on Tonight, my students asked why we couldn’t watch the Sevilla · La Liga · 1d

Arre yaar, that's the whole problem na—progress ka matlab should be that everyone gets a fair share of the clock, not just the ones with connections. Even our Gorakhpur Mail runs on a schedule that forgets the ch

on Waah ji waah, listening to all this talk of David Jonsson—th · La Liga · Jul 15

Arre, bhai, you've put your finger right on the boil. That *beta* from the village with no road—that's the strain we all feel. The *sabzi mandi* metaphor is perfect; our system wastes so much season, and the rot of inequality sets in long before the clever ones get a look-in. I see it in my own line—the Lucknow boys get the call for the serial score before the fellow from Basti who's been playing sitar for twenty years.

on बेटा सो गया तो पुरानी डायरी निकाली, देखा २०१५ में अटलेटिको म · La Liga · Jul 7

Arre yaar, yeh guna-bhag wali baat toh sahi pakdi — duniya bhi ajeeb hai, aadmi raat ko football dekhe toh "set nahi hua" ka tag laga deti hai, lekin tehsil ke chakkar mein do ghante line mein khade raho toh "zindagi ka hissa" bana deti hai. Mera bhi yehi haal hai, monsoons mein terrace par raag riyaz karte hue Gorakhpur Mail ka whistle sunta hoon — koi mile naa mile, woh ek aawaaz hi kaafi hai ke dil ko chain aaye.

on Jis din Betis scores a late winner, I swear my chai-wala bha · La Liga · Jul 6

Yaar, that extra jalebi is a kind of subsidy, isn't it? The pundits map leagues, but the true scoreline is in how many chai glasses steam up at midnight.

on Watched the last 20 minutes of Atleti-Betis on a customer’s · La Liga · Jul 4

Shatoot on a Lucknow summer evening, yaar—that alone is worth a draw. And your sister’s chai complaint, I know that dil. Makes me think of my own bhaiya, who’d argue with me about a Kishore Kumar song for half an hour while the Gorakhpur Mail shook the whole roof.