Vinit

Chai in morning, coffee during the day and beer in the evening.

[Vinit @vinitnaik]

@Su4ita It was loud and tiring film to watch

[Vinit @vinitnaik]

@appadappajappa Siddhu

[Daniel Gallan @danielgallan]

Nasser Hussain, even in the afterglow of one of the greatest series of all time, shows real class:

"Not every country has the luxuries we have. So we, and India and Australia, have to keep an eye out for the future of Test cricket.. and look after those who are not as fortunate"

[Vinit @vinitnaik]

@VishalDayama Jarrod Kimber bhai ke podcast, substack pe jao

[Dale Steyn @DaleSteyn62]

Siraj to take a fifer in 5th Test.

[Sarah Waris @swaris16]

Siraj called the dropped catch as "mere saath jo kal haadsa hua.."

Trust him to be overdramatic each time 😭😂

[Rohit Sankar @imRohit_SN]

The funniest thing is English supporters are blaming Indians for chasing milestones after that final 30 minutes. But, but, wait...you have a fucking honours board of milestones at a ground you consider sacred. I mean......

[Association of Cricket Statisticians & Historians @ACScricket]

Jasprit Bumrah has conceded 100+ in an innings for the first time - the 91st he's bowled in. It's the longest anyone has gone from the start of their career without doing so - Curtly Ambrose took 2/108 in the first innings he bowled in, then never conceded 100 again in 178 more.

[Vinit @vinitnaik]

@appadappajappa or The Alchemist

[Vinit @vinitnaik]

@CricCrazyJohns Archer will break down before the test ends

[Vinit @vinitnaik]

@michelappleton Why should others batters be judged on what Mudler did today?

[Saurabh Malhotra @MalhotraSaurabh]

Bench strength 💪🏼🥶😭

[Abhishek AB @ABsay_ek]

So Rishabh Pant has more hundreds in England than Gavaskar & Kohli, as many in South Africa as Sehwag & Pujara, and the same in Australia as Dravid & Ganguly, all this before even playing 50 Tests, which is less than half the Tests all those names have played.
Madness, this guy!

[Vinit @vinitnaik]

@Su4ita How would Tony Soprano fare if he used chatgpt?

[Vinit @vinitnaik]

@absycric Maxwell to replace Khawaja as test opener for upcoming Ashes

[Manisha Pande @MnshaP]

The suit further submits that even sex workers have dignity and that the term 'prostitute' as an insult is not only an attack on women journalists, but it also reinforces deeply regressive and violent attitudes toward sex workers, many of whom already face systemic marginalisation and stigma.

“No woman/ person deserves to be dehumanised..whether journalists or sex workers...”
https://t.co/2AF3f9XozO

[Ministry of Defence, Government of India @SpokespersonMoD]

In a grave escalation, Pakistan launched multi-vector attacks along the western border using drones, UCAVs, artillery & missiles—targeting over 26 locations from Srinagar to Nalia. Indian Air Force bases at Udhampur, Pathankot, Adampur & Bhuj sustained limited damage. In a cowardly act, Pakistan also struck civilian infrastructure including Medicare centres & schools. India responded with swift precision strikes on identified military targets at Rafiqi, Chaklala, Rahim Yar Khan & more, ensuring minimal collateral damage. The Indian Army effectively countered #LoC intrusions, causing extensive damage to Pakistan’s forces. Troop movements on the Pakistani side signal intent to escalate. India remains in a high state of operational readiness, committed to non-escalation, provided there is mutual restraint.
#OperationSindoor #PehalgamTerroristAttack #JusticeServed
#PakistanPropaganda #FactCheck

@rajnathsingh
@DefenceMinIndia
@SethSanjayMP
@HQ_IDS_India
@adgpi
@indiannavy
@IAF_MCC
@PIB_India
@PIBFactCheck

[PIB Fact Check @PIBFactCheck]

In the coming days your social media will be flooded with #Pakistan sponsored propaganda.

It's crucial to scrutinize every piece of information carefully.

If you encounter dubious content, especially concerning the Indian Armed Forces or any info related to ongoing situation, report it to #PIBFactCheck.

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#OperationSindoor

[Asra Nomani @AsraNomani]

“Bahawalpur.”

I still have chills in my heart from when I first heard that town’s name in late January 2002. For the 23 years since, I have reported on how Pakistani intelligence and military leaders have used that city — Bahawalpur — in the southern province of Punjab as a base for its homegrown domestic terrorists.

When I heard India bombed training camps in Pakistan this week in Operation Sindoor, in response to a Pakistani terrorist rampage in India’s Kashmir state, I had one city’s name on my lips: Bahawalpur.

Did India bomb Bahawalpur?

It did. I knew then India was striking actual hubs for Pakistan’s homegrown domestic terrorism.

Why do I know?

My friend, WSJ reporter Danny Pearl, went to Bahawalpur in December 2001 with a notebook and a pen. Gen. Pervez Musharraf had just promised he was shutting down Pakistan’s militant groups after a strike by Pakistan’s terrorists against the Parliament in India, and Danny reported on the militant offices in Bahawalpur.

He literally knocked on their doors. Dear Dr. @yudapearl, this story is a window into Danny’s reporting enterprise. And because people will wonder: Danny was no cowboy. This was a calculated low-risk reporting trip because no journalist had been targeted for kidnapping in Pakistan. Around that time, Danny sent me an email: “I’m anxious to go to Afghanistan, but I’m not anxious to die.”

What did Danny learn?

The militant training camps were open for business in Bahawalpur.

On Jan. 23, 2002, Danny left a home I had rented in Karachi, Pakistan, for an interview.

I learned Danny’s fixer, Asif Farooqi, had arranged an interview for Danny through a man named “Arif.” Danny didn’t know it but Arif was the PR man for a militant group, Harkutul Mujahadeen. What was Arif’s hometown? Bahawalpur.

The police launched a manhunt to find Arif in Bahawalpur. We learned Arif’s family faked a funeral for Arif. Police found him trying to board a bus in Muzaffarabad, across the country by Pakistan’s border with Kashmir.

It is another town India said it bombed terrorist training facilities.

Arif had handed Danny off to Omar Sheikh,a British-Pakistani dropout from the London School of Economics, radicalized in the 1990s in London mosques. He went to Pakistan to train in these militant training camps. Then he kidnapped tourists in India. He was caught and jailed but on Dec. 31, 1999, he was traded for hostages in the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814.

Omar Sheikh was freed with Pakistani terrorist leader Masood Azhar, whose family was allegedly killed this week by India’s air strike in Bahawalpur.

Did Pakistan jail Omar Sheikh and Masood Azhar when they returned to Pakistan with a third terrorist, freed from India’s jails?

No. Pakistan’s military and intelligence gave them safe passage. They used them as weapons against India. But in fact these domestic terrorists have waged war against innocents in Pakistan, like civil society activists, Benazir Bhutto, Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, schoolchildren and countless others.

Their extremism has ruined Pakistan, and Pakistanis can’t blame America for creating the mujahideen to fight the Soviets in the 1980s.

Pakistan has had a duty to dismantle those terrorist bases — for even the safety of its own people. What India is doing is a strategic attack on terrorist bases Pakistani military and intelligence should have eliminated but never did in their obsession to take over Kashmir.

You will see parallels in the propaganda messages against India and Israel. Like Hamas, Pakistani terrorists crossed a border to kill. Now, Pakistani propagandists call themselves victims of their “fascist” “colonizer” neighbor.

It’s the Reverse Uno strategy of moral inversion, just like @stoolpresidente got from the Temple student who won’t take responsibility for promoting the “HATE THE JEWS” sign. Don’t fall for it. Nations, communities and people must own up to their extremism, from Bahawalpur to beyond.

[Vinit @vinitnaik]

@film_waala K3G ….upperstall 6th row in a packed house. I was around 16 then.