Joy Bhattacharjya
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Work in sport. Quiz. Read. Write. Try to think.
Delhi
Joined November 2008
On Engineers Day, retweeting a story about my father and a dam. In 1976, my father's company, Hoogly Docking & Engineeering, was slowly bleeding to death. The problem was the dry dock, where ships could be built and repaired, was not working as the lock gates were damaged.
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And it's 1-1 ! While Shubman's 430 runs in a single test is epic, 10 wickets for Akashdeep on a featherbed is also a titanic effort.
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I am looking for all the top javelin throwers in that first row! Neeraj obviously is not good enough to make it there!.
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Yesterday was a huge day for Indian sport. And it's not just the record breaking cricket score - 941 runs in a single test, never before achieved in our 93 years of playing test cricket. The Indian women footballers beat a far higher ranked Thailand team to qualify for the
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At a time where Indian football is admittedly at the crossroads, this is great news!.
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PV Sindhu was born on World Badminton Day. It figures!.
In 2004, a 9 year old took one of her father's cards, carefully struck out his name and wrote her own . And replaced Arjuna Award winning volleyball star PV Ramana's volleyball logo with a shuttlecock. And that was the day her mother thought P V Sindhu might make it in sport.
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No Rohit, no Kohli, no Pujara, no Rahane. And the batting is still holding up. Whatever our bowling and team selection issues may be, the admittedly brave decision by the selectors to move forward with a new batting unit is so far looking good!.
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RT @babubasu: Remarkable ! You've distilled an hour long podcast into a crisp 800 word column on something vital facing us - finding facts….
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In 2004, a 9 year old took one of her father's cards, carefully struck out his name and wrote her own . And replaced Arjuna Award winning volleyball star PV Ramana's volleyball logo with a shuttlecock. And that was the day her mother thought P V Sindhu might make it in sport.
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All those of you indignant that the roads in your municipal corporation are full of potholes, and want to show your corporators what a good road should look like now have an easy option. Just ask them to turn on their tv sets. This Edgbaston track is as flat as any highway!.
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Great honour for Deepika Padukone to be named a 2025 Hollywood Walk of Fame honouree. But she is certainly not the first - Sabu was!.
The first Indian actor to make it in Hollywood was not Anil Kapoor or Priyanka or even Naseer. He was a 13 year old boy, first cast in a documentary about elephants who starred in the 1940 hit Thief of Baghdad. Sabu Dastagir was originally from Mysore & made more than 20 films.
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And good sense has prevailed. Nobody wants pollution, but sort the broken and corrupt testing system instead of penalizing people who look after their cars, or just don't drive them around that often.
#BREAKING | Delhi government to tweak vehicle policy, 'end of life' vehicles won't be scrapped, only polluting vehicles will. #delhifuelban #Delhi.
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Subedar Yogendra Singh Yadav, Rifleman Sanjay Kumar, and Subedar Major Honorary Captain Bana Singh.
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By living PVC awardees I mean the ones who lived to be awarded, the rest were posthumous. There are only 3 PVC awardees around as of today.
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Why do the best test batters usually bat at No 4? .It's just the perfect place to make the most runs, like opening in T20s. On most days, the openers and No 3 have seen the shine off the ball giving No 4 the best chance to bat long.Tendulkar, Kallis, Lara, Root. & now Shubman.
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There was a cab driver in Delhi who dreamt every day of becoming an army man. He finally made it on his third attempt & was assigned to the J & K Rifles. Within a year he was in Kargil and there was a war on. On this day, 26 years ago, Rifleman Sanjay Kumar volunteered to lead
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