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@Brutu24 Sardarji needs to keep up with the latest genetic research. He is repeating an old discredited theory with no proof.So the invaders came with Sanskrit and forgot how to speak it in their original homelands?They forgot their powerful philosophies?😅Silly guy!

South Indians are original inhabitants of India. Aryans are invaders just like Mughals & Britishers. Hinduism evolved from Brahmanism brought by the Aryan invaders. It is as much foreign religion as Christianity or Islam. Sanskrit is as foreign as English

@saxenavikram_ A mediator is someone both sides trust.This is the first case where nobody trusts the mediator.Also-why would you stick your neck out as a mediator when you have Trump+Bibi on one side and the IRGC on the other-none have shown an ability to keep their promises for over 48 hours!

@DocDevavrat Makes for silly reading- using commentators’ hyperbole for analysis. Poms-Aussies-always overhyped.remember Cameron Green, the great white hope? Debuted with Pant and Sundar. By the Perth Test, both Indians had broken records and Green was still searching for his first wicket!

We cricket fans will keep fighting to the death over who the best fielder in cricket is. AB de Villiers? Jadeja? Jonty Rhodes? Hold that argument. Because in 2018, three statisticians from Simon Fraser University — Perera, Davis, and Swartz — decided to end the debate with data. They built a metric called "Expected Runs Saved due to Fielding" (E(RSF)). And what they found? It will upset you. The best fielders in T20 cricket save... just 1.2 runs per match more than an ordinary fielder. That's it. While the best batters and bowlers contribute roughly 10 runs per match to their teams, the best fielder on the planet barely scrapes past a single run. But here's where it gets properly wild. The researchers didn't use GPS trackers. Didn't use hawk-eye data. Didn't even use video. They used commentary text. They parsed 160,247 balls of match commentary — from International T20s (about 750 T20 matches) and the IPL — and built a random machine learning model trained on 55 contextual keywords (words like "dive", "edge", "drop", "flat", "sharp") to predict what the batting outcome SHOULD have been on any given ball. Then they compared that prediction against what ACTUALLY happened when a specific fielder's name was mentioned. That gap — between what should have happened and what did happen — became the measure of fielding impact. Essentially a Moneyball approach. For cricket. For FIELDING. Now. The results. The best non-wicketkeeper fielder? Nathan Coulter-Nile (E(RSF) = +0.35). AB de Villiers, widely considered the greatest fielder alive? Ranked 21st. E(RSF) = -0.34. Negative. As in, on average, he cost his team runs while fielding. And the most shocking finding? MS Dhoni — the man with the fastest hands behind the stumps — was ranked the WORST wicketkeeper-fielder in the entire dataset. E(RSF) = -3.61. Dead last among 13 keepers. Behind Mark Boucher. Behind Brad Haddin. Behind everyone. How is this possible? The paper reveals a beautiful paradox: the best fielders are the ones whose names are NEVER mentioned. Think about it. When commentary says "brilliant diving catch by Kohli!", that's a notable event. But when a fielder simply... stops the ball cleanly, returns it accurately, and nothing remarkable happens — his name is never spoken. Another instance: a batsman drives a ball, but notices Jadeja standing at short cover or point and DOES NOT DARE to run a single. This does not get recorded as a fielding achievement. The study showed a clear decreasing trend: the less often a player's name appeared relative to fielding opportunities, the BETTER he was. In other words — excellence in fielding is invisible. We celebrate dramatic recoveries. Emergency interventions. The "brilliant diving catch" of a last-minute, a last ball run-out. But the real measure of good work — like good fielding — is also in what DOESN'T happen. The absence of disaster is the hardest outcome to measure. And the easiest to ignore. Perera, Davis, and Swartz tried to measure cricket's invisible skill. Their approach was not perfect, but, they opened a door that was considered closed, sealed and deemed never to be opened. This #IPL season, I will post one interesting cricket related research for fans to be amused, and get a different viewpoint on their beloved game. Enjoy! @ABsay_ek @AMP86793444 summit.sfu.ca/_flysystem/fed…

@mujifren This man was and is a traitor. The board membership if the ICG was something I didn’t know. Now it all adds up. He prevented India retaliating against Pakistan for the Mumbai 26/11 attacks by rallying US and global diplomatic pressure on India

Former Indian NSA and Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon who sits on the board of Trustees of International Crisis Group with George Soros and Alex Soros had written an article lamenting that - Trump has gone soft on PM Modi for "taking away" the rights of Muslims of J&K by removing Article 370 and excluding Muslim immigrants from CAA So did a former Indian NSA wanted US to punish his own country?

@gurdeepsappal @thewire_in India has handled a difficult global situation extremely well. Nehru would have pontificated and irritated one and all. Ansuman singh is spot on

Why did India so badly misread Iran? A civilisational answer — not just a strategic one. I write for @thewire_in • India didn’t just make an intelligence failure on Iran. It made a philosophical one. The Modi-Shah worldview is transactional. Iran is civilisational, built on sacrifice, endurance, and three thousand years of Persian memory. • Iran survived four decades of sanctions and assassinations, but did not collapse. This was never irrational stubbornness. It was istiqamat, principled steadfastness. • Nehru understood Iran not as a problem to be managed but as a civilisation to be engaged. He saw in Iran’s anti-colonial instincts a mirror of India’s own, a proud people refusing permanent subordination to great power dictates. It gave India the credibility to speak to Tehran, Cairo, and Belgrade simultaneously. It’s a credibility that was built over decades and squandered in recent years. • Gandhi came from the same Western Indian transactional tradition, yet transcended it entirely. His method was tapasya, voluntary suffering as moral weapon. • Modi’s foreign policy is the precise opposite. It needs the world’s most powerful military alliance behind it before venturing any independent position. • India once knew better. A thousand years of Persian-Indian civilisational exchange gave India the tools to read Iran, in poetry, architecture, philosophy and statecraft. Nehru’s non-alignment gave India credibility with Tehran that no other major power enjoyed. That inheritance was discarded with contempt. • The BJP, and more fundamentally the RSS, holds the institutional wisdom of the Congress era in deep contempt. Not because it has been examined and found wanting, but because it flows from a tradition the Sangh never accepted as its own. • The BJP adopted an Israel mirror trap, seeing Iran through Israeli intelligence and American assessments. The same sources that fabricated WMDs in Iraq and misread Afghanistan completely. Ideological alignment had fully displaced independent strategic thinking in New Delhi. • The cost: Chabahar hangs in uncertainty. Hormuz energy chains face disruption India wasn’t prepared for. And India’s most precious asset, credibility as an independent voice in a multipolar world, has been gravely diminished. The transactional mind finally met its opportunity cost. thewire.in/world/why-indi…

@sciencegirl Prof Ramachandran of UC san diego is the pioneer in research on phantom limbs.he was rates one of the 100 most influential people of the last century.

Pain isn’t where your body is hurt, it’s where your brain thinks it is.

@sujitnair90 Normally a mediator is someone both sides trust. This is the first case of a mediator who nobody trusts! Take it easy. Pakistan wants to help. Trump controls Asim Munir. Do you seriously believe Iran will fall for this?😅

Pakistan and Asim Munir mediating between the United States and Iran. Why should it concern India? Let’s call this what it is, without diplomatic cushioning. When the United States chooses Pakistan and its Army Chief as a backchannel in a volatile West Asian conflict, it is not just a matter of convenience. It is a signal. And that signal is clear. India is not central to this conversation. For a country that has spent the last decade projecting itself as a decisive global player, that should raise concern. The easy explanation is geography. Pakistan borders Iran. It offers proximity and a channel that Tehran may find more acceptable. On paper, it looks practical. But geopolitics is rarely about practicality alone. It is about utility, and how that utility is perceived. So why did the United States choose Pakistan over India? Because at this moment, Pakistan is seen as immediately usable. It offers access and a channel that can operate with fewer complications. That is the essence of transactional diplomacy. Countries are chosen not for who they are, but for what they can deliver right now. But such choices are never neutral. By choosing Pakistan, the United States is also indicating who it sees as relevant and workable in this crisis. And by omission, who is not. India, under Narendra Modi, was perceived to have leaned early. The visible engagement with Israel just days before military action, could have been routine diplomacy. What he said there was not. Timing matters. What was intended as continuity was read by many as alignment. And perception defines role. The moment you are seen as leaning too visibly toward one side, your ability to act as a bridge begins to shrink. Strategic autonomy does not disappear overnight, but it starts losing credibility. You are no longer viewed as a balancing force. You are seen as a participant. And participants are not invited to mediate. That is where the real cost lies. Mediation is not about optics. It is about power. A credible intermediary shapes outcomes, builds trust across divides, and becomes indispensable. For India, that would mean influence in a region central to its energy and security interests, while reinforcing its position as a leading voice of the Global South. Which leads to an uncomfortable question. If India is not seen as neutral enough to mediate, and not influential enough to shape outcomes, then where exactly does it stand? Have we, in trying to appear powerful, quietly given up the far more important power of being necessary?

@JayantBhandari5 A moron with superficial understanding is rudderless, emotionally unhinged, and with no objectivity. With millions of followers, (she) he is a serious danger to any sane society. This was Jayant Bhandari on Laura Loomer. I found it an apt description of Jayant Bhandari too!

No. India is a nonentity. Pakistan has taken that challenge, the leader of South Asia.

@Chellaney Silly argument Mr Chellaney. The US wants unquestioning obedience and the intermediary’s boots on the ground. Good luck to Pakistan. Glad Modi is staying out of this

Trump’s Call to Modi Was Damage Control Strip away the diplomatic niceties and the picture is clear: Donald Trump’s call to Narendra Modi was not routine consultation, but pure damage control. By routing through Pakistan his 15-point “peace” plan to end the war that he started against Iran, Trump has made that country’s army chief an indispensable intermediary. Field Marshal Asim Munir’s emergence as Washington’s channel to Tehran not only underscores Pakistan’s geopolitical relevance to Washington, but also fits with Trump’s earlier description of Munir as his “favorite field marshal.” For New Delhi, the optics are galling. India bears the brunt of the economic fallout from a war launched by its two principal strategic partners, the U.S. and Israel. With the Strait of Hormuz effectively disrupted and Indian shipments exposed to risk, New Delhi is both stakeholder and victim. Yet, in a stark inversion of roles, it is not India but Pakistan (which has long used its nuclear-weapons shield to export terrorism) that is Washington’s diplomatic conduit. This explains Trump’s phone call. The language of keeping India “in the loop” is just reassurance — a way to soften the blow, not change the reality. Because the reality is this: When it mattered, Trump chose Pakistan as the conduit, and is now trying to make sure Modi doesn’t take it personally. This is just the latest occasion when Trump has sought to undermine his “very good friend” Modi.

@Rainmaker1973 Progressing

Post below the first word you see.

@TVMohandasPai 25% of the 85% majority you speak about are self hating. That’s enough in a multi party system. The leftists work hard at creating and growing that segment.

This is terrible. Minority appeasement at its worst. How do these folks think They can win elections if they turn off 85% of the electorate like this?

@prasannavishy Good presentation of facts.👍 Goes a long way in negating agenda driven anaysis like Arvind Subramaniam et al. If these economists could keep their politics out of their economics, it would really help their own credibility. Distinguish between opinion pieces and research papers.

This op-ed by CEA & Statistics Secy is written so lucidly that even someone like me with little to limited understanding of economic measurement can grasp the core arguments. 22% overestimation?: No evidence. 2026 revision shows no dramatic correction. WPI vs CPI?: WPI = producer prices (correct for GDP. CPI is for consumers. • Informal sector mismeasured?: GST + digitalisation have accelerated formalisation, narrowing the gap. • MCA data inflates growth? Actually offers far wider coverage than legacy surveys. Questioning GDP measurement is healthy, but resorting to methodological shortcuts and weak proxies risk producing misleading. via @IndianExpress

@Paul_Koshy You sound like Rahul Gandhi. Take it easy- once you lose your credibility, the only job available to you would be as a Congress Party spokesperson. Kiss of death!

The entire world knows that the Prime Minister of India is compromised. In plain English, this means, that he CANNOT make independent decisions in the interest of India anymore. Hr is NOT able to deliver the duties as the PM of India anymore. There is a vacancy for the post of PM in India. This man is compromised. It is dangerous for India to keep this vacancy open any further.

@RayhamUnplugged This is a Pakistani fake account. Needs to be blocked

🚨 SHOCKING: NASSER HUSSEIN EXPOSES PITCH TAMPERING IN AHMEDABAD FOR T20 WORLD CUP FINAL 🚨 “I’ve got news that for the T20 World Cup final in Ahmedabad, they’re trying to make the pitch Indian-friendly. People were even outside the stadium at 1 or 2 a.m., doing something to the pitch! They are literally tampering with the pitch. And it doesn’t stop there, I hear they’re planning to influence things even during the toss. There are rumors about chips in the balls, something really fishy is happening. This isn’t cricket, it’s manipulation. The spirit of the game is being slapped in the face. Honestly, the World Cup shouldn’t have been in India, it should’ve been in Sri Lanka, where cricket could stay clean and fair. And if this keeps happening, no one will trust the game anymore, it’s a complete disgrace." (Source)

@KanchanGupta She sounds deranged

“Those not with TMC are not Bengalis, they don’t have the right to live in Bengal,” screams Mahua Moitra, her face twisted with hate for those who do not pander to Mamata Banerjee, her corrupt regime of fear. True Bengalis would treat her words with the contempt they deserves.

@WiselyUniversal @Iyervval Truschke spews “truths”? This is a paid hand that is an embarrassment to academia. I met a professor from Rutgers and mischievously enquired about Truschke. His embarrassment was visible and the response was a brief but heartfelt apology.

@Iyervval She really spews a lot of uncomfortable truths. Very awkward for an average Hindutva mindset which is groomed and ripened on a lop-sided WhatsApp University version of history.

Hahaha. 2 heeramandi products running recruitment I see.

@govindsethunath @AnoopKaippalli @americakaran I was looking hard for a single post that defended Vijayan and finally found yours!👏👏 What makes you guys tick? You continue to follow a failed philosophy and try to defend the morally indefensible. A manufactured sense of victimhood. I am genuinely curious

@AnoopKaippalli @americakaran It can be both a rogue nation yet house a well functioning medical establishment. The two are not mutually incompatible. But it may appear so to you and your ilk because you’re busy jerking off Netanyahu and dancing for him.

US is a rogue nation for Pinarayi Vijayan only until he gets sick. Then suddenly the capitalist Mayo Clinic is the only place good enough, and he happily blows 72 lakhs of public money on it.

@Chellaney It is not about Oil-America cannot consume all the oil in the world,even if it was free.It is about denomination of Oil trade in USD.These are wars for Currency.Every supplier country that broke ranks was decapitated-Iraq,Libya,Venezuela,Iran. Russia is too big

The war on Iran has little to do with nuclear or missile proliferation or state-sponsored terrorism. If those were the real concerns, the more obvious U.S. target would be Pakistan: a declared nuclear-armed state with an estimated 170+ warheads; a country that U.S. intelligence assesses is developing intercontinental-range ballistic missile capabilities that could reach the United States; and one whose state-backed terror networks have been linked to major transnational terrorist attacks, including in the West. The principal architects of 9/11 were ultimately found in Pakistan, among them Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Iran, by contrast, remains a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and, although it enriched uranium up to 60% (just below the 90% weapons-grade level), is still widely assessed to be far away from building a functional nuclear weapon. Yet Washington has chosen to wage war on Tehran while effectively mollycoddling Pakistan — justifying its actions with claims that Iran poses an existential threat to the U.S. The logic of this war is therefore geopolitical, not defensive. It is about reshaping the regional balance of power, installing a pliable regime in Tehran, and weakening Iran’s network of regional influence. Control over the Strait of Hormuz — through which roughly a fifth of the world’s traded oil passes — and the broader project of rolling back Iran’s strategic reach are integral to this regime-change agenda.

@vinsinners Without the iron heel of state coercion, Islam will be in full retreat across the world.Very weak theology and philosophy to back its teachings.Iran may be the first domino to fall. Across the Muslim world,the Persians have always been the intellectuals,artists and philosophers.

This has been on my mind all morning and I think it needed to be said plainly. What we are witnessing in India; Indians mourning a foreign radical whose own military has been bombing Muslim-majority nations, doesn’t surprise me. But it begs a question. Can we see what’s happening? This isn’t a sudden shift. External forces have been quietly reshaping narratives within India’s diaspora for years. And when the same voices that stayed silent during Pakistani sponsored terrorism on India suddenly find grief for this figure, it exposes something we can’t keep ignoring. They’re everywhere. Look at the scenes across India today. This isn’t sponsored. This is a slow and deep process to cause internal pain for India’s deep-rooted culture. Fortunately, the ‘new’ Indian leadership sees it unlike the traitors of the past. Modi has seen this for a while - No hollow photo-ops, No appeasement dressed up as diplomacy. India’s foreign posture has recalibrated. Its real allies are increasingly in the Middle East, partners who respect progress, directness, sovereignty and mutual interest over performative politics. The new India isn’t interested in approval. It’s interested in progress without abandoning its own value systems to get there. That’s really everything! Jai Hind. #IranWar #Istandwithuae