journalist, author of Top Game: Winning, Losing and a new understanding of sport Entry From Backside only; Under A Cloud
Joined July 2009
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Jun 10
Modi Govt's breaking down of existing iconic govt buildings, like Vigyan Bhavan, Udyog Bhavan (already gone), Krishi Bhavan, Nirman Bhavan
and Shastri Bhavan
(I worked for years in all, except Krishi & Vigyan)
is a RACKET and building stodgy buildings there is a BIGGER RACKET.
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Hello @ITFTennis how can you take slanted political positions and not name Russia as a country? What about USA and Israel, the biggest war mongers who have disturbed world peace? Why is Fritz from USA and @DaniilMedwed or @andreva not from Russia ? What utter nonsense!
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John🛎🎾🖋🇮🇳 retweeted
Jun 4
#Features | Chasing like Dhoni: Exploring the Underbelly of Indian Cricket by Aayush Puthran and Samod is a subaltern view of how aspiring classes have purportedly captured cricket and made it their own - writes @binoojohn.
#Cricket #Subaltern #Books
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May 30
Gujjus and etiquette?
May 30
Embassies should start giving etiquette classes to Indians before issuing visas.
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May 30
Team owners not to be allowed into team enclosures . Most of them are into sport for money not for the love of sport. They do not understand victor and defeat.
May 28
Heated argument between Ishan Kishan and Kavya Maran’s father after SRH lost to RR in the Eliminator.
As per sources, Kavya Maran was not happy with Ishan after he hit 6, 6, 4 against Jofra Archer and then got out. She wanted him to finish the match, but he couldn’t.
There was reportedly a heated debate between them in the dressing room for 35 minutes, and according to a person present there, Muttiah Muralitharan had to step in to calm things down.🤯
As I said earlier, SRH players and owners — all of them are toxic. Hope they all get banned from the IPL and BCCI brings back the old team, Deccan Chargers.👊
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May 30
Charisma increases with every paper leak, every ruppee fall against dollar, every decline of economy, every rupee rise in petrol, every loss of job, every new airport Adani grabs....
May 29
Even at 75
My leaders Charisma is unmatched
His aura is mesmerising
Bold, Confident, Dashing & full of grit
He is epitome of Nationalism..
He is none other than Modiji
Agree or Diasgree - But that's the visible truth ..
போற்றுவார் போற்றட்டும்
புழுதி வாரித் தூற்றுபவர்
தூற்றட்டும்.
தொடர்ந்து செல்வேன் ஏற்றதொரு
கருத்தை எனதுள்ளம் என்றால் எடுத்துரைப்பேன்.
எவர்வரினும் நில்லேன்.!
அஞ்சேன்.!
- கவியரசர் கண்ணதாசன்.
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May 29
Why was Modi lover Nitish Kumar despatched by your own party?
These 4 made their political careers by abusing, villifying and lying abt PM @narendramodi ji.
3 of them @pinarayivijayan , @MamataOfficial , @mkstalin hv been despatched by people of their states and 1 party hopper @siddaramaiah finished off by his own Cong party.
Goodbye and Good Riddance
That is way, the cookie of corrupt, opportunistic politics crumbles 🤘🏻👍🏻
#Karma
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John🛎🎾🖋🇮🇳 retweeted
May 25
#Opinion | It is impossible to understand why a government should spend so much of time and money on vacating a club, but this is all part of the RSS's purification campaign to rid the capital of Islamic and colonial vestiges, writes @binoojohn.
Read more: thefederal.com/category/opin…
#LutyensDelhi #RSS #BJP #BritishRaj #MughalEmpire #DelhiGymkhana #Hindutva #Saffronisation
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May 22
If you have any self respect quit and fight an election. Shameless opportunist. How much did you get from BJP. Tell us
समय आने पर आपकी हर बात का जवाब दिया जाएगा । और मैं आपके किसी लीडर को गाली नहीं दी । अपनी जुबान क्यों गंदी करूँ मै । और मुझे ग़द्दार कहने वालो पहले अपने लोगो से पूछो पंजाब की राज्य सभा सीट कितने मे बेची थी । अगर ना बताए तो मैं आपको बताऊंगा किसको कितना चढ़ावा गया था और किसकी तरफ से । और कैसे किसको मंत्री संतरी बनाया गया पंजाब को लूटने के लिए और लाला को माल पहुँचाने के लिए । पंजाब को लूट खा गए
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John🛎🎾🖋🇮🇳 retweeted
May 20
Pakistan has restored pre partition names for multiple locations. Babri Masjid Chowk is now Jain Mandir Chowk. Rehman Gali is now Ram Gali. Islampura is now Krishan Nagar. Mustafabaad is Dharampura
Many other changes listed below. Good to see this !!
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May 21
Good one vir.
May 20
You know that times have changed when Rahul Gandhi can make fun of Narendra Modi’s Italian connection…,
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May 20
When is the last time you saw a cartoon in an Indian paper mr @ananthkrishnan . . So how do you know if a cartoon is good or bad ? Who killed cartooning and everything else we loved and adored?
May 19
This cartoon, which I assumed wrongly was from some cheap tabloid but was published in Aftenposten, Norway's largest newspaper and "paper of record", isn't a great advertisement of supposedly superior journalistic standards.
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May 20
Brilliant cartoon. This is what cartooning is all about. if he is opposed to rules set in advanced societies why did he go there. To sell his medieval philosophy? Stay at home man proper medieval place.
May 19
Shocking. Racist. Derogatory.
Norway’s largest broadsheet newspaper Aftenposten brazens it out with a shocking cartoon depicting Indian PM @narendramodi as a Snake Charmer with the headline: “A sneaky and slightly annoying man”.
They can’t digest India’s rise and success. Pity!
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John🛎🎾🖋🇮🇳 retweeted
May 19
Don’t we have anybody better than this? What sort of comedian is he? 🙄🙄🙄
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John🛎🎾🖋🇮🇳 retweeted
May 19
ED used as an acquisition tool for Gautam Adani?
1. Ahmed A.R. Buhari, promoter of Coastal Energen, faces investigation and is jailed in an ED-linked money laundering case.
2. He spends around 32 months in prison while legal proceedings continue. Years pass, his reputation is damaged, and his business comes under stress.
3. Coastal Energen enters insolvency proceedings. Control of the company shifts through the corporate resolution process, with an Adani Power-led consortium later involved in acquiring assets.
4. Courts subsequently quash related proceedings after the underlying case collapses. Buhari walks out of jail.
5. Final outcome: a man loses years in prison, loses his company, and is later freed.
India is not a free and fair market. The Modi government is using every trick to help Adani through government machinery.
This is totally anti-national!
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May 19
Good that our dictator has been publicly humiliated in Norway by the PM and then by the Press. if you are medieval man with regressive ideas stay in your regressive Gujarat. Don't go to advanced societies and try to do your one-trick pony stuff. #norway The rebuttal by the MEA was even pathetic. #pmmodiappeal
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John🛎🎾🖋🇮🇳 retweeted
May 17
Emergency Era slogan from the Janata Party,
"Wah re Indira tera khel,
Sasta Daaru mehnga tel".
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May 17
Teach her the new language called Modi Seva Lingua in which you are an expert.
May 17
This is a big problem. My daughter who moves to class 9 next year will have to drop French and choose 2 Indian languages. I would like her to learn Malayalam or Tamil or Kannada. But there are no teachers for these languages in North India. So only option is Hindi and Sanskrit.
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This is the best video on internet right now. Nobody knows who did it. Even @NetaFlixIndia doesn’t know. But this is absolutely brilliant work. Just the ending deserves an award on its own
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