TBH, the new Indian jersey looks more like a Cheap promotional flyer, stuck on a tree in a residential colony, instead of the jersey of a team that is controlled by one of the richest sporting bodies of the planet and represents a billion people.
When you give out a kit contract, you give it to companies who do this for a living.
Not to a company, whose continued existence in India depends on a mere legal technicality.
Sad part is, they used the 1992 Cricket World cup jersey to do this.
A jersey that most will agree, is one of the best, if not the best, jerseys ever worn by an Indian cricket team.
They should just print P James Magic Show, somewhere on the jersey and the transformation will be complete.
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The year is 1948. India is newly independent. You are from an elite family, who was just graduated from the Michigan state University, on Govt Scholarship and have come back to India.
You would think you life is all set and you are going to live happily ever after.
Then the Govt sends you to a rundown village in Gujarat, that nobody has heard of. Then they put you up in a grimy, sweltering car garage.
And then ask you, an English Speaking gentleman, to work with farmers, who can speak only Gujarati, a language you have no clue about.
And they ask you do it at a salary that is 20% of what you will get in the outside world.
You have three options. Either you run away. YOu suck it up for sometime and then run away. Or You start a revolution.
If your name is Dr Verghese Kurien, you choose option 3.
Imagine you are a Product Manager, and you have been tasked to develop a product that could change the lives of millions of people, but has to be cheap, easy to use, should be durable, should be strong enough to be used by at least a 1000 people everyday, for 11 continuous hours
A device that should not break down and it should be mass produced, easily, with materials and talent available in India.
And all of this should be done, at 1/10th the cost of the existing competition.
Some PMs would quit, most would tell you have gone mad
That was the enormity of the task that was being faced by Govt Officials, in 1977, who wanted to do something about the fact that only 6% of India, had access to safe water.
For the layperson, the answer is, why don't they just get pumps?
#TIL There's an IAS officer in Uttarakhand who has a YouTube channel that has 2.9.million subscribers.
He uploads videos of doing his job, that he is paid to do, with scant regard for privacy of others, and probably makes more money than his salary
Why does the Govt allow this?
I am sure, in his interview, he would have said crap like, I want to serve the country. I want to ensure India progresses. I want to make a difference to people's lives
And then you open a YouTube Channel
How do you go from upright citizen, to an equivalent of Carryminati?
I work in the private sector, and we have rules against this sort of thing.
I am surprised, if the Govt of India, doesn't have one.
This is one example of Govt apathy and ridiculousness. The road behind my house is already so narrow, that if a bus or a truck comes, the road is blocked.
Suddenly, Some Govt officer decides to build a divider, on that road, for no reason, Which narrows the already narrow road.
Given that nobody can question you on how you waste our money, you do whatever you want. At least build it quickly.
You have been building it for the last six months. Four of which, no vehicles plied on that road, this giving you a free reign. But you didn't.
On top of that, rusting iron rods, protrude dangerously out of it.
On a road with no headlights, and vehicles jostling for space, it is only a matter of time before some car or a bike gets ripped by them.
And when someone dies, who is held responsible? Who Will pay the penalty?
While the Maharashtra govt has been busy prosecuting normal people, they still haven't announced the admission procedure and commencement for Std XI.
The High Court stayed the implementation of the Maratha Quota and in return the Govt has stayed the admission process.
Six months of the year are already over.
Either the students have to complete an entire year's syllabus in six months, or in 2020, all students directly go to Std XII.
Jai Maharashtra...
Imagine the uselessness of a govt, that sits on an important decision like admissions, which determines everyone's future, for six months, but moves with warp speed, on some guy, who teased the son of the CM.
Imagine the uncertainty and doubt in the minds of lakhs of students
Indian small industry is remarkably resilient. They adapt to changes far more than anyone else.
Take the Kirana shops for example. Obituaries have been written since 2001, when Reliance entered retail. They have not only survived, but thrived.
Or the old ubiquitous STD booths.
One more example is, Milk booths, which have pivoted to snack centres. Examples are countless.
What they can't go against is Govt uncertainty. The govt flip flops. One day something is valid. The other day something is banned.
Only to be unbanned again.
Come on.
If you want to ban Crackers. Ban it fully.
You can't wake up just before a festival, and kill the dreams and sustainance of people, who have taken loans at 20% interest per month to earn that little bit of extra cash in already tough times.