Pushkar Kaushik

Six things to be done daily are meditation, reading, writing, exercise, skill set and connecting with loved ones.

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@sagarcasm Yet to watch it…first one was good, hope the second one is not cringe ..😬…siuuuu…don’t want to spoil the after taste for thala for a reason 🙃

#Dhurandhar2 statistical review: 1 hour delay 5 banger action scenes 8 questions answered 36 peak detailing moments 2 minor twists 1 major twist 7 wah modiji wah moments

@neugier4545 @Dhuandhaar

@Dhuandhaar An unruly runt can win you a bar fight but you need refined intelligent men to win actual wars. This subcontinent was easily conquered by a few men who looked like this image

Sometimes I wonder how Abdali, Nader Shah, Babur, and Khilji crossed them with ease without any resistance from Punjab to Delhi. Where were they, or weren’t their ancestors native to Haryana?

@InvestHyderabad I have always believed that owning a farmland is a better investment than a rental property. The dividends are disproportionately better including intangible-psychological, emotional as well as social.

The use case of farmland is evolving. One example: A Rent A Tree startup from Kochi lets people lease a mango tree and enjoy the entire harvest without doing any farming. It operates farms in 3 states Customers can rent a tree from ₹10,300 and receive up to 90 kg of naturally ripened mangoes. Pick a tree online, farm managed by company and delivers Mangoes to your home If such models scale, farmland monetisation will evolve rapidly I strongly believe institutional capital will make land tokenisation reality in the next decade. If that happens, we may see the next wave of millionaires coming from villages.

@Veerrayya1981 @Vipintiwari952 And by politics and bilateral issues, you mean countries going to war over national interests and mocking of a professional soldier by one of them. Gp Capt Varthaman is a proud Tamilian who had the guts to put his life on line for the nation. Don’t be blind in your fandom.

@Vipintiwari952 Sunrisers did right to buy Abrar in Leeds. If you are owning a team in foreign franchise you shud not single out players of one country due to bilateral ossues. That's morally wrong. Most of franchises are owned by Indians in foreign leagues, they shudnt treat cricket politically

After signing Abrar Ahmed, the situation around Sunrisers Hyderabad has turned quite chaotic: - Massive backlash from Indian cricket fans across social media. - SRH starting to lose loyal supporters, with many long-time fans openly criticizing the decision. - Even hardcore SRH supporters who usually defend the franchise are publicly calling out the management. - Because of this move, fans of multiple IPL franchises have united in backlash, calling for a boycott of SRH. - SRH fans themselves are receiving unnecessary hate, despite the decision being made by the ownership. - The Sunrisers Leeds official page got suspended after multiple reports. - It’s one of the rare moments where fans of almost all IPL teams are collectively opposing a single franchise.

Really sad. Of all not expected them to pick him. Makes one wonder if It had been business all along. Money over matter is how they are brought up #boycottsunrisers

@theilyasnajib @sunrisersleeds Agreed.. but shouldn’t this apply both sides

@sunrisersleeds Really sad to see the reactions from Indian accounts, cricket should bring us together, not divide us.

Paddle up for Abrar 👊

@ChandlerForPB Is this AI ? Why do they all look like siblings with the same tailor 😂

This is what colonization looks like in the modern world.

@peegee0308 @TalhaDigital007 😂

@TalhaDigital007 Bhai inka return tkt karwa ke rakhna post the league stages. Baad Mai rate badh jayega flight ka

🚨 My team for ODI World cup 2027 - Fakhar Zaman (c) - Saim Ayub - Babar Azam - Saud Shakeel (vc) - Muhammad Rizwan (wk) - Salman ali agha - Waseem jnr - Naseem Shah - Akif Javed - Abrar Ahmed - Qaism akram 12th man : Arfaat Minhas Drop Your.......

Kapish 🤨😂

Claude cowork…copilot cowork…now this. The investment in bubble is showing colours 🤖

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Iran is not on a suicide mission. It is on autopilot. And nobody in Tehran can reach the controls. In 2003, Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari watched the United States decapitate Saddam Hussein’s centralised command structure in three weeks. He spent the next four years at the IRGC Strategic Studies Centre designing a military architecture that could never be decapitated. In September 2007, he was appointed IRGC Commander and immediately restructured Iran’s entire military into 31 autonomous provincial commands, one per province, each with independent headquarters, command and control, missile and drone arsenals, fast-attack boat flotillas, integrated Basij militias, pre-delegated launch authority, stockpiled munitions, and sealed contingency orders. The doctrine was built for one scenario: the death of the Supreme Leader. That scenario arrived on 28 February 2026. The doctrine activated within hours. It has been running ever since. The question nobody has asked is whether anyone inside the Islamic Republic can turn it off. No. The reason is constitutional. Article 110 of Iran’s 1979 Constitution vests sole command authority over all armed forces exclusively in the Supreme Leader. He alone is commander-in-chief. He alone appoints and dismisses military leadership. No other institution, not the President, not the Parliament, not the Guardian Council, not the judiciary, possesses constitutional power to issue military orders or rescind the Supreme Leader’s directives. Ali Khamenei issued the pre-delegation orders. Ali Khamenei is dead. Mojtaba Khamenei was appointed successor on 8th March. He has not spoken. He has not appeared. He has issued no verifiable order. He was wounded in an airstrike and has never addressed his nation in his life. The sole constitutional authority that could override 31 autonomous commands exists in an office occupied by a man who may not be capable of exercising it. Ghalibaf can reject ceasefires. He cannot order the IRGC to stop. Pezeshkian can issue statements. He cannot countermand a provincial commander in Bushehr launching anti-ship missiles at a tanker. The Guardian Council can vet legislation. It cannot revoke firing authority issued by a dead commander-in-chief whose orders remain legally binding until a living one explicitly rescinds them. No living one has. The 31 commands are not disobeying. They are obeying. The last orders said: fight independently, with whatever you have, for as long as it takes, without waiting for instructions that may never come. Those orders were designed to survive the death of the man who issued them. That was the entire purpose of Jafari’s twenty-year project. For insurers: no counterparty can guarantee cessation across 31 independent actors. For diplomats: no signatory can bind commands they do not control. For military planners: no single headquarters whose destruction ends the campaign. For Gulf states: each faces localised harassment from the adjacent Iranian province’s fast-attack boats, drones, and coastal missiles without any central coordination to intercept or negotiate with. For markets: seven P&I clubs modelled the probability that all 31 commands would simultaneously honour any agreement and concluded near zero. That calculation has not changed because the constitutional mechanism that could compel compliance does not functionally exist. The doctrine was not designed to win. It was designed to make losing impossible. Jafari studied how centralised armies die. He built one that cannot. The machine runs without a pilot. The pilot is dead. And the constitution says only the pilot could have turned it off. Full analysis in the link. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

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@VSuresh94 @nomadicoyster @greatbong Agreed…dominance is such a strong word. Also why do we portray ourselves as over the top practicals. If they want to live in their La La Land, let them. Miandad ka six yaad hain but Nehra last over heroics, Sehwag 300 or Balaji magic in Pak etc don’t get the PR more so from us

@nomadicoyster @greatbong I won't count it as dominance, in tests they won 4 games between 1986-03 from 15 with 10 draws. And ODIs was 45-37 to Pak from 87 matches in the period after that Miandad six match till 2003 world cup.

In this new world of pervasive content, Indians are now exposed to Bangladeshi and Pakistani cricket coverage, both user-generated as well as from TV channels, and this gives many an insight into how our cricket, and by extension how we, are seen across the borders, on both sides of it. For those of you who know me, you would be aware of my love of "so bad it's good" content, and as Kanti Shah and Bashir Babbar said goodbye to the mass-scale production of Bolly-garbage, I had to get my jollies elsewhere. That's when I discovered Bangladeshi cricket message boards around the time Bangladesh beat us in the 2007 World Cup (an occasion that literally defined a generation), and I have been addicted ever since. To the casual Indian observer, Bangladeshi fans definitely come across as the more shrill. There are multiple videos of Bangladeshi fans shouting into the camera that they feel a bestial sense of joy (their actual words) at watching India lose (when India loses, which is rare), or accusing India of being jealous of Bangladesh as an economic powerhouse which is why India is responsible for their defeat (this they say when they lose, which is very not rare). Now, given that no one, outside Bangladesh, takes Bangladesh as a cricket power seriously, or its economic might (in the BPL, foreign players have refused to take the field because franchise owners had not paid them, the team bus driver locked up the kit of players unless his invoice cleared, and prizes for Man of the Match are items like "pressure cooker"), much of Bangladesh's posturing comes across as self-parody, sometimes even endearing. One also understands some of their angst: they believe, and it is right to feel that way, that India does not treat them seriously (and one may also argue they haven't done much cricket-wise to be taken seriously), and some of the nasty disparaging remarks made by Indian cricket influencers like Sidhu and Sehwag were avoidable and did them no credit, and while most nations would brush them off, Bangladesh is an emotional country with a strong sense of being nationally offended, as they demonstrated by making Gunday (not to be confused with Gunda) the worst movie on IMDb at one time, by nationally downvoting it because it had the impudence to suggest that India gave Bangladesh independence. Pakistan, in contrast, comes off as different. I see so many social media posts, and not just from those Indians who wish we were more like Pakistan, in that our politicians looked like Imran Khan and jagratas are uncle-worthy divisive and religious but all-night qawwali is rad and secular, but from people deemed to be "nationalistic" who believe that Pakistani cricket fandom is more gracious, more accepting, more rational than Bangladesh's. Pakistani cricket greats, according to this view, fully accept that India is a better team now. They don't make excuses. Instead they eschew chest-thumping jingoism for hard-nosed self-introspection. As someone who has also followed Pakistani cricket analysis, from Har Lamha Purjosh to Hasna Mana Hai, which are half comedy and half cricket shows, to the more serious analysis shows moderated by a gentleman by the name of Fakhr-e-Alam (yes, that's his name), this "shows sportsman spirit" is objectively not true. A large amount of Pakistani analysis, of the popular type, is "India owns the ICC," "India fixed the match," "Bumrah chucks," "they do kala jadoo," and a recurring bit with a guy "having tea". While one can dismiss these as cheap clickbait and cringe TV (and Indians cannot claim higher ground on the quality of sports analysis programs), the part where Pakistani ex-cricketers accept that India is a better team comes with a dark subtext. Let's break down their narrative. Pakistani greats always have these stories of how when they were cricketers, Indians were weak, and not just weak, cowards. They throw around names like Dravid and Sachin and Ganguly as shaking in their boots from Akhtar's pace, or of being unable to read Saqlain, and each of them has their stories, of how the legends used to mock Indians, from Miandad to Zaheer Abbas to Imran (usually told second-hand). Then there are first-hand anecdotes from Shoaib and Basit Ali and Afridi and some-guy-who-played-three-Tests, of how Indians used to fold at the slightest sign of Pakistani aggression, and how they would collectively laugh at Indians, for not only their lack of cricketing prowess but also their cowardice in front of genuine pace or spin. They would bring up matches in Sharjah, where India might have had them on the mat, but then someone or the other from the Pakistani team would come and decimate them, be it Manzoor Elahi or Salim Malik or Javed Miandad or Aaqib Javed or Zahid Fazal, because Indians fold under pressure from those that were superior, and this was a truth so obvious no one disputed it then. Five Indians are equal to one Pakistani, the saying went during the war, and that was how they imply it was on the cricket field. However, things are different now. It is different because Pakistanis, because they fight among themselves and have had bad politics and bad politicians, have not created a system, whereas Indians, devious and crafty and united (yes, some anti-Semitic tropes here, not very original) have gone from strength to strength, made money, consolidated power, created the IPL, a system of cricket so strong that their second XI can beat most world sides, and then yes they also control the BCCI and have systematically worked to dismantle Pakistani cricket (yes, here, they mirror what Bangladeshi fans say about India), and we, Pakistanis, have just allowed them to do so. This narrative is then interspersed with a pitch for the current Pakistani great with the mic: if only they had made me the chairman, says Rashid Latif, or me, says Moin Khan, or me says Misbah, or me says Ramiz Raja (even though for a while he did hold the reins), the good times would never have stopped. Pakistanis still produce enormous talent, we still defeat India in all wars and down their planes (this comes up frequently without fail), but in cricket we are no longer competing with them. That is because the selectors are all corrupt, Babar Azam selects his friends (says Ahmad Shahzad, who tried to convert Dilshan on the cricket field), and if our administrators had Pakistani cricket interests at heart, why would I not be running it. For those thinking that this is a mean-minded interpretation, well, you obviously have not watched as much of the analysis I have (why do I do it, as I said, I love cringe content). Some Pakistani experts wear their mask better than others, and one reason is that many of them do paid engagements in India, but sometimes their true feelings come out, like when Waqar Younis said that Mohammed Rizwan offering namaz in front of Hindus felt special to him, or when Shoaib Akhtar brought up Ghazwa-e-Hind from nowhere. The only person I have always felt is different is Wasim Akram, but I should say that I have always been his fan, both as a player and as an analyzer of the game, and I might have glossed over things he may have said precisely because I admire him so much, though I will still say he is not like the others. And as to Pakistani social media (as opposed to ex-cricketers), much of what they present as opinion is synthetic, designed for clicks and ad revenue. So they abuse India and then suck up, and then go off on a viral rant against their team, and then switch to India bashing again, swinging from one extreme to another, often the same person, based on how the algorithm is performing. This is what Bangladeshi fans do not do as a rule. They are too proud to compromise on their opinions for money. So, whatever they say they mean. And I admire them for that. With Pakistan, I respect the generation from the 80s and 90s and mid 2000s, for the way they played their game and for their cricketing skills. They, then, truly were the better team. But I cannot, because I know better, call them gracious. Sorry.

@pmitu It’s AC; Artificial Cleverness. Refer Sir Roger Penrose 😊

@pmitu Prometheus…after that I think Covenant 🙃

What will come after AI?

@hazharoon Bhai aapke yahan runway/airstrips nahi kya…🤔…ohh…Sorry 🤦

Don’t think I’ve ever seen a flatter pitch in my life than this pitch used for the final.

@JimNorton Evian and Colgate total…I see you Jimmy buoy 😏

Brushing your teeth in India. Dental hygiene is so important, and there are tricks to brushing your teeth when the water is not compatible with your stomach. Watch and learn #india

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