@rdalwale@APTalksCricket But our clown Captain and Coach will go with same team, saying "don't change winning combination ". I would say replace Abhishek with Siraj and Varun with Kuldeep.
Absolute shame on you @DVVMovies
All the movie enthusiasts and Fans would’ve watched the movie in the 4 day long weekend along with premiers. Now it’s up to normal people to watch the movie, you are literally Killing the movie’s long run. Even PAN India blockbusters have reduced ticket prices from Monday! Now don’t bark / cry that people aren’t coming to theatres. It’s not OTT piracy that’s killing the movie, it’s the greed and brainlessness of Producers & Distributors!
#TheyCallHimOG @IamKalyanDasari@SVC_official@vamsi84
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.
Asia Cup earns most of its revenue from India, about 80%. All the money goes to the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), which then shares it with all boards, including the PCB, while keeping a cut for itself.
The more ACC earns, the bigger the share each board, including the PCB, gets. How does ACC earn more? By hyping India vs Pakistan, the golden goose. That’s why these matches are always on weekends, and the schedule is engineered to make India and Pakistan clash multiple times. Other boards happily go along, because the bigger the hype, the fatter their share.
So, every time India plays Pakistan, we’re pumping revenue straight into the PCB, and by extension, into Pakistan’s economy. Apart from moral considerations, this is also why we shouldn’t be playing them.
But still, the Govt and BCCI went ahead and played. Hope these two points were really worth funding the very country that wages a proxy war on us and kill our citizens.
Gadkari was once among the most popular ministers in the govt, but that bubble has burst.
Arrogance has taken a toll on his image, and claiming that criticism is merely a “paid campaign” will not redeem him. He isn’t reading the public mood.
Yes, he deserves credit for expanding highways, not quite by global standards, but certainly better than what existed before him. But that achievement is overshadowed by the way he has mishandled policies on vehicles and fuel.
Come on, you are a powerful minister with every tool at your disposal. If you truly believe there’s a paid campaign against you, you can easily order call record and bank transaction scans to prove it. Why aren't you doing that?
People are paying heavily for both vehicles and fuel. They are stakeholders, not enemies. Policies cannot be twisted by personal whims and then criticism dismissed as mere propaganda. If anything, the real paid propaganda was when Instagram influencers were hired to pose as experts and defend E20 petrol.
The stadium was empty during the India vs UAE match.
But it won't be the case in India vs Pakistan match. Tickets yet to sell out because they are very expensive. 25000 seater stadium is pretty easy to fill.
But the revenue in modern times is not generated from ticket sales. It is generated from broadcasting. And this is where guys who watch cricket on TV & mobiles come in.
Just don't watch the upcoming India Pakistan match. Let it become the least watched match of Asia Cup. Just do it once. Do it for those who lost their lives in Pahalgam. Do it for those soldiers who fought in Operation Sindoor.
Don't let BCCI and Pakistan earn anything out of these matches.
It was responsibility of both the govt and the BCCI to ensure India does not play Pakistan in Asia Cup. They failed.
Now the choice is yours: either shrug it off with “if they don’t care, why should I” and watch, or refuse to watch and make a statement.
I hope you choose the latter. Don’t watch, neither on TV, nor online, nor through apps. Don’t even engage when cricket accounts post live scores or hype the match as it gets “interesting.”
Refusing to engage is a small act for each of us, but together it becomes a powerful statement that neither the govt nor the BCCI can ignore. Let silence be the rebellion.
1. BCCI is the Richest cricket board
2. ICC chairman Jay Shah is an Indian
3. Jay Shah's father is home minister
Still if you can't isolate Pakistan on cricket field using power and money then what's the use of conquering world? Let's come out of illusion first.
India lacks a functioning concept of conflict of interest in governance.
The father is pushing ethanol blending as aggressive national policy, while the son’s company reaps extraordinary profits after entering the ethanol sector.
In any mature democracy, the father would have stepped down the moment his son joined a business tied to his ministry, to simply avoid the appearance of impropriety.
Even if both are entirely honest, the optics are damning. Yet there is no uproar: the opposition stays silent since their own leaders’ companies benefit from the ethanol boom, and ordinary citizens who raise questions can simply be dismissed as oil-lobby trolls. A sad state of affairs!
For everyone who is disappointed that we didn’t finish Pakistan. I have only one question.
What exactly do you mean by “Finish Pakistan”? What do you expect to do?
Do you want to do a WW2 style Operation Sickle Cut, launch armored pincer movements, encircle Pakistani armies and annex Pakistan? Why on earth would you want to do that?
Do you want to add 300 million hostile people, some of whom already think blowing themselves up is their greatest purpose in life? How will you manage them?
Is that how you will finish Pakistan?
Or do you want to nuke them out of existence?
Because let me give you a reality check here. We won’t do that. We can’t do that. Indian citizens cannot morally contemplate, let alone sanction, nuking 300 million people. So that option is out.
Then Someone said, “Let’s split Pakistan into 5 countries”.
Now, Pakistan isn’t some Ikea Furniture that you can assemble or disassemble at your will. As hopeless they may be, they still have a functioning military and a working bureaucracy. They will do anything they can to keep the country together.
With all our might, with all our focus, we can exploit that Faultline, but it will take a lot of money and energy and 10-15 years. Are you ready to wait that long?
Some people said we should do a large-scale attack on all their air bases, military bases, Ports, Military HQ everything. Obliterate them out of existence.
Sounds nice if you are movie general.
In reality if we do that, Pakistan will launch nukes on Mumbai and Delhi. Simple. Because it will be their last resort and they will exercise it.
Obviously, we will retaliate and wipe them out of existence, but are ready to lose our 2 big cities and the lives of 20 million Indians as a price for taking out their military?
I don’t think so.
Finally, what is War? War is nothing but politics by other means. And War without objective is pointless.
Any battle launched should be with a purpose.
Our purpose in this strike was two-fold
1. Send a message to Pakistan that for every Indian your terrorist kills, we will kill 100 of your terrorists. We will take you out even if you are ensconced in the heart of your country. We will come after your terrorists like a wrath of God.
2. If Pakistan retaliates, not only can we handle them, but we will also hit and twist the knife if it comes to that.
We have achieved it. In fact, we have more than achieved it.
We have put the fear of God in the terrorists. Obviously, they will try again, but this time they know we will hit back.
And we have clearly shown Pakistan that we can penetrate wherever we want into Pakistan, while the maximum they can do is look up and shake their fists.
Some people also speak about India being diplomatically isolated.
In this entire exercise, if anyone has been isolated, it is Pakistan.
In the olden days, as soon as something bad from Pakistan happened, most countries used to descend on us, asking us to be restrained, calm, resilient etc.
This time not only did nobody speak, but they also allowed us three days of complete freedom of action where we stuck fear in the hearts of the Pakistani military.
So much so, they had to beg to us to stop.
In international diplomacy, no country will come out and say “Please attack someone else. We are with you” .
They will support you only when you are being attacked. The fact that nobody said anything when we attacked, is a diplomatic success in itself. Just that we don’t see it.
To summarize, as far as Operation Sindoor is concerned
1. We sent 200 jihadis to where they belong.
2. Took out 9 terrorist locations deep inside Pakistan
3. Attacked all major Pakistani Air bases, made a complete mockery of their air defence system.
4. Made them beg for us to stop. I mean if it is a wrestling match, the person who taps out first is the one who loses. Pakistan tapped out. Ergo, they lost.
5. Ensured Indus Water Treaty is now firmly in the dustbin.
6. Have given ourselves the freedom to attack Pakistan as soon as a Terrorist incident takes place.
If this is not a win for us, then I don’t know what is.
P:S: India wants to be an advanced country and has to provide for 80 crore people who are below the age of 30.
We have to focus on industrialization, technological self-sufficiency and agricultural modernization.
We have higher priorities than fighting pointless wars against a country who has nothing and can give nothing.
This is the truth. Of course vultures will try telling you otherwise. With a nuclear overhang, we managed to do much much more. Act of terror = Act of war. No proof needed. Thats the bottomline.
Do you realise what a huge victory this is?
The IWT has been torn up. We won’t kill them today - we’ll kill them over the next few years. Waters have been de-linked as a precondition of peace. We can do what we want with it - build dams, store etc. ALL WITHOUT FIRING ANY BULLETS
My Reading ⚠️
Trump/U.S. played no direct role in today’s India-Pak ceasefire. True that Trump & Co spoke to both sides, but it was 3 days of punitive 🇮🇳military action that forced Pak to pick up the phone and request ceasefire. Was 100% bilateral. At best, 🇺🇸 kept engaged.
BREAKING ⚠️
Indian MoD officially indicates at press conference that it was India’s relentless punitive strikes on Pak bases (updated to include Bholari, Skardu, Sargodha & Jacobabad) that have resulted in today’s ceasefire. Confirms that every future escalation will meet more.