrith Shankar @AlanzArena]

Mad that Spurs would need Arsenal to do them a favour vs West Ham to stand a chance to stay up 😂