🚨🚨🚨💣 LEO MESSI STATEMENT:
“After all this time since the final, and after thinking about it a lot, I want to tell everyone that I’m retiring from the national team…
"It was a decision that hurt and still hurts deep inside, but I understand that this is the right moment.
"I swear I always gave everything, not only in these last few years when we won everything, but before that too. I always fought and gave everything for this shirt, to bring you happiness and make you feel proud to be Argentine through football.
"There isn’t much time left, and different chapters are coming to an end. This is one that hurts me a lot. I love, I loved, and I will always love being part of the national team. I gave everything I had, and I don’t have anything more to give.
"Also, there are great young players coming through who deserve to be here.
"Thank you for all the love during these 20 years. I’m going to miss hearing you from the inside. Now I’ll be one of you, always supporting from the outside, in the good times and even more in the bad ones.
"Thank you to my family for always being there and for being with me throughout this beautiful but difficult journey. Thank you to every coach, teammate and director I had the chance to share it with. I take with me unforgettable memories and moments.
"I leave with peace and pride, knowing that together with my teammates we gave you moments we once dreamed of. It was crazy to experience all of this with you. I love you!
"Thank you God for making me Argentine.
"Vamos Argentina!
"I wrote these words on July 21, two days after the final. Today, after what happened with my dad, I’m even more convinced of this decision than before.”
Interesting account.
She changed her pfp from her own pic to 'Hum kamal nahi guldasta hain' this early in the morning to show her ideological steadfastness despite her experiences.
Apni ideology walon se gaali bhi sweekar hai par ebil Hindutva ko ek inch zameen nahi deni hai.
Long Thread
This has not been easy to write. My stint at Newslaundry was one of the worst times of my life. I dreaded going to an office where so many times I would be the only woman working. Heck, the office I worked out of didn't even have a woman's washroom when I was there
Initially, it was thought that an earthquake near the Nepal-China border triggered the catastrophic flash flood down the Bhotekoshi River today.
However, further analysis suggests that the glacier collapse ITSELF caused the earthquake.
Yes, you read that right. A Magnitude 5.2 seismic shockwave caused by a colossal landslide of ice and rock on the Earth’s SURFACE. This is actually insane.
I am feeling deeply depressed today. The brutal annihilation of the entire Ganesh Chakraborty family is horrifying & yet, so far, not a single liberal, human-rights activist, or leftist has raised their voice in support of Hindus in Bangladesh.
His daughter was due to be married in just a few days. She was allegedly brutally raped, her eyes were gouged out, and acid was poured on her face. The sheer hatred and brutality directed against Hindus is deeply disturbing.
His wife too was raped and subjected to horrific torture. His 12-year-old son was forcibly circumcised. Ganesh himself was brutally killed.
Their only “crime” was that they were Hindus.
What makes this horror even more disturbing is the alleged treatment of the bodies after the killings—acid was reportedly poured over their faces before the bodies were dumped at the foot of the stairs.
The complete destruction of an entire Hindu family cannot simply be dismissed as an ordinary crime. If these reports are established, this would be a horrifying indictment of law and order, minority protection, and the failure of society to protect innocent human beings from communal violence.
Where are the voices that so loudly speak about human rights when the victims are Hindu?
Human rights cannot be selective. Outrage cannot depend on the religion of the victim. If you remain silent when an entire family is allegedly brutalised and killed because they are Hindu, that silence is not neutrality—it is hypocrisy.
#Bangladesh #Dhaka #Chittagong #Uttara #Dhanmondi #HumanRights #HinduLivesMatter #SaveBangladeshiHindus
A can of Fanta sold in London has 63 calories. Buy the same brand in India and it contains three times as much sugar.
What the fuck is FSSAI even doing?
Alex in USA enjoys a high quality of life because his grandfather Peter worked hard in factories during 50s-90s and supported mass industrialisation and reforms.
Whereas Ananya protests against every nuclear plant, metro project, industries, and opposes Dharavi redevelopment.
🚨🚨🚨🥹 LEO MESSI ON IG:
"Dad, I still can’t believe you’re gone. It hasn’t sunk in, or rather, I don’t want it to. It’s so hard for me to imagine that I’m never going to see you again, that we’re never going to talk again. I know you were suffering and that this is for the best, but you left us far too soon. We still had so much left to enjoy together.
"You kept asking me to play in one last World Cup, and just days before it began was when your condition got worse. It was the first time you weren’t going to be there with me at a tournament, but Mom kept telling me you were going to get better and that you’d be well enough to travel. I kept telling you we were going to reach the final so you could make the trip.
"After every match, I waited for and missed your message. That’s when I realized how serious the situation really was. Even so, I couldn’t stop thinking about going as far as possible, to give you more time and the chance to watch one of the games.
"We reached the final, but you couldn’t be there. I wanted to win it so I could bring the trophy to you and show you another one. I couldn’t. My legs just couldn’t give me any more. This time I tried to push beyond what my body could handle, but I couldn’t. I never managed to feel physically right.
"When I got back, you thought we had lost the final on penalties. We couldn’t talk about anything that had happened. You weren’t able to enjoy any of it. We didn’t become champions, but you have no idea how much we enjoyed every match. Once again, you were right: I had to be there and play in it.
"I’m telling you all this because it was the only thing we never got the chance to talk about. You already know everything else. We spoke every day and saw each other whenever my commitments allowed us to.
"I don’t know what I’m going to do without you. I don’t know how to keep going. All I ever did was play football, and now I have serious doubts about whether I’ll keep doing it for much longer. You were by my side from the very beginning, and there was so little left until the end. Why couldn’t you hold on just a little longer so we could finish it together?
I know your happiness came from seeing your family doing well, your wife, your children and, above all, without anyone else knowing, from watching me play…
"It had always been that way since I was little. You took me to every training session as soon as you got home from work. Mom took me to many of them because you were working.
"And of course, you never missed a single match. How much you suffered watching me, and how much you enjoyed it, even though you never gave me too much praise.
"You were my dad, my friend, and my representative. You always knew exactly who you needed to be in every moment, and you were never wrong about anything. Despite some arguments or disagreements, you were always right. In the end, things always turned out the way you said they would.
"I’m going to miss you so much, but you’ll always be present, especially in the way I raise my children, because I teach them and raise them the way you and Mom raised me.
"Rest in peace and watch over us from above, just as you did here. Thank you for everything.
"I love you, Dad. ❤️"
BC 15-15 ghante ka power cut hota tha Congress ke time pe, itne bomb blasts, railway station itne gande, koi infrastructure nahi, basic amenities ki shortage, inflation itna high. How can anyone in their right mind miss that era? What do you even miss? Railway tracks ki badbu?
I am neither a communist nor an ultra socialist, but an apartment in Gurugram, which has third-world civic amenities, is being sold for Rs 271 crore. There is something extremely wrong with India. It is surprising that where you are taxed for an income of more than 12 lakh, starting at 4 lakh. 80 crore people are given free food. As soon as you earn 50 lakh, the tax slab goes up disproportionately, and the excessive cess takes charge. The income distribution is very uneven, and worst of all, there seems to be a particular class that gets special treatment—middle class, taxed as if it recalls French taxation before the revolution. There is something fundamentally wrong with India's economy. I was astounded to see technical professionals living in PGs in Gurugram or Bengaluru, enduring inhumane conditions because renting a flat is beyond their capacity, earning up to 1.5 lakh. There is something wrong. I wish someone could explain it to me.
How much of India's infrastructure was built after 2014?
• 100% of Dedicated Freight Corridors
• 98% of Solar Capacity
• 85% of the Expressway Network
• 79% of Tap Water Access
• 75% of Metro Rail
• 71% of Port Capacity
• 69% of Railway Electrification
• 60% of 4-Lane National Highways
Infrastructure is built over decades.
But some decades build more than others.
Le prof m’a demandé de citer 4 dates qui ont marqué l’humanité.
J’ai répondu :
24 juin 1987
16 octobre 2004
1er décembre 2009
18 décembre 2022
Il m’a regardé… puis il a compris
In the 60s, Fairchild, that Fairchild, personally went to India because they wanted their first offshore manufacturer to be there.
They wanted to produce 10 million transistors yearly; the government explicitly told them to produce only 600k.
They decided to leave for Hong Kong.