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This just shook me to the core. As I type these words, I am in another city, admitting the teen to a university, ensuring that the essentials that would be needed for the next four years are all in place. To the best possible extent.
I shall be leaving for home shortly. I am already dreading that journey. I know the teen may not pick up the phone when called. Sometimes may not even call back later.
When I look at the teen, radiant, excited, looking forward to a whole new life, I feel both proud and a little blank.
Thank you, @smritiirani ji, for putting it so beautifully. The missus is crying here, listening to you. Only the wearer knows where the damn shoe pinches.
It takes a lot to be a stakeholder in Indian football. It has been like that for some time now. But when everything around looks like it will crumble, you bank on family to hold on to each other. And more often than not, it is the elders in the house that you turn to, for assurance. All of you at the TATA Group, through TFA first, and then @JamshedpurFC, have been one of our pillars.
To know that Jamshedpur has folded first team operations is a punch to the gut. The players and staff will be without clubs, and they might find one by the end of it all. The League will have a team less, but the season will go on. However, not having the TATA group involved in the top tier of Indian football - that would be a disaster with no alternative.
I understand that some tough decisions in sport are down to what makes sense in the board room. But I can only request and hope that the think tank at TATA picks their heart over head and reconsiders this call. It might be a poor business decision, but it will be the one Indian football needs the most at this hour.
Heartbroken & so inspired 💔💔🙏🏽
The Commonwealth Games is becoming a daily roll-call of young Indians who have emerged from unimaginable hardship & horrors to win gold.
Look at 23-year-old judoka Asmita Dey, who is now the first Indian to win Commonwealth Games gold in the women’s 48kg category.
7 months ago, she lost her father to a brain stroke. A bicycle mechanic who earned barely ₹300 a day, he raised his family in a mud house in a small village in Tripura. When a knee injury threatened Asmita’s career, he found the money to take her to Delhi for treatment.
Even as the family mourned, Asmita’s mother urged her daughter to return to training, believing that abandoning the dream would betray everything her father had sacrificed for.
She now stands on top of the Commonwealth Games podium with a gold medal around her neck.
You can be triggered/offended/outraged by Ruchika Singh’s viral abusive rant. But an FIR and police action is wholly & deeply unnecessary.
No ifs or buts.
My take:
Many will probably hate me for this opinion. Nobody asked for it, but here it is. 😭🙏🏻
The language used by Ruchika Singh and the other women against PM Modi was disgusting, vulgar, and absolutely condemnable.
But should she be arrested for it? I don’t think so. Not even an FIR.
Offensive or abusive statements alone don’t deserve an FIR.
Someone from the government or the party should speak to these women, make them understand the difference between dissent and abuse, and let society judge their words.
What must be dealt with strictly are calls to violence, people openly calling for the PM’s assassination, uprooting Parliament, or directly inciting unrest. That is where the full force of the law should come in.
A democracy should punish violence and incitement, not mere vulgarity.
@narendramodi Obviously, not supporting any foul language used while putting across your point. But why does it feel like moral responsibility, accountability, and following the laws are a one-way street for the general public only?
This will move you to tears. Powerful. Emotional. Beautiful. Spirited. Patriotic.
Kargil’s Team Stringmo Sisters sing in support of Indian Army on the eve of 27th Kargil Vijay Diwas. 🇮🇳