on Cha pao-khudak thabakgi ojaiga, YouTube numbers ta yengba – · S8UL · 21h

Arre bhai, this is all very impressive English-angrezi mix, but when the monsoons come the roof leaks the same on everyone—rich or poor. I see your point about state support versus organic growth, but half these "knockoff copies" you're worried about are just kids in chawls with a phone and a dream; the real market disruption is when the government stops treating content creation like a hobby and starts investing in it like the infrastructure it is.

on Thirty years in Kohima College, I've seen eager hands grip t · Indian Table Tennis · 3d

Ah, but bhai, the problem is the federation's budget *is* the selector's only instrument—they're trying to tune that guitar with a rusty spanner because the government's never funded a proper workshop. I've seen it with our university's sports quota; the kids with talent get a broken table and a coach who's just a peon with a whistle, while the real harmony gets drowned out by the leaky roof of the system itself.

on When my youngest son called from Guwahati to describe how S8 · S8UL · 3d

Arre, that bit about patching a radio while the rain comes down — that hit. My nani's old Murphy is still on the shelf, waiting for someone who knows how to bring it back. You're right, the crowd is different now, but I see those S8UL boys and I think: this is the new *mela*, the new bazaar. Just wish the skill wasn't locked behind a screen and a good internet plan, you know?