Manav Mutneja

(un)learning Policy and Governance + To rant here about politics, law, governance and development #MUFC & #Ferrari 🔴⚪️⚫️ Fan Likes🚫Endorsements.

[Dushyant Arora @atti_cus]

Exceptionally manipulative sociopath.

[Lemon @Lemonbryz]

🚨🎙️ Jürgen Klopp on Gianni Infantino’s plan to sell stakes in the FIFA World Cup;

🗣️"Look, I try to stay out of the politics, I really do. But at some point, you just have to ask: who is actually thinking about the game here?

"Gianni Infantino comes out with this idea to sell twenty percent of the World Cup to private equity investors, and I just shake my head. It’s always about more money, more games, more commercialization. They want to hand out twenty million dollars to every federation to buy votes, but what about the actual sport? The World Cup isn't a tech startup you can sell stakes in to the highest bidder on Wall Street. It belongs to the players and the fans. But as usual, the people making these decisions are sitting in air-conditioned offices, miles away from a football pitch, treating a hundred years of history like an investment portfolio.

"And then UEFA comes out and says, 'Oh, football has a soul, we will boycott!' Come on. Give me a break.
"I’ve been criticizing UEFA for years about the Nations League, the bloated Champions League formats, and squeezing the players until they break. Now suddenly they want to act like the guardians of traditional football? It’s laughable. UEFA isn't angry because football is being commercialized—they’ve been doing that themselves for a decade. They’re just angry that FIFA found a bigger bag of money and didn't leave a cut for them.

"It’s two giants fighting over who gets to keep the wallet, while the players and supporters are left in the middle, completely ignored. We keep adding tournaments, adding money, adding investors—and nobody stops to ask if the product on the pitch will even survive it."

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

If exceptional conditions can justify pellet guns, why don’t they justify some cuss words?

[Sundeep Misra @MisraSundeep]

Fourteen years ago, on London’s Olympic pristine blue turf, India finished dead last. I believed the team was no good, the worst in history. I got it so wrong. All the while our forwards were looking down the pitch, mistaking their own centre-halves for a patch of artificial grass.

A decade and a half went by analysing structural data, complaining about fragile defences, understanding penalty corner conversion percentages and writing thousands of words on the mental frailty of Indian hockey. Even blamed the selection committee, the Federation. We also blamed the lack of grass-root infrastructure.

​And all along, bloody hell, it was just a visual glitch.

I think we owe an apology to Michael Nobbs. And Roelant Oltmans. And Terry Walsh, Sjoerd Marijne, Graham Reid, and every high-performance director drawing tactical diagrams on a whiteboard between 2012 and yesterday.

Hockey India’s official explanation is mind-boggling piece of scientific rationale: the blue-on-blue blend was compromising “on-field clarity and visibility”. One can only imagine Craig Fulton and Harmanpreet Singh’s faces when the realization must have struck: “They can’t pass to each other because they literally cannot find each other!”

So, bleed out the “Blue” legacy that so magically carried us through decades of heartbreak and triumph; bring in high-visibility Saffron and the forwards will shine like neon lights on a blue pitch in Amstelveen and Belgium. Unlike, 2012 London, we won’t be passing to a ghost now!

Just by the way, Pakistan, known as the green shirts, won the 1982 Asian Games, 1994 World Cup and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics playing Green-on-Green.

​So, bring on the Saffron. If the 2026 World Cup campaign goes south, at least nobody can claim we couldn’t see it coming. #hockeyx

[Eri🌻 @Erishuuu]

Gen alpha 💪

[Seb Stafford-Bloor @SebSB]

Infantino tells fans not to worry, because the game won’t change. But it already has, with adverts in the middle of each half, tickets that cost more than rent, and politicians influencing outcomes.

The game cannot remain in his hands.

[Roma @romaticize]

kinda beautiful to see this in an FT article

[Manu Joseph @manujosephsan]

One reason why the cockroaches succeeded was that they were also entertaining, and they were so because India has become such a suffocating place that just saying anything against Modi is entertaining. So the answer is not sending Delhi police to go after handles that made fun of Modi, but to actually relax a bit and take some jokes. If you're not so sensitive the jokes won't be so funny.

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

There seems to be more outrage on kids abusing leaders, than about leaders abusing power.

[Anish Gawande @anishgawande]

Never been prouder to be chronically online.

[ayaan. @AyanMusk]

Although Pradhan resigned, his resignation letter shows zero remorse and zero accountability and The government is acting like they are the victims; ministers are queuing up on social media to praise him with long essays, treating him like a martyr rather than a corrupt loser.

[nou @mandhanahive]

"now they'll take it to the streets and protest for every little thing"
toh teri gand kyu fatt rahi hain 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Ruben Mascarenhas @rubenmasc]

In all of this, The Bhakts are looking like fools. Yesterday, not giving in to the resignation was a masterstroke, today Pradhan resigning is a masterstroke.

Jokers.

Serves them right.

[Priyanka Chaturvedi🇮🇳 @priyankac19]

Meltdown of the star performer of (Un)-Republic Newstainment Channel is the most satisfying.

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

Thank you

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

Thank you PM for NOT firing Pradhan ji two weeks ago.

It gave us enough time for:

1. The end of godi media
2. A million funny memes
3. A thousand pictures of courage
4. The rise of a dozen new young political leaders
5. “56 inch ka chhota bandar”

[Kunal Kamra @kunalkamra88]

The Students.

[Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor]

I agree young kids should not be on social media at all. But India needs to ban Boomers on WhatsApp first before it does anything else

[Cockroach Janta Party - CJP @Cockroachisback]

And today, friends, we found out what happens 😭🪳