Anita Balagopalan

Just finished reading both the excellent books on Vajpayee by @chacchachoudhry back to back. Eminently readable and incredibly well researched. Enjoyed reading them.

@Jennnyyyyyy 3

This one is actually challenging 😬 Difficulty - Hard 🤯

@Jennnyyyyyy 37

This is harder than it looks 😉 Difficulty - Extremely Hard 🤯

@nowme_datta @shuklanchinisha 🤣🤣🤣

@shuklanchinisha Yes. I think I am a saint.

I watched The Drama & I have been obsessing over what is the worst thing you have done. I couldn’t really think of anything- apart from losing a friend’s pencil box and pretending to keep it safe for six months. I was 8.

@HoeZaay 🤣🤣🤣

Finally, Arnab has written a letter to Modi ji asking him some really tough questions. Hope this shuts all the haters up for good.

@NC_Renic @parryravi 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

In the history of things that never happened, nothing has ever happened less

There is a mythology the U.S. built around the American War in Vietnam. It goes like this: Young idealistic soldiers were sent into an unwinnable situation by confused politicians. They came home broken and unappreciated. It was a tragedy. A mistake. A lesson learned. Notice what that story does. It centers Americans. Their trauma. Their confusion. Their homecoming. Their feelings. In this story, the Vietnamese people are a backdrop. A jungle. An obstacle. An abstraction. Three million dead Vietnamese people are the scenery for a story about American self-discovery. They made hundreds of movies about Vietnam. The Deer Hunter. Apocalypse Now. Platoon. Full Metal Jacket. Born on the Fourth of July. Hamburger Hill. Count how many of them center a Vietnamese character with a full human life, a family, a name you remember after the credits roll. They turned our genocide into their coming-of-age story. They lost the war and still managed to make themselves the main character. And then, with extraordinary arrogance, they put their soldiers' names on a wall in Washington and call it a memorial, as if the dead to be mourned were the people who flew 10,000 miles to do the killing. Where is the wall for our three million? There isn't one. Because in their telling, we were never quite real enough to mourn.

@nowme_datta 🤣🤣🤣

They just go with the flow

@vickipulman78 @Alonso_GD 🤣🤣🤣

@Alonso_GD We're living through a real life, painfully, unfunny version of Beavis and Butthead.

The stupidest people running the stupidest war ever

@nowme_datta 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

One Battle After Another is not a story about Donald Trump’s attacks on other countries.

@HoeZaay 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

This call was recorded for quality & training purposes..

Hello @CNNnews18 if your journalists are using AI to write basic news articles, at least get them to erase the evidence. This particular journalist Feroz Khan has not deleted the prompts by ChatGPT, Grok or Perplexity or whatever chatbot he used. Just unbelievably sloppy.

Not every inspiring sporting story ends with a trophy. Over the last few days, Lakshya Sen has shown India what courage, resilience and belief truly look like. His run to another All England final, through extraordinary wins and immense physical pain, has been about far more than a result. He has reminded young India that greatness lies not only in winning, but in the honesty of effort, the dignity of the fight and the strength to keep believing. I am Proud of you, @lakshya_sen . Very, very proud.

@parryravi 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Incredible! She probably saw #Argo last night and thought it was happening now!

It’s a pirated copy, Shekhar, and Amazon has chosen to turn a blind eye. At a signing a sweet guy handed me a copy of ABV-1 (left) he’d bought on Amazon. From a distance I could tell it was pirated. But complaining means chatting with dumb bots till you give up out of exhaustion.

@nowme_datta 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Joker!

If you are still doing Wordle, it is not a meaty word today. Don’t try to milk this clue for what it is worth, cos it doesn’t work that way. No point trying to fish for more either - cos when the going gets tough, only the tofu gets going. As you soya, so shall you reap.

Dear @ICC, It is with a heavy heart that we now announce our unavailability to replace Pakistan in the upcoming T20 World Cup. Regardless of whether they now withdraw, the short timescales ensure it is impossible for our squad to prepare in the professional manner necessary to compete effectively in this global cricketing spectacle. We are not like Scotland and able to turn up on a whim, with no kit sponsor. Our players are from all walks of life and cannot simply drop their occupations to fly halfway around the world to experience temperatures only normally felt in Finnish saunas. Our captain, a professional baker, needs to attend to his oven, our ship captain needs to steer his vessel, and our bankers need to go bankrupt (again). This is the harsh reality of cricket at the amateur level of the game. This news will be extremely disappointing to our fans. Despite being the most peaceful nation on Earth, we maintain an army of online followers, and are the world's 14th most followed national board on X. We were ready to give the Dutch the biggest shock they have experienced since William of Orange lost the Battle of Landen in 1693. And the Americans were looking forward to taking on Greenland, or so their orange-dyed leader thought. Our loss is likely Uganda's gain. We wish them well. Their kits cannot be missed unless you have epilepsy, in which case they are probably best avoided. The future is always ice, until it isn't. Yours sincerely, Icelandic Cricket Association

I have no idea what happened in Kolkata in the Messi event. But I couldn't help thinking that we Indians really do not like sport. We like stars. What else could explain the millions, and I mean millions of dollars we spend to fly in superstars, when they will not even play a proper match. I am ok with paying whatever it takes to bring in a top football team to play in India, like Messi did in 2011 or Tata Steel did for a long time in the 80s and 90s. But getting them to come here just to shake hands and pose for pictures defies all reason. They will sell real estate, take pictures with every sponsor and go back with more money in two days than say the I League used to spend in a year. I don't blame the organizers for getting into this, its a really profitable business, because the politicians are getting serious free mileage and the sponsor is spending his, or his company's money to fulfil his childhood fantasy. The journalists are overawed just to be there with a generational superstar, lots of folks are spending a reported Rs 10 lacs for a handshake and a photo op and the real estate guys are busy pushing deals. That's millions of bucks spent on a footballer, whose closest attempt at action would be kicking a few footballs at the crowd or dribbling for a few minutes. Money that is desperately desperately needed elsewhere in actual football. Real camps, matches, ground level sponsorships. Or even to revive a football league. And then we expect India to be better at sport!

@prempanicker @pbhushan1 🤣🤣🤣

I am the body of an individual, how do I apply for IT waiver please?

A record 185 million users on JioHotstar watched India's triumph in the #CWC25 final, while overall the World Cup recorded a digital reach of 446 million people in India - more than the total of the last three editions combined 😯 Read more: bit.ly/4hL08Ql