My tweets are my thoughts, my opinions. I have a brain of my own, feelings of my own. And think we have freedom of speech/expression?
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Arjun Dev retweeted
✍️ New post on Substack (long-read)
Freedom, security, disruption: Where do women’s T20 state leagues stand in Indian cricket?
Spoke to @a_upendran11 and @arjun19dev – two people doing stellar work in the women’s game.
Read, please? vinayakkm.substack.com/p/fre…
Love the poster 😍🤪
#TheProteas Women take on India this December in an unmissable inbound tour! 🏏🇿🇦
Dare to be #Unbreakable and be part of the action! 🙌
🎟️ Get your tickets now at cricket.co.za
Arjun Dev retweeted
In a small Greek restaurant in Cambridge my journey of love began.
Rajiv and I created a world filled with love, laughter and memories. On 10th November, I share that world with you.
Delete and save yourself some embarrassment. A biography is written by someone else. Autobiographies can be ghost written. What do you think the meaning of “ghost” is ? You thought all autobiographies are written fully by the person themself? 🤦🏾♂️
Arjun Dev retweeted
Big 'well done' to everyone involved in the call to pick Naman out of nowhere. He's got all the goods for this role apart from whatever he gives otherwise in the field.
Funny how the instructions from the dug out is always ‘stay there, runs will come’ for the batters in the 1st 15-16 overs and then come the death, the desperation from the dug out reaches max level when the lower order is batting. ‘Pleas hit’, ‘maaarooo’ ..
Arjun Dev retweeted
I mean absolutely no disrespect to any of the fine players performing in the Ranji Trophy but there really needs to be a qualification in statistics for India's pre-eminent domestic competition: Pre-Lodha and Post-Lodha.
Years from now when someone looks at just the numbers it will be almost impossible to discern their true value.
#cricket #Indiancricket #RanjiTrophy
Arjun Dev retweeted
“Lawrence Bishnoi Sahab”
The respect Delhi Police has for gangsters…
Wish they showed even 10% of this courtesy to students and activists who are doing nothing but protest.
Arjun Dev retweeted
The more I read about Dr. Manmohan's tenure, the more my mind blown.
Back then zero interest in politics except for occasional mocking Congress/MMS because of ignorance.
But now that I read about it, the man delivered "na bhuto na bhavishyati" (never before, never again) performance on economy, governance, job creation etc.
Not just good, exceptional. Not just w.r.t past Indian performance but the entire world.
PS: Average on national security, but that is because of world atmosphere as well, many terrorist attacks happened world wide in the first decade of this century. Not to mention half of those in India were done by Hindutva terrorists. Main national security mistake (crime) was not holding Ranga Billa accountable.
Just to give people some idea. Stock market grew 5x under Dr MMS. FIVE times. In 10 years.
1 Rs became 5 Rs. And Indian stock market outperformed almost the entire world.
Under Modi not even 3x returns in 12 years. And absolutely zero to negative returns last 3 years.
And worse anticipated in future.
This is not politically relevant because 90% Indians have NO savings.
Always trust Abhinav Bindra to come up with gems like this! Brilliant! But in the current scenario, unfortunately, any kind of questioning is seen as defiance and controversial.
Throughout my sporting career, I questioned my coaches, challenged ideas and remained curious. Not because I lacked respect but because I wanted to understand, learn and get better. I worry that when athletes feel they cannot speak freely, something far more troubling happens over time. They slowly stop questioning even in their own minds. And when that happens we loose something essential to sporting excellence. We need athletes who question their own work, their coaches, the methods recommended to them and the structures they operate within. Not out of defiance but out of a genuine desire to improve. What some might consider indiscipline may, in fact, be essential to growth. There is a difference between an athlete who refuses to learn and one who refuses to stop asking questions. Sport must be wise enough to recognise that difference.