1972: Lt Col Hanut Singh, MVC, Commandant of the Poona Horse during the Indo-Pak War 1971 with mother of 2/Lt Arun Khetarpal as she receives Param Vir Chakra from President V.V. Giri. This young officer, with barely six months of service in the Regiment, by a deliberate decision…

The word queue is ironic.

It's just a 'q' with a bunch of silent letters waiting in a line.

17 December 1971: Calcutta celebrates victory of the Indo-Pak war. Lt Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora, GOC-in-C, Eastern Command, is given a hero’s welcome. The day before, he was in Dacca to receive the surrender of the Pakistani forces.

A dating app for dacoits called Chambal.

Satbir Singh A dating app for clumsy people, called Fumble.

A dating app for unassuming people called Humble.

I spoke with yet another scammer today. I don't know why I do this, but here we go.

It all started with a few annoying Whatsapp messages trying to scam me. But we ended up wishing each other good luck 😂

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Literally nobody has shown up to my book event. Was worried that my ego and career aspirations were getting out of control, so this is a useful corrective.

In Malaysia, Sikhs are often referred to as Bengalis! I recently learned this fact and the fascinating history behind it. British India had three sea ports - Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay. British Malaya was served by ships from Calcutta and Madras. Most North Indians used the…

Warner bros 😉 rajamouli ss

This is what my matches with Karpov felt like.

Martin Scorsese, Joe Pesci, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro

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1999. Mohali Test. IND vs NZ.

Chris Cairns just bowled a cross seam delivery to Dravid and turned around and looked at Sachin, who's at the non-striker's end, and had a meltdown- 'what've you got for this now' ?

(A thread on how batters have tackled reverse swing)

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Cillian Murphy is so real for this, he's so old fashioned yet not that old

Aaj apun gyaan dene ke mood mein hai! #BhiduShakespeare

Took 9 bullets in battle & told the operating surgeon that he was 'kicked by a donkey.' Led India in the 1971 war, but gave his generals the glory. Fought off all political pressure, but never went into politics.
he once said, 'A ‘Yes man’ is a dangerous man. He is a menace.…

Today, let us remember Field Marshal SHFJ ‘Sam’ Manekshaw on his 110th birth anniversary.

Born into a Parsi family in Amritsar, the community had migrated from Persia to India to avoid religious persecution, first landed as refugees in Gujarat. Sam’s grandfather, Framji, was a…

15 in his first over in the 2003 finals, with two no balls & a wide that reached the boundary, ending with 67 in 7.
Eight years later, 3 maiden overs to start the final, and a first spell of 5 overs for just 6 runs & a wicket.
'Just like in 2003, we again bowled first in 2011,…