Most of you will never know what it feels like to pour everything you are into somethingโฆ and still come up short.
Youโd rather stay in the stands, mock and laugh at the man who risked it all.
If you donโt have the courage to chase greatness, youโll never understand the cost of it.
Korean national team was only struggling to defend in the air, other than that top playmaking all over. Czechia failed to capitalise on that. Good game overall!
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A friend just sent me this delightful Extract from the book "Fools and Infantrymen" by Lt Gen Eric Alexander Vas, Col of the 9th Gorkha Rifles, and former Eastern Army Commander. There could be no more amusing statement of the best of India's religious pluralism -- and the diehard secularity of the Army.
Over to General Vas:
"When an army commander first visits the various states under his operational jurisdiction, it is customary to pay courtesy calls on the state's governor and chief minister. During my first visit to one of the north-eastern states, the Chief Minister held a public function and in his welcoming address said that the people should now feel safe as "the new army commander is a Christian".
"In my reply, after expressing thanks for the welcome, I reminded the public that my predecessor was a Jew; what he had done for the state would be difficult for me to match. I told them that military commanders operate according to military tasks laid down by the government, and we are not influenced by individual considerations of language, religion, or caste.. In conclusion, I said, "I was born a human being, by tradition I'm a Hindu, by training I'm a Catholic, by temperament I'm a Muslim, morally I'm attracted to Buddhism,and every time I have to shave I wish I was a Sikh."
Jai Hind!!
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85% of India's police are constables. The clerk is invisible to everyone โ except the citizen who needs him.
Sociologist Lenski called it Status Inconsistency: high power, low rank. The strain turns outward. Onto you.
A 2021 study found low power breeds paranoia โ which breeds aggression. That hostile window clerk isn't a bad person. He's a predictable product of a broken system.
The Police Act of 1861 still governs how a constable meets a citizen in 2025.
When I became DGP Haryana, I didn't start with training. I started with dignity. Wrote to every jawan in Hindi: "You are the most important rank. The citizen at your gate is having a difficult day. Offer them a chair."
It worked. Because these are good people inside a broken design.
But goodwill has a shelf life.
Georgia after Rose Revolution recruited anew, raised salaries, tied promotion to conduct. Within 6 years โ per Princeton's research โ their police ranked 3rd most trusted institution in the country, after church and army.
The lesson isn't training. It's incentives.
Reward dignity. Recognise integrity. Link promotion to conduct.
Give them something to gain by being good. That's the reform. Everything else is noise.
Read my full article in @Dailyworld
MI scouts peaked with the discovery of Hardik. A guy who could smack 16 ball 50 can also give you 3 or even 4 overs on any given day. Can't grow such a clutch cricketer even in lab.