Shubham

Lives Cricket | Loves Travelling | Car & Bike Enthusiast | Lawyer by Default

[Vikram Mahendra @ElRealesVikram]

I feel Sachin Tendulkar is deeply disrespected by a certain portion of cricket followers on this platform and they somehow feel that by one-upping their favourite over SRT, they do some amazing thing.

When it comes to batting, there is no one who can touch Sachin Tendulkar, barring the exception of Brian Lara.

The man was 23 years old and the best batter in the world by a country mile, watch him at the 1996 ODI World Cup.

If Sachin would have retired after even the 2003 World Cup, he'd have still gone down as the greatest batter of all time.

His batting is like the rarest single malt, a Beethoven composition or the Northern Lights - Pure, Unadulterated & Unparalleled.

[Shubham @shubham2186]

Born in Bhopal and now living in Mumbai - can relate to this tweet.

[Kalyan Kumar Biswal @KalyanKBiswal]

My decision to leave Mumbai and move to Bhopal is going to make you question your own lifestyle in the metro.

I spent most of my life in Mumbai, and after marriage, moving to Bhopal with my wife was a major decision. But here are the perks:

1. Rent- A fully furnished 2BHK with 2 ACs, fridge, sofa, and bed in a top society costs just ₹17,000.

2. No traffic- The whole city is max 17 minutes away. Grab an Uber/Rapido and you'll get a cab in under 2 minutes. You can skip buying a car entirely — insurance, parking, and E20 petrol are all headaches you don't need.

3. Cleaner air- Bhopal's parks have real, big trees, unlike Mumbai's smog-choked ones. AQI here stays well below 50, so yes, my lungs thank me every single day.

4. No adulteration (yet) - Pure makkhan for ₹60 per 100g. Try finding that in Mumbai.

5. Actual taste- Food here has real flavor, something Mumbai can't offer no matter what you pay. In Bhopal, a food joint succeeds on three things: tasty, affordable, and clean. In Mumbai, it's affordable, affordable, and affordable. Sorry Mumbai, but vada pav isn't food.

6. Friendlier people- I know my neighbor. How many Mumbaikars can say that? Here, people have time for each other - no rush, no unnecessary cortisol.

7. Cheaper, better help- My maid charges ₹4,500 for cooking and cleaning. In Mumbai, that's above ₹7,000, and she's always rushing with no real cooking skill. Mine here knows the difference between boiled, steamed, deep-fried, and shallow-fried. That's a blessing.

8. Premium gym, half the price- I got Bhopal's most premium gym for me and my wife for ₹27,000/year. The same quality in Mumbai would cost over ₹40,000 - and there, work and commute eat your whole day, so you're only hitting the gym on weekends, exhausted.

9. Cheaper movies- Under ₹300 at Bhopal's DB City mall(The Top Mall). Try matching that at R City or a Palladium in Mumbai.

10. Work-life balance – Offices here wrap up by 5:30 PM. Nobody's working till 8 or reaching home at 10 PM. Everyone's home by 6, max 6:30. Digest that, Mumbaikars. Bosses aren't unnecessarily rude. The main office in Delhi doesn't care how the Bhopal office performs; all they care about is numbers from metro cities.

11. No language pressure- Nobody forces you to speak the local language since it's Hindi anyway - cabbies and auto drivers are simply better behaved.

12. Bike taxis exist here- Rapido/Uber bikes, cheap and available in Bhopal, banned in Mumbai where they're needed most.

13. Houseparties- People in Bhopal don't wait for weekends to let loose. From hosting to guest-starring, some of my best house parties here have happened on a Wednesday night right after clocking out.

14. Trains- Want to go to Delhi? Take a train. Mumbai? Take a train. Banaras, Kolkata, Ranchi? Just take a train. Bhopal is right in the middle, making train travel convenient, frequent, and super affordable.

Better roads, better infrastructure, Blinkit, UrbanClap, cheaper salons, and affordable organic vegetables and fruits.

The only thing I miss is Marine Drive - but Bhopal is the City of Lakes, so yeah, I'm happy.

[Himanish Ganjoo @himganj153]

This is an Indian cricket fan denigrating one of India's greatest cricketers just because in the eyes of outsiders, this bowler threatens to compete with Kohli for the title of the best.

These internecine stan wars are abjectly pathetic. Worst thing to happen to Indian cricket.

[Cricketologist @AMP86793444]

I have seen it all today!

A former Indian cricketer did not select Sunil Gavaskar in his all time best India test XI. 😳🤦‍♂️

[Lee Hooper @LeeHooper1]

I have always liked all Cricket but am the only one that’s lost all interest in all 20 over Cricket? ( not just the hundred) Bored of watching six after six. It’s got so tedious. No chance of proper drama or tension building to any kind of crescendo, sick of the same thing.

[Aravind @aravind]

Many international media in the last 7 days: "Massive protests in India", "Govt stalled", "India unsafe".

(To deter investors, tourists, and disillusion Indians to incite more.)

🇮🇳 India in the last 7 days:

July 21st - ONGC reaches a depth of 1 km into the earth for geothermal power. Inaugurates two such wells for 1MW of clean power in remote areas.
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July 22nd - Indian Navy commissioned INS Malvan, the second indigenously designed and built Anti-Submarine Warfare with over 80% made-in-India components.
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July 23rd - DRDO's Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE), with Hyderabad-based Azad Engineering, delivered India’s first indigenous expendable turbojet engine in the 350 kg thrust class.
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July 24th - DRDO successfully conducted the maiden flight test of the indigenous Kusha Long Range Surface-to-Air Missile from Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha. It is called India's S-400. Big win by DRDO but under appreciated.
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July 25th - India got Sarnath (near Varanasi where Lord Buddha delivered his first sermon) inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List during the 48th World Heritage Committee session in Busan.
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July 26th - India in Commonwealth Games: Mirabai Chanu won gold in women's 48 kg.

Rishikanta Singh won silver in men's 60 kg (Games record in snatch).

Raja Muthupandi won silver in men's 65 kg. India’s early tally included 1 gold, 2 silver, and 1 bronze.

Previous day Para powerlifter Jhandu Kumar won bronze.
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July 27th (Coming day) - More commonwealth medals to come for India.

India's first hydrogen powered train (one of the few countries in the world) already saves 3200 liters of diesel in test runs.

High-powered task force on exam reforms constituted to make India’s examination system (especially NTA-conducted exams such as NEET, JEE Main, and CUET) more reliable, transparent, leak-proof, and technology-driven.

The government is set to introduce the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026 in Parliament (Lok Sabha). Tougher penalties, time bound investigations and sentencing, stronger mechanisms against paper leak.
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Everyday India and Indians are achieving some amazing things and taking the country forward.

Issues, protests (and accompanied anarchy) aren't everything that define India. Though they consume all news and media time. Don't get 'black pilled' too much by them.

The future is bright for India as long as the govt is stable and we do not let adversaries take advantage of internal issues.
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Indian Gen-Z are achieving great things already. The small number we see engaging in arson & violence hijacking peaceful protests by others, using filthy language, and having perverted thinking are just a small percentage.

They will grow out of it, and more won't become them, if India can take care of the perverse and mind corrupting content they get exposed to as kids and teenagers.

[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

Millennials experienced the fag end of the pre-liberalisation era of economic supression/repression that our population was subjected to. It was 100% by design and would have kept going had dire circumstances not arisen. Consecutive INC govts artificially restricted access to every human comfort like telephones, gas connections, scooters, various electronics. They constrained the production of goods. Most of India had no water, electricity, healthcare, or sanitation. Starvation was common. Ordinary people were living like animals.

Almost every single person who romanticises the pre-1991 era was from a well-to-do family. Life was hell for the average Indian.

It took that family being temporarily sidelined for PVNR to work towards change. And the change was big and instant. Hundreds of millions were shocked that all it took to move out of that darkness was a policy change. Every Indian asked the question - "Why the fuck were we living like this till now?" It has been no coincidence that the INC has been in secular decline ever since.

People who lived through those times and saw an action replay during UPA 2 now form the bulk of the electorate, and enough have vowed to never vote for the INC come what may because of those experiences. Just like enough voters in Bihar have sworn off Lalu, and it seems like more recently, Bengal is done with Mamta. You cannot reduce people to penury and then be surprised when they decide to permanently vote against you.

People like Vir Das have never bothered to understand this lived reality of hundreds of millions of Indians. It's hardly a surprise that they keep coming up with drivel like this below and can't figure out why people vote the way they do.

[Navroop Singh @TheNavroopSingh]

This protests by CJP has revealed total filth of India. I am horrified at education, knowledge standards of Gen Z. This is the more glaring failure of our education policy. Not just the government but even the parenting of Gen Z is a total loss, they have failed to imbibe values, humility, language, dignity and discretion into their kids.

If these children are our future then god save us. We are breeding a new generation of social justice warriors who feel entitled to their rights but have zero sense of duty or belonging to nation building.

Instead of producing more scientists, engineers, and skilled workforce we are creating more SJWs. Thankfully same generation in semi urban and rural areas is bit more deeply rooted. These protests are operating in social media bubble and does not represent fully cohort of the youth.

The bigger problem for Government lies ahead, that if global economy faces turmoil, job losses happens due to AI & energy prices raise cost of living. Trump’s America is already targeting India’s Software Services the employment sector in terms of numbers.

And if India does not rapidly industrialises generating manufacturing jobs, frustration of youth will invariably come out on incumbent its matter of time. That should be the main worry of the Government not these protests as its part of small cohort and can be addressed with remedial measures.

By 2029 demographic cohort of India’s voting will have dramatically changed and the things that worked in 2014 or 2019 may not work. So that also needs to be factored in by the politicians and the Government.

[Abhijeet Tripathi @AbhTri_]

Millennials will beat the shit out of you guys and our parents will beat the shit out of your parents. Millennials are the biggest stakeholders in this and of this country. And let me make it very clear, anyone who is less than fifty is a millennial because of the wealth he built and building, their contribution in taxes, growth of various industries, biggest productive segment of the society, used minimum resources and with maximum output, and still looking absolutely young with more T and S count. Just heck off you piece of shit.

[Rahul Srinivas @whizkidd]

Don’t know about Rang De Basanti, but let me tell you what some of us millennials actually grew up watching.

I was in primary school during the 1993 Mumbai bombings -- too young to even understand what terrorism meant. But I distinctly remember my mom repeatedly warning me not to pick up anything lying around while playing outside because, you know, it could be a bomb.

That was childhood.

Then came the seemingly endless procession of attacks: the 1993 Mumbai blasts, Red Fort in 2000, Parliament in 2001, the Mumbai bus bombings and Akshardham in 2002, three separate blasts within eight months in Mumbai in 2003, the 2005 Delhi blasts, the 2007 Hyderabad bombings, and the 2008 Bangalore and Ahmedabad blasts.

In July 2006, I was supposed to be on one of the trains that was bombed near Mahim. I stayed back at the office because of a meeting. A completely mundane change of plans is probably the reason I’m alive to type this instead of being a name on a list of the dead.

I remember that evening far better than I remember any stupid movie. Our office went into lockdown. Phones were jammed. People were crying and frantically trying to reach their families. Nobody knew what was happening, whether there were more bombs, or whether someone they loved was lying dead inside a mangled train compartment.

Two years later came 26/11.

I had the misfortune of watching uncensored footage of the aftermath. One clip showed bodies being piled and stacked inside a makeshift room at CST while someone wheeled in another load on a bloodied wheelbarrow, with blood dripping onto the floor. The sanitised footage shown on television didn't come remotely close to what actually happened inside that station.

So yes, us millennials lived through an era where we went to work knowing that the crime of simply boarding the wrong train, getting on the wrong bus, eating at the wrong restaurant, or standing on the wrong street at the wrong fucking moment could get you blown to pieces or riddled with bullets.

Some of us literally went to work wondering, somewhere at the back of our minds, whether this would be the commute we wouldn't come home from.

So please, spare us millennials this sanctimonious horseshit about Rang De Basanti and what some Bollywood movie supposedly should have taught us about how to vote.

[Jatin Sapru @jatinsapru]

@sabtheeek Given up ! Going to find a concrete solution to this fantasy tweeters!

[Dodda Ganesh | ದೊಡ್ಡ ಗಣೇಶ್ @doddaganesha]

The reason KL Rahul faces so much hate and bullying online despite his unreal numbers and versatility in ODIs, is accounts like these.

The game was practically over by the time KL came to bat at no 6; but who gets the blame? It’s KL again. At this rate KL could be even blamed for Indian diplomatic relations with the rest of the world.

[Anuj Nitin Prabhu @APTalksCricket]

Imagine playing such a horrible brand of cricket that even the biggest advocates of "team above individual" mentality end up saying.."Leave it..i ll only switch on the TV when Rohit and Virat bat or when Bumrah takes the new ball."

Unbelievable downfall..this after 2023 WC.

[Shubham @shubham2186]

What more does the @BCCI want to examine now? Tests whitewash at home; T20 drubbing by Ireland and England; lost ODIs to NZ, Eng etc. Team
in the news more for happenings off the ground than on the field. This is such a downfall for Indian Cricket!

[Cricketologist @AMP86793444]

Gautam Gambhir’s India played 10 games on this UK tour.

They won only ONE game.

Batsmen looked out of sorts on these pitches and bowlers looked clueless.

Yes, he will always have a “transition” excuse.

He will not accept wrong team selection, wrong decisions, poor man management etc. The team’s morale has hit a rock bottom. The dressing room environment is unhealthy. Yes, he will not take responsibility for any of these.

Under him we are losing tests, we are losing T20Is and we are losing ODIs like we never used to.

How long are India going to let him continue to destroy their team?

[Nikhil Naz @NikhilNaz]

Don’t forget that on a day when slow-cutters from a seamer and a part time spinner choked the Indian batters on a dry pitch at Lord’s, India decided to bench their premier spinner and played 4 seamers.

[Shubham @shubham2186]

The coach has not only ended the Superstar culture, he has also ended the winning culture, the bowling culture, the fielding culture and giving a damn to the team culture #indveng

[Jatin Sapru @jatinsapru]

Amidst all talk of future, the answer is history. Hitman on the honours board!

[The Astro Nexus @TheAstroNexus]

Rohit, Kohli, Bumrah, Shami, Rahul, Gill, Siraj, Shreyas, Axar and Hardik.

These are must if India is serious about #ODIWorldCup2027
#RoKo #MdShami #RohitSharma #ViratKohli

[Harsha Bhogle @bhogleharsha]

This whole business around Rohit Sharma, from an irresponsible leak to a high level clarification, is so damaging to Indian cricket and the atmosphere in the team.

[Aditya Saha @Adityakrsaha]

This obession of sending Sundar needs to be stopped at least don't change the batting order like this.

KL Rahul was already doing so well at no. 5 and in case if you want to send a Left-handed batter then promote Axar at least.