There’s many reasons I’m not crazy about cricket anymore (I once was). But it has to be said, the amount of vilification Anushka Sharma has had to face at the hands of cricket fans was the biggest reason that helped me completely stop following the game.
Now when we’ve seen the cricket gods and heroes come out to bat against voices talking about human rights violations, we need to remember it was the footballers & other sportspersons who’ve taken a stand against wrong. And yet our country has only ever worshipped cricketers.
The only words I’ve ever muted here app are “cricket” & “IPL”. I couldn’t stand to hear about that extravagant circus in a far off fantasy land when the poor in the our country were getting poorer in the pandemic lockdown aftermath. There was no sportsmanship left in that sport.
Cricketers are not Gods or Heroes.
We’ve elevated them to that position. While they seem to have gotten so used to be sold & bought in IPL bids that they’ve sold off their conscience & integrity as well.
And still, I’ll probably have to mute “cricket” & “IPL” next year too.
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Multiple media outlets - including News18, Dainik Jagran, Amar Ujala, OpIndia & many more - made the claim that an NGO with “Khalistani” links paid over 18 crores INR to tweet in support of the farmers.
Upon examination, it was found that all the outlets published this story on the basis of a report by The Print - an online newspaper.
These publications do not go into the details of the investigation, so the next step is to examine the original report by The Print.
The Print’s report reveals:
A case was filed by the Delhi Police against “unknown persons” in connection with a toolkit tweeted by Greta Thunberg.
They have not even used Rihanna's name in the headline - if they've broken this important story why not use it to get eyeballs?
- To early Christians (and to many Christians today), the most important holiday on the Christian calendar was Easter, which commemorates the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
- However, as Christianity began to take hold in the Roman world, in the early 4th century, church leaders had to contend with a popular Roman pagan holiday commemorating the “birthday of the unconquered sun” (natalis solis invicti)–the Roman name for the winter solstice.
- This festival is as called Saturnalia. Every winter, Romans honored the pagan god Saturn, god of agriculture, with a festival that began on December 17 & usually ended on or around December 25 with a winter-solstice celebration in honor of the beginning of the new solar cycle.
Today, I want to share the story of a feminist who fought for the rights of men, when men were the victims of patriarchy.
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Today, with a heavy heart, I want to tell y'all about the Notorious RBG - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020) - a champion of gender equality.
Let's start with the story of a happy couple - Stephen Wiesenfeld & Paula Polatschek got married in 1970.
Paula was a public school teacher. Her salary was the main source of the couple’s income & social security contributions were regularly deducted from her salary.
Paula despite a very healthy pregnancy died in childbirth in 1972. Stephen vowed to work only part-time until his baby was in school full-time.
And in order to support himself & his infant baby he needed the money that had been deduced as Social Security from his wife's salary.