Made me cry. Couldnt sleep last night.
She started the series 3 with stilling someone else, got stilled and killed in the end.
🥲🥲
What a storyline and execution. Loved the last 15 mins so much that watched it 4 times, just for Sophie's acting. Goosebumps!!! Love you Sophie
"I am Siuan Sanche. Daughter of the river. Water itself; and I defy you."
Such a brilliant performance, we bow!👑
Sophie Okonedo, the actress that you are!
#thewheeloftime
How Indira Gandhi's greed looted Rajput Royals during the emergency days 🧵
History is a great teacher to those who want to learn!!
Today Rajaputs of certain parts are raising the crescendo of dethroning Modi Ji by portraying him as anti-Rajput prime minister, so let's see how Congress treated Rajaputs during emergency!!
Short Thread:
(P)AAPiyas & Liberals're posing question as how can Ghungruseth be implicated by ED in Delhi Liquor Excise Policy Scam!
No legal knowledge & hollow brains stop them from understanding why Ghungruseth is called KINGPIN of Scam!
Let me give TECHNICAL details!
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The magnitude of the Delhi liquor scam explained.
- via SM
The old liquor policy of Delhi.
750ML Wholesale Price ₹166.73
Excise Duty ₹223.88
VAT ₹106.00
Retailer commission ₹33.39
MRP ₹530.00
New liquor policy of Kejriwal implemented in March 2022.
750ML Wholesale Price ₹188.41
Excise Duty ₹1.88
VAT 1% ₹1.90
Retailer Margin ₹363.27
Additional excise ₹4.54
MRP ₹560.00
Thus, in the old liquor policy, the government's earnings on a bottle was ₹329.89 while in the new liquor policy it is only ₹8.32. That is, a loss to the government of ₹321.57 per bottle from the new policy.
In the old policy, the retailer's commission was ₹33.39 whereas in the new policy the retailer's commission was ₹363.27 for a few months , i.e. profit to the retailer of ₹330.12 per bottle.
Thus, it is clear that the retailer benefits almost as much as the government suffers per bottle.
Now how did this benefit reach the manufacturer in the new policy? The manufacturers were allowed to open retail shops (which was illegal as per the rules).
Now look at the sales figures. In the old policy where the sale of liquor was 132 lakh liters per month, in the new policy, the sale of liquor per month is 245 lakh liters. To achieve this, the drinking age has been reduced to 18 years and the liquor sale time has been increased till 3 AM. Dry days have been reduced from 31 to only 3 days so that alcohol consumption is maximised.
Now you must have understood how huge a scam this is and how much money the Susu-Keju Caucus has earned, due to which the Chief Secretary had to ask the LG for a CBI investigation.
This is the condition of the AAP party which came to power with a thumping majority, claiming to eradicate corruption from politics.
Unfortunately, he is Education Minister (AAP) of Punjab. 1158 candidates for Asst. Professor recruitment are sitting near his house. Their leader has been on a hunger strike unto death for the last six days. He has neither shown concern for them nor visited her...
However, now that Kejriwal got arrested in a liquor scam,he is putting on drama at night and wasting public money by unnecessarily traveling to Delhi with his convoy.... Badlav anyone? @1158APFront5aab
Bill Gates GM Mosquito experiment in Brazil (Expose)
Pl read full thread till last post
In the first 6 weeks of this year (1 Jan - 15 Feb) Brazil has faced very very high cases of Dengue
512,000 cases
425 deaths
314% rise in case
Brazil has declared medical emergency
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When he was 19, Andre Agassi started losing his hair.
Deeply ashamed of his receding hairline, to hide it, Agassi started wearing a hairpiece.
Not long after, at the 1990 French Open, Agassi made it to his first Grand Slam final.
“The night before the final,” Agassi writes,
“Catastrophe strikes.”
As he was taking a shower, Agassi felt the hairpiece disintegrate in his hands. He summoned his brother, who was able to clip the hairpiece back together with 20 bobby pins.
The next morning, Agassi writes, “warming up before the match, I pray. Not for a win, but for my hairpiece to stay on…My tenuous hairpiece has me catatonic…With every lunge, every leap, I picture it landing on the clay. I can picture millions of people suddenly leaning closer to their TVs, turning to each other and in dozens of languages and dialects saying some version of: Did Andre Agassi’s hair just fall off?”
At times, he looks into the stands and sees fans sporting hairdos just like his. This only exacerbates his sense of shame. “I can’t imagine all these people trying to be like Andre Agassi,” he writes, “since I don’t want to be Andre Agassi.”
Because of this fixation on his hairpiece, though he was the heavy favorite, Agassi lost three sets to one.
After, his girlfriend, aware of the hairpiece catastrophe, says, “I think you should just get rid of that hairpiece.”
“Impossible,” Agassi replies, “I’d feel naked.”
“You’d feel liberated,” she says.
He thought it over for a few days: “I thought about the pain my hair has caused me, the hypocrisy and the pretending and the lying.”
And then he went back to his girlfriend, “Let’s do it…Let’s cut it all off.”
His first tournament with a bald head was another Grand Slam, the Australian Open, and, “I come out like the Incredible Hulk. I don’t drop one set in a take-no-prisoners blitz to the final.”
You were right, he told his girlfriend before the final, “my hairpiece was a shackle.”
In the final, he won three sets to one. “Everyone says it’s my best performance yet, because it’s my first victory over Pete [Sampras]. But I think twenty years from now I’ll remember it as my first bald victory.”
Takeaway 1:
In his book, in interviews, and in the documentary “Stutz,” the psychiatrist Phil Stutz talks about the Shadow.
“The easiest way to say it,” Stutz explains, “is that the Shadow is the part of yourself that you’re ashamed of…It’s a flawed part of yourself that you feel you have to hide and once you start to hide things, you become very sensitive to whether other people can see them or not. It becomes an obsession—How do they see me, what do they think of me, do they like me, love me?”
The more you try to hide what you’re ashamed of, as Agassi said, the more ashamed you feel.
“But the beauty is,” Stutz continues, “once you stop hiding it, you can relax and then you get flow. If you stop hiding your Shadow, if you stop hiding, you get flow. And that’s what everybody wants.”
After he stopped hiding his Shadow, Agassi got flow. He went on to win back-to-back Grand Slams and ended 1995 as the number one ranked tennis player in the world, replacing Pete Sampras who held the spot for eighty-two straight weeks.
Takeaway 2:
Keeping in mind that Agassi was so worried about what others would think or say about his shaved head, I went searching for what others thought or said after he shaved his head.
All I could find was a passing mention in a 1995 Washington Post piece (“The wild mane of hair he sported at the tournament last season has been replaced with his new no-nonsense buzz cut.”)
It made me think of a line from the philosopher Seneca, who writes in a letter titled On Groundless Fears: “We suffer more in our imagination more often than in reality.”
In his head, Agassi thought people would think or say nasty things about him.
In reality, no one really cared.
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“The most precious thing we have in life is time, so any time you spend worrying about something, get rid of it.” — Andre Agassi
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