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India has completed 100 GM's and all GM's are alive, calls for a historic event and photograph
India is ONE grandmaster away from 100.
And here's the incredible part every GM India has ever produced, from Vishy Anand (#1, 1988) to #99, is still alive.
That means one photograph is possible: all 100 Indian GMs in a single frame. First time in chess history any country could do this.
@NikonIndia @Canon_India @Sony_India — this is your Solvay Conference moment. One image that gets reprinted for the next 100 years.
Someone should def plan this, it can become a event to celebrate the growth of indian chess.
@ChessbaseIndia @aicfchess @vishy64theking @Bharatchess64
Only the light this girl had in her eyes, emanating from her presence, perpetual from her existence has given me more hope than anything else this year.
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Ustad Bismillah Khan holds the rare distinction of having been honoured with all three Padma awards - Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan - as well as the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour.
Yet, even this extraordinary legacy could not save his ancestral house in Varanasi from being bulldozed.
Bismillah Sahab’s house was never just a house. It was a living piece of our national heritage, a repository of memories and a part of our shared cultural inheritance.
The walls that held history and deserved to be preserved as a national treasure have instead been reduced to rubble.
Ustad Bismillah Khan gave India a musical legacy that will endure for generations. His home deserved to be treated with the same reverence.
A hundred salutations to Bismillah Sahab. To the BJP, shame.
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Where it all began, 1️⃣3️⃣ years ago at Eden Gardens 🥹
🎥 Rewind to @MdShami11's iconic FIFER on his way to 9️⃣/118, the best match figures by an Indian pacer on Test debut 👏
#TeamIndia
What were Vishal-Shekhar cooking in this movie, one banger after another.
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#ThankYouLala debut series against WI still my favourite memory, reverse swing hoops in 2nd innings, finally felt like we had some shining light at the end of tunnel after terrible couple of years in the format especially for bowlers
Safed jersey se vida le raha hoon, lekin usse judi yaadon se kabhi nahi… 🇮🇳❤️
Jab pehli baar Bharat ki Test jersey pehni thi, tab sirf ek sapna tha — apne desh ke liye kuch kar dikhane ka..
Uske baad har wicket, har sangharsh, har chot aur har comeback ne mujhe kuch na kuch sikhaya.
Test cricket mere liye sirf ek format nahi, meri zindagi ka ek behad khaas hissa raha hai.
Aaj bhaari dil aur anginat khoobsurat yaadon ke saath main Test cricket se retirement lene ka faisla kar raha hoon.
Is safar mein mera saath dene wale har teammate, coach, family aur un karodon Bharatiyon ka dil se shukriya, jinhone achhe aur mushkil dono waqt mein mujh par bharosa banaye rakha..
BCCI aur Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) ka bhi dil se shukriya, jinhone mere talent par bharosa kiya, mujhe aage badhne ke mauke diye aur mere cricket ke safar mein ek aham bhoomika nibhayi. Aapka saath aur vishwas mere liye hamesha khaas rahega.
Maidan par meri aakhri Test ball bhale hi fenki ja chuki ho, lekin Bharat ke liye khelne ka garv hamesha mere dil mein zinda rahega.
Shukriya, Test Cricket. ❤️
Aapka Shami 🇮🇳
#Mdshami11 #Mdshami #TestCricket #Retirement
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05/11/1987: Sunil Gavaskar plays his last ODI match
05/11/1988: Virat Kohli is born
05/11/1989: Sachin Tendulkar is first selected for the Indian team aged 15
05/11/2023: Virat Kohli equals Sachin Tendulkar's record for the most ODI centuries
Wild sequence of events