Somnath

Ex head of product @Flipkart Grocery and Quick Commerce. Ex @Microsoft @google . Love to watch football and movies

[Somnath @itzsom]

Not used to support a team which is playing against @CBF_Futebol ! But today it is all about @IndianFootball go blue tigers! We started well, keep it up #indbra @FIFAcom #football #india #brazil

[Sunil Chhetri @chetrisunil11]

It takes a lot to be a stakeholder in Indian football. It has been like that for some time now. But when everything around looks like it will crumble, you bank on family to hold on to each other. And more often than not, it is the elders in the house that you turn to, for assurance. All of you at the TATA Group, through TFA first, and then @JamshedpurFC, have been one of our pillars.

To know that Jamshedpur has folded first team operations is a punch to the gut. The players and staff will be without clubs, and they might find one by the end of it all. The League will have a team less, but the season will go on. However, not having the TATA group involved in the top tier of Indian football - that would be a disaster with no alternative.

I understand that some tough decisions in sport are down to what makes sense in the board room. But I can only request and hope that the think tank at TATA picks their heart over head and reconsiders this call. It might be a poor business decision, but it will be the one Indian football needs the most at this hour.

[Somnath @itzsom]

Started using @airindia after 10 years. Checkin and inflight experience is great so far. However, they need efficient gate operations. Boarding for our 6:50 pm flight has not started at 6:45, indigo at the next counter just finished boarding of their 7:20 flight

[Somnath @itzsom]

@rapidobikeapp there seems to be some problem on your app. Unable to book rides today. Could you please check and help resolve ?

[DK Shivakumar @DKShivakumar]

Good News for Cricket Lovers of Bengaluru & Karnataka

In the interest of the sport and its fans, the Cabinet today has taken an important decision to permit the conduct of IPL matches at Chinnaswamy Stadium, while keeping public safety paramount.

The recommendations of the Justice John Michael D’Cunha Report will be implemented, with strict adherence to norms on ticketing, crowd regulation, and stadium access.

With responsibility and accountability, we move forward.

[Somnath @itzsom]

What is this @AxisBank @airtelindia @DoT_India ? why I am being repeatedly harassed with junk calls? I have some relationship with Axis and by doing this you are ensuring that it will never increase. #spam #BankScam #loan #ConsumerRights

[DCP Whitefield Bengaluru @dcpwhitefield]

“Bengaluru City Police will not tolerate any acts of road rage or any behavior that disrupts public peace and law and order. Strict and swift legal action will be taken against individuals involved in violent behavior, display of weapons, threats, or indecent conduct in public places. Such incidents create fear and unrest among the general public. In order to ensure road safety and maintain public peace, Bengaluru City Police follow a zero-tolerance policy towards road rage. Citizens are requested to remain calm, act responsibly, and cooperate with the law.”

“ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ನಗರ ಪೊಲೀಸರು Road Rage ಹಾಗೂ ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ಶಾಂತಿಗೆ ಮತ್ತು ಕಾನೂನು ಸುವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆಗೆ ಧಕ್ಕೆ ಉಂಟುಮಾಡುವ ಯಾವುದೇ ಕೃತ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಕಟ್ಟುನಿಟ್ಟಾಗ�� ಸಹಿಸುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ಸ್ಥಳಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಹಿ��ಸಾತ್ಮಕ ವರ್ತನೆ, ಆಯುಧ ಪ್ರದರ್ಶನ, ಬೆದರಿಕೆ ಅಥವಾ ಅಸಭ್ಯ ವರ್ತನೆ ನಡೆಸುವವರ ವಿರುದ್ಧ ಕಾನೂನು ಪ್ರಕಾರ ಕಠಿಣ ಹಾಗೂ ತ್ವರಿತ ಕ್ರಮ ಕೈಗೊಳ್ಳಲಾಗುವುದು. ಇಂತಹ ಘಟನೆಗಳು ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕರಲ್ಲಿ ಭಯ ಮತ್ತು ಅಶಾಂತಿ ಉಂಟುಮಾಡುವುದರಿಂದ, ರಸ್ತೆ ಸುರಕ್ಷತೆ ಮತ್ತು ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ಶಾಂತಿ ಕಾಪಾಡುವ ದೃಷ್ಟಿಯಿಂದ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ನಗರ ಪೊಲೀಸರು ಶೂನ್ಯ ಸಹಿಷ್ಣುತೆ ನೀತಿಯನ್ನು ಅನುಸರಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ನಾಗರಿಕರು ಸಂಯಮದಿಂದ ವರ್ತಿಸಿ, ಕಾನೂನಿಗೆ ಸಹಕರಿಸುವಂತೆ ವಿನಂತಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ.”

#BengaluruCityPolice
#RoadRage
#ZeroTolerance
#PublicSafety
#LawAndOrder
#RoadSafety
#NoToRoadRage
#SafeBengaluru
#PoliceAction
#StayCalmStaySafe
@BlrCityPolice
@CPBlr

[Somnath @itzsom]

Bizarre decision by @UPWarriorz & @abhisheknayar1 to retire @imharleenDeol They scored 13 runs in the next 3 overs after that. Also puzzling to see @Deepti_Sharma06 come in at No. 9. No surprises they’re languishing at the bottom of the @wplt20 table #DCWvUPW #WPL2026 #WPL

[Somnath @itzsom]

@jmalikj @blrcitytraffic Traffic near Ecoworld was already bad during office hours - this has made it far worse. Commuting has become extremely difficult and needs urgent attention
@acphsrtrps
@DCPSouthTrBCP
@Jointcptraffic
@blrcitytraffic
@DrParameshwara
#Bangalore #Bangaloretraffic

[Jatin Malik @jmalikj]

@blrcitytraffic
Can an office bldg administration block half the road for its own whims and fancy while the daily commuters are cramped into a single lane for no reason?
https://t.co/LQoegiK32a

[Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj @DeepikaBhardwaj]

I would never ever defend a rapist.

I am speaking up in #KuldeepSinghSengar case because the lies spoken by this woman has no limits and she has made several families a victim, fooled entire nation

See how she's denying an FIR filed by her against her own family

[Kanika @DalRotiForLife]

Caught in the IndiGo flight mess? We're taking legal action (PIL) regarding these systemic failures.

We need 250+ passengers to join before Dec 10. Let's raise our voices together for better rights.

Support the case here: https://t.co/r0M1jlDQfW

[Somnath @itzsom]

Pathetic from @IndiGo6E . It is a problem of your own creation to start with & the mgmt of the issue has been horrendous. No info on what flight is cancelled. zero comm on delays or reschedule. Passengers are waiting without knowing if the flight be there or not @DGCAIndia

[Somnath @itzsom]

Dear @elonmusk and @X team - Please find a way to filter out such engagement farming noises. Difficult to navigate India specific trends due to these

[Somnath @itzsom]

@lfc_lance I think the player is Samuel Eto! Early Real Madrid career was most in loans, others fit his journey

[Somnath @itzsom]

@IndiGo6E Thanks folks - the issue is finally resolved. While I generally have a good experience with IndiGo, wheelchair availability seems to be a recurring issue (faced it in my last 3 trips). A long-term fix would really help those who rely on this service

[Somnath @itzsom]

@IndiGo6E I am yet to get any acknowledgment or traction from anyone @IndiGo6E . Did anyone check the info I have shared? Did anyone take an action item on it?

[Somnath @itzsom]

@IndiGo6E I am curious what happens next @IndiGo6E . Forget about resolution, I am yet to get any acknowledgement/course of action even after sharing the info a while back.

[Somnath @itzsom]

Whoever at @AOSmithin decided to replace IVR with the voice agent should have a special place in hell. Such a pathetic experience. This is a classic example of complicating already working simple things in the name of AI #AgenticAI #GenAI

[Asra Nomani @AsraNomani]

“Bahawalpur.”

I still have chills in my heart from when I first heard that town’s name in late January 2002. For the 23 years since, I have reported on how Pakistani intelligence and military leaders have used that city — Bahawalpur — in the southern province of Punjab as a base for its homegrown domestic terrorists.

When I heard India bombed training camps in Pakistan this week in Operation Sindoor, in response to a Pakistani terrorist rampage in India’s Kashmir state, I had one city’s name on my lips: Bahawalpur.

Did India bomb Bahawalpur?

It did. I knew then India was striking actual hubs for Pakistan’s homegrown domestic terrorism.

Why do I know?

My friend, WSJ reporter Danny Pearl, went to Bahawalpur in December 2001 with a notebook and a pen. Gen. Pervez Musharraf had just promised he was shutting down Pakistan’s militant groups after a strike by Pakistan’s terrorists against the Parliament in India, and Danny reported on the militant offices in Bahawalpur.

He literally knocked on their doors. Dear Dr. @yudapearl, this story is a window into Danny’s reporting enterprise. And because people will wonder: Danny was no cowboy. This was a calculated low-risk reporting trip because no journalist had been targeted for kidnapping in Pakistan. Around that time, Danny sent me an email: “I’m anxious to go to Afghanistan, but I’m not anxious to die.”

What did Danny learn?

The militant training camps were open for business in Bahawalpur.

On Jan. 23, 2002, Danny left a home I had rented in Karachi, Pakistan, for an interview.

I learned Danny’s fixer, Asif Farooqi, had arranged an interview for Danny through a man named “Arif.” Danny didn’t know it but Arif was the PR man for a militant group, Harkutul Mujahadeen. What was Arif’s hometown? Bahawalpur.

The police launched a manhunt to find Arif in Bahawalpur. We learned Arif’s family faked a funeral for Arif. Police found him trying to board a bus in Muzaffarabad, across the country by Pakistan’s border with Kashmir.

It is another town India said it bombed terrorist training facilities.

Arif had handed Danny off to Omar Sheikh,a British-Pakistani dropout from the London School of Economics, radicalized in the 1990s in London mosques. He went to Pakistan to train in these militant training camps. Then he kidnapped tourists in India. He was caught and jailed but on Dec. 31, 1999, he was traded for hostages in the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814.

Omar Sheikh was freed with Pakistani terrorist leader Masood Azhar, whose family was allegedly killed this week by India’s air strike in Bahawalpur.

Did Pakistan jail Omar Sheikh and Masood Azhar when they returned to Pakistan with a third terrorist, freed from India’s jails?

No. Pakistan’s military and intelligence gave them safe passage. They used them as weapons against India. But in fact these domestic terrorists have waged war against innocents in Pakistan, like civil society activists, Benazir Bhutto, Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, schoolchildren and countless others.

Their extremism has ruined Pakistan, and Pakistanis can’t blame America for creating the mujahideen to fight the Soviets in the 1980s.

Pakistan has had a duty to dismantle those terrorist bases — for even the safety of its own people. What India is doing is a strategic attack on terrorist bases Pakistani military and intelligence should have eliminated but never did in their obsession to take over Kashmir.

You will see parallels in the propaganda messages against India and Israel. Like Hamas, Pakistani terrorists crossed a border to kill. Now, Pakistani propagandists call themselves victims of their “fascist” “colonizer” neighbor.

It’s the Reverse Uno strategy of moral inversion, just like @stoolpresidente got from the Temple student who won’t take responsibility for promoting the “HATE THE JEWS” sign. Don’t fall for it. Nations, communities and people must own up to their extremism, from Bahawalpur to beyond.