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#LaKR #KKR

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@shriramtweet Russell has been a group la doopu for several seasons. He is the most unreliable player for KKR and still we hang on to him. God know why
Iyer has to step up

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@shriramtweet @KKRiders Vaibhav should have bowled at wankhade in those seeming conditions but got substituted with Manish pandey coz of batting collapse last match.

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@shriramtweet Angusamy iruyya, Rummy varum ;)

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@shriramtweet

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@shriramtweet @SunRisers That auctioneer is slowing all bids. After asking GT for RTM and reopened the bid

[Pari @BluntIndianGal]

Hard times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
Weak men create hard times.

[Raaghavan @raaghavanpartha]

@PramodhN

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@shriramtweet Margot Robbie irupala biopic movie la ?! 😜

[KolkataKnightRiders @KKRiders]

12 years apart - Same goal. Same dream. 🏆

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@shriramtweet RCB vs CSK is mostly a washout game due to rain forecast. So CSK might not make it to the top 2.

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@shriramtweet Saving the best for the next matches!

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@shriramtweet Kaduppu ennana they will again go berserk for an all-rounder and leave out these groomed talents

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@shriramtweet Next year's auction is a huge challenge. Not sure if Narine and DreRuss getting retained and also more possibility of other teams poaching the likes of angrish, ramandeep

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Point 4 is very true. Had a superb darshan at Ayodhya! Jai Shree Ram 🙏

[Narayanan Hariharan @narayananh]

If you are planning a trip to Ayodhya in the coming days/months, don’t forget to bookmark this tweet.

These are 7 tips from a friend who visited Ayodhya last week, in his own words:

1. Do not take your mobile phone and other gadgets, metallic items/bags. Depositing them and getting them back from lockers will consume about 20 minutes.

2. If possible go barefoot, that may save you another 15 minutes.

3. Crowd is relatively less in late evenings, if possible, plan for a 7pm darshan.

4. Once you enter the temple, take the right line. The right line goes closer to Ram Lalla by 6 feet, and chances are high that you may also get a bit more time for darshan.

5. Hanuman Garhi Temple is extremely crowded, so plan accordingly.

6. Don’t forget to visit Kanak Bhavan and Dashrath Mahal.

7. Guptar Ghat is a place to visit. There is a temple in the Cantonment that you shouldn’t miss.

[Raaghavan @raaghavanpartha]

"The pain of failure is less than the pain of regret"

[Mukul Dekhane @dekhane_mukul]

Irrelevance is the new retirement.

Deloitte India with a retirement age of 62 years, gave golden handshake to 35 partners above 55.

They are removing those who have their past behind them and adding those who have their future ahead of them.

Guess who all will follow. Right, everyone!

When I came in, no one took you seriously until you had grey hair. Age got respect, credibility and deference.

Just when I got there, someone changed the rules of the game!

Now I know what Charlie Chaplin meant, “Time is my only enemy”.

So you see people trying to cover up their age.
The hair gets blacker.
Cosmetic procedures, shiny new wheels, trendy lingo.
In short my generation moved from trying to impress those older than us to those younger to us! And we all know the former is probable the latter are near impossible to please.

Ask anyone who has retired. They don’t miss the money. They miss the routine, meetings, travel, ringing phones- what they may have complained about. As humans we struggle for relevance. That our life matters. Without it there is void.

Along this time, you meet more Doctors than DJs. You may be paying heavy cost of your kids higher education and you realise that time is running out on you.

Henry Thoreau said, “Most men live lives of quiet desperation and they go to their graves with the song still in them.”

In your fifties there are three possibilities.
One is disappointment of not getting that S Class Merc or you got it but think about what you missed in its chase and the third is laughing at the stupidity of ever wanting one. 

कभी किसी को मुकम्मल जहाँ नहीं मिलता
कहीं ज़मीन तो कहीं आसमान नहीं मिलता

No one gets everything, sometimes you get success but failed relationships, kids grew up and parents grew old without you and sometimes you get that right but fall short of success.

What’s funny is that growing old is compulsory but growing up seems optional.

I marvel at people’s ability to be childish, egoistic and ready to fight on trivial things. How did they miss the point of life!

Long back I stopped buying tickets to other people’s dramas. I see all around me with the attitude of the Polish adage, “Not my circus, not my monkeys.”
A delayed flight, people venting on counter staff, cutting lines to board an aircraft early. Everything is stressful and everything is funny- depends on our lens.

Ageing well is moving from being a noisy mountain stream in your teens to a deep, calm ocean.

Fifties our ancients called Vanprastha ashram. Facing the forest. I have a different take to it. I think in fifties, one needs to build a Version 2, find our joie di vivre and burn the candle at both ends. Do what you need to do. Sing that song. If not now, when!

The pain of failure is less than the pain of regret. Go for it. Fifties is the new twenties with thirty years of experience! If you are in your twenties or thirties take it from me that time is a thief, it slips away. Buddha was right - The trouble is you think you have time!

Enjoy life to the fullest, as it comes....

😎😍😎😍😎

[Raaghavan @raaghavanpartha]

There are a plethora of reasons to get married, among which forwarding the wedding invite on the penultimate day of wedding to friends via school/collage WhatsApp group still tops the list