Parag Wadnerkar

@GabbbarSingh Good hai!! 👏👏 Had a very interesting pitch today with an old school client who wanted us to undercut! Almost managed to convince him on the 'better pay better quality' spiel but finally said मेरेको नहीं पर्वडेगा, दूसरे कम में करने को तैयार है|

9 pitches this week. 3 just today. All global MNCs. Converted nearly everything. We have barely slept. There is enough business & work out there. Keep grinding.

@GabbbarSingh @irbishi 🙌🙌

Rishabh Pant is mentally scarred. Smiles when people drop catches or miss simple run-outs. An abusive owner & a string of losses. Needs time off.

@kayezad @RijuMET @ET_Wealth To be honest, I stayed in small towns like Nashik, Sangli and Latur for long periods of time till 2015 and saved more money before coming to Pune. Pros: Less stress more savings Cons: Kids education and overall development suffers, if both parents are working.

Mumbai rents. Bengaluru traffic. Delhi pollution. Many Indians are quietly trading all of it, for a smaller city. But what does the move actually do to your finances? @RijuMET runs the numbers in this week's cover at @ET_Wealth

@aparanjape Agree with you! Ekdum popatwadi fielding this season.

Catching and fielding this IPL has been particularly bad.

@bhogleharsha "Tool for adjudication, not a toy!" One more pearl from you. I hope the players gain some wisdom from this and speed up the game!

@GabbbarSingh Have read this before, I think? Am I missing something?

Column. If you are a corporate professional. Do read :)

@sanjaymanjrekar Missing you from the action this year!

Finally the penny has dropped. Seamers have realised variation ain’t a surprise anymore. Keep that seam up & surprise batters with, well..no variation. Bhuvi leading this thought brilliantly. Least variations ever this season to achieve great results!

@ashwinravi99 Let me ask you here, do you really think the ball wouldn't have hit the stumps! Even this rule 'pitching outside' is so much debatable that it needs a change!

The wrong decision has cost Punjab a run, this rule needs to change ASAP! Just like how the “IMPACT SUB” is an IPL rule, the DRS reversal should also be brought into the IPL even if the ICC delays it for some reason. #MIVPBKS #IPL

@beastoftraal Yes, this brought an impromptu appreciative smile on me in the morning as I was skimming through the ET! The follow-up line "Drive your match" completes the messaging perfectly! @GabbbarSingh

I quite liked today's BMW ad headline (Your loudest 'I do') because it remains gender-agnostic, unlike the MG ad (from December 2025) that clearly marks the car as 'female' (she) and as something worth "cheating" a human wife with. BMW is selling a union (or, long-term commitment, with a purchase plan to back that creative device), while MG is selling a transgression. Both ads lean into framing the car as a partner, but notice the way they go about this framing. By explicitly using "she" and the "cheating" hook, the MG ad presumes the customer profile of a man who views his primary relationships as a baseline from which he needs to "escape". It's written for a very specific cultural archetype of the Indian male buyer who finds transgression aspirational. "Your Loudest 'I Do'" works for any buyer... a woman upgrading her first luxury SUV, a couple buying together, a man treating himself. For MG, which has been working hard to position itself as contemporary and tech-forward, it already has "World's Fastest MG" right there in the ad. That's a forward-looking, performance-led identity. The "she's a machine" line actively undermines it by reaching backward into tired locker-room language to manufacture so-called desire. #advertising #marketing

@GabbbarSingh Bhuvi knocking an India recall!

It’s Bhuvi day.

@aparanjape @IPL I want to contest this "19th over should be bowled by your best bowler" concept! This young man Bawa has just lost his career due to this belief!

Great finish...great match. Need such balanced pitches and boundary lengths. Close 160-180 games are so much more interesting than those 200+ runfests. @ipl

@GabbbarSingh Wrong person in right place!

Riyaan Parag Hardik Pandya Ruturaj Gaikwad Suryakumar Yadav What’s the common thing?

@suubsy I vividly remember this moment! I was at my cousin's place during summer vacations. Those were the days of limited households having a TV! Cousins neighbour had a TV. Saw this eternally scarring moment there :(

It will be 40 years tomorrow to this classic. Black and white photos has its own place in history.

@GabbbarSingh Hardik is giving cold stare to Surya also! Either MI needs to shift few games to Pune or hire a younger team which doesn't cramp in Mumbai!!

Krunal Pandya, who’s not on talking terms with his brother anymore, delivers a bouncer to him. Hardik gives a cold stare. Drama!

@GabbbarSingh @petrucehan Observations are so perfect! It is the most crowded part of any mall. We are doing a disservice to the food courts now :)

@petrucehan Yep

If you are in a Tier 1 city and you want to meet the Tier 2 India. Go to a shopping mall’s food-court. All the tables are full. Business is brisk. The outlets are basically a top trending list of Indian F&B businesses. Youth at the tables near you are talking about content creation. Everybody is either an influencer or a budding influencer. Nuclear families have come for their day out. Fathers are hissing at the mothers for the unruly behaviour of their kid. A food court is a low cost interface to western cuisines. Nobody picks their plates, there is a guy employed for that. “Excuse me can I take this chair?” people talk to strangers in English.

@ambarishk22 @GabbbarSingh Yess! Chuda and the mehendi.... And you can make out that the girl is wearing jeans and a T-shirt for the first time!

@GabbbarSingh You will find this lot in Goa as well. Many women with hand full of bangles combined with western outfits! So, Goa is trip equivalent of a mall! :)

@GabbbarSingh Why you listen to Hindi commentary!?

Harbhajan singh is a guy with an absolutely brilliant bowling action & a low IQ. Once he retired, he was only left with his IQ. 😢

@bhogleharsha the Karun Nair-Jasprit Bumrah-Documentary line was very subtle!! 🙂

@Safehands_Sanju @grok can you help identify the commentators in this video clip

22 years have passed since Sachin Tendulkar iconic 98 vs Pakistan in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003 but one mystery still haunts bowlers How did Sachin look so effortless against Shoaib Akhtar at his peak pace ? x.com/shubhankarsui2…

@amarbarwe तोंडातून "मंगलाचे सडे" टाकत मत ठोकायचे!! ,😄

पु ल देशपांडे ह्यांनी पानवाल्यावर खूप छान लिहिलाय, त्यालाच जोडून पानवाल्याकडे मला भेटलेली लोकं: नियमित ग्राहक — ज्याला काही सांगायची गरजच नाही; त्याचं पान तो दिसला की तयार होत असतं दिखाऊ ग्राहक — जो आपल्या स्टेटससाठी मुद्दाम गुंतागुंतीचं पान मागवतो गॉसिप तज्ञ — ज्याच्यासाठी पानाची टपरी म्हणजे एक न्यूज रूम असते तत्त्वज्ञ — जो पान चघळत चघळत जीवनावर मोठमोठे विचार मांडतो राजकीय विश्लेषक — जो कोणतीही जबाबदारी नसताना देशाच्या प्रश्नांवर ठाम मत मांडतो आणि ‘आपण पुणे महानगरपालिकेत उंदीर मारण्याचा विभागात आहोत पण मत मांडायचं ते सध्याचा चालू असलेल्या युद्धावर!’ #पानवाला #व्यक्तीआणिवल्ली #माणसांचेविचार