JIO is streaming IPL for free, but there is something else that will change the game.

We have two TVs at my parental home. One 26 inches another 44 inches bought 10 years apart, screen sizes collinear with our family’s fortunes. Non-smart TVs both. And they have stayed. (1/n) The thing is Indians rarely upgrade TVs. There are 200 million TV households out of which only 22 million are smart Internet enabled. (~90% dumb TVs)

So JIO has launched this new media cable, which lets u connect your phone to your TV & make it smart. Even an old BPL Tv (2/n)

I have maintained this, India should stop playing Cricket with Pakistan completely, the only time that nation gets relevance is when we play Cricket or there is a terror attack. After castrating their abilities for the latter, only the former is left. Cut off that validation. I mean it’s the Cricket bravado that gives their ministers the fake chutzpah of calling a sitting PM a butcher. Such comments have great meme value internally. Externally they remain Ostracised beggars.

Often a visit to Bihar unearths some old Victorian relics in the English they picked from the colonisers. Two examples

1) बुशर्ट - Actually a Bush shirt, worn by the English to counter the tropical weather. Loose fitted big collared shirt. Which became the Safari suit 2) Fast friend: Which connotes close friendship. The origin is actually “Steadfast friend” from Old English.

“हमारे बहुत फास्ट फ्रेंड है झा जी”

Nationalize Twitter. Make it a PSU. Any tweet which needs to be tweeted has to be submitted in triplicate, and needs to be approved by a Gazetted officer. Unreserved category will get 140 characters rest will be reserved. No tweets will get posted between 12pm to 2pm. As it's a lunch break. If you need to attach an image with your tweet, it has to be passport size, with white background.

Day 13 of isolation.

Isolating coz I am Covid negative. Coz everyone else in my house is/was positive. 4 members including Baby Z. Thankfully everybody recovered. Elders take Insulin twice a day, yet escaped with minor symptoms. Coz Vaccine. Don't miss yours :) The toughest call was on Day 7. My vaccination slot. Most people told me to give it up, as I had a high risk of infection. So I got a rapid test done on 6th evening. Negative. Drove to the Hospital next morning. Got myself vaccinated + 4 days of no outside contact. Phew

Brother tells me the migrant workers in his manufacturing unit, were so scared of an imminent shutdown of the company (coz of a few days of inactivity) they got money, bought bicycles and left for their home. Were quarantined in their home state, now they want to come back. Supervisors assured them the co. is not going to shut down, but the rumors were so thick, that they left. 4 brothers together earned uowards of 55K. All of them are home now, with money depleting. Daily quarrels at home. Wanna come back. State govt is instructing to hire locals.

People who walk.

The daily wage workers, hundreds of kms away from home, here coz of chain migration, coz the institutions are so corrupt in his home state, that there're no jobs & only crippling debt. They don't even know, if a govt can even help.

"Really?"

They walk home They have always known govt as an entity who can at best save them from getting massacred from an opposing caste. And they are grateful, and pay back with their vote every 5 yrs.

"A govt can give economic assistance?" They ask. Coz to even get your pension, you pay a bribe.

Mumbai person thought he will come out in his balcony and sing with his neighbours.

There was no balcony 😶 Bengaluru person thought he will come out in his balcony and sing with his neighbours.

Criticised for not singing a Kannada song 😶

Finished watching #Shikara

Will discuss its art & politics separately.

Art: For a foreigner who has little context or bias, this wud appear thoroughly confusing. Everything happens for no rhyme or reason. Shoddily assembled scrapbook of news clippings. Painfully Painfully long 2.5 hrs into the movie the guy next to me looks around a packed hall and says "Bahut logo ko bevkoof bana Diya"

A kid was watching doraemon with the volume up on his father's phone, without people minding it. Someone said, at least one person is watching something interesting 😂

When you are in bachelor's room, Never pick up a bottle of water and drink without asking, the water maybe 3 months old. A bachelor's room is like a radioactive facility, you should not touch anything without the assistance of the bachelor. Always ask as to how to operate his toilet before using it, even the locking the Toilet door has a unique way. Which only the bachelor knows.

Remember that curioisty, as your train penetrated into a city, passing thru its railway phataks where bikers waited patiently for your train to pass, your face pressed against the window, trying to read shop-boards, sex clinic ads to figure out which city it was. Like a competition with yourself. Picking clues, racing against time, before the train drew nearer to the platform and revealed its name to you. The name on a stone plaque, black on Yellow. It might decieve you like Naini before Allahabad. Whatay beautiful game! :)

What are some of the most generic Bollywood dialogues? Like which you find in every other old movie.

Eg: "Beta haanth mooh dho le, tab tak mai khaana lagati hu" 2: "Maine Injection de diya hai, kal subah tak inhe hosh aa jaayega"

3. "Inse miliye, Sheher ke jaane maane businessman"

Why Netflix should worry about Disney's foray into streaming content - in just one para Netflix current M-cap at $165 billion, a business built on leasing someone else' content. Now all those creators are entering streaming and pulling their content off Nflix.
'The Office' is the most watched show on Netflix, owned by NBC universal. It will be gone nxt year.

There are 40 iconic ads hidden in this pic. Let's see how many can you identify From the leftmost point:
1) Maruti - Petrol khatam hi ni hondha.
2) Vicks ki Khichkhich
3) Google patition Ad
4) Happydent chewing gum
5) Vodafone ZooZoo
6) Bournvita - Tayyari jeet ki
7) Amul
8) Center shock (Balbir Pasha)

Mahabharata is an INSANE story, here's a thread on some of the mind blowing things it has. Especially, how its various characters were born. Buckle up

1. Paandu, the father of Pandavas, while hunting in the forest, accidentally shot a Sadhu while he was making love with his wife 2. The Sadhu, obviously, was quite pissed. So before dying he cursed Pandu, that the moment he tries to fuck he would die. Super cockblock. But Pandu got 2 wives & kids by the grace of various god-sperms Yama,Indra,Vaayu & Ashvin

Pandu died while he tried to shag his 2nd wife