Pranjli Pathak

न कंचित् शाश्वतम्।

[Pranjli Pathak @pranjli_pathak]

मन ये बनारसी हो चला है, ये एहसास कुछ यूं हुआ है,
कि जब एक पूरी जिंदगी जी ली होगी और कहीं के न होंगे हम,
तब भी खुद को पता होगा कि मणिकर्णिका होंगे हम।

#banaras ❣️

[Pt. Ashish Shukla @Man_Banarasiya]

जहाँ मरने के लिए लोग तरसते हैं
वहाँ से जीना शुरू किया है हमनें...
#बनारस 🧡🧡

[Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket]

We can confirm that we don't wish to add Gautam Gambhir to our coaching staff. He clearly has talent, though. To take those Indian players and deliver those results in Ireland takes truly remarkable gifts.

[Sandeep Pathak @sandpatclicks]

@CricketCentrl Show her this! Be happy to be playing against a top side. Take pictures, autographs for your kids/grandkids 😅

[Mohit @Warlock_mohit]

Why??

[Karan Datta 🇮🇳 @Datta_karan]

While the world was busy watching other geopolitical fires burn, PM Modi quietly made five of the most important stops on the planet in five days.

UAE. Netherlands. Sweden. Norway. Italy.

Read that list again slowly. Because each one of those countries holds a key to something India desperately needs right now and cannot afford to get wrong.

Here is the context most people are missing.

Hormuz just got choked. Energy routes that the world treated like guaranteed infrastructure for decades suddenly looked fragile. Supply chains that took forty years to build started wobbling in weeks. Every government that was paying attention started asking the same uncomfortable questions at the same time. Where does our energy actually come from. Who really controls our access to technology. And which trade corridors are still going to exist in five years.

PM Modi clearly got the memo before most.

The UAE is the first stop and energy is the entire reason. The Gulf has been disrupted. Hormuz is under pressure. And the UAE just made a decision that changes everything about how it operates. It stepped outside the OPEC framework. It can now pump freely without anyone's permission. And it has a pipeline that moves oil completely around the Strait. For India that is not just useful. That is survival infrastructure. This meeting is about securing that relationship before the rest of the world wakes up and starts competing for the same thing.

Then comes the stop that will look most important in hindsight.

The Netherlands. Specifically a small city in the south of the country that most people have never heard of. The semiconductor war between America and China is not slowing down. It is accelerating. And India knows that if it is not inside that ecosystem now, it will be buying chips on someone else's terms for the next thirty years. The conversations happening there are not about trade statistics. They are about whether India gets to be part of the supply chain that decides who wins the technology race of this decade.

Sweden is quieter but the signal is loud.

When three leaders stand together in front of Europe's top industrial decision makers, that is not a photo opportunity. That is India saying directly to European capital, you have been talking about reducing China dependency for years and we are the answer you have been looking for. Sweden's industrial companies represent exactly the manufacturing sophistication India needs as it tries to move beyond being a cheap labour destination and become a genuine industrial power.

Most people will skip over Norway entirely. That would be a mistake.

No Indian Prime Minister has made this trip in 43 years. Norway runs the largest sovereign wealth fund on earth. It is patient, long-term, and looking for exactly the kind of growth story India represents. The numbers being discussed are not small. And beyond the capital, Arctic shipping routes and green energy corridors open up a completely different geography for Indian trade. The quiet stops are usually the most deliberate ones.

Italy lands the plane on something much bigger than it appears.

The corridor connecting India to Europe through the Middle East needs a European endpoint and Italy is it. When that corridor is fully operational, Indian goods reach European consumers faster and cheaper than they ever have before. Without passing through the chokepoints that everyone just watched become weapons. Add the India-EU free trade negotiations running in parallel and you are looking at a structural shift in how India plugs into the global economy.

Here is the honest truth about what this week actually means.

The world is being reorganised right now. Not gradually over decades the way it usually happens. Rapidly. In months. And the positions countries lock in during this window will determine where they sit in whatever order emerges on the other side.

India is not sitting still waiting to see how things shake out.

Five countries. Five days. Energy security, chip access, European industrial integration, sovereign capital, and a trade corridor that rewires the map.

PM Modi is not touring the world.

He is building a different India for what comes next.

[Pranjli Pathak @pranjli_pathak]

@IndianSinghh Oh no not at all. It's about the position, they have security and protocols for a reason. But yes, the other MPs and MLAs should be made to do so, depending upon their position in the parliament.

[Pranjli Pathak @pranjli_pathak]

@Ritwik____ 😂😂😂😂😂

[Pranjli Pathak @pranjli_pathak]

And then we'll stop searching for him in the crowd.
That's when this era will end

[Shubh @kadaipaneeeer]

idk how to explain this but a small part of me is still looking for virat kohli on the field.

we won.
we actually did it again.
back to back world cups in a format where even staying consistent feels like a miracle.

and i’m genuinely happy.

happy for this team. happy for the way they handled the pressure. happy for sanju samson, a comeback story that took years of patience and doubt and silence.

but somewhere in the middle of all this celebration & noise… there’s a small void.

the kind you don’t realise exists until the game begins and you subconsciously wait for someone to walk in.

virat charging across the field.
rohit with that calm awkward expression before a big moment. that familiar feeling of our guys are still here.

and then you realise… time moved.

this team is new now.

and that’s when it hits you , this is probably how the previous generation felt too.

when people slowly stopped seeing saurav ganguly walking out to bat. when sachin tendulkar wasn’t there anymore to carry the hopes of millions of people. when gautam gambhir’s intensity disappeared from big games or even earlier when kapil dev’s era quietly ended.

every generation grows up obsessing over a specific set of players.

you defend them in arguments.
you memorise their innings.
you fight for them against the odds.
you measure every new player against them.

and then one day they’re gone… and the game keeps going.

new heroes arrive. new stories begin.

maybe a few years from now some kid will grow up watching this current team and believe this was the greatest indian side ever.

the same way we believed ours was.

that’s the strange beauty of sport.

players change. teams evolve. eras end.

but the feeling of belonging to your generation of cricket never really leaves.

[lndian Sports Netwrk @IS_Netwrk29]

🚨 MASSIVE STATEMENT BY AB DE VILLIERS ON TEAM INDIA WINNING T20I WORLD CUP 🚨

AB de Villiers Said 🗣️

"Using the conditions as an excuse against this Indian team is hilarious when they have literally won back-to-back World Cups the last one in vastly different conditions. They are the best white-ball team in the world, by a distance. Congratulations to Team India."

[Sohel. @SohelVkf]

Captaincy is the most overrated thing to measure one's greatness.

Surya Kumar is on the verge of winning the T20 World Cup as a captain without any contribution and he will join Rohit and Dhoni as the World Cup-winning captain & in future many others will win World Cups for India.

But, the legacy that these two have created over the years will remain intact.

No one can touch their individual records, no one can equal their impact, influence and aura.

[Celineboy⁷ gonna see BTS @92PDMIN]

I am a Hindu and an Indian, my nation will always come first to me. I was raised on the belief that “Janani Janmabhoomischa Swargadapi Gariyasi” , that Mother and Motherland are greater than even heaven. At the same time, I also believe in “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam”, that the world is one family.

So while I stand firmly with my country, my prayers will always be for innocent lives everywhere, regardless of where they belong. And when evil falls I will not mourn it — I will celebrate it.

[Dr. Deepessh Divaakaran (Dr. DD) @md_deepesh]

Iran is burning.
And the Muslim world is weeping.
Pakistan. India. Turkey.

Crowds on streets.
Rage.
Grief.

Nobody told them the truth.

The call that started this war
didn't come from Washington.
It didn't come from Tel Aviv.

It came from Riyadh.

Multiple times.
Over several months.

Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) picked up the phone.
Called Donald Trump.

And said one thing clearly:
"Look. Last time you attacked Iran, you left the job half done.”

They came back stronger.
“Finish it!!!"

The same MBS who stood before the world and said:
"We want no part of this conflict.
Don't use our soil.
Don't use our airspace."

Public neutrality.
Private assassination order.

Now you ask the obvious question.

Why would a Muslim king
want a Muslim country destroyed?

Go back 1,400 years.

When Prophet Muhammad died,
he named no successor.

That silence broke the Muslim world in two.

Shia believed Ali, the Prophet's cousin, should lead.
Sunni disagreed.

The argument didn't stay an argument.

It became the Battle of Karbala.
It became rivers of blood.

It became a wound that never healed.
Just got dressed in oil money and F-35s.

Iran = Shia.
Persian.
Revolutionary.

Saudi Arabia =
Sunni.
Arab.
Royal.

Same God.
Different thrones.

1,400 years of hatred.

Now look at the streets.
Pakistan erupted.
India erupted.
Crowds screaming: "We will take revenge."

Saudi Arabia?
UAE?
Qatar?
Kuwait?
Bahrain?

Nothing.
Not grief.
Not rage.

Silence.

That silence is a confession.

The idea that all Muslims stand together
against the non-Muslim world
just died in real time.

This was never a war between Islam and the West.

This is an ancient throne war.

For who leads the Ummah.

For who becomes the Khalifa of the Muslim world.

America and Israel didn't start this.
They just picked up the contract,
that Riyadh quietly placed on the table.

A brother doesn't backstab a brother.
Unless the throne was always more important than the faith.

Kings do not read Quran.
They were reading the map.
Mecca.
Medina.
Oil fields.
Throne.

That's what this war is about.

When men fight for control of the holy land,
they call it God's will.

It never is.

It is always.
Just the throne.

[Mufaddal Vohra @mufaddal_vohra]

Rashid Khan said, "Virat Kohli is someone who hurts you. If a batter hits a six with a slog, it doesn’t affect me, but when someone plays with pure technique and hits it through the gap, that hurts. It shows batters' confidence, and that’s what Virat does". (Switch Hit with KP).

[♡⁷ @taehyungsshiii]

no, i am not islamophobic, but when we had a terrorist attack in our country by pakistan yall told us to be on our own and no fucking one spoke up for us. now we are attacked for minding our own business?

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

“Ayo Khamenei, Modi here. You gotta chill with bombing Gulf, my guy.”

“Khamenei dead, bro. I’m up next. You trippin’, Mody? We under attack, Supreme Leader gone, and you want us to not clap back and hit US assets in Gulf? That’s wild naïve, bro.”

“I hear you, fam… but Dhruv Rathee told me to say this.”

“Hold up… the YouTube dude with them funny hand moves?”

“Bingo.”

“Daaamn. Say less. If he said it, we gotta listen. Even Ali Khamenei was a big fan. Canceling all retaliation right now, bro. We surrenderin’, Mody! Yuddh nahi budhhhh bro... Yuddh nahi budhhhh!"

[Pranjli Pathak @pranjli_pathak]

@Ritwik____ @iamamirofficial Yeh khud ki maar lete hain

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

You Had 47 Years of Diplomacy With Iran. Here's What It Got You.

Mahsa Amini was 22 years old. Arrested by Iran's morality police because her headscarf was too loose. She died in custody three days later. They beat her to death. Over a piece of fabric.

Her death set off the biggest protests Iran had seen in a generation. The regime's answer? Kill them. Over 500 dead.

They shot a 16-year-old girl named Nika Shakarami in the street. Then snatched her body and tried to bury her in secret before her family could find her.

Amirhesam Khodayarifard was 20 years old. Walked into a protest because his country was starving. He was chanting. Peacefully. A government agent shot him in the head.

This is who they are. This is who they've always been.

January 8th and 9th, 2026. The Islamic Republic of Iran executed the largest massacre of civilians in its modern history.

Snipers on rooftops firing into crowds. Targeting heads and chests. Dragging protesters into prisons. Torturing them. Raping them. Returning women's bodies with organs removed to destroy the evidence.

~36,000 dead. In days.

A former UN prosecutor who helped draft the Srebrenica genocide indictment said Iran killed twice as many in half the time.

He called it an extermination.

Where were the marches? Where was Ilhan Omar? Where was Rashida Tlaib? Where was Mamdani?

Nowhere.

But today, after we attack the regime that did this… NOW they want "diplomacy." NOW it's "illegal."

What country do you stand for?

In 1979 they stormed our embassy. Held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.

In 1983 they bombed our Marine barracks in Beirut. 241 Americans crushed to death in their sleep.

Khobar Towers. 19 more Americans dead.

2003 to 2011. They supplied the bombs that killed 600+ American soldiers in Iraq.

They built Hezbollah. Funded Hamas. Armed the Houthis. Spent a billion dollars a year on terrorism.

Orchestrated October 7th.

Forty-seven years. The single greatest engine of death in the Middle East. And through all of it we kept talking and praying.

In 2002, Iran's own dissidents blew the whistle. Iran had been building nuclear weapons underground. For 17 years. Hidden from the world.

Not the CIA. Not the UN. Dissidents.

It took 13 years to get a deal. Keep enrichment at civilian grade. Keep the stockpile under 300 kilograms. Let inspectors in.

They agreed. Then broke every provision. From 300 kilograms to over 9,000. They ripped the cameras off the walls. By late 2024 they could build 5 to 6 bombs in under two weeks.

France, Germany, and the UK, not neocons, no war hawks, said Iran had a stockpile with "no credible civilian justification."

Two days before the strikes we sat with them in Muscat. Stop enriching. Stop the missiles. Stop funding terrorists. They said no. To all three.

You don't negotiate with someone loading a gun under the table. The Tooth Fairy isn't real. And neither was Iran's willingness to negotiate. Every year of "diplomacy" was another year closer to the bomb. That was always the plan.

This isn't about Democrat or Republican. By the laws of game theory, someone was going to have to confront Iran.

A regime that kills 36,000 of its own people doesn't stop because you ask nicely. A country enriching to weapons grade while funding terrorism on six continents doesn't come to the table in good faith.

Any president. Any party. This moment was always coming.

Spare me the "international law" lecture. You don't get to hide behind rules you've spent five decades burning to the ground.

You want to know what's illegal? Beating a 22-year-old woman to death over a headscarf. Shooting children from rooftops. Torturing women in prison. Removing organs from corpses. Building nuclear weapons while shaking hands with diplomats.

That's what's illegal.

Ilhan Omar. The day before a military operation she signaled the timing of a strike to a foreign adversary. That's not dissent. That is treason.

Iranians responded: "We don't care about Ramadan. We are waiting for the US attack to overthrow your friend the Ayatollah."

Listen to them. For once in your life.

The Iranian people are dancing in the streets. They waited 47 years for someone to act.

If not now, when? When they have the bomb? When it's too late?

It was now or never. And we chose now.

Diplomacy didn't fail. Diplomacy was the lie Iran told you while they built the bomb.

And you believed it. Every. Single. Time.

[Pranjli Pathak @pranjli_pathak]

Here's to the aggression and technique! 🙌🏻
@ahealy77

[Johns. @CricCrazyJohns]

- Final ODI of the Career.
- Alyssa Healy Scoring Hundred.
- Mitchell Starc in commentary box.

CRICKET IS BEAUTIFUL, AN ICONIC MOMENT IN SPORTING HISTORY 🥹

[Pranjli Pathak @pranjli_pathak]

@dhruv_rathee @PMOIndia @Ritwik____ dekh lo is chutiye ko, speechless kardeta hai sach mein

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Some Indian geopolitical experts are mocking Indians for celebrating the fall of an Islamic regime, claiming it was beneficial for India.

First things first: whether Indians celebrate, criticise, enjoy, or mourn the fall of an Islamic regime is irrelevant. Public emotions do not change geopolitical outcomes. Nobody involved in the conflict cares about your feelings. The reality is that the Islamic regime is likely to fall, and India will then have to deal strategically with what replaces it, a US-aligned govt.

Secondly, the Shah of Iran, who ruled before the Islamic Revolution, was not a close friend of India because he was aligned with the US at a time when Washington was openly pro-Pakistan and hostile to India. Today, the situation is different. The US now maintains a balance between India and Pakistan. Any future Iranian govt is therefore likely to operate within this new reality.

Thirdly, the Islamic regime of Iran has never been the reliable friend many Indians imagine it to be. Calling Iran a “protector of India’s interests” is fantasy geopolitics.

Iran has repeatedly sidelined India (including delays at Chabahar), aligned itself closely with China, and pursued only its own survival rather than regional stability. It no longer meaningfully counters Wahhabism; the influence of Wahhabism declined because Saudi Arabia itself cracked down on it and adopted a more liberal approach.

Iran’s proxy wars have destabilised shipping lanes and energy routes, directly harming Indian interests. A weakened Iran may actually reduce this disruption rather than worsen it.

India’s real leverage today comes from the good relations it has developed with Gulf states like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, as well as Israel, where our energy security, trade, and diaspora interests lie, not from romanticising a sanctioned and confrontational regime.

To add to this, Iran’s Supreme Leader has repeatedly spoken against India on Kashmir and propagated exaggerated allegations of large-scale persecution of Muslims in India.

So stop mourning something you cannot control. Smart geopolitics means preparing for the next ruler, not crying over the one on the way out. That is exactly what the Indian govt is also doing.

[Monidipa Bose - Dey (মণিদীপা) @monidipadey]

‘Virgin female prisoners should be r*ped before execution so that they do not go to heaven’ ~ Ayatollah Khomeini.
(founding leader of the Islamic regime in Iran).

Am so glad this sick mullah is dead.

Arfa Khanum Sherwani never deviates from her Islamic beliefs. Never. From supporting the Jamaat in BD that r*ped and killed innumerable Hindus, to crying for Khomeini whose orders killed innumerable Iranian women, she is a classic example that proves education doesn’t kill Islamic terrorism.