Ravi 🇮🇳 🇸🇬🏏⛳ 🏎

Cricket umpire, Full time F1 fan, novice golfer, Beatlemaniac, avid Scrabble player, awful at chess!

[Ravi 🇮🇳 🇸🇬🏏⛳ 🏎 @rkputcha]

“….and no religion too…” were probably the most prescient parts of the lyrics from “Imagine”.

[Ravi 🇮🇳 🇸🇬🏏⛳ 🏎 @rkputcha]

@HarrajSokhi If you REALLY want common ground read those books and then we can talk.

[Ravi 🇮🇳 🇸🇬🏏⛳ 🏎 @rkputcha]

@HarrajSokhi You pretend to know the difference between Israel and Palestine when you evidently don't - when challenged you demand evidence. When shown evidence you resort to word salads. If you care, read. Of course you don't want to debate. You are ignorant and don't being shown that.

[Ashish Joshi @bismil_prasad]

"गिरो, गिरो, गिरोकि अभी और गिरने की संभावनाएँ भरपूर हैं!" - हूबनाथ पांडेय

Poem for all the followers of Hindutva and the Mainstream propagandists @sudhirchaudhary, @RShivshankar @smitaprakash @navikakumar ,@RubikaLiyaquat
@SushantBSinha,@AmanChopra_ @AMISHDEVGAN ,@UnSubtleDesi
@AnchorAnandN, Arnab via @republic, @RTArnabOfficial, @SureshChavhanke , @RajatSharmaLive , @chitraaum
@anjanaomkashyap , @MeghaSPrasad
@gauravcsawant @ShivAroor
@_pallavighosh @RubikaLiyaquat ,

गिरो, गिरो, गिरोकि अभी और गिरने की संभावनाएँ भरपूर हैं!
इतना गिरो कि गुरुत्वाकर्षण बल भी शर्म के मारे गिर पड़े।
गिरो गिरो...
अभी तो गिरने की शुरुआत है।
गिरने के अपने सामर्थ्य पर भरोसा रखो।
गिरने मत दो — सारा विश्व तुम्हारा गिरना देख रहा है।
और खुद न गिर पाने पर अफसोस कर रहा है।
गिरो... गिरो...
गिरोह रुपए के साथ, गिरोह चरित्र के साथ, गिरोह गर्व के साथ।
एक तुम हो जिसमें गिरने का इतना साहस है।
उस साहस के साथ गिरो — बेशर्मी के साथ गिरो, बेदर्दी के साथ गिरो।
दुनिया तुम्हें सिर्फ गिरना सिखा रही है।
सिर्फ एक ही मामले में सही — तुम्हें विश्व गुरु होने से कोई नहीं रोक सकता।
आने वाली पीढ़ियां तुम्हारे गिरने में अपनी गिरने की संभावना ही तलाश करेंगी।
और वो तुमसे भी ज्यादा गिरने का पराक्रम करेंगी।
उनके पराक्रम पर यकीन करते हुए...
जरा और ज़ोर से गिरो, थोड़े शोर से गिरो।
चारों ओर से गिरो, निपट भोर से गिरो।
और गिरते रहो, गिरते रहो।
ये सच है कि इससे पहले तुम्हारी तरह कोई नहीं गिरा।
इसका कोई नहीं गिरा।
बल्कि तुम्हें तो खुश होना चाहिए कि सदियों से खड़े समाज को तुम गिरना सिखा रहे हो।
एक ही जगह खड़े-खड़े लोग जड़ हो गए थे,
उन्हीं जड़ों को तुम ही हटा रहे हो।
ये कोई आसान काम नहीं है।
जो गिरने में असमर्थ हैं, वो तुम्हारी आलोचना करेंगे,
तुम्हारी निंदा करेंगे।
पर इन सबसे घबराना नहीं, गिरने से डगमगाना नहीं।
आज तक जो कुछ न गिरने के लिए प्रतिबद्ध था,
वो सब लेकर गिरो —
धर्म लेकर गिरो, कर्म लेकर गिरो,
देश लेकर गिरो, भेष लेकर गिरो,
पेड़ लेकर गिरो, रेड़ लेकर गिरो, पानी लेकर गिरो,
पहाड़ लेकर गिरो, सामान लेकर गिरो, भार लेकर गिरो,
प्रकृति लेकर गिरो, संस्कृति लेकर गिरो, विकृति लेकर गिरो...
गिरो!
वर्तमान सदी के बहुमतम महापुरुष पूरी कहानी को दिखा दो
कि तुम और कितना गिर सकते हो।
कल हो सकता है कि तुम्हारा गिरना देखकर ही लोगों में उठने की कामना जागे।
आने वाली पीढ़ियों को उठने का अर्थ बताने के लिए
कम और ज्यादा गिरने का फर्क बताने के लिए...
गिरो!
बिना किसी फिक्र के सिर्फ और सिर्फ गिरो।
गिरते रहो, गिरते रहो...
जब तक कि गिरने की प्रक्रिया निष्क्रिय न हो जाए।

P.S.हूबनाथ पांडेय जी की व्यंग्यात्मक कविता "गिरो" पर आधारित
Rendition by Rajendra

[Ravi 🇮🇳 🇸🇬🏏⛳ 🏎 @rkputcha]

@HarrajSokhi So you haven't read the books. And you don't know the facts. All you have is an opinion and lots of confidence. I guess that works for you. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Ravi 🇮🇳 🇸🇬🏏⛳ 🏎 @rkputcha]

@HarrajSokhi Try "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" by Ilan Pappe. "100 years war on Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi. "Ten Myths about Israel" by Ilan Pappe. Also read Avi Shlaim. Let me know if you need more.

[Ravi 🇮🇳 🇸🇬🏏⛳ 🏎 @rkputcha]

@HarrajSokhi That makes it obvious you haven't read anything. I'd encourage you to read before making comments which only show off your complete and utter ign.

[Ravi 🇮🇳 🇸🇬🏏⛳ 🏎 @rkputcha]

@HarrajSokhi @asadowaisi The history of how Israel came to be in Palestine might be useful reading.

[Ravi 🇮🇳 🇸🇬🏏⛳ 🏎 @rkputcha]

@MeghaSPrasad A journalist. Indulging in hapless handwringing. When you could instead have investigated who approved the absence of firefighting equipment or fire exits. And naming them so they could be brought to justice. Nah! Not for you anything other than brown-nosing up to power.

[Ravi 🇮🇳 🇸🇬🏏⛳ 🏎 @rkputcha]

@want2expres @NeenaRai Good point. Don't forget to mention that Ms Rai takes pride in being followed by said uneducated guy.

[Ravi 🇮🇳 🇸🇬🏏⛳ 🏎 @rkputcha]

@IsraelMFA @UNRWA That chimney stack with smoke from it reminded me was of a black-and-white photo of smoke from Dachau's crematorium. Israel, using chimneys with people going in. The depravity is breathtaking. @ori_goldberg

[Ravi 🇮🇳 🇸🇬🏏⛳ 🏎 @rkputcha]

@NBDwrites Yes I know. And so do you.

[Ravi 🇮🇳 🇸🇬🏏⛳ 🏎 @rkputcha]

@ShashiTharoor @manojsinha_ Mr Tharoor continues to supplicate and grovel in the vain hope that his unstinting sycophancy will (1) find takers in the BJP, and (2) earn him a kick out from the Congress, with neither happening so far. Mr Tharoor epitomises political opportunism at its worst.

[Ravi 🇮🇳 🇸🇬🏏⛳ 🏎 @rkputcha]

@_everydayhuman_ @SingaporeAir That you have had a bad experience with SQ is evident. Your subsequent posts alleging racism, poor treatment of Indians etc seem to be a desperate attempt to make this into a huge issue. And so far it isn't working.

[Ravi 🇮🇳 🇸🇬🏏⛳ 🏎 @rkputcha]

@hfgnffghv @AskAnshul Tell me again oh bright one what part of my post refers to 2.9 vs 2? You seem to have a lot of intelligence so it would good to learn from it.

[Ravi 🇮🇳 🇸🇬🏏⛳ 🏎 @rkputcha]

@NobleF1 Weird. Didn't this happen to Vettel many years ago at Singapore and I thought they had replaced distance calculations with something more high tech!

[The Shah of Blah 🌈 @mrgnk]

@dhume One of only 3? Which one did you forget - Nehru, Mrs. Gandhi, or Dr. Singh (10 years).
Measured by results, Modi is possibly the most significant, having destroyed the nation. Only time will tell if it can be built again.

[Ravi 🇮🇳 🇸🇬🏏⛳ 🏎 @rkputcha]

@rich_toronto It doesn't matter if it was a country or it wasn't. What matters is that people lived there, which people who dreamt up Israel knew of and consciously chose to throw out of their homes so they could grab land. "There was no Palestine" is lazy, disingenuous and self-incriminating.

[Ravi 🇮🇳 🇸🇬🏏⛳ 🏎 @rkputcha]

@FunTechAcademy You are raking up an imaginary past which I didn't even mention. Maybe read first?