Vishal

[Vishal @vishalks28]

@bhogleharsha What's the encouragement in this? Shouldn't it be this way all along. Your best players in domestic cricket make it to the international team!!

[Vinodsrinivasan @vinodsrinivasan]

IDFC First Bank posted PAT up 132% to 1,075 crore.

That number will lead every headline today. It is the least useful number in the release.

[Vishal @vishalks28]

Two midnight reels in two days.

Coincidence?Or has someone finally figured out that the country’s biggest night owls are the people funding it?

@narendramodi

#taxpayers #indiatax

[Vishal @vishalks28]

@Adityakrsaha I would say it would be bringing back integrity to Indian Cricket after the dark period of match fixing. This get so underplayed but it was his greatest achievement in India Cricket before budding the next gen of crickets who eventually won the World Cup.

[Abhishek AB @ABsay_ek]

Krunal Pandya was never supposed to be the headline. For years he was just the other Pandya, elder one who carried the kit bag while Hardik got the slow motion entries. But cricket has a way of rewarding the hungry & Krunal’s hunger was never metaphorical.

At 16, he & Hardik ate Maggi once a day. Their father Himanshu had shut his car finance shop in Surat & moved to Vadodara so the boys could train at Kiran More Academy. Brothers shared everything. Once Hardik’s only bat broke during a Ranji match & Krunal had to borrow from a teammate.

Then came the speed post. A government job offer for Krunal. 15-20k Rupees, stable money. His father said take it as family was tired. Krunal was 22 & had just been dropped for a game from Baroda Under-23. He tore the letter. Chose Syed Mushtaq Ali trials instead. That was not a supporting character move. That was a man who thinks he is the lead.

People call him a defensive bowler, as if that is an insult. Since 2016, only 4 spinners in IPL history have a better economy than his 7.56 (Min 50 wickets). 2 are all time greats in Narine & Rashid Khan, third is Axar Patel; a regular in Indian T20 team.
But here is the thing: none of those 4 have scored more runs than Krunal since his debut. Not Narine who opens many times. Not Axar who bats at 5 these days. Krunal has 1897 runs at 22.85 while keeping the runs down better than almost everyone.

He left Mumbai Indians in 2022. Since that exit, his IPL economy is 7.81. Only Narine has taken more wickets with a better economy in this period. Meanwhile Mumbai’s best spinner in these 4 years has been Piyush Chawla at 8.4.
Look at what happened to Mumbai Indians after he left. Bottom of the table twice. Already eliminated this season. On the other side, Krunal’s teams have made the playoffs every single year since 2022. LSG first, then RCB. Trophy in 2025. Top of the table right now in 2026. This is not coincidence. This is what happens when you remove the glue & wonder why the furniture is shaking.

Hardik gets called clutch. Fair. But Krunal is the only player in IPL history with 2 Player of the Match awards in finals. 2017 with MI. 2025 with RCB. The elder brother, the one who supposedly just does the dirty work, has delivered on the biggest stage twice.
In 2025 final against Punjab, he took 2 for 17. Got Prabhsimran & Inglis. RCB fans who once abused him for taking AB de Villiers wicket were now calling him legend. That is the thing about sports. It does not care about your Instagram followers. It cares about who shows up.

11 seasons, 2 final POTMs, 1 trophy that RCB waited 17 years for. All from a boy who once ate Maggi for dinner & travelled 25 kilometers to prove he could be something. Bollywood got it wrong this time. Elder brother was the main character all along. He just needed a different city to prove it.

[Silly Point @FarziCricketer]

Raipur, please send your pitch curator to different stadiums too.

[sir jacob bethell era @bet_helll]

"Dad how good was Bhuvneshwar Kumar's 19.4 ?"

[Vishal @vishalks28]

@gargiMu48960835 She is no longer an MLA as well.
She can continue as MLA also as no one can force her to resign😎!

[Vishal @vishalks28]

@djfrankkie He has experience atleast! :P

[Dr Mouth Matters @GanKanchi]

Confessions and realities

42M, 55LPA

I am a 42-year-old man with a senior job in IT. I have a house in Chennai, a supportive wife, and two children. On paper, everything about my life looks perfect. I have achieved all the things society says a man should achieve.

In my twenties, life felt different. I had friends to spend time with. We would hang out at Marina Beach and Besant Nagar beach, watch movies at Rohini, Udayam, and Kasi theatres, and ride around Mount Road on my RX100.

In my thirties, I had colleagues to talk with over tea breaks. We would discuss apartments, onsite trips, and share random stories about life and work.

But now, in my forties, life has turned into a quiet routine. My phone rarely rings for anything personal. Most calls are about office work, bank alerts, or someone from home asking me to pick up milk on the way back.

The loneliness of a man in his forties is unusual. I am not physically alone, but I often feel like a machine.

When I enter my home, I am simply “Appa.” I am the person who pays school fees, fixes the Wi-Fi, and handles repairs. My wife is busy with her work and the kids. My children are teenagers now, living in their own worlds and their own rooms. They love me, but they mostly see me as the person who provides comfort and stability. They no longer see me as an individual.

At the office, I am the senior person. I am expected to have all the answers. I cannot tell my team that I feel tired. I cannot tell my boss that I sometimes struggle to keep up with new technologies. I must appear confident and strong, even when I quietly worry about the future.

Sometimes I drive home slowly from work just to spend a few extra minutes in the car. I listen to songs from my college days.
For those fifteen minutes, I am not a manager or a father. I am simply myself again.

I realize that I have not had a real conversation about my feelings with anyone in years.

My old friends now exist mostly as names on WhatsApp. We send “Happy Birthday” or “Congratulations” messages, but rarely talk. When we meet at weddings, our conversations revolve around our children’s grades or the cars we drive. We never talk about what we actually feel.

The hardest part is that I cannot even complain. If I tell my family that I feel lonely, they look confused and say, “But we are all here with you.”
They do not understand that a person can be surrounded by people and still feel like they are on a desert island.

Society teaches men that if they provide money and security, they have succeeded in life.
But no one teaches us how to deal with the silence that comes with it.

I have built a beautiful life for everyone around me, but sometimes it feels like there is no space left for me inside it.

And maybe… this is what life in your forties feels like.

[Vishal @vishalks28]

@cricbuzz No limits on number of overs for a bowlers. If a batsman is allowed to play all 20 overs, bowlers should also be allowed to ball 10 overs.

[Vishal @vishalks28]

@Hriday1812 Have Venky Iyer in starting 11 and remove Romario while batting first. If Romario doesnt need to bat, replace ddp/venky for Hazlewood/Duffy.

While bowling first, instead of Romario have Magnesh/Rasikh and in batting second depending on the need, either have Romario or Bethell!

[Vishal @vishalks28]

@divya_sharmaMD Wait a minute! Why is this even news? Havent dad’s been doing this for ages!

[Tejasvi Surya @Tejasvi_Surya]

The MLA’s statement is wrong. And frankly, not surprising.

First, it exposes their priorities. At a time when real issues of the state demand attention, raising something like this in the Assembly is itself telling.
And if the Speaker chooses to act on it, it diminishes the dignity of the Vidhan Soudha itself.

Now, let’s ask the basic question.

Why should the KSCA, or any sports body, give free tickets to MLAs?

Why should they “owe” them anything?

This is plain entitlement. Feudal thinking.

An MLA demanding free tickets, a separate gallery, and refusing to sit with the public reveals their belief that they are somehow above the very people they represent.

That is the problem.

If citizens have to buy tickets, so should MLAs. Simple.

Unless we call this out clearly, we will keep normalising a culture of entitlement. And that is the opposite of what a modern, equal, democratic society should stand for.

This is wrong. It must be opposed.

[Deepak Bopanna @dpkBopanna]

This is what entitled MLAs think of the common man.
"They give MLAs one ticket & that too in the bottom gallery, where these people… where these people go" says Vijayanand Kashappanavar as he hesitates to even complete his sentence realising he's on camera.

[Vishal @vishalks28]

@poonawallafinco @poonawallafinco - if your team is trained in any other language and cannot understand a simple 'not interested and do not call me again' request, you guys are wasting a lot of money on this. I doubt if someone really needed a loan if this team would understand that

[Vishal @vishalks28]

Dear @poonawallafinco , you guys waste a lot of money on tele callers. Instead, spend it on us to give us free loans. Maybe we will come back later for a interest bearing loan at a later date.
Every single day a new person calls asking if i need a personal loan.

[Vishal @vishalks28]

@poonawallafinco instead of wasting money on marketing team, just directly send us some loans without interest. that would be a better customer acquisition cost than your Telle callers who don't seem to understand basic english or hindi.

[Vishal @vishalks28]

@jaankiii_ He just copied the EPL model and once India won the T20 world cup in 2007, the craze took over.
If they were such geniuses should have glamourised Ranji Trophy

[Iron Hawk @Iron_under_Flag]

Jio-studios has just dropped 'Phir Se' song from #DhurandharTheRevenge , probably the best song from the album and also positioned at the best scene.

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