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How Demagogues Spawn Systems of Oppression & Violence
(Prejudiced Beliefs + Discriminatory Acts + Power Structure Dominance = Societal Systems of Oppression)
A Formula to Help Unravel the Dynamics & Intersectionality of
Prejudice | Privilege | Supremacism | Bigotry | Denigration | Discrimination | Power | Oppression
Dualism | Scapegoating | Demonization | Conspiracism | Dehumanization | Demagoguery
Aggression | Apocalyptic Aggression | Segregation | Ethnoviolence | Slavery | Expulsion | Genocide
Understanding systems of oppression
When writing about the social evils of prejudice and oppression, the devil is in the details. Many older studies of prejudice had a "tendency to collapse distinctions between types of prejudice..." observes Young-Bruehl. They assumed "that a nationalism and racism, an ethnocentric prejudice and an ideology of desire, can be dynamically the same..." Furthermore, she writes "there is a tendency to approach prejudice either psychologically or sociologically without consideration for the interplay of psychological and sociological factors" (Young-Bruehl, 1996: 23, 460).
In a complementary fashion, Buechler notes that issues of class, race, and gender are "omnipresent in the background of all forms of collective action" and reflect "institutional embeddedness within the social fabric at all levels." But he adds that these are distinct yet overlapping structures of power that need to be assessed both independently and jointly. To do this it is important "to theorize the different, specific, underlying dynamics that distinguish one structure from another." (Buechler, 2000: 105-107)
Ultimately, the successful assertion of "collective human rights" or "group rights" depends on the "linking of ethnicity/race, class, gender, and sexuality," argues Felice, because this linkage "mutes supremacist tendencies by denying the right of any one group to assert supremacy over a different group"(Felice, 1996: 1-4).
For brevity, this constellation of identities sometimes is referred to as the race, gender, and class relationships. To unravel systems of oppression involving race, gender, and class we need a more complex formula that is better at mapping out the dynamics of societal oppressions in ways that resonate with the everyday experiences of our colleagues, students, neighbors, and families. This is especially important in an era of open hostility to discussions of supremacy, domination, and oppression.
Developing a concept of "racial formation," Omi and Winant argue that "racial projects" that are "racist" entail a linkage between "essentialist representations of race and social structures of domination" (Omi and Winant, 1994: 72). They point out that some racial projects are racial supremacist but not all--for example "an association…of black accountants," (Omi and Winant, 1994:71).They further argue that "racial ideology and social structure" act in an interconnected and dialectical manner to shape racist projects (Omi and Winant, 1994: 74-75).
Feagin points out that it does not matter if racism is conscious or unconscious, verbal or violent; "oppression is not less serious because it is more subtle" (Feagin, 2001: 139-140. See also: Feagin & Vera, 1995). This holds true for sexism, heterosexism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, xenophobia and all forms of oppression. Even if an organized hate group is small in number, or an act of ethnoviolence is carried out by a handful of unaffiliated vandals, the direct victims feel the same pain, and the whole community in which the attack took place suffers. The negative outcome of a public act or utterance that spreads prejudiced or hateful ideas is the same, no matter what the motivation or intent. This is why there is a need for visible and forceful public displays of disapproval and attempts at healing by leaders in political, religious, ethnic, business, and labor sectors.
Scholars, activists, and government officials, however, need to maintain their own perspectives, even if at times it is appropriate to work in concert. A high level of analytical nuance may not seem necessary to many activists and policymakers constructing a public frame. Sometimes activists or government officials make political decisions about language and categorization that may not be appropriate for use by scholars. Oversimplification might help create catchy poster slogans, but it encourages faulty scholarship. Furthermore, in the long run, activists can use complex analytical research to develop more effective strategies to challenge oppression as it appears in a variety of forms.
In Racism, Sexism, Power and Ideology, Guillaumin argues that the great irony of the rise of modern egalitarianism and democracy was the ascendance of the idea that "human groups were no longer formed by divine decree or royal pleasure, but an irreversible diktat of nature." This "served to justify the system of oppression which was being built at the same time. By proposing a scheme of immanent physical causality (by race, colour, sex, nature), that system provides an irrefutable justification for the crushing of resourceless classes and peoples, and the legitimacy of the elite." (Guillaumin, 1995: 56-57).
In analyzing the oppression of women, she calls for consideration of the material fact of the power relation between men and women; as well as the ideological effect of the idea that nature "is supposed to account for what women are supposed to be." ( Guillaumin, 1995: 179). It is in the teasing apart of the ideological and material practice that Guillaumin finds the most revealing critique of the essentialist naturalism that is the bulwark of many oppressive ideologies:
===[I]t is very necessary to do this, for naturalism is the only mode of thought that allows the binding together in an intangible way of characteristics which if analysed--that is, forcefully dissociated--would as a matter of fact cause their relationship to become obvious. In other words, the fact would become obvious that they have a history, that they are born of specific relationships, of the links which exist between mental activities and material activities; between slavery (a material practice) and skin colour (a mental practice), between domestic exploitation (a material practice) and sex (a mental practice). From the moment that the mechanisms which create the one (mental practices) from the other are made visible, these revealed links make obvious the syncretism which merges the relationships into the deeds and shatters the affirmation that the deed and the discourse on it are one and the same thing.According to Guillaumin "introducing the wedge of doubt into this tight block of 'law immemorial' is no small matter." She says we must "shatter the notion of instinct" that creates the syncretism of "body/slave/property" named "black" and the syncretism of "body/domestic work/property" named "women" ( Guillaumin, 1995: 272.)
When we look at the densely interwoven forms of oppression, subordination, and exploitation in the United States our task is to explore the links between the ideological and the material practice, not merely as an intellectual exercise that increases the subtlety of our analysis, but as a way to rip away the curtain to reveal the unfair power and privilege hiding backstage.
When analyzing the Political Right we must move to a more detailed and sophisticated level of work, where the establishment of boundaries, categories, and terminology that map differences of degree allows us to increase the nuance in our analysis.
Blee makes a similar argument about studying the racist movement: "We need to go further, to lay aside untested assumptions" about beliefs and attitudes of activists and ideologies of groups "and begin to systematically catalog the ideological frictions" so that "we can discern - and exploit - its weaknesses." ( Blee, 2001: 179).
This challenge awaits us, whether we are studying the race hate groups of the Extreme Right; the anti-elite anti-government conspiracism of the Patriot Movement; or the gender-driven campaigns of the Christian Right.
In doing so, we must always recognize that theories, acts, and systems of oppression based on gender, race, sexuality, class, ethnicity, (and much more) exist throughout our society, not just in dissident or insurgent movements of the Political Right.
Applying these concepts to racism, sexism, and heterosexism, I think it is useful to define societal oppression as the result of a dynamic process involving ideas, acts, and a hierarchical position of dominance that is structural. The dominance enshrined in "social structures of domination" involves both unequal power and privilege.
Adapted from: Chip Berlet. 2004. "Mapping the Political Right: Gender and Race Oppression in Right-Wing Movements." In Abby Ferber, ed, Home-Grown Hate: Gender and Organized Racism. New York: Routledge.
The section was prompted by Chip Berlet and Surina Khan, 2001, "A Response to 'Digging Out of the White Trap' by Marian (Meck) Groot and Paul Marcus; both in Chester Hartman (Ed.), Challenges to Equality: Poverty and Race in America. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
Feedback resulting from these texts resulted in the refined and shortened version of the formula:
"Prejudice + Power = Oppression"
This is itself shorthand for a more detailed set of ideas that take into account social science research on the inter-related aspects of societal oppression, whether conscious or unconscious, and in one or more of these sectors of society: personal, institutional, structural.
Prejudiced Beliefs + Supremacist Ideologies + Discriminatory Acts + Power Structure Dominance = Societal Systems of Oppression
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places as our audience needs it.
By Erika Pontarelli Compart
As association professionals, we've made an art of doing
more with less. But as our audience diversifies how it prefers to take in
information, we're being called upon once more to do even more. In fact, the
very survival of our publications and information resources hinges on our
ability to meet the challenge of providing valuable content in as many places
as our audience needs it.
To this end, cross-posting content is more important now than
ever before. Giving readers an opportunity to read our content on whatever
platform is important to them reinforces that they're important to us, notes
Kim Kett, director, business development, for GTxcel.
"We're trend-hopping right now" in terms of the platforms
people are using to read content, says Glenn Cook, editor in chief of the
National School Boards Association's American School Board Journal. So how do
you figure out if your readers are actually reading? Most electronic editions
of publications can automatically track click-throughs for you, and those data sets
can inform decisions on how much print to keep and which publications can
safely go digital.
Cook, for example, found that his association's print
publications had a 1.7 pass-along rate, versus just an 8 percent open rate for
digital pubs. So the key takeaway is: Be sure your audience is firmly ensconced
in the digital space before you shelve your print products.
Produce, Reuse, Recycle
Kett points
out that many associations have about a 20:1 ratio for total association staff versus
publications staff, even though publications are considered a key asset. So how
can folks who are so outnumbered redouble their efforts to boost content?
One way is to call on freelancers a bit more — for instance,
asking them to write one piece for print and a separate 200-to-300-word piece
for use in an email newsletter or as an "online-plus" sidebar to a print story.
It's imperative to "get the wire service mentality into an
association world," says Cook. Where the AP or Reuters would have a second- or
third-day take on an ongoing story to satisfy subscribers' needs for the latest
updates, associations must be equally creative in coming up with fresh angles
for their own stories.
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features. As more people tune in to video and other multimedia sources
(according to comScore, Americans watched nearly 40 billion online
videos in November 2012 alone), we would all do well to have more face-to-face
video interviews and other multimedia offerings in our content library, Kett
advises. "It doesn't have to be a Steven Spielberg production," she says. "It
can have more of a grassroots feel."
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One major challenge to finding the ideal website content
formula is that how people spend their time online is changing. More and more
people are spending time on social media, and that's reducing the amount of
time they spend on other websites. Nielsen recently reported that
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computer and 30 percent of total time online via mobile."
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§ Governance: How are
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mindful of the resources already at our fingertips — or just beyond — in our
quest to do more this year.
Erika Pontarelli
Compart is communications and editorial director for the Public Affairs Council.
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Timeline: Not quite sure, but after the Ashura cards arc. Contains spoilers for possibly every arc I've written. Actually, not really, so… we'll set this as a random occurrence before or during Johto.
Notes: indicates telepathy, ** indicates thoughts, and italics indicates pokemon speech.
Title: Card Captor Ashura: Nova
It was a beautiful sunny day. Three trainers were sitting by the ocean, enjoying the view. Charlotte was sleeping with sunglasses on. Lance was playing Go Fish with her Charmander. And Ash was enjoying his double-chocolate rocky road ice cream cone, glad that Pika-chan hadn't stolen it.
That was because Vulpix-chan and Pika-chan had managed to charm the ice cream man into giving them free ice cream, and were sitting on the warm sand, cones in their paws, licking them and looking deliriously happy.
Luna yawned. She and Angel were perusing a fascinating book on ice magic together.
Dragonair-chan and Sabrina were sleeping.
Ash yawned as a particularly balmy sea breeze blew by. "What a relaxing day… hardly get a break these days." He said.
"Tell me about it." Lance said. "But you work harder than both of us."
"I guess…"
All was going well… until a portal opened into the sky and down fell a girl.
Charlotte woke up with a start. "Oh no!"
"What's wrong?"
"It's a Mary Sue!" Lance cried in shock. "Run, Ash, run!"
Ash blinked, then choked as Lance stuffed him face first into the sand.
An ethereally beautiful girl in a tight-fitting black leather bodysuit, with a gold-worked poke belt appeared. She had eyes that were the color of emerald, or were they amethyst? In either case, they kept changing color, as did her long, gorgeous, beautiful, tangle-free, wavy hair. At one moment it was a rich, luxurious red mane, and the next, it was as delicate as spun silk, with the tint of sunset. In a trice, it had shifted to jetty raven's wing, and then into a mane of pale, gossamer lavender curls.
"Hello." She said sweetly, and her voice could only be compared to birdsong. Or melted honey, warm and cozy.
Charlotte reminded herself not to throttle the girl unless she proved dangerous, which she would undoubtedly become.
* If she does anything to Ash I will personally make sure she is incapable of any movement forever. * Was what Lance was thinking to herself, as her blue eyes narrowed to slits. * He's mine. *
Ash felt himself drawn by some invisible bond towards the heavenly creature that had appeared. He dug himself out of the sand and slowly walked towards her.
"Ash! No! You baka!" Charlotte shouted. "Don't look in her eyes!
Lance took more direct action. She grabbed Ash and kissed him.
Ash's eyes went back to normal. Crystal? He blushed pinkly.
Shh. Do not even glance at it, for it is a demon of greater evil than missingno. Lance said. For it steals the senses of all it comes across, and then drinks their souls.
Ash paled. What about you?
I have
a soul of ice. Charlotte has a soul of fire. Lance explained. But
yours is still mortal, because you have not reached Threshold potential yet. So
you may still be in danger.
What can I do?
Hold on. Lance said. * Mary-Sues have never been able to handle kids, so… *
She whipped out her staff and the Return card. "Return!"
Ash suddenly found himself as a three-year old. Crys?!
Mary Sue frowned, her plan thwarted. "How dare you two insignificant mortals stand against me?!"
"That's for us to know and you to figure out." Lance said. "And right now, I think we've overstayed our welcome."
Charlotte nodded. Their eyes glowed and they teleported away, taking Ash with them. Mary Sue cursed but then remembered her superb tracking skills, so she began following their path. As she had super speed and was able to fly it only took seconds for her to locate them.
"Crap." Charlotte muttered.
"This is so not good." Lance said. * Now we need a super powerful villain for her to fight to get her out of our hair. Wait… *
"Do you think you could do me a favor?"
"What is it?" Charlotte asked, glad that Mary Sue was too 'polite' to eavesdrop.
*whisper, whisper*
"Well, I'm kind of desperate here." Charlotte said. "Why not."
The two touched hands as they whispered. "By the power of the sun and moon we command you. With the moon you were forged, with the moon you will fall. Unbind!"
And the Onyx seal cracked as Bob the Dragon-Mage freed himself and laughed valiantly.
Unfortunately, his freedom was short-lived because the first thing he saw was Mary Sue.
"I am Mary Sue! You killed my father! You killed my mother! You killed my stepmother! You killed my caretaker! You killed my half-sister! You killed my pet goldfish! You will pay! I am Mary Sue, god's gift to mankind, and I will destroy you! You killed my family!"
Bob blinked.
"DIE!" She said, running at him. Then she realized something.
"Ehehehe, I didn't transform. Sailor Mary Sue Perfection Power Make Up!"
Bob continued to blink.
Can I eat her? His dragon asked.
Mary sue was now dressed in a gorgeous white sailor fuku, covered with pearls, diamonds, and pink ribbons. In her hand she held possibly every conceivable weapon known to mankind.
"I almost feel sorry for Bob." Charlotte said.
"Me too, but hey, at least it'll get rid of him permanently." Lance said.
"Until Mary Sue comes back."
"I'm hoping she'll have to die a tragic death to defeat him."
"I see."
"Well, it is a common enough plot. Then we can pretend to mourn her death."
"Good plan, Ice guardian."
"Why thank you."
Back with Bob…
"Mary Sue perfection blade!" She shouted as she sliced off his head, without getting a speck of blood on her beautiful body. A multicolored, radiant glow surrounded her.
Bob's body glowed and repaired itself. "Is that all you have?" He taunted.
"My turn." Bob said. "Daemon Card, Unbind!"
"AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Mary Sue screamed as her transformation reversed. "How is this possible!? I'm god's gift to mankind! You're supposed to fall in love with me and kill yourself or repent of your evil!"
"Sorry." Bob said. "I love you, but I don't want you to kill me. Don't worry, when you're dead, I'll build a beautiful monument to you and remember you forever."
Mary Sue continued to sob artfully.
"Little twit." Lance commented.
"I know." Charlotte said. "If Bob doesn't finish her off, we will."
Bob attempted to stab Mary Sue through the heart, but just then she stared at him with the most beautiful blue eyes he had ever seen. They were the color of sapphires, cerulean waters, the sea, and the sky all in one.
Bob dropped his sword.
"I can't kill you! What is wrong with me?"
Mary Sue pursued her lips and smiled cutely.
"ARGH!" Bob began banging his head into the floor. "Sweetness overdose! I must resist!"
Mary Sue quickly picked up her magic necklace and threw the pendant at Bob. It exploded.
Bob was thrown backwards, but did not die.
"Eh?" Mary Sue asked. She shrugged and used her beautiful, delicate silver magic ring, silver with lovely flowers covering the surface, and set with a golden stone that held the fate of the entire universe within it. "PERFECTION WAVE!"
Nothing happened.
Lance and Charlotte grinned at each other.
"Mary Sues usually don't get robbed, I bet she wasn't expecting that."
"Yep." Charlotte said as she finished melting the original ring down to a mass of melted silver with her Eternal Flame attack.
Mary Sue burst into tears. "It's not fair!"
"Life's not fair." Bob said. "Now quit trying to kill me. I don't even know you! Daemon card, just eat her!"
The card nodded and swallowed Mary Sue. However, barely had it stuffed her down its cavernous maw before it expelled her again.
Disgusting! The monster roared.
Bob grew angry. "Fine then." He pulled out his staff and clonked her over the head with it, trying to knock her out.
Unfortunately, under all those cinnabar tresses was a skull harder than titanium. His staff cracked in half.
Bob angrily kicked her in the knee, feeling annoyed.
This got Mary Sue's attention. She immediately morphed into the best martial artist in the world. Within seconds, Bob was clutching his lower regions in pain. She countered every move he threw at her, and he found himself too slow to block hers.
* This is impossible! * Bob thought. * What manner of evil is she?! *
"I am Mary Sue!" Mary Sue yelled. "The most perfect female ever to grace the earth!"
Bob grunted as he felt one of his ribs crack. "You?! Hahahahah!"
"What?" Mary Sue asked. "You don't believe me?" As she used her super powers to read his mind, she noticed something.
His mind was completely blank. There was nothing whatsoever of interest in it.
"Don't you get it?" Bob asked. "I'm a generic villain created by a vengeful authoress! I have no mind of my own! All I can do is destroy you!" And with that, he set Mary Sue on fire.
Her beautiful hair, however, did not catch.
"Hah! I am the child of the legendary pokemon! You can't hurt me!" Mary Sue yelled triumphantly.
"Maybe so." Bob said. "I guess I need backup."
"Backup?! Evil villains aren't supposed to have backup!"
"As I said, the authoress writing this does not like fanfic clichés. So I do have backup." Bob said. With that cue, Lance, Charlotte, and Ashline walked in.
"Hey! Where'd Ash go? He was supposed to fall in love with me and give me all his magic!" Mary Sue said.
Ashline smiled, her white eyes staring into Mary Sue's. "Well, fortunately, someone had a flash of foresight and created me a female form in the Star's Ascent arc."
"Oh no!"
"Oh yes!" Lance said, pulling out her dragon daggers. "And all female characters that aren't adoring Mary Sue are out for her blood!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Mary Sue screamed. "This isn't fair!"
"Shut up." Charlotte said. "Before the authoress gets mad and Self Inserts."
Mary Sue gasped. Mary Sues and Self Inserts were mortal enemies when not together as eternal friends. "She can't!"
"She probably won't, because we'll finish you off.' Ashline said.
"Bright flame to call the phoenix…"
"Holy water to cleanse the presence…"
"Heaven's Fury to destroy this abomination and purify this earth!"
Mary Sue laughed. "I was raised by the legendary birds! You can't-!" She stopped short as the attacks vaporized her. "How?!"
"It's simple." Ashline said. "You see, each of us three shows part of the authoress's personality. That's what writing fanfic is about. And therefore we each have some of the power."
Mary Sue wailed in disbelief as she was destroyed.
Bob vanished because he was no longer needed.
The three guardians high-fived
And thus ends this bizarre special episode.
So… what do you think? *Grins* Comments, criticism? Please send me some! ^_^
I really do hate Mary-Sue… tell me what you think. Please?


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"The man –who that day was on top of the world- quietly standing away from the crowd on Raj Bhavan lawns at Malabar Hill in Mumbai, sipping tea and looking at the sunset", is my first hand and lasting memory of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. The day after India won the world cup in 2011 the Governor of Maharashtra hosted a reception for the winning team where I got the opportunity to interact with Dhoni for some time and realised within minutes what this man is made of.
While entire Indian cricket contingent was busy posing before select media photographers with the Governor and BCCI President right in the limelight on Raj Bhavan lawns the captain preferred to stand almost 30 meters away alone staring at the amber sky in westerly direction with his back towards the dignitaries!
This gave me the opportunity to quickly step close to him, click a picture of his and have a chat with him. I was speaking to the 'captain of the world champion cricket team' just about 24 hours after the final match played at Wankhede stadium in Mumbai. Dhoni had no expression on his face.
"Aap akele door khade hai. Udhar log celebrate kar rahe hai. Cup jeeta hai aapne." I said to him expecting some reply. He just looked at me and smiled without saying anything. I had to say something more to make him speak. "Did you expect to reach here when you won the quarter finals" I said in hindi. "Nahi buss ho gaya. Team ka performance ekdum se peak ho gaya" Dhoni said.
Feeling relieved that he at least said some words, I got into a conversation and sensing that I was an admirer of his, Dhoni then opened up and gave some insight to me about his overall philosophy towards cricket in particular and life in general. I had to reveal to him that I worked with a leading national business daily but was invited there as a guest of the Governor and that this conversation was going to be off the record so I cannot quote all the things that Dhoni said that day but I could clearly sense that this guy was not just a cricketer but a thinker.
In my view Dhoni's tremendous popularity among masses can be mainly attributed to the fact that represents the aspiration of the rural or small town poor youth of India who have nothing to bank on yet they have the burning desire to make it big in life. A sportsman who was not born in Mumbai or Delhi, did not have rich parents, had to work his way up through sheer hard work and ultimately made it.
Mahatma Gandhi once said the real test of your character is done on the basis of how you behave with people below you. So one could sense how down to earth MS Dhoni is, not based on what he said to me but on the basis of how he was behaving with the catering staff and helpers at Raj Bhavan that evening. The inner goodness was very obviously visible. While many other members of the team were seen consuming exotic snacks that were delivered from a South Mumbai five star hotel and fancy beverages, Dhoni seemed disinterested in any such attractions and preferred to move to a quiet corner with a small tea-cup in his hand.
The man is lovable on the field because of the calm and stress-free approach that he exhibits. Under very stressful situations too he has never been seen shouting at his teammates and exhibits perfect leadership qualities. Whether team India will miss Dhoni as captain is something time till tell but the members of the media are surely going to miss their favourite captain cool!
Timeline of MS Dhoni's career as India limited overs captain
- Dec 23, 2004: At 23, makes his ODI debut in Chittagong, and is run out for a duck.
- April 5, 2005: He was sent up the order against Pakistan and what followed was a blitzkrieg hundred. He smashed 148 in 123 balls with 15 fours and 4 sixes.
- October 31, 2005 : Dhoni stamps himself into the history books with a record 183* against Sri Lanka in Jaipur, helping India chase 301 with six wickets and 23 deliveries to spare.
- April 20, 2006: Dhoni overtook Ricky Ponting as number one in the ICC ODI Rankings for batsmen for the first time
- September 24, 2007: In a thrilling World T20 final against Pakistan, Dhoni's gamble to give Joginder Sharma paid off and India won by 5 runs
- September 29, 2007: Captains India for the first time in ODIs, in a washed out fixture with Australia in Bangalore. Chasing 308, India are 9/1 when rain arrives.
- March 11, 2009: Dhoni becomes the first Indian captain to win an ODI series in New Zealand. A whirlwind century from Virender Sehwag seals a ten-wicket win in Hamilton.
June 24, 2010: India lift the Asia Cup after 15 years under Dhoni, beating Sri Lanka by 81 runs in Dambulla.
- April 2, 2011 - Hit a majestic 91 not out to guide India to their second World Cup.
- June 23, 2013 - His effectiveness as a leader guides India to victory in the Champions Trophy final
- January 31, 2016: Dhoni leads Team India became the first ever team to whitewash Australia in a Twenty20 International (T20I) series.
- January 4, 2017 - Announces that he is giving up the captaincy, but remains available for selection for the upcoming England series.
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