Anand V KArthik

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[Anand V KArthik @oneanand]

@amazonIN @amazonIN a prime member for more than 10 years, this was a personal gift and has invested getting it's accessories which are now sitting there useless ,sad to say a little bit of trust has eroded

[Anand V KArthik @oneanand]

My Order no 406-9612382-2908330 has been showing since 19th "Delay in delivery due to external factors" CC is unable to tell me why it has been delayed ,was told "might" be able to offer a refund after 25th and no replacement options was offered
@amazonIN

[Anand V KArthik @oneanand]

@theliverdoc Read the book , it explains the science and more back stories

[MovieCrow @MovieCrow]

🧵#19YearsOfAnniyan

We all know the success of #Anniyan, a mammoth box office hit that added a big feather to #Vikram's cap, continuing his streak of successes. However, Anniyan was not an easy project. #Shankar faced several obstacles and challenges before bringing this mammoth film to life.

Here is a thread to share some interesting facts and behind-the-scenes details about Anniyan.

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

Something I wrote when I was still sitting on the KKR bench more than a decade ago & then perfectly edited and contextualised by the Yahoo! Sports team.
T20 cricket is, at least for the support staff and teams, a series of four or five-ball battles strung together to make a match. Teams that win more of these little battles normally end up winning more matches -- and some, like Dhoni, are masters at this. What follows is a typical three-four ball spell - a fictional one involving a Deccan Chargers versus KKR game at Hyderabad, but it has been strung together from different real events.
Kallis has just been dismissed by Ishant for 26. KKR are 102 for 4 in 13.2 overs. As the next batsman walks out, the coach gives him his target -- to try and get 30 more in the next four overs without losing more than one wicket. Kallis also stops just short of the dugout to give the new batsman, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, a quick low-down on the pitch: "It's playing true, not stopping, so you can hit the ball on the up -- but Ishant is getting some bounce. Watch for the new slower ball he has; he holds it with a cross seam."
Meanwhile Sangakkara has recalled the brief in the team meeting on Shukla. He is a ‘bolter' - he likes to dab the first couple of balls & steal a single to get off the mark. With that in mind, Sanga brings his best fielder, Duminy, back to point positioned slightly back of square, because that is where Shukla likes to dab it.
Ishant knows about Shukla's temperament, also discussed in the team meeting, and has already decided to rile him about the disappointing season for the Bengal Ranji team - something he knows Shukla is sensitive about. Ishant also knows that Shukla is the in-form man, and one more wicket could really turn the game.
Gambhir, at the non-striker's end, knows that Ishant will definitely have a go, so he waits for Ishant to finish before going up and calming down LR Shukla & warning him again about the slower ball.
The first ball is slightly short, and it is hit straight to Duminy at point. Shukla can't get off strike. The next ball -- rarely for a T20 game -- is on length, and takes Shukla by surprise; he can only push it back to the bowler. Another dot ball, as the batsman has a swing outside off and misses. If this were Test cricket, Shukla could have battened down the hatches and played the rest of the over out quietly. Here, he cannot afford the dot balls mounting; he wants to -- no, he HAS to -- get the momentum back.
The KKR bench tenses, because they can read the game and realize that Shukla is definitely going to take Ishant on. Gautam knows it too, and counsels his partner to follow his instincts, but just don't force the shot.
Ishant brings long-off in, and also brings in long-leg and third-man up. The field indicates that the next ball cannot be short and fast, unless it is a double bluff. The best outfield catchers, Dhawan and Christian, are at deep-midwicket and deep-square. Odds on, it is a slower ball or a slow bouncer, and with three men deep between square leg and long on, the trap is set for the slog sweep. Will Shukla bite?
The batsman makes his own adjustment; he now moves inches inside his crease, changing the bowlers length by a foot. The next ball from Ishant is the slower one, cross seam. LR gets deep in his crease, converting it into a slow, short ball. With long leg up, he adjusts his shot, and places it between long leg and deep square leg. It's four - and we breathe again.
The average fan sees the fours, the sixes, the tumbling wickets and, finally, a result. For those of us on the inside - as players, as support staff, as managers, as those whose life and work is intimately tied up to this sport we all live, cricket is a series of little psychodramas, each with its own narrative, each with a beginning, a middle and an end. It is these dramas that keep us engrossed; it is on the outcome of these little dramas that we live and die a thousand deaths each day, each game.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

This photo is 113 years old.

It was taken by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, an early pioneer of colour photography.

If you've ever wondered what the world used to look like, Prokudin-Gorsky's photos will show you...

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

New skill unlocked 📷

[Krish Ashok @krishashok]

The kind of threads that make this platform worth the time.

[BB @Basi_cally]

Fun fact: they called it Nero because they were burning ROM

[India Wants To Know: India's First Panel Quiz Show @IWTKQuiz]

You think you don't like anime (or "Japanese animation")?

Think again!!

The Jungle Book that aired on @DDNational is a dubbed version of the anime show Janguru Bukku Shōnen Mōguri!

The Hindi theme was composed by @VishalBhardwaj, had lyrics by Gulzar, & sung by Amol Sahdev!

[India Wants To Know: India's First Panel Quiz Show @IWTKQuiz]

KJ Yesudas singing 'Jab Deep Jale Aana' live on TV and is then joined by KS Chitra.

Only a small matter of 14 national awards singing together.

[Paul Koshy @Paul_Koshy]

The month of November 1971, 52 years ago, Very important events were happening in our country.

The year was 1971 and the month November.

“If India pokes its nose in Pakistan, US will not keep its trap shut. India will be taught a lesson.”
- Richard Nixon

“India regards America as a friend. Not a boss. India is capable of writing its own destiny. We know and are aware how to deal with each one according to circumstances.”
- Indira Gandhi

Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi articulated these exact words sitting with the US President Richard Nixon in the White House, while maintaining an eye-to-eye contact. This incident was narrated by the then Secretary of State and NSA, Henry Kissinger, in his autobiography.

[Zito @_Zeets]

On how and why google changed the system behind their search engine and how it’s ruined looking up anything now

https://t.co/IIgqJcPYZe

[Anand V KArthik @oneanand]

@haristhottathil @ManUtd Ippo kittumada

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

The US government is holding a public hearing on UFOs tomorrow, July 26 👀

It will include testimony from former military and intelligence personnel

[Anand V KArthik @oneanand]

@bryt4 Savari giri giri

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Over $3B of Nutella is sold a year and it is the crown jewel for the Ferrero Group, Italy’s richest family (~$40B).

The recipe itself goes back centuries.

A wild detail: Napoleon is responsible for its invention.

In 1806, the French General turned Emperor started a continental blockade against his seafaring foes in the UK.

The move led to a huge cocoa shortages across Europe.

Ever resourceful, Italian chefs started using ground hazelnut — which was abundant in northwestern Italy — to stretch their dwindling chocolate supplies.

They combined cocoa, hazelnut and sugar into a paste called gianduia (named after a carnival character popular in the Piedmont region of Italy).

Fast forward to 1946. Europe was dealing with yet another continent-wide shortage of cocoa (and food stuffs in general) following the end of World War II.

An Italian pastry chef by the name of Pietro Ferrero — a native of Alba, Italy — whipped out the recipe for gianduja and created a snack aimed at regular folk working on tight purse strings.

The snack was sold as small bars and was a huge hit. Fererro turned that bar into a spread called Supercrema.

In 1964, the Italian government started to crack down on superlatives in ads. Apparently, “super” was too hype of a word to have in a creamy-chocolatey product.

In response, Pietro's son — Michele (who now ran the family business — chose a new name that evoked the flavor of nuts. It literally could not be more literal: Nutella (which you're probably eating with a spoon out of the jar right now).

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

Rate limiting starts the day their cloud contract (that they were having trouble paying) ends. This can’t be a coincidence right?

Twitter might be much closer to dying than most of us realize.