Magnus Carlsen and Vishy Anand may be at the Eden Gardens today, but I prefer this photo of chess players in Kolkata. Picture from yesterday where Chinese GM Ding Liren plays a game of chess against American GM Hikaru Nakamura under a packed Gariahat flyover. #IndvBan #Kolkata

White people will let anything and everything touch their asshole but not water

Antique wooden door from a Matha in Padmanabhapura, Ganjam. Culture lingers on in things all around us, dormant, fading into the background, until we are willing to open our eyes and look for it. #Odisha

These diagrams show the paths traced by Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn as seen from Earth.

Yogi Bear has a necktie so that animators could save drawing a whole new pose for him each frame, instead rotating the head above the collar to save money.

Timeline of Odia literature that I made about three years ago. Should make a revised version probably, considering the greater number of books & references I now have access to.

In ‘Inside Out’ (2015), the color of Riley's clothes reflect her emotional state, from balanced to forced optimism to muted anxiety to repression

Was at the SCG in 2004 & learnt one of the great lessons in sport. Greatness is not just what you are capable of doing, it's also what you can stop yourself doing when the occasion demands it. Sachin's 241* at Sydney without a single cover drive- this is a wagon wheel of his 4's.

The Atharanala Bridge, Jagannath Puri. Legend has it that the king Indradyumna built this bridge. He was unsuccessful & had to lose 18 sons to build the 18 vaults in the bridge. Hence called the atharah Nala - the 18 passage ways. Historically this bridge dates to 1700s.

30 years ago today a Swansea fan scored at Anfield in the midst of an 8-0 thrashing in the FA Cup. So much to love here: the shoes, the jeans, the wistful, melodic slow-mo. And then the steward’s slide tackle that cleans him out. A work of art.

The 13,288 runs don't tell you the real story, nor the 36 test hundreds. 31,258 balls and 44,152 bruising grinding minutes at the crease, nobody has spent as much time or played as many balls in the history of tests Rahul Dravid, for Adelaide & Kolkata and so many more. 47 today.

Indians with 50 or more FC tons - Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar (81) Rahul Dravid (68) Vijay Hazare (60) Wasim Jaffer (57)* Dilip Vengsarkar (55) VVS Laxman (55) Mohammad Azharuddin (54) Cheteshwar Pujara (50) - who joined the club today

I must have been 13 when this was taken - requested to get clicked with him and he explained why you shouldn’t request celebrities for pictures. “You would rather try and aspire to be a better version of yourself than idolizing someone” They don’t make people like you anymore 🙏🏼

Brian Lara shows President Barack Obama how to bat, Port of Spain, April 19, 2009. "I always wanted to meet the Michael Jordan of cricket," is how president Obama greeted Lara

Andy Roberts, who is 69 today, in full flight. I was captivated by his genuine pace and hostility in the 1970s and then privileged to meet him at the Antigua Rec in the 1990s. One of the West Indies greats

Well played Ashwin 🇮🇳. Wit and humour!

We need to invest more than 5% of our #GDP as #welfarestimulus to #Covid_19 in India. A billion Indians will be affected by #PMGKY safety nets in the next year. Will need atleast 10 lakh+ Cr (current 1.7 lakh Cr) of #welfarestimulus to prevent serious poverty shocks in 2020.

Be like Santula. all inclusive and non-discriminatory.

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