Debasmita Basu

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How is he still speaking? My blood boils!

My grid in Hindustan Times today. hindustantimes.com/games/cryptic-…

Folks, she is an Olympic medallist. To ask her what she thinks of Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is unfair on her achievements and her sports. Cricket anyway is the ruling passion of the country, your sports editors do not need another celebrity quote to spin a headline on Sooryavanshi. Optionally, the next time ask Vaibhav Sooryavanshi about Manu Bhaker and see the looks you get.

Have found out last week that she rides my 26 inch cycle.

'DM me' vs. 'please DM me'.

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My grid today in HT. Solve if that's your kind of thing ☺ hindustantimes.com/games/cryptic-…

M wanted to watch TV. I told her to write about her aspirations for the new year - what she would want to achieve, places she would like to visit etc. She wrote, "I wish to have a better family." Happy New Year y'all.

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My grid today. hindustantimes.com/games/cryptic-…

7 year old read a sentence in the book, "I live in the neighbourhood". She noticed that it is a sentence without the vowel a. Then she came up with a sentence without the vowel e. " A piano is partially black."

When KBC first started in July 2000, i was barely 17 years old. As a trivia nerd, I was itching to go on tv, but producer Siddhartha Basu @babubasu had a very strict 18+ rule for participation. I was upset then, but seeing the viral ordeal of the kid, i am glad they had the age cap. As a kid, i too was very impatient, and have interrupted quizmasters with answers - both correct and wrong - just like this kid. As a young adult aged 19, I participated in Siddhartha Basu's University Challenge. My trigger-happy methods had largely worked well for our team (@urajat and @karthiks may remember), but it is not something i would do today, as a more mature person. Some of my correct guesses on the buzzer could have easily backfired in hindsight, as I had barely heard 2-3 words of a question. I could have become a laughing stock quite easily But at least, I was an adult, albeit a very young one. Reality shows involving kids should be banned. This particular kid will mature later in life and realise he could have been a little less brash, but every single internet moron will bully him. NOBODY deserves that. Turn on the tv and you see kids forced to do dangerous stunts. Kids trained to sing like professional singers 20 years older than them. Kids made to do funny antics whose implications they dont fully understand. I wish the current producers of KBC had stuck to the 18+ policy. Everyone involved in kids' reality shows (including parents) are culprits.

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Ever since we shifted to BBS, I organize a get together to celebrate Onam. M wrote me a note before dozing off. Made me realize I never thought of thanking my mother for anything until very late. This generation is differently built. Also in picture the pookalam she made.

@saralvaidy Always never on my side, you. 🤣

@debasmitabasu Then learn 😉😂😂😂😂 I love that question 😂😘😘😘 to M Kutty

- Do I have to do all the sums, Amma? - Yes. - Yes as in " yes, you have to do all" or yes as in "yes, you don't have to do all"? Third standard teaches things that are not in my syllabus 😭😭

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