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On Twitter, for some entertainment!

[Diaryofadreamywriter @Briellefine]

Half the books you were "forced" to read in high school are actually spectacular, you just didn't have the emotional maturity to understand them yet.

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

A little back story about Francis Tiafoe.
Constant and Alphina moved to the US from Sierra Leone, Constant reaching in 1993 and his wife in 1998. When their sons were born in 1999, Constant was a day labourer, part of a crew building a tennis centre in Maryland and Alphina was a night nurse.
When the tennis centre was finally built, Constant Francis stayed on as a custodian, and that's where his twin sons Francis and Franklin, born in 1999, hung around through the week, as their mother stayed far away, near her job. So they started doing the one thing they could do there, play tennis and get free tennis lessons.

[jonathan selvaraj @jon_selvaraj]

Asmita's father, a bicycle mechanic in Sonaichari, a 3 hrs from Agartala always hoped his daughter could live a bigger life than what he gave her. He passed away a few months ago, just days before his 23 year old daughter would qualify for the CWG https://t.co/6gaS2uE8LP

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

24th July 1991, Thirty five years ago to the day that Manmohan Singh delivered his maiden budget, the most important in Indian history.
He dismantled the restrictive 'Licence Raj', devalued the rupee, slashed import tariffs, and opened the market to foreign investment, transforming India into a globally integrated, market-driven economy
He famously said, “No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come."
Still rings true!

[Himanish Ganjoo @himganj153]

My Delhi book list.

Most books on this are about Delhi / exploring Delhi history. Would love to add more titles, academic, non-academic, literature etc.

[Works Department, Odisha @PWD_Odisha]

ବିକାଶର ଧାରା, ଓଡ଼ିଶା ସାରା | ମୁଖ୍ୟମନ୍ତ୍ରୀ ଆଜି ଏହି ସବୁ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପର ଶୁଭାରମ୍ଭ କରିଛନ୍ତି |

@CMO_Odisha @PrithivirajBJP #2YearsofLokankaSarakar

*#BikasharaDharaOdishaSara

[Abdaal Akhtar @abdaal]

While the electric fan experiment didn't work out, a massive oil flame used to be lit on top of the India Gate dome on important occasions for many years. With the increasing lighting around the area and the staining caused by the oil, this was later abandoned

[sreejesh p r @16Sreejesh]

It’s seems like My coaching career comes to an end after 1.5 years, during which we played 5 tournaments and secured 5 podium finishes, including a Junior World Cup bronze medal.

I have heard about coaches getting fired after bad performances.
But this is the first time I am experiencing being removed to make way for a foreign coach.

The Hockey India President stated that the chief coach of the senior men’s team prefers a foreign head coach for the junior team, believing it will help develop Indian hockey from the junior level through to the senior level. Hence, the continued preference for foreign coaches —

Can’t Indian coaches develop Indian hockey?

On 07-03-2026, during a meeting with the Hon’ble Sports Minister Shri Mansukh Mandaviya, I was told, “Sreejesh, we need coaches like you to step up and lead our country as we prepare for 2036.”

However, Hockey India continues to place its trust in foreign coaches over Indian ones across all four teams.

@mansukhmandviya @PMOIndia @TheHockeyIndia @Media_SAI @WeAreTeamIndia @DGSAI @DilipTirkey

[Abdaal Akhtar @abdaal]

No bird ever saw its population collapse at the rate of the vulture in India. In the mid 90s, they were still seen along railway lines devouring cattle kills. Trees were splattered throughout with their droppings. In about 5 years, the population fell by 99% due to diclofenac

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

Lael [Belonging to God]

[Abdaal Akhtar @abdaal]

1st April 1936 saw the end of a separate Angul district. And the 1st of April, 1993 saw its revival in a new avatar! Here is the Gazette notification from that momentous day that abolished the district and conferred the powers of Collector and SP on that of Cuttack..

[ସାହିତ୍ୟ @OdiaLiterature]

ନୂତନ ଭାବେ ଗଠିତ ଉତ୍କଳ/ଓଡ଼ିଶା ପ୍ରଦେଶର ୧୯୩୬ ମସିହାର ମାନଚିତ୍ର 👇🏻

(ବିହାର-ଓଡ଼ିଶାର ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାଭାଷୀ ଅଞ୍ଚଳ, ସେଣ୍ଟ୍ରାଲ ପ୍ରୋଭିନସେସ୍ ଏବଂ ମାନ୍ଦ୍ରାଜ ପ୍ରେସିଡେନ୍ସିରୁ (ଗଞ୍ଜାମ ସମେତ) ଅଞ୍ଚଳଗୁଡ଼ିକୁ ଏକାଠି କରି ନୂତନ ପ୍ରଦେଶ ଗଠନ କରାଯାଇଥିଲା।)

#OdishaDibasa #UtkalDivas

[✒️ @Literariium]

Astravore

[Deepta Nagpall @DeeptaNagpal]

Every time you leave behind a gap between what you say and what you do, you erode a tiny fraction of your credibility.

[Shekhar Gupta @ShekharGupta]

Jammu & Kashmir winning Ranji Trophy for the first time in its 67 years isn’t a tectonic shift, it’s a revolution with impact way beyond mere cricket..

All these decades teams drooled at playing J&K for statspadding..

Now J&K beat mighty Karnataka with
KL Rahul, Prasidh Krishna and Mayank Agarwal…

It’s a power shift & both JKCA & BCCI deserve credit for this democratisation of cricket…

[Words @wordsporn]

Enigma