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And then, two lean men who were barely fit enough to play the game, a sacred Greek bird, and the twinkling fingers of a Sardar from Jalandhar.
Twenty five years to the day.
India, Australia, Kolkata 2001.
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The thing I always loved most about @restofworld articles was the focus on the ordinary people behind the global tech headlines.
Incredible storytelling over the years.
Re-sharing one of my all-time favorites from @violazhouyi and @NilChristopher: restofworld.org/2023/foxconn…
Wrote this in June 2025, few days after United's Europa League final against Tottenham Hotspurs.
The rot, and the hubris, is institutional. Manchester United does not get fixed with a new manager or a couple of star players. It's a cycle we've been stuck in for a decade.
The recruitment, sports science, analytics, and coaching have to work towards a clear, coherent vision. And that's been missing for a long time now.
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✍️ New essay.
On waiting, watching life go past you while your feet are chained to the seat. And Aaquib Nabi.
Watching him bowl on Day One for India-A was another reminder that he, after Bumrah and Siraj, is our best red ball bowler. There can be no cricketing justification for his continuous snubbing.
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Everyone needs to know what actually happened in Serbia.
Instead of students just protest against their government, the students organized themselves into a student list and ran in elections against their government—and they have just won.
Dear Serbia, congratulations on your victory; you have just opened a new door in protesting. This is history
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Smth so fake about US politics. Compared to places where politics is less professionally managed & still about substantive contestations.
Here's Lula's speech before turning himself in. Can see what Rousseau described as politically-educated passions, not de-politicized vibes.
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Serbian students overthrowing Vučić is an extraordinary achievement.
In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and 2 months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.
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From afar, Lula winning and Vucic losing on the same day is hard to ignore. A crystallization of a kind of global anti-nationalist wave that's as real as the steady far-right march we've all spoken and written about for the past decade. And it's cresting a week before US midterms
Very poetic that we got this Pakistan vs England game literally thirty years to the week from the Titan Cup.
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ODIs keep bringing us exciting cricket matches, yet we think ODIs are dead. If anything needs to go and is dead, it's bilateral T20Is. Meaningless and boring. ODI cricket recognises true grind and should survive, if not thrive. #PAKvENG
Glad Old Trafford are singing Carrick's song. He's not covered himself in any glory this season, and his time is probably done, but the rot goes so far beyond him.
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Current concern is Man City will be deducted 100 points and still finish above Man Utd
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9 years after scoring 188 for her maiden ODI ton, Deepti Sharma gets her 2nd ODI ton.
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A protester dressed as Batman was seen dancing on the roof of a bus stop shelter in France on Saturday.
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The artist Chittaprosad on daring to break public peace, from 1947.
(From DAG World's website.)
✍️ New essay.
On waiting, watching life go past you while your feet are chained to the seat. And Aaquib Nabi.
Watching him bowl on Day One for India-A was another reminder that he, after Bumrah and Siraj, is our best red ball bowler. There can be no cricketing justification for his continuous snubbing.
Link in thread
Read, share, subscribe, hydrate.
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