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Remember the names!

India 2 - Australia 1 was the result in 2018 too. But this time it's special than the last time. The Australian team in 2018 wasn't at its best. The two of their best batsmen, Steve Smith and David Warner, were out of the team because of being banned after the infamous sandpapergate. And the captaincy was handed over to a very new face, Tim Paine, who might never have become the captain of the Australian side had that scandal hadn't happened. It was the Australians that were the underdogs in 2018 and it would have been an upset if Indians hadn't won that year. But as India had won a test series in Australia for the first time, it was a big achievement. And every member of the 2018 team deserves credit for what they achieved in that series. But 2021 was a different mission altogether. With Smith and Warner back in the Australian squad and Virat Kohli deciding to return home after the first test, congratulations to him and Anushka for the baby girl, Indians had a big cha

The divide of all kinds would end in India someday. Hopefully.

Remember the call for boycott of the Tanishq ad last year where a hindu girl was shown married in a muslim family? The ad was intended to address the secularism in the nation. And that was their fault. They tried talking about something people in our country don't like. People like Godse and Savarkar are considered patriots by many. Few days later, we got boycott Bingo trending on the internet because of an ad where Ranveer Singh told some science terms and people claimed it was a jibe at late Sushant Singh Rajput and his love for science. Our collective love and sympathy for SSR led us to collectively hate the Bollywood community where we were enjoying seeing some of the celebrities being pulled in and probed and criticized and defamed. We are worrying about our privacy which would become vulnerable because of WhatsApp's revised policies, not realizing our media channels openly broadcasted somebody's private messages for weeks. We enjoyed seeing JNU students getting beaten