Charinder

#TeamLH. A Writer. A Cinema Lover. A Daydreamer. A Nightcrawler. #Teammufc

[Match of the Day @BBCMOTD]

Goalscorer. Creator. Portuguese magnifico 🇵🇹💫

Bruno Fernandes is the Men's PFA Player of the Year 🏆

[David de Gea @D_DeGea]

It's not how it starts, it's how it ends.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

That was then. This is now.

Up the Reds ❤️

[MattyFC @MattyFC__]

the TRUTH about signing Baleba...

[Charinder @charinkhalsa]

@ManUtd Charinder 29

[Charinder @charinkhalsa]

@janniksin Happy Birthday Jannik 🎊✌🏽

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

Happy Independence Day 🇮🇳

Let this be the reminder that we still have a long way to go.

#JaiHind

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

Flew to Afghan. w/different president on AF1. An insurgent missile struck Bagram runway before landing. Weather was bad so planned Marine 1 trip to Kabul scrubbed. We were w/president the whole time. Our safety wasn’t treated any differently from his. We were never decoys.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

I binge-watched Operation Safed Sagar over the weekend.

And I want to say thank you to everyone who had a hand in making this series & to Netflix for commissioning it.

For many reasons…

Because, despite some reviewers cribbing about inconsistent CGI & performances that could have been better, I found the actors competent and credible. More importantly, I was moved and inspired by the story & the emotions underlying it.

Because I wish that, when I was growing up, we had had more films like this, recording the feats of our armed forces in the many conflicts we have experienced, in a gritty and convincingly realistic manner.

Instead, we grew up on a diet of Hollywood war movies which, despite often taking enormous liberties with historical accuracy, helped build American pride & self-belief while we watched as envious bystanders.

Because, even though I knew a great amount about the courage of soldiers like Vikram Batra and the role of the Bofors gun in Kargil, I confess I knew far too little about the critical role played by the Indian Air Force.

And I certainly didn’t know that, apart from extraordinary valour, Operation Safed Sagar showcased the ingenuity & rapid improvisation that we now celebrate as a hallmark of Indian innovation.

The IAF acquired handheld GPS receivers, put them into MiGs & used them to calculate release points for ordinary “dumb” bombs. They conducted hurried trials, initially got disappointing results, refined the technique within a handful of sorties & took it into combat almost immediately.

The Mirage story, dealt with more briefly in the series, was equally remarkable. The IAF had Mirage 2000s, Israeli Litening laser-designation pods and Paveway II guidance kits, but had not yet turned that combination into an established combat capability. When a required component could not be obtained from abroad due to the 1998 sanctions, IAF technicians displayed what I call ‘denial-driven innovation’ & engineered the solution themselves!

So at a time when we are debating whether human intelligence will increasingly become a slave to machine intelligence, it’s incredibly valuable to be reminded that even in battle, where decisions are made in seconds & lives depend upon them, it’s ultimately the humans behind the machines who make the difference.

I hope as many people as possible watch this series.

Because when the men and women of our armed forces know that we know their stories & remember their sacrifices, they also know that their courage will not be forgotten.

The heroes of Operation Safed Sagar are my #MondayMotivation.

With a special salute to Squadron Leader Ajay Ahuja. 🇮🇳

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

They look like Lifetime movie villains.

[Himanshu @himanshukr2841]

This should get nominated for Grammy and Oscars.

[Charinder @charinkhalsa]

@TheTechnician44 Thank you for sourcing these @ScuderiaFerrari it is outrageous you didn’t protest the penalty!

[Il Tecnico - The Technician @TheTechnician44]

So i know the race is the race but speed limit is safety right…?!! So all offences should be treated the same…. Just some examples….

[DrivenF1 @F1_driven]

Imagine Lewis had a backmarker teammate, the best strategy team, another team of drivers helping him, and unlimited leniency from the FIA...

This has been Max's entire career! It's insanity

[Daniel Valente 🏎️ @F1GuyDan]

🚨 Lewis Hamilton is STILL the only driver that has completed 100% of all racing laps this season (673/673) and is also STILL the only driver that has scored points in every race (11/11)

[Charinder @charinkhalsa]

@SkySportsF1 Show me one instance where FIA golden boy had a 0.1 exceed. Don’t worry I know the answer! because as far he is concerned, 0.1 doesn’t exists!!!

[Charinder @charinkhalsa]

@SkySportsF1 And you say there isn’t a conspiracy!!!!!!!!😡😡

[Sky Sports F1 @SkySportsF1]

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[Charinder @charinkhalsa]

@FER44Rl Yeah all the precedents are set when it’s Lewis!