@afneil There I was getting ready to plough my life savings ( pitifully small as they are ) and Andrew pulled the rug. I was getting ready to be a billionaire
@gordoncorera His escape from Moscow is worthy of a Blockbuster. It had everything, a long shot complicated plan, and a principal who almost managed to wreck it by acting irrationally . Yet it worked and he got to listen to Finlandia !
@AmbarishSatwik Metallurgy - it wasn't advanced enough for anything practical to be manufactured. It took the millennium to refine metal refining where a working steam engine could be made.
@MrTCHarris I mean ECHR is meant to provide shelter to people who have been prosecuted in their countries, not for people who have committed crimes in their country of refuge.
@tanvi_madan India and Indians never cease to amaze. On the one hand , we have complaints about poor people not following rules and how whole of India is an anarchy. And when the police do seem to apply rules then it's permit Raj.
Popularity shouldn't provide impunity.
@BBCNews what is wrong with your newsroom? So IDF numbers are not reliable but those of Hamas are ?
Where are videos of the civilians shot dead , the kidnappings?
Your job is to report truth not balance !!
@prempanicker A quarter century later , I can recall almost verbatim your report of the Dravid-Laxman partnership. Your writing made one feel as if one were present to view it !
@ayeshahazarika Not really. She is as right wing as they come. Rishi has Squared the ERG with her re-appointment . When she will commit an unsurviable blunder -and she will with her penchant for shooting from the hip - she will go and Rishi will shrug and say Guys , I tried 🤷🤷 .
@vikramsampath@RoyalHistSoc One of your members is either incompetent or a wilful manipulator with a with distorting history. Will you entertain his membership?