If you observe closely...People who choose to applaud the Pakistani PM for the ceasefire while silently ignoring the 'draft message for Pakistan PM' are the same people who called Dhurandhar a propoganda, are the same people who never tweeted in support of operation sindoor, are the same people who mock the Indian army regularly.
It's a pattern.
I didn’t realise that operation sindoor resulted in tens of crores worth of Indian money being transferred to Pakistan…. because that’s exactly what the Asia cup did.
Hats off to the BCCI. The mass psychological manipulation they pulled off during this Asia Cup could easily be a case study in psychology.
Almost everyone assumes that the refusal to shake hands, military references, subtle trolling, and not taking the trophy from the PCB chairman was organic, that players acted on their own.
I doubt. The Indian team has never behaved like this before because they follow BCCI directives, and the board always plays with full courtesy. At the Asia Cup’s opening press conference, the Indian captain shook hands with the PCB and ACC chairmen, Pakistan’s federal minister Mohsin Naqvi, and the Pakistan captain, without hesitation. But as the first India-Pakistan match approached and public outrage intensified, the team’s conduct changed.
Suddenly, the same players who had no issues shaking hands days earlier started ignoring them. The BCCI orchestrated the optics expertly, and public emotions shifted accordingly. I am not blaming the players, they follow the board’s instructions. Perhaps, in their hearts, they feel discomfort playing Pakistan, but they act as directed. They even took a knee for George Floyd once, because they were told to do so, though half of them probably didn’t even know who he was.
Now that India has been crowned Asia Cup champions and euphoria has eclipsed the earlier boycott mood, some may see this as needless whining. That’s fine, sometimes uncomfortable truths need to be said. Having said that, I’ll still applaud Surya Kumar Yadav for announcing that his fees would be donated to soldiers. That was surely his own decision.
Meanwhile, media reports suggest Pakistan’s share from ACC earnings for this Asia Cup is ₹120–140 crore. I’m sure they’ll put it to entirely peaceful purposes, while we continue to celebrate what is, objectively, the most significant cup in the world.
Modi is not perfect, but he is far ahead of his predecessors and, in my view, the best prime minister India has had.
Most criticism of him is not about failures but about the expectations we place on him, shaped by what we see in developed nations, and that is fair. But India cannot transform into a superpower overnight, constrained by its vast population, democratic checks and balances, and the historic backlog of poverty and underdevelopment it inherited. Unlike China’s top-down model, every reform here must navigate states, coalitions, and social complexities.
Taxpayers’ aspirations in India are particularly high because they contribute more and get little, but it’s also a reality that democracy itself acts as a handicap. Elections are rarely won on vision or development; they are won on caste loyalties and freebies that appeal to the masses who care little about infrastructure, education, development, environment, or progress. Any govt, no matter how capable, is forced to dilute long-term reforms in order to survive short-term populism.
On top of that, real transformation requires decades of consistent effort in economic modernization, R&D, defense capacity, and global positioning, all of which no leader, not even Modi, can compress into a few years. What he can do, and is doing, is laying the groundwork for a stronger, more self-reliant India of the future.
Criticism must continue, it pushes things in a positive direction. But credit should also be given where it’s due. Happy birthday, Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi. May you continue to lead the nation for many more years.
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This entire incident was an embarrassment to India.
A morality mob going after a podcaster and a comedian because of a bad joke. Hopefully everyone’s self righteousness has been satisfied and we can all move on with our lives.