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Pratik Dogra retweeted
Apr 8
The world that Rana is referring to, are people like her, which India has in plenty who I call (Pakistanis by conviction, Indians by citizenship) are lauding Pakistan for a brokerage deal, between two warring sides.
Trump is doing what serves American Interests.
Likes of Rana are doing what serves interests of Islamists.
It is not a sobering moment for India, since India does not aspire to be a broker. Unlike you, who out of conviction and other monetary benefits, pimps for Pakistan.
Propaganda films is how exactly your Pakistani brokers see films where India asserts it's reality and we have just started.
You are not us, we are not you, supporters of terror state of Pakistan do call 26/11 an inside job and that is who you are.
The best part is that your venom towards India, while sitting in India and also the scams you pull on it's populace time to time, you will continue to do that all your life and yet your freedom to do that will be protected and you will have to live with the misery of Pakistani state's terrorism defeated both on the ground and now in the intellectual and cinematic space.
Your free life in India, which you abuse everyday, is your blessing, which however for you is your curse.
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Pakistan has no meaningful, productive existence. Its nuisance value is it’s only relevance. That dumper truck of a country is a part-time gun for hire for whosoever has a penny to spare, & a full-time begger. A blot on humanity, Islam & everything else.
Apr 7
Pakistan doesn't exist, but half of our movies are made about Pakistan, most of our current affairs focus on Pakistan, parliament debates about it, and any election rally isn't complete without mentioning Pakistan at least a thousand times, like a ritual. But, Pakistan DOESN’T Exist 🤡 - says @ARanganathan72 from Safdarjung enclave!
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Pratik Dogra retweeted
Apr 7
Dilip Vengsarkar wrote this article prior to WCC 1985. Bold prediction and confidence in team when India were rather struggling.
Spotting the talent is another trait he had. Sachin at 14, Yuvi in 2000, Dhoni as captain and Kohli ahead of others. Happy 70th birthday Colonel !!
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Apr 5
Even if they did, this was 4 months after PM AB Vajpayee’s Lahore visit. They spent a decade denying any involvement to the extent they refused to accept their soldiers’ remains. And then these imbecile scums wonder why they are treated like the piece of shit that they are…
Pakistan still captured 6 highest peaks in kargil and indians say 1971
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Pratik Dogra retweeted
Apr 5
The U.S. did so much to rescue one person, while your army abandoned its fallen soldiers during the Kargil war.
LOL!
The US had to blow up two of it's own aircrafts, sustain injuries, deployed 100s of marines special forces to rescue ONE guy.
Just one.
Good luck to them sending thousands for a ground op, not to fight but to keep rescue missions for the rescue missions properly supplied!
It is the US that needs to save face and come to its senses before they self-implode with Orangutan Trump's inflated ego.
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Sachin Tendulkar.
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If you have to choose one on a green pitch to survive last session of a test match - who will you choose?
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Pratik Dogra retweeted
Apr 3
bollywood needs to come out from their dull yellow color grading obsession
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Pratik Dogra retweeted
Apr 3
Wonderful. Is it outdated of me to be nostalgic for when kids wanted to grow up to be astronauts instead of influencers?
Apr 3
That's us! 🌍
The Artemis II crew captured beautiful, high-resolution images of our home planet during their journey to the Moon. As @Astro_Christina put it: "You guys look great."
ALT A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
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Pratik Dogra retweeted
Apr 3
On the birth anniversary of Sam Manekshaw, here’s a story that defines true respect 🇮🇳
A quiet morning in Coonoor.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam walks into the Military Hospital.
No entourage. No cameras. No protocol.
Just purpose — and respect.
He has learned that Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw is admitted there.
Sam Bahadur. The man who led India to victory, the soldier whose courage shaped a nation.
Kalam steps into the room.
Sam lies in bed — frail in body, unshakable in dignity.
The President asks softly,
“Are you comfortable here? Is there anything I can do for you? Any complaints?”
Sam smiles.
“Yes… I have one complaint.”
Kalam moves closer, concerned.
“What is your complaint?”
And then comes a line only a legend could deliver:
“The most respected President of my country is standing before me… and I cannot rise to salute him.”
For a moment, silence fills the room.
Kalam gently holds Sam’s hand.
Two giants.
Not connected by rank.
Not defined by medals.
But united by something far greater — mutual respect.
As Kalam turns to leave, Sam quietly mentions something he had never demanded:
the long-pending arrears of a Field Marshal’s pension.
Kalam doesn’t delay.
Within a week, a Defence Secretary arrives in Wellington with a cheque of nearly ₹1.3 crore.
No announcements. No headlines. Just action.
And in the final chapter of this story —
Sam donates the entire amount to the Army Relief Fund.
Because real heroes don’t ask for respect.
They inspire it. They embody it. They earn it.
Today, we don’t just remember him — we salute him. 🇮🇳
#APJAbdulKalam #SamManekshaw #IndianArmy #IndiaHistory #TrueHeroes #Leadership #Respect #Legends #ProudIndian
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Pratik Dogra retweeted
Apr 3
This is needless.
The Indian obsession with capacity is pretty stupid. Indian sporting arenas with big capacity barely delivers on fan experience.
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Very well said. I have very conflicted feelings as well since I watched the teaser yesterday. It feels like an honest attempt & because of that, has really got me hoping that these guys would deliver. But the points mentioned by the gent below hold true & difficult to miss.
Apr 2
The story of Ramayana has lived in so many of us for so long — in grandmother’s voices, in paintings on temple walls, in that black and white box TV with vertical hold button. So when a filmmaker decides to put it on screen in 2026 at this scale, part of you just wants to lean in and believe.
I wanted to lean in. I really did.
And there are moments in this teaser where you can feel what the film is reaching for. The ambition isn’t in question. Neither is the sincerity. This is clearly not a film being made carelessly. Someone cares deeply about this. It’s there in the framing, in the seriousness of it all.
But something isn’t quite landing yet, and I think it’s important to flag it. The attempt here is not to take down the teaser, but to be honest. Because this story, of all stories, deserves honesty.
Ranbir Kapoor is a genuinely gifted actor. I love him. Always have. The issue is something harder to spell out. Ram, as most of us carry him, isn’t expressive in the conventional cinematic sense. He’s still. The stillness of someone who has nothing to prove and has always known it.
What I’m seeing in the teaser feels like an actor carefully trying to suppress his urban softness, his romantic restlessness, that flirtatious boy energy. He is consciously embodying calm rather than someone for whom calm is simply the natural state.
It’s a small thing, but with this character, small things are everything. Maybe I’m jutting the gun and the divine stillness will settle in the actual film.
Then there’s the world the film is building around him.
It looks expensive. It looks polished. But it also looks… untouched. Like a room where no one has ever actually sat down. There’s no dust, no friction, no sense that anyone has sweated or stumbled or lived in these spaces.
Exile should feel like exile. A forest should have weight to it. What we’re getting instead feels more like beautiful environments that the characters have been placed into, rather than places they actually come from or belong.
And that matters more here than it might in any other story. Because Ramayana isn’t placeless. It isn’t a generic myth floating in some borrowed fantasy universe. It’s rooted — in geography, in memory, in something that feels recognisably and specifically ours.
When the visuals start to resemble a global fantasy template you’ve seen somewhere else before, something essential quietly slips away. Like it did in Brahmastra. The VFX didn’t serve the story. The story served the VFX.
None of this means the film is lost. Teasers aren’t films. The texture can still arrive. The performances can still settle. The world can still find its own identity rather than borrowing someone else’s.
But right now, it feels like a magnificent structure that hasn’t quite been lived in yet. The foundation is there. The scale is undeniable. It just needs its soul to show up.
Come Diwali, hopefully it will.
#ramayana #teaser #ranbir #ranbirkapoor
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Ranbir Kapoor doesn’t fit the conventional image of Lord Ram for many. But choosing to take on the role anyway isn’t just bold, it’s high-stakes. If he gets it right, it could redefine his career & place him in a league of his own. Personally, I am rooting for it to be a success.
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Pratik Dogra retweeted
Apr 1
Every year in Yelahanka, Bengaluru, a mother and father quietly stand beside a road that bears their son’s name... Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan Road.
For the country, it is a tribute. For K. Unnikrishnan and Dhanalakshmi, it is a place to remember the child they raised.
Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan was one of the brave commandos of the National Security Guard who laid down his life during the 2008 Mumbai attacks while rescuing civilians at the Taj Hotel.
In the middle of that night of terror, he reportedly told his team: “Do not come up, I will handle them.” He fought the terrorists so others could live. For India, he became a symbol of courage, duty, and sacrifice. But for his parents, the pride of a hero comes with the pain of losing a son.
On his birth anniversary, they still come to pay their respects... quietly, with folded hands, carrying memories only parents can understand.
The nation stands proud of Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan. And it remains forever indebted to him and to the parents who gave their son in service of the country. Because the freedom and safety we live with today were secured by sacrifices like his.
#SandeepUnnikrishnan #Terrorism #TerrorAttack
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Pratik Dogra retweeted
If he’d been in charge at the ECB rather than the Richards, you can bet your bottom dollar that Jay Shah would’ve signed off on the Crix Nations and would’ve happily presented the trophy to the winner #AHJS
Apr 1
England not supporting a European Cup: a huge shame for men's and women's cricket in Europe.
The comp would only last a few days; England could rest stars.
The ECB's stance highlights how India are far better global citizens in playing emerging nations
telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2026…
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Pratik Dogra retweeted
Apr 1
England not supporting a European Cup: a huge shame for men's and women's cricket in Europe.
The comp would only last a few days; England could rest stars.
The ECB's stance highlights how India are far better global citizens in playing emerging nations
telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2026…
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Pratik Dogra retweeted
Apr 1
Apple engineered a $179 product to age one half faster than the other, and the fix would take about six lines of code.
One AirPod is always doing more work than the other. The microphone setting defaults to "Automatic," but in practice one pod gets selected as primary for calls, Siri listening, and voice processing. That pod is running beamforming mics, noise cancellation, and audio relay simultaneously. The other one is mostly a speaker.
The battery gap compounds over time. The pod that drains faster charges more often. Lithium-ion cells degrade based on total charge cycles. After 12 to 18 months, the "primary" pod has meaningfully more wear on its battery than its twin. Same case, same charger, different lifespan. You're watching one AirPod age faster than the other in real time.
The fix is almost trivially simple. Rotate the primary mic assignment every 24 hours regardless of call activity. Balance the processing load across both pods equally. Apple ships a $549 AirPods Max that does spatial head tracking with nine microphones but won't write a background task to swap L and R daily.
They won't fix it because the failure mode sells hardware. When one pod dies noticeably faster, you replace the pair. At $179 to $249 every 18 months instead of 36, that's the most profitable firmware bug in consumer electronics.
apple i don’t understand how one airpod can die while the other still has 40% when they both sit in the case for the same amount of time
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Interesting. I vaguely remember that the Titan Cup (1996) had the run saved metric for each fielder.
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
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