Amartya Mukherjee

1) all other activism of the world is on one side and the need to ensure the survival of a planet is on one. 2) If people who only feel for it do it, the vulnerable sections of the society and eventually the entire world will pay for your ignorance.

A grown man making other grown men cry. 🥹♥️

🚨José Mourinho on Pep Guardiola vs Sir Alex Ferguson: “I hear people comparing Pep Guardiola to Alex Ferguson and I smile, because for me it is not the same story." "For me, it is simple: one made history. The other makes… triangles.” Ferguson built dynasties across different generations, different styles, different challenges. He wins titles with youth, with experience, with players adapting every season. That is evolution." Pep? Fantastic coach, beautiful football, yes. But always the perfect conditions, the perfect structure, the perfect orchestra already tuned for him." "Ferguson creates the orchestra. Pep conducts it." "Big difference.”

Btw he is a grandchild of an IPS officer who was - a Padma Shri awardee, India's first ambassador to Bhutan and a former AAI chairman. These self crafted sob stories of people born with a silver spoon are tragically funny.

Even Shakespeare could not have described the relationship between Max and Fernando more poetically✨

A lot of research now makes it clear it is the lack of planning (no trees, no water, no open green spaces) that is making Indian cities unlivable. Of course then climate change on top of all of this is hitting us harder than others.

26 negative stories on #India in 24 hours. @business is on a paid tirade. Singapore showed the way of getting their reporters to court over fake stories. What is our strategy, @AshwiniVaishnaw?

⚡ In 24 hours, Bloomberg pushed 16 India-negative pieces - narrative building at scale by the usual “Brown Sepoys.” Worse, the same tone flows into the Bloomberg Terminal, shaping how global capital views India. All of it is unchallenged!

I am so tired of the “Switzerland is just evil bankers hiding elite money” narrative Banking is only about 5% of Swiss GDP Pharma is bigger, at 5.8%, fyi we account for 10.5% of global pharmaceutical exports Manufacturing is around 24% We also rank #1 in innovation world wide Oh and we also have the only real democracy in the world The issue is that the foreigners view of Switzerland and its economy is plagued by it’s image… No sorry but it isn’t just Zurich and Geneva carrying a country of cows and ski chalets where inhabitants produce chocolate and expensive watches Zurich canton, aka the state of Zurich, produces roughly 18% of Swiss GDP with about 18% of the population Geneva produces about 8% of GDP with only 5.9% of the population The reality is that the country is full of small towns with industrial and service bases that employ people locally and sustain entire regions Take Monthey, where I grew up. It’s a city of around 15,000 people, yet it holds one of the largest contiguous chemical site in Europe: 2,000 people on site daily, with names like Ciba, BASF, Huntsman, Sun Chemical, and Syngenta. For Syngenta, largest crop protection producer in the world, Monthey is a globally important production hub That site is also where the world famous Ferrari red pigment was invented That’s the real Switzerland Small places quietly making world-class things, and the system works: My father grew up on a rural farm, couldn’t get a higher education. To give my family a better life he got a job at Syngenta working night shifts as a factory worker. 20y later he still works there, but now he moved up to a coordinator role in charge of a part of manufacturing where he leads a team of 20. There aren’t many places where you can leave school at 14, spend your whole life as an employee, never invest a cent beyond your retirement savings, and still work your way from the lower class into a very comfortable middle-class life 2 months ago, I took the day off to join my dad as he picked up his Porsche Taycan 4S. Sure, it was secondhand and around 120k off sticker, but for someone who grew up waking up at 4:30 to milk cows before school, then back to work again after class, and never had a vacation until he met my mom in his mid-20s, it’s an extraordinary milestone The state covered my healthcare until I was 20, and it quite literally saved my life, I would not be here otherwise Swiss taxpayers spent roughly CHF 18 million keeping me alive, and a big part of what drives me is the desire to repay that debt by becoming a net positive for my country And yes, of course Switzerland made real moral compromises during WWII, but for the love of god consider the situation it was in Judging those choices without looking at a map is deeply unserious: by 1940 Switzerland was effectively surrounded by Axis-controlled territory, so neutrality was a survival strategy under extreme pressure, not some claim to moral purity lol. So yes, the Swiss National Bank bought gold from Nazi Germany. The real question is not whether compromises happened, but if survival ended and complicity began. It’s very easy to moralize about clean choices once the war is over and someone else had to live through the alternatives… If you are going to criticize Switzerland, do it where criticism is deserved Lastly, before calling Switzerland cowardly for neutrality, remember that Pope Julius II founded the Swiss Guard in 1506 because Swiss mercenaries were the best in the world and had a reputation for loyalty and military effectiveness. Five centuries later we are still protecting the Pope btw Next time instead of taking about our big bad banks, talk about: our factories, our labs, our medicines, our engineering, or the diplomacy, the humanitarian work and so on Oh and look at your own countries actions before having the audacity to criticize others…

News agencies that have been silent on India's Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor achieving criticality: - BBC - New York Times - CNN International - Wall Street Journal

All right, buddy, let’s get the chronology right 2023 - Max is already warned about the planned 2026 rules after seeing early simulator work. He says he doesn’t like the direction, especially the heavy reliance on battery power and energy management. 2023–2025 – almost nobody else pushes back, F1 and the FIA publicly sell 2026 as greener and more electric. Most drivers and media speak about it in neutral or positive terms. Bahrain test 2026 – first big public rant by Max. He says the cars are “not fun” to drive, calls it more like “Formula E on steroids,” and argues that F1 should get rid of battery power. He attacks the 50/50 split and says the increased electrical dependence is anti‑racing because it turns the sport into energy management instead of pure driving. Hamilton says he needs a college degree to understand the tech part of it. Australia 2026 – opening race under new regs. Mercedes are fastest, Ferrari are fast, Red Bull and McLaren are in trouble. From free practice onward, Max is complaining that racing is completely dominated by battery deployment and harvesting windows. Around this phase (Australia/China), he drops the “Mario Kart” line, saying it’s not real racing anymore, just boosting past each other and then getting re‑passed when the battery is empty. He says that if someone likes this, they don’t understand what racing is. Max and Oscar crash heavily during quali and recon lap. George is happy. Lando finds it “funny” and “ragebaits” says Max is only moaning because he’s slow and if he wants to leave he should. Drivers of top cars react very differently. Hamilton praises the new era’s wheel‑to‑wheel action and calls some of the races among the best racing he has seen. Lando initially pushes back at Max’s negativity and basically says that if Max doesn’t like it, he can leave F1 because everyone else is enjoying the cars. Team bosses (Toto Wolff) and a lot of media frame Max’s criticism as frustration because Red Bull are uncompetitive. China 2026 – contrast hardens By China, Max doubles down and repeats that the racing is like Mario Kart: you hit the boost, pass, then get re‑passed when you’re out of energy. He calls it a joke and says this isn’t proper F1. Hamilton says it’s the best racing he’s ever done. The narrative in coverage becomes: Max hates it, Ham, Lando and George love it. Charles isn’t entirely happy. Lando, who originally defended the new regs and mocked Max’s stance, contradicts himself, admitting he’d said some things just to see the reaction. Alonso calls it the “battery world championship” Charles hates what qualifying has become Japanese GP 2026 – Ham vs Lando exposes the flaw their fight makes the energy‑management issue impossible to ignore. Their duel shows how much their w2w battle depends on hybrid deployment and harvesting, not just on racecraft, braking and throttle. Ollie has a massive crash. Analysis after the race focuses on how the energy rules can effectively “force” a driver into certain moves or prevent them from doing what they strategically want, because the hybrid system’s behaviour and the regulations dictate when you can push or must recharge. Lando says “it doesn’t matter what we say” He publicly becomes much more sceptical. Carlos and Charles publicly show their disdain. Lando’s comments line up very closely with the same issues Max has been screaming about since Bahrain: the battery, deployment rules, and energy windows overriding driver choice. Media tone shift after Norris’s statement, a lot of Brit‑leaning analysis suddenly take the battery‑over‑driver issue far more seriously. The same core criticisms that the hybrid rules are forcing artificial moves and constraining racecraft are now being discussed in detail, even though Max had been saying almost exactly this since 2023 and then relentlessly from the first 2026 test and the opening races. Max should learn English so Brundle can understand.

told verstappen to shut the fuck up and now he's seeing the light. and then they wonder why he kicked out a british journalist from the red bull hospitality. he should be throwing rocks at you people

Indians don't lack civic sense. India lacks strict enforcement of law. Eg from US, China & Singapore. All had problems with spitting, street defecation, garbage… & they solved them through strict enforcement of law. In jagahon par bhi caste ki problem thi kya, genius???

A tram that hasn't played basic, proper football is about to win the PL. All other teams should be ashamed that no one could stop this from happening.

Said this at the height of him domination btw. He’s ALWAYS right

By this logic, Top Gun: Maverick reflects a world Americans "browbeaten by years of Pentagon messaging" believe to be real. James Bond is 60 years of MI6 recruitment propaganda. Dunkirk is Churchill's ghost writing British exceptionalism into celluloid. Zero Dark Thirty literally had CIA officers on set. But when those films release, The Economist writes about "the power of cinema to capture national memory." When India makes one, it's a symptom of mass delusion manufactured by a strongman. Fifteen thousand Indian civilians killed in Pakistan-sponsored terrorism since 1970. A film dramatises it. The Economist's concern is not the terrorism. It's that Indians noticed. Condescension this perfectly calibrated hasn't been seen since the last time someone in London explained to Indians what Indians actually think.

Peter Windsor destroys the new F1 regulations: 
🗣️”These regs neutralized the talent of Charles and Max. If you put any one of the greats from the past in these cars, I don't think they'll be able to do anything more than Lindblad or Hadjar." 😳💀 🎥/via @Shay99087

Those of us who have known the truth about Bruno Fernandes have said 'there's him & then there's everyone else'? Here is the proof of that quote. In a league where goals are so hard to come by, he is a living, breathing hub of creation. This is absurd.

Everything that get the hyper capitalist touch, the American touch, goes down the drain

This applies to everything now. Music, film, TV, sports. The gravitas is gone. And it’s not because the talent is lesser. Media is fragmented, and so, we rarely have shared moments — which create that feeling. Instead, everyone just exists in their own algorithmic feed.

Just remembered this moment from 3 years ago where Max expressed his concerns about the 2026 regulations, fascinating to hear this considering what we've seen this weekend