The girl who was thrown into the garbage bin at birth went on become captain of the Australian Cricket Team.
In Pune, Maharashtra, there is an orphanage called the ' Shrivtsa Anathalaya'. On August 13, 1979, a girl was born in an obscure corner of the city. Her parents threw her into a garbage bin outside the orphanage as soon as she was born. The orphanage manager named the adorable little girl 'Laila'.
At that time, an American couple named Haren and Sue were visiting India. Their family already had a daughter; their purpose of coming to India was to adopt a son. They came to this orphanage in search of a handsome boy. They couldn't find one, but Sue's eyes fell on Laila and fell in love with her bright brown eyes and innocent face.
After legal proceedings, the girl was adopted. Sue changed her name from Laila to 'Liz'. They moved back to the United States, but after a few years, they settled permanently in Sydney.
A father taught his daughter to play cricket, starting in the park at home and ending with playing with a boy in the street. Her passion for cricket was immense, she also completed her studies. She found a good opportunity, and moved on. First, she spoke, then her bat spoke, and then her records.
1997 - First match for New South Wales
2001 - First ODI for Australia
2003 - First Test for Australia
2005 - First T20 for Australia
Eight Test matches, 416 runs, 23 wickets
125 ODIs, 2728 runs, 146 wickets
54 T20s, 769 runs, 60 wickets
The first female cricketer to score 1,000 runs and take 100 wickets in ODIs
When the ICC ranking system began, she was the world's number one all-rounder.
Australian captain! Well done!
She participated in four World Cups – ODI and T20.
The player retired from international cricket the day after her team won the 2013 Cricket World Cup.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has inducted Lisa Stalgar into its Hall of Fame.
NASEERUDDIN SHAH : Anupam Kher is very vocal as he is clown and sycophant. It is in his blood 😳
ANUPAM KHER 🔥🔥 : You've been consuming certain substances for years. That's why, you no longer know what's right or wrong.
"You have spent your entire life in frustration"
"You have even criticised legends Amitabh Bachchan, Dilip Da, Shahrukh Khan, Virat Kohli"
"And None of them has ever taken your statements seriously. But today I will speak against you"
When you know Patel warned Nehru that China would sit on India's border and Nehru ignored it and gifted them Tibet anyway, the entire 70 year China problem starts at one desk, one letter and one decision to look the other way.
Tibet is called the Roof of the World for a reason. Sitting at 4500 metres, it is the origin point of Asia's greatest rivers including the Brahmaputra. Whoever controls Tibet controls the water supply of an entire continent and holds the most impenetrable natural fortress on earth as their strategic position.
In the 1950s India had a chance to matter in what happened to that fortress.
Tibetans came to India asking for support. They were watching China move in and they needed a powerful neighbour to at least stand with them diplomatically. The request landed on Nehru's desk.
Nehru said no. Non-intervention. Neutrality. The principles of Panchsheel.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel saw exactly what was coming. He wrote Nehru a letter with a clarity that reads like a forecast of the next seven decades. China is a highly aggressive country. They will now sit on our border. Our entire defence policy needs to change immediately.
The alarm bell could not have been louder.
Nehru set it aside.
In 1954 India signed the Panchsheel agreement with China. Hindi-Chini bhai-bhai became the political slogan of the era. India chose idealism over geography and friendship over strategy at the exact moment that China was converting Tibet into a permanent military base overlooking the entire Indian subcontinent.
By the time India woke up China was entrenched. 1962 proved how completely Patel's warning had been ignored and how completely Nehru's framework had failed.
Today China sits across the entire LAC with infrastructure, roads, villages and military positions built on the high ground that Tibet provides. Every conversation about Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh and the Brahmaputra dam begins in the same place. The decision made in New Delhi in the 1950s.
Patel was right. The warning was written. The choice was made anyway.
India is still living with that choice.
Police woman strikes back! 👮♀️
Urban Company gig worker (delivery agent on a motorcycle) harasses a woman on the street in Khardah, West Bengal - making explicit gestures and allegedly exposing himself.
He didn’t realize she was an off-duty woman police constable - the Lady Singham of Khardah! 🔥
She immediately intercepted him, caught him by his collar, physically dragged him to the nearby Khardah Police Station, and got him formally arrested.
Never mess with our women! 💪
This is the kind of zero-tolerance energy we need on Indian streets.
Thoughts? Should these cases get fast-track justice?
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Honest feedback for the GoI to consider, offered as a well-wisher:
1. E20 is a massive issue. Just because people aren't protesting in the streets doesn't mean it isn't. There is a simmering anger everywhere.
2. The root cause of this mess is singular: someone decided it was acceptable to ignore the National Policy on Biofuels 2018's plan to introduce E20 in 2030, which would have allowed older, non-compliant vehicles to phase out naturally. Instead, E20 was rolled out despite the fact that most vehicles on the road are not calibrated to run on it.
3. There is no "lobby" behind this public frustration. If the govt believes there is, they should expose the nexus and let citizens decide for themselves. Otherwise, ministers and spokespersons are only making things worse by using "lobbies" and "deep states" as defensive arguments.
4. Vehicle performance is suffering. Drivers are experiencing a drop in mileage and damage to parts. After months of denial, even Nitin Gadkari and Hardeep Puri have acknowledged "some issues" with Ethanol.
5. If the goal is true energy security, the focus and push must shift toward EVs, alongside exploring nuclear energy as a primary power source. The govt should encourage and incentivize EV adoption through subsidies and a robust infrastructure network. Ethanol, in the way it is currently being implemented, is doing more harm than good.
6. The solution is to provide a choice between E0 and E20. If the current fuel infrastructure cannot support both, E20 should be rolled back to E10 until 2030. This will allow older cars and bikes to be phased out naturally before moving forward. And also, do not introduce E27 or whatever is next till the new fleet is E27 compliant and all E20 cars are phased out, unless there is an infrastructure in place to dispense both in future.
Never in India’s history had a Prime Minister gone to the airport to personally receive a Pakistani ruler.
Yet Rajiv Gandhi, accompanied by his wife, went to the airport to receive General Zia-ul-Haq, who had come to power in Pakistan through a military coup.
This happened even though a major terrorist attack had taken place in Kashmir just a month earlier.
General Zia-ul-Haq had publicly declared that he would separate Punjab from India, and he is also accused of having financed and supported the Khalistan movement.
Never in India’s history had a Prime Minister gone to the airport to personally receive a Pakistani ruler.
Raju Hemkar
Over the last decade, one trend has become impossible to ignore: the growing insecurity in sections of the Western establishment towards India’s rise.
Too often, parts of the media resort to distortion, selective reporting, fabricated narratives and relentless negativity to portray India in the poorest possible light.
Most Indians understand something rather simple. If people are constantly talking about you, criticising you, inventing stories about you and obsessing over your every move, it is because your presence has become impossible to ignore.
Nations that do not matter are rarely the subject of such sustained attention.
So thank you -
@Reuters@nytimes@business@BBC@SkyNews etc. etc…
Please, keep up the good work. Every fabricated story and every contrived narrative only serves as another reminder of where India stands today.
🚨🚨 Shocking News : Bangladeshi woman in our slum openly admits.
2 years here illegally, sorting garbage and the Keerthi Apartment builder knew but hired her anyway for cheap labor.
Builders flooding cities with illegals while locals pay the price.
Enforce the damn laws.
Detect.... Detain.....Deport......
No more demographic surrender.
India first 🔥💀
Today, UP achieved its target of planting 35 crore saplings in a single day across all 75 districts.
Apart from this humongous feat, what was equally interesting was how the awareness drive was carried out to encourage people to participate in the mega event. Instead of relying only on traditional posters or announcements, there were nukkad nataks and folk artists performing with dhol and manjira at bus stands and busy street corners, explaining why planting trees matter and what the campaign is all about.
A smart way to spread awareness because most people don't read govt notifications or follow every campaign on social media, but they'll stop for a street performance. Someone waiting for a bus is far more likely to remember a simple message delivered through folk music than another poster or hashtag.
Planting crores of saplings is one part of the effort. Getting ordinary people to understand why trees matter and feel connected to the campaign is just as important. Using local artists for that was a thoughtful and effective approach.
Mind boggling.
> She is IAS Padma Jaiswal, 2003 batch
> Allegedly Misappropriated funds in 2007, during collector of West Kament district
> Fund amount was 28 Lakhs
> Was suspended in 2008 and reinstated again
> After 15 years CBI filed chargesheet in 2024
> Government removed her in May 2026 even when she is not yet convicted.
18-20 years of process to remove an IAS officer.
Why government is not removing the others who are caught with 100 and 1000 crore of wealth and removed her for only 28 Lakhs ?
Today, the multi-billion dollar fintech startups of India brag about "Buy Now, Pay Later" as if they invented fire. But 7 decades ago, a penniless orphan who spent his nights sleeping on empty gunny bags used a revolutionary currency to build India's retail empire: raw trust.
In the 1940s, a 12 yr old boy named Veraputhra Gnanadraviam Rajadas Panneerdas (often known as V.G. Panneerdas) fled his drought-stricken village in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, with nothing but ₹25 in his pocket. He arrived in Madras starving, homeless & desperate. He took the 1st job he could find, cleaning dishes & sweeping floors at a local ration shop in Saidapet. He worked like a machine by day & slept on jute bags on the floor by night.
By 1954, through sheer grit & skipping meals, he saved enough to set up a tiny tea stall, alongside vending newspapers door to door with his brother. A yr later, he opened a tiny, cramped shop selling alarm clocks, wall clocks & wristwatches.
But Paneerdas quickly hit a massive wall.
In 1950s India, luxury items like a simple watch/a bicycle/a radio were strictly for the elite. The working class Indian: the handcart pullers, the tea sellers, the low-wage clerks could only stare at the shop windows with longing. They could never afford to buy them upfront.
Paneerdas did not see customers w/o money; he saw humans with dignity. He made a move that his competitors called commercial suicide.
He walked out to a roadside cart puller, handed him a shiny new wristwatch & said: "Take it home today. Pay me just 1 rupee every week."
The concept was "Hire Purchase"... the grandfather of the modern Equated Monthly Installment (EMI). There were no credit scores, no digital bank verification & no collaterals. There was only a signature/a thumbprint in a small ledger notebook. People told Paneerdas he would be robbed blind & end up back on the streets.
Instead, a miracle happened. The poor of Madras proved to be the most honest paymasters in history. Defying all traditional banking logic, the default rate was virtually zero. The working class valued their honor & their newly acquired lifestyle too much to break Paneerdas’s trust.
Word spread like wildfire. The lines outside his shop grew so long they blocked the streets. Paneerdas rapidly expanded from clocks to bicycles, then to sewing machines & eventually to heavy home appliances, building a massive 3 story mega showroom under the legendary banner: VGP.
He single-handedly democratized the Indian dream. Decades before banks began giving loans to the middle class, VGP made it possible for an ordinary clerk to bring home a refrigerator/an electric fan. Later, he took the exact same philosophy into real estate, buying up vast tracts of land & offering affordable housing plots to the common man under his signature tagline: "Take possession now, pay later."
He started his life with absolutely nothing to his name, but before he left the world, V. G. Paneerdas had given millions of ordinary, struggling Indians the wealth of dignity & the power to own their own future, 1 rupee at a time.