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tired but hopeful | world champion in waiting | a leaving legend

Mangaluru/Mumbai 🇮🇳
Joined December 2008
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Fear nothing except the fact that you haven't improved from your yesterday.
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4 years
Everything reminds me of Suez Canal.
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2 years
Legacy ho toh aisi. Zero controversies. Bas music.
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4 years
Martin Luther King generation: "I have a dream..." My generation: "I have a joke..."
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8 years
Screenshot of the year.
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2 years
My favourite Urdu word is shayad. Filled with hope and hopelessness in equal measure.
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2 years
One day, hopefully someday, our cities will find whatever we are excavating for.
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6 years
Never forget. #AtalBihariVajpayee
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6 years
I think we did it better. @PolyesterPalla
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9 years
Q: What's worse than a biscuit drowning in the tea? A: The second biscuit on a rescue mission drowns too.
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4 years
A generation full of weak people with strong views.
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4 years
In Tulu, before leaving the house, you say 'barpe' (promising that you'll come back) and I think that's beautiful.
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6 years
"Tu jaanta hai meri maa kaun hai?"
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4 years
Yes, I got married on my birthday. One less date to remember. Once a visionary, always a visionary.
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3 years
A generation full of opinions but very few ideas.
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4 years
Don't let anyone else ruin your day. It's YOUR day. Ruin it yourself.
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5 years
Feels like a personal loss. And when so many of us are feeling the same, it must be a public loss too.
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4 years
My parents tested positive for COVID two weeks ago and were quarantined. Saw them arguing with each other on the zoom call this morning, which is a sign that they are getting better.
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Glad APJ Kalam isn't around to see what we made of ourselves by 2020.
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"There were two roads; I avoided both and stayed home." - Robert Frost
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5 years
25th century.
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Without religion, where would we be?
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Radhika Apte always has the expression of a person whose phone was recently stolen.
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Why Malgudi Days (1986) couldn't have been made today.
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11 years
Your mother teaches you a lot except how to love her back the way she loved you.
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5 years
Didn't expect such a positive response for my performance.
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2 years
Everybody who listens to Hindi music has their favourite KK song.
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Interviewee: “Do you allow work-from-home?” Interviewer: “Only on weekends.”
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Ahem.
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Somebody somewhere will be watching The Shawshank Redemption (1994) today for the first time. And I can only be jealous of them.
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A t-shirt attains moksha when it turns into pocha.
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This pandemic has made us realize the significance of good friends and better company.
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4 years
Dost kam ho lekin available ho toh kaafi hai.
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6 years
Mukesh Ambani is so rich that only ajeeb-o-ameer incidents happen to him.
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4 years
People losing their confidence/self-esteem by reading absolute strangers’ comments on social media has to be the greatest magic trick of all time.
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4 years
Pro-tip: Be extra nice to your parents.
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4 years
Try to be nice without terms and conditions.
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4 years
Historians: "How are you?" Alexander: "Great."
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4 years
If you aren't happy, what's the fucking point?
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8 years
Revisited my interview with Shah Rukh Khan back in 2012. There are movie stars and then there is SRK, for a reason.
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4 years
Yes, your struggle is real. You know what else is real? Everybody else's struggle.
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4 years
This tweet is going places but I am where I always was.
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4 years
Why isn't song a unit of distance yet? E.g. It took us 5 songs to reach there.
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5 years
Dimples don’t do much for you unless you are Shah Rukh Khan.
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The saddest form of mental disease is when you can’t see others happy.
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If light is indeed the fastest, why does darkness spread so easily?
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6 years
My ultimate aim in life is to be as calm as a cow standing in the middle of a busy road.
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3 years
Maturity is realizing years later that Dwight Schrute was the noblest character in The Office.
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5 years
Completing 3 years of merez with @polyesterpalla — filled with terrible jokes (at my end) and great food (at hers).
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If we ever have a daughter, I will name her Naari so that she becomes Naari Shakti.
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4 years
Never underestimate the power of a 15-min post-lunch nap.
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4 years
After spending close to 6 years here, it's my last day in Gurgaon. The next chapter will take place in Mangalore. Hope it works out well.
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3 years
Had this been done by the Americans, there would been at least one Hollywood film on it by now.
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8 years
Pehle istmaal kare fir vishwasghaat kare.
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Being nice to a stranger for no reason is what spins this planet.
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The highlight of my Instagram stories today.
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3 years
Monday blues are for losers. Real champions start feeling sad from Sunday evening itself.
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Fun fact: More people love you than you know.
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Knowledge makes people loud. Wisdom makes people quiet.
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Missing people is OK. Missing breakfast is not.
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Got nothing but respect for those who don’t suffer from the desire to impress others.
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Health tip: If possible, never miss a sunset.
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Nobody cares about your struggles. They want to hear how you made it.
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namaste: the Sanskrit word for “kindly keep your germs to yourself”
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4 years
Even if you are terrible at math, learn to count your blessings before it's too late.
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6 years
Once you wake up, none of the dreams you watched matter. Once you fall asleep, none of the drama you suffered matter.
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Nobody knows the meaning of life because it keeps changing with time.
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6 years
The long answer is no. The short answer is "dekhte hai".
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7 years
Too late, bro.
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4 years
I hope each one of us finds at least one person who actually listens to what we've got to say.
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If you look closely, nobody has slept well in a long while.
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What happens when you die: Religion: "You go to heaven/hell." Science: "Your body decomposes." Truth: "Nobody cares."
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Nobody stays. More importantly, nobody stays the same.
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A mistake, committed for a few generations, becomes a tradition.
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Almost everything is a fraud except pain. That shit is real.
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You don’t like a song at first. You listen to it again and again. You develop a hang of it. I guess this is exactly what happens with people too.
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I wasted my almonds on your memories.
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Doosro ki ameeri mein apni gareebi mat dhoonda karo.
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Pyaar marta nahi, sookh jaata hai.
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[1997 neighborhood] “Ye uncle khadoos hain.” [2017 neighborhood] “Ye bachhe chutiye hain.”
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A sad person pretending to be happy deserves to be the happiest.
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P̶r̶a̶y̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶A̶s̶s̶a̶m̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶B̶i̶h̶a̶r̶.̶ Donate.
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Pro-tip: Never argue with somebody who lets his religion think for him.
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Fun fact: Nothing matters more than your peace of mind.
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Ranga passed away this morning. He was close to 11 and had age-related issues. It's fair to say that he suffered a bit in his final days but his departure was peaceful. Despite his abusive past in the streets, he remained a wise goodboi with the soul of either a sad philosopher
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She taught me how to walk. I taught her how to perch on an escalator in a mall.
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4 years
Health tip: Avoid arguments as much as possible.
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4 years
Baal safed ho rahe hain aur dil kaale.
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5 years
There have been very few desi handles that have stayed consistently funny on Twitter. And @RoflGandhi_ is one of them.
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5 years
Some of my fave law movies: A Few Good Men (1992) Philadelphia (1993) A Time To Kill (1996) Primal Fear (1996) Amistad (1997) Erin Brockovich (2000) A Separation (2011) OMG! (2012) Jolly LLB (2013) Court (2015) Pink (2016) The Insult (2017) Dark Waters (2019) Just Mercy (2019)
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I was lucky enough to interview Rishi Kapoor. He was a delight — feisty and funny. One of those few I-don't-care Bollywood personalities. Very memorable. Pic credit: Datta Kumbhar
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8 years
Won't be surprised to find a Maharashtrian surname called Deletekar in the future.
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4 years
50% of 2020 is done. Only 50% left to go. 100% tired af.
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12 years
Giving up on the window seat is a sign of ageing.
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The trick is to leave at the right time.
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4 years
In this Overinformation Age, not knowing something is a luxury too.
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6 years
Some families couldn't wake up today. Some families didn't go to sleep last night.
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4 years
Money doesn't make you rich. 9 hours of sleep does.
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4 years
Your dog licks your face with the same tongue that he licks his balls with but it doesn't bother you. Pure love.
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7 years
Funny how the only people who can’t relate to you are your relatives.
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5 years
One lesson we can draw from Irrfan Khan's film journey: Your race is only against yourself and there is no victory/defeat in the end.
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