ForeignHand

Dad...Foreign Correspondent... Columnist...Writer-at-large... Author of Kamala Harris: Phenomenal Woman and Illiberal India. Retweets not endorsements.

[ForeignHand @chidu77]

Tropes re bowlers tired, rested, workload mgmt etc. In Ahmedabad against Windies, KapilDev bowled 30 overs in 2 spells (20+10) broken by end of day’s play to take 9-83. Either Kapil was superhuman or today’s bowlers with 5/6/7 over spells are wussy. Which? @bhogleharsha #INDvAUS

[ForeignHand @chidu77]

#SouthwestAirlines meltdown continues. Was on hold 83 minutes. Hung up, tried again, and into call back line..30 minutes. Another hour and still on hold. Website shows error to change reservation. Not good @SouthwestAir

[chess24 @chess24com]

Congratulations to @rpragchess on finishing runner-up in the #FTXCryptoCup after beating Magnus Carlsen in the final match! https://t.co/IbzJPYlRtP
#ChessChamps

[ForeignHand @chidu77]

#Praggnanandhaa shocks Magnus Carlsen in final round of Miami chess. Gobsmacked!

[ForeignHand @chidu77]

@kumarmanish9 @CWG2022India Just to put matters in perspective, Hima Das's best timing is more than what Sydney McLaughlin ran last week in 400m HURDLES. But go on, celebrate a fictional medal. Bollywood starrer coming up soon😂 ; Our sporting illiteracy will destroy whatever modest talent we produce.

[ForeignHand @chidu77]

@kumarmanish9 @CWG2022India Thank you for pointing out. Wasted I ssuspect. Even 4 yrs ago, wild celebration did not factor she won a JUNIOR U-20 race, her timing would not qualify her for college athletics in US, and she was yet to beat India's own national record at that time (Manjit Kaur 51.05secs). 1/2

[ForeignHand @chidu77]

@theUdayB Small correction pointed out by friend. Dancer is Kum Kum, but the point remains Kum Kum = Zaibunnisa Khan)

[ForeignHand @chidu77]

@VerizonSupport Wakey Wakey…my Verizon is down…and going by other tweets outage in many areas in dc/md/va.

[ForeignHand @chidu77]

@Kermit_dafrogYo Down in SilverSpring/Takoma Park too @VerizonSupport

[ForeignHand @chidu77]

@nellaiseemai I wrote a 3500-word story on this in The Times of India. Don't have a link but happy to send you the story by email :)

[ForeignHand @chidu77]

#ImranCon has pulled off constitutional #Coup in #Pakistan and matter now heads to SupremeCourt where winner be decided by Pak army placing jackboot on scale.

[ForeignHand @chidu77]

To invoke #cricket metaphor, #ImranKhan is clean bowled but refuses to leave crease. Umpire (Speaker) decides as an afterthought that it is a #noball. Replays dont show it. Imran refuses to leave. Takes fresh guard!

[ForeignHand @chidu77]

A #coup in #Pakistan, except this one by a sitting PM who lost his majority in the national assembly. After digging down on blaming foreign (viz US) conspiracy to oust him

[ForeignHand @chidu77]

#ImranKhan announces "dissolution" of Assembly and calls for fresh elections, after having clearly lost majority!

[ForeignHand @chidu77]

Just when you thought there would be a rare democratic transition in #Pakistan, a democratic/parliamentary coup. Speaker adjourns assembly and bolts when the numbers are stacked against PM Imran Khan. What now?

[ForeignHand @chidu77]

And boom! It looks like the assembly has been adjourned without a vote #Pakistan

[ForeignHand @chidu77]

Fascinating opening to #Pakistan Assembly proceedings in no-confidence motion against #ImranKhan. Charges of US seeking regime change being repeated

[HarperCollins @HarperCollinsIN]

'Harris was able to thrive in the male-dominated corridors of power because ambition was “not a taboo word in her vocabulary”.'

Read a review of @chidu77's definitive biography of #KamalaHarris, titled after #MayaAngelou's poem #PhenomenalWoman,

https://t.co/tpVcIvINTL

[Angela Bettoni @Angie_DownSyn]

Dance with me | World Down Syndrome Day 2022 | #WDSD22 #InclusionMeans #... https://t.co/r9dBEN0G9C via @YouTube Sharing my video for World Down Syndrome Day. Disabilities do not limit who we are! Pls. Retweet. #inclusionmeans #WDSD2022 #disability #advocacy

[ForeignHand @chidu77]

From the passionate and joyous @Angie_DownSyn 🥰, an inspiration for all #DownSyndrome kids and parents https://t.co/8R0GkK2adq