Abhishek Tripathy ଅଭିଷେକ ତ୍ରିପାଠୀ

what a normal day on the winter

The time Steve Irwin broke up a fight between two kookaburras by speaking their language

Newton's first law

Ahmedabad is not a sporting city, it never has been. That’s why every time there’s a final played there, more than 50% crowd is from outside the city. There’s no sporting culture, vibe. Just making the largest stadium might bring you gate revenues but it doesn’t bring you support or success for India.

This here is where Tottenham downfall started. Instead of focusing on your own team sitting at then 15th you celebrated city winning so they could stop Arsenal winning the league. Have fun getting relegated so you don’t care about Arsenal again.

The most important criterion for success is to focus on your goal.

🇳🇴 Lasse Kvigstad from Norwegian club Bryne received 100 eggs, 40 packs of oats and 20 litres of milk as his prize for being named Man of the Match. Well deserved! 🤣👏

An IAS officer in Chhattisgarh FIXED a maternal health CRISIS that the government couldn't solve with a recipe older than modern medicine. She did it with a ladoo! Yes, you read that right 🤯 Okay so here’s what happened: Koriya district had one of the worst maternal health records in the state: → High-risk pregnancies → Underweight babies → Mothers going into labour severely anaemic. Simply because pregnant women weren't getting enough nutritious food. So District Collector Chandan Tripathi did something no consultant would pitch. She turned a grandmother’s ragi modak into a structured maternal health system. Here’s what they did differently: → Created iron-rich ragi modak ladoos (dietician approved) → Gave 2 ladoos daily to every pregnant woman → Added iron supplementation from the 5th month → Paired each woman with a “Poshan Sangwari” to ensure she actually consumed them They called it the Koriya Modak Ladoo programme. The most brilliant part about this is that they didn't hire outsiders to make the ladoos. The same women it was meant to help now make the ladoos, earning ₹10,000–12,000 per month. And look at the results now: ✅ 57% reduction in low birth weight cases. ✅ 362/398 underweight mothers gained healthy weight ✅ 3,00,000+ ladoos distributed so far. And all of this was possible not because of a ₹100 crore government tender but because of trust in community knowledge and the will to execute it properly. Sometimes the most powerful solutions aren’t expensive.

Let me describe a typical summer vacation day first. This was around the period 1985-95. Every year I would spend a month in my village, a beautiful, green village nestled just in the foothills of the Kodai hills. My day would start at the crack of dawn, why you ask? Because back then we all (a bunch of cousins, my sis, aunts, uncles and my grandparents all slept on a giant "jamakalam" (huge floor sized bedspread laid on the ground) in the big hall. At 0545 grandpa would wake up and well the rest of us didn't have a choice really. No matter, take the bedding to the "thinnai" (see image below) and continue sleeping till 7 at which point the sun would hit my face directly and wake me up. After age 10 ish, the day began with the Hindu paper and coffee made with milk from a cow from our cowshed next door. Then by 730 I was out to play cricket. Back by 930-10, shower and eat lunch by 1100. The day would start getting hot so now back to the Thinnai. My friends and I would play cards or board games like Trade (Monopoly) or Scotland Yard. Then by 1300 all of us dispersed for a siesta. Read a bit before sleeping (Asterix, Tintin, Chacha Chaudhary, Readers Digest, Enid Blyton and later upto Robert Ludlum, the problem columns and lame stories in womens era magazine etc etc) Reconvened in our farm with its giant well or the Varaha River at around 3 (this thing was like 30 feet deep and massive) for a nice swim. Then back to the cricket ground by 430, played till 630. After that back home for an evening shower (and after age 11, do sandhyavandnam) have dinner and then convene by the river side with friends, sit on the sand and just shoot the breeze till 830. Grandpa would send his trusted batman to round us up by 845 latest, in bed by 9, read a bit again and then lights out by 930. Some variations, some afternoons we would just hang out on a mango tree biting into the raw mangoes. Some evenings we would catch a ride to Theni town and watch some random ass movie (after age 12 ish Just went alone with friends), some days we would trek 15 kms to a waterfall nearby...

Top BSNL official visit to Prayagraj: 50 junior officials tasked to ensure everything from luxury to bare essentials - even underwear Travel itinerary of a top BSNL employee's trip to Prayagraj gives a sneak peek into how this public sector telecom company went to the dogs. More than 50 staff have been tasked with arranging breakfast, lunch, escorts, and even Sangam "snan" kits with towels, undergarments, and hair oil.