TheLastGuy

A patriotic Indian with a keen eye for sports, cinema, and social causes, who gets emotional over the National Anthem abroad and champions blood donation drives

[TheLastGuy @Don145]

Mbappe is 19 and considered an all time great. Greatness is measured by skills and on field exploits as well as contribution to the team' cause. Not by petty time consuming antics.

[TheLastGuy @Don145]

Kindly look into the matter and resolve expeditiously @airindia

[Amit Singh🇮🇳 @amitnum]

Dear @airindia He was promised full refund, for the outbound journey (Outbound PNR: 92CQEK (Ticket Nos: 0982182436262 / 0982182436263) as he returned from airport because the flight was delayed by 5 hrs. But no full refund insisted yet. He was just given ₹2725 each ticket.

[TheLastGuy @Don145]

Beautifully put !

[Sundeep Misra @MisraSundeep]

In today’s Punjab, the crack of a gunshot doesn’t launch an athlete into a sprint. It scatters a crowd. It sends people diving into the very soil that was just churned up by the thick, muscled feet of kabaddi players.

But in Ranchi, far away from that heavy, fractured atmosphere, the crack of the starter’s gun did something different for Gurindervir. It freed him. He didn’t fear the sound; he welcomed it. He embraced it. This wasn’t the messy, blood-soaked soil of home, and Guri wasn’t a kabaddi raider. Though, in a way, maybe he was - attacking a time, a record, we all once thought was unchartered territory. In a country where life moves slow, Guri pushed us into interstellar territory, promising a journey that’s practically galactic.

That starter’s gun cleared the air for him. In just ten seconds, that boy did more for Punjab’s youth than decades of governments, bureaucrats, and those self-proclaimed NRI sympathizers spinning tall tales from the comfort of their Western homes.

Back home, a young man inherits a completely different soundtrack. It’s the low, constant thrum of anxiety as he stares at maps and visa forms. It’s the generator humming in the background while steroid-pumped boys defend and raid in kabaddi circles, a sport now held hostage by slick promoters and gang lords. All while the state grieves, watching its future slip right through its fingers.

Without even knowing it, Guri has guided the youth toward the synthetic rubber lanes. Just four feet wide, where the only real violence happens against the starting blocks. If your transition at the forty-meter mark is fluid enough, you win. Think about it: maybe life can be solved by these straight, white lines. They bring these kids into focus, letting them release all that raw energy. These lanes have become a sanctuary.

Punjab’s youth are running from a landscape that is actively devouring them. It’s feasting on their ambitions and tearing apart their dreams. It pushes them into corners until, out of sheer despair, some pick up a gun, and the broken ones pick up a needle. All while the people in power treat the state like a stand-up comedy gig.

But when Guri ran, exploding out of those blocks, he was running both toward and away from time. He ran with a fury. The lane held him steady, while everything fracturing outside of it just couldn’t keep up.

In a state that has always measured athletic glory by the width of a shot-putter’s shoulders or the heavy, muddy grip of village tradition, Guri isn’t just holding his ground. Every single stride away from that block is a stubborn refusal to let the streets of Punjab drag him down.

In that single, fluid act of vanishing into speed, he isn’t running away from reality. He’s running toward a new horizon. And he’s showing Punjab and the whole damn country that sometimes, just running in a straight line pays the highest dividends.
#punjab #punjabification #Punjabi #athleticsindia #Gurindervir #fedcup2026
#fedcup

[The Public Record @deepCH_2]

🚨 EXPLAINED | Bihar Officers’ Foreign Trips: What the Rules Actually Allow

📌 What the News Reported

An investigation by Dainik Bhaskar reported that 17 IAS and IPS officers posted in Bihar took extended foreign trips in December, including:
•A 27-day visit to San Francisco
•A 36-day trip to Bali
•Other trips to Indonesia, Vietnam, and similar destinations

According to the report, these leaves were formally approved, with responsibilities handed over to junior officers. The report triggered debate because the trips came at a time when the state faces governance and administrative challenges.

📌 How Much Leave Can IAS/IPS Officers Take?

✔ Earned Leave (EL) — the key rule
Under All India Services (IAS/IPS) leave rules:
•Officers earn about 30 days of Earned Leave per year.
•Unused EL carries forward year after year.
•This allows officers to accumulate large leave balances over time.

➡ Result: An officer who has not used leave for several years can legally take long stretches of leave in one go, including for foreign travel.

📌 Can Leave Go Beyond 30 Days at Once?

Yes — under certain conditions.
•While 30 days per year is the normal annual accrual, accumulated EL can be:
•Clubbed together
•Sanctioned in large blocks
•In some AIS cases, 180–240 days of EL can be approved at a stretch, subject to cadre authority approval and procedural compliance.

This explains how trips of 27–36 days abroad are legally possible.

📌 What About “Ex-India” Leave Limits?

There is a common misunderstanding here.
•A DoPT circular limits ex-India leave to 21 days only when combined with official duty abroad.
•Purely personal leave (like vacations) taken using Earned Leave is not bound by this 21-day cap, as long as it is:
•Applied for
•Properly sanctioned
•Not linked to official foreign assignments

📌 Why This Is Legally Allowed

✔ Leave accumulation over years
✔ Carry-forward provisions under service rules
✔ Formal sanction by competent authority

So, administratively speaking, these trips are within the rulebook if procedures were followed.

📌 Why the Public Backlash?

Even if legal, the optics matter:
•Multiple senior officers travelling abroad simultaneously raises questions about administrative continuity.
•Long foreign vacations by top officials are often viewed as elite privilege, especially when ordinary citizens face delays and governance gaps.

The Dainik Bhaskar report highlights this perception gap — legality versus public accountability.

📌 Bottom Line
•✔ The foreign trips were likely taken using accumulated Earned Leave.
•✔ Service rules do allow long personal foreign travel if leave is sanctioned.
•❌ The 21-day cap applies only to official-duty-linked foreign travel, not personal leave.
•⚠️ The controversy is not about illegality, but about timing, optics, and governance impact.

In short: Rules permit it — public scrutiny questions it.

#BiharBureaucracy
#IASRulesExplained
#GovernanceDebate

[Pratik Sinha @free_thinker]

Hello @sudhirchaudhary, it is a very good practice to ask questions, wish you had practised this where it mattered.

Anyway, coming back to the question. Why use a VPN? There are many reasons to use one if you can afford it. I have been using a VPN for three to four years. My phone is permanently connected to a VPN, and my laptop is also often connected, including right now while I am writing this post.

I use a VPN provider (Mullvad) which does not log any of my data. This is supported by regular third-party audit reports accessible on the VPN provider's website. A VPN ensures that my ISP or any open network I might use in a coffee shop cannot log my browsing data. I use a VPN mainly as a privacy measure because I do not want my data to be harvested.

We live in a world where data is collected round the clock and algorithms target us in multiple ways. I want to make that more difficult. A VPN is not the strongest method for this. Better tools exist, for example the Tor Browser or a Tor router, but one has to weigh the pros and cons and decide how much privacy and security one wants and how much inconvenience one is willing to deal with.

My VPN provider also supports ad blocking, which makes it harder for ad-tech companies to target me with advertisements. Of course, a VPN does not stop platforms from tracking you if you are logged in to their services, but it still cuts off one major source of data collection, which is the ISP.

I also use a VPN because the Indian government has withheld access to accounts such as HindutvaWatch, which do important work, and I want access to those accounts. I do not want my government deciding what I can or cannot see. It is not their prerogative.

A VPN is one of the many tools I use for my digital hygiene, the same way people use privacy-friendly browsers and tracker blockers. Surveillance capitalism runs on constant data extraction, and tools like VPNs make that surveillance just a little harder.

Of course, people misuse privilege, and there are people who use a VPN to carry out illegal activities and hide their tracks. For example, you are also misusing your privilege. You get your salary from taxpayers' money, but instead of asking questions on behalf of the taxpayers, you are asking questions to the taxpayers. Just because some people misuse their privilege does not mean everyone does.

[interesting video @EGA_82]

So cool 🔥

[Abhishek @AbhishekSay]

So, it's confirmed that Indian government hired influencers to spread propaganda on Ethanol blended petrol. These influencers include Abhishek Malhan, Mahesh Keshwala, Arun Kushwah, RJ Naved, RJ Praveen, Neha Nagar, Sanjay Kathuria, Vishal Rattewal, etc.

Videos in this thread.

[TheLastGuy @Don145]

That was close. Test cricket at its best. #INDvsEND #INDvsENGTest

[TheLastGuy @Don145]

That is a piece of creativity, apart from the trophy for the best Club in the world #FIFAClubWorldCup2025 #FIFAClubWorldCup

[TheLastGuy @Don145]

This is the positivity we need to hear 🫡

[ParanjoyGuhaThakurta @paranjoygt]

Respected Gadkari ji,
As a child, I had read that Sher Shah, during his five-year rule, built a road from Sasaram to Peshawar. Alongside those roads, he had fruit-bearing and shady trees planted, and inns constructed at regular intervals.
Gadkari ji, Sher Shah lived five hundred years before us. Yet he had enough common sense, enough understanding, to know that there should be trees along the roads.
I am currently traveling on the Purvanchal Expressway, one of the roads built under your ministry. It stretches over 325 kilometers — and not a single tree can be seen along the entire length.
You do know what a tree is, right?
The same tree you might have occasionally seen in photos.
Or the one you get photographed with during Van Mahotsav (Tree Plantation Festival).
A tree — it rises from the earth and stands tall day and night.
It has branches and leaves.
It gives shade — not just to humans but to
animals too.
It used to, at least. Because wherever your roads have been built, all the trees have been cut down and erased.
Forget people, even birds have no place to rest under your regime!
I don’t want to spoil your mood further by reminding you of the law made during the time of Nehru and Indira — which made it mandatory to plant a new tree for every one that was cut down.
Just one more point:
On these expressways, the toll you charge — arbitrarily and forcefully — is already unjustified. And the few rest stops that have been built, seem to have only one contractor, who also enjoys the freedom to loot travelers with sky-high prices.
Seeing all this on your roads reminded me of Sher Shah.
I offer my respectful salutations to him.
You too should occasionally read about him — it might do you some good.
- Gunjan Sinha

[TheLastGuy @Don145]

That's @varungrover for you in his latest video on @YouTubeIndia

[TheLastGuy @Don145]

India first took out Pakistan out of Champions Trophy 🏆 final.

Then India took the Champions Trophy 🏆 final out of Pakistan.

#ChampionsTrophy2025

[TheLastGuy @Don145]

Saw Gladiator 2. So I changed DP from the time I visited the Colosseum in Rome February last.

Was indeed magnificent and imposing.

[TheLastGuy @Don145]

7 out of 10 for me. #SquidGame2 #SquidGameSeason2

[TheLastGuy @Don145]

Truly heartwarming speech by Ashwin in Dressing Room.

R Ashwin's parting words to Team India https://t.co/uu2OFtlI4X

[TheLastGuy @Don145]

Dear @Google @GoogleIndia, can you please explain the probabilities?
#INDvsAUS #INDvAUS

[TheLastGuy @Don145]

Trump winning the @potus election is something out of the blue, to say the least.

[TheLastGuy @Don145]

When in Ahmedabad, you got to dine in at the #Patang Re-evolve. Lovely experience!

https://t.co/1s12t7M8bd

[Brutal Mindset @BrutalMindset]

Look at these guys.

One works 16 hours a day. One works 4 hours a week.

2 billionaires. 1 mind-blowing lesson about success:

(I can't believe no one has connected the dots) 🧵

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

Indian equity market is now at a point where every theory, thesis, formula and literature about stock markets, stocks and investments, has been run over by a king size bulldozer, and whatever remained has been burnt with a flamethrower.

Let's take the recent IPO of Ola Electric