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[Nameisblank @bharathbj]

@airindia I was traveling to SFO DM Robin Raju and Aswin Thomas of BLR airport.. it was really smooth and he was super friendly..

[Nameisblank @bharathbj]

@EnthuPattanee Ok. Now 25 instances later, the only change... media is also getting manipulated...

[Nameisblank @bharathbj]

@EnthuPattanee do you remember this discussion..

[Whimsy @EnthuPattanee]

Is there any data on custodial deaths in TN per year? Power trips of cops aside (which is a real and valid concern) would like to really understand if the numbers are really high or is it inflated by medias like modis efficiency was...

[Nameisblank @bharathbj]

@kusumbuonly Already Bluesattai அப்படித்தான் deal பண்ணிருக்கார்..

[Manish Jethwani @mrjethwani_]

Americans can sell you anything!

Now, Tamil Nadu’s traditional lungi has become a hot-selling product in the USA.

Check out the advertisement and the clever marketing strategy behind it!😄

[Nameisblank @bharathbj]

@narsimp Prime'la Gram Sikithchalay is simple and good

[Nameisblank @bharathbj]

@akaasi Cell phone holder..

[Nameisblank @bharathbj]

@avataram Partition of Bengal

[Nameisblank @bharathbj]

@psankar Bangalore is definitely not saturated.. traffic is a pain but overall the quality of life is better

[Oli London @OliLondonTV]

Vice President of World Boxing confirms Imane Khelif is MALE.

“The problem was not with the level of Khelif’s testosterone, because that can be adjusted nowadays, but with the result of the gender test, which clearly revealed that the Algerian boxer is biologically male.”

István Kovács, the European Vice President of the World Boxing Organization and former Secretary General of the International Boxing Association has also revealed he warned the IOC about males participating in women’s boxing in 2022, but was ignored.

Source: @reduxx

[Nameisblank @bharathbj]

@akaasi 15

[Nameisblank @bharathbj]

@elavasam Oh.. I was confident that you are doing a 2-in-1.. World Cup and vacay.. 😁

[Dr P Thiaga Rajan (PTR) @ptrmadurai]

Going...and returning, are both immensely complex decisions that are life-altering for generations, and options which are still not available to the majority of people. So, I would not presume to judge any individual based on their choices.

I went as a graduate student when I turned 21, ONLY because my father wanted me to have a broader view of the world. I returned 25 years after my father would have liked me to, and 10 years after he passed away, ONLY to continue the Public Service that was the legacy of generations of my forefathers.

But....even as I respect all individual decisions without comment, I agree that boot-licking actors, self-serving industrialists, and bloviating politicians whose jingoistic posturing is contradicted by their/their children's actions, MUST be held to account.

[Nameisblank @bharathbj]

@narsimp 1. Sehwag
2. Mark Waugh
3. Virat Kohli
4. Gilchrist
5. Alan Donald

[Social Justice:சமூகநீதி @sathyantweets]

Here is a response to Mr.@svembu

1. India follows a Westminster system, not a presidential system. Hence, the "I support our Prime Minister for this reason" argument is bad; the emphasis on supporting the Prime Minister based solely on an individual's stance in a system designed for collective governance reveals a superficial understanding of political accountability. It's surprising, especially coming from someone as politically aware as a billionaire, to reduce the complex fabric of governance to a one-man show.

2. The use of Personal Corruption - is telling on so many levels! It is a big, big, big Freudian slip - an unintentional error revealing subconscious feelings. He knows very well that corruption is everywhere and wants to shield Ji! Highlighting 'Personal Corruption' unintentionally exposes the deep-rooted issue of systemic corruption. It’s naive to suggest immunity from personal corruption absolves the highest echelons of government from responsibility for systemic failures!

Even if it is proven that he did not take money personally, as the head of the Govt and the most influential and supreme leader of his party, the buck stops with him. Read about Electoral bonds - I will make it simple:
https://t.co/0C5e8CPgoe

https://t.co/bqjbrYJvM9

The number of people with serious corruption charges being accepted and laundered by BJP is staggering, here is a list that is not even comprehensive! https://t.co/UqlESGmsJ5

3. How do you expect corruption to be exposed when every independent institution, every media, every watchdog, every system, including the basic ones like parliamentary committees, are either nonfunctional or subverted or bent or weaponized to attack the opposition, the civil organization, and even policy institutions! Do you know how much effort, time, and fight it took to make Electoral Bonds data public?

4. If you want to discuss development, progress, and growth, it is best to speak with data or not at all! Check Multidimensional Poverty, IMR, MMR, and GER, and ask yourself why the southern states look so good and why the states ruled by the BJP perform at par with Sub-Saharan Africa! Take a good look at this chart. https://t.co/e8K739HKGt

5. Railways: I challenge you to get a random sleeper class ticket for a 24-hour train from Chennai to somewhere North or East, travel there, and then speak about this.

Railways, the backbone of long-distance travel of the middle class and the poor, have been hijacked, and more AC coaches are made than sleeper coaches. Traveling on any train is impossible without getting squeezed like a commodity - like tamarind, if you may!

Vande Bharat is just hogwash, diverting most funds enlisted for safety and other essential measures. The tickets are so expensive. The time gained is nothing compared to trains like Uday Express.

Almost all new LHBfied trains have the same these days: 10 3AC, 4 2AC, 1 1st AC, 2 SL, 2 Gen, 2 EOG, and 1 extra!

6. Airports: A private organization that did not have a single airport or airline business before 2020 now handles every 2.5 or so air passengers in the county! The same goes for ports. How can a single private organization be so powerful in such a vast country? How can a government take credit for just privatizing everything and anything? India does not have a state-owned airline now.

7. Factories: The MSME sector is in disarray. It is almost destroyed. The MSMEs are the backbone of employment generations; entire sectors like textiles are struggling; Only the cronies have grown, and the corporate taxes have been cut. A lot of NPAs have been written off - all public money and welfare schemes have been cut. Do not forget that the bottom 50% of the income group spends a higher percentage of their income on indirect taxes than the middle 40% and the top 10% combined. The bottom 50% of the population at an All-India level pays six times more on indirect taxation as a percentage of income compared to the top 10%.

8: Toilets: The Swachh Bharat scheme and the focus on toilets was a good intention, but all that stayed and only Paper. We do not have a single city where this is successfully implemented. If anything, there is garbage around across the country, many thousand times more than what it was 10 years ago,

Look at the government’s admission and data on the flagship Namami Gange scheme.

https://t.co/lhRKXj41jm

https://t.co/Avtg9n98ca

Perceptions do not matter; challenging data matters, facts matter!

It’s a democracy, and you can support anyone!

Just be honest about why.

I will make it easy for many people who support the BJP to support the BJP and Mr. Modi; they support them because Unabashed, super fast, super strong establishment and advancement of the Brahmin-Baniya Rashtra will be done by the BJP-RSS than by anyone else.

நன்றி, வணக்கம். 🙏

[Nameisblank @bharathbj]

@narsimp அந்த மலைக் கோட்டை வாலிபன் பாத்தீங்களா??

[kaveyy @kaysthetic_]

a confession that lives rent free in my mind

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

When he was 19, Andre Agassi started losing his hair.

Deeply ashamed of his receding hairline, to hide it, Agassi started wearing a hairpiece.

Not long after, at the 1990 French Open, Agassi made it to his first Grand Slam final.

“The night before the final,” Agassi writes,

“Catastrophe strikes.”

As he was taking a shower, Agassi felt the hairpiece disintegrate in his hands. He summoned his brother, who was able to clip the hairpiece back together with 20 bobby pins.

The next morning, Agassi writes, “warming up before the match, I pray. Not for a win, but for my hairpiece to stay on…My tenuous hairpiece has me catatonic…With every lunge, every leap, I picture it landing on the clay. I can picture millions of people suddenly leaning closer to their TVs, turning to each other and in dozens of languages and dialects saying some version of: Did Andre Agassi’s hair just fall off?”

At times, he looks into the stands and sees fans sporting hairdos just like his. This only exacerbates his sense of shame. “I can’t imagine all these people trying to be like Andre Agassi,” he writes, “since I don’t want to be Andre Agassi.”

Because of this fixation on his hairpiece, though he was the heavy favorite, Agassi lost three sets to one.

After, his girlfriend, aware of the hairpiece catastrophe, says, “I think you should just get rid of that hairpiece.”

“Impossible,” Agassi replies, “I’d feel naked.”

“You’d feel liberated,” she says.

He thought it over for a few days: “I thought about the pain my hair has caused me, the hypocrisy and the pretending and the lying.”

And then he went back to his girlfriend, “Let’s do it…Let’s cut it all off.”

His first tournament with a bald head was another Grand Slam, the Australian Open, and, “I come out like the Incredible Hulk. I don’t drop one set in a take-no-prisoners blitz to the final.”

You were right, he told his girlfriend before the final, “my hairpiece was a shackle.”

In the final, he won three sets to one. “Everyone says it’s my best performance yet, because it’s my first victory over Pete [Sampras]. But I think twenty years from now I’ll remember it as my first bald victory.”

Takeaway 1:

In his book, in interviews, and in the documentary “Stutz,” the psychiatrist Phil Stutz talks about the Shadow.

“The easiest way to say it,” Stutz explains, “is that the Shadow is the part of yourself that you’re ashamed of…It’s a flawed part of yourself that you feel you have to hide and once you start to hide things, you become very sensitive to whether other people can see them or not. It becomes an obsession—How do they see me, what do they think of me, do they like me, love me?”

The more you try to hide what you’re ashamed of, as Agassi said, the more ashamed you feel.

“But the beauty is,” Stutz continues, “once you stop hiding it, you can relax and then you get flow. If you stop hiding your Shadow, if you stop hiding, you get flow. And that’s what everybody wants.”

After he stopped hiding his Shadow, Agassi got flow. He went on to win back-to-back Grand Slams and ended 1995 as the number one ranked tennis player in the world, replacing Pete Sampras who held the spot for eighty-two straight weeks.

Takeaway 2:

Keeping in mind that Agassi was so worried about what others would think or say about his shaved head, I went searching for what others thought or said after he shaved his head.

All I could find was a passing mention in a 1995 Washington Post piece (“The wild mane of hair he sported at the tournament last season has been replaced with his new no-nonsense buzz cut.”)

It made me think of a line from the philosopher Seneca, who writes in a letter titled On Groundless Fears: “We suffer more in our imagination more often than in reality.”

In his head, Agassi thought people would think or say nasty things about him.

In reality, no one really cared.

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“The most precious thing we have in life is time, so any time you spend worrying about something, get rid of it.” — Andre Agassi

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