Pitch, weather, crowds are essential to the incomparable mystique of Test cricket. That’s what makes winning ‘away’ the holy grail for top teams. India just beat Australia, England won in India in 2011. There’s no place for whining in sport. A square turner is as fair as a green top.
Telemarketing, scam calls is a chronic problem. Govt promise of crackdown unimplementable
Government’s plan to launch a fresh crackdown on telemarketing and scam calls – more than a decade after finance minister Pranab Mukherjee sought tough action after he got a call offering a home loan – doesn’t inspire confidence. The problem is chronic, enforcement almost impossible. Governments shouldn’t make promises they can’t keep.
India’s lower judiciary is reversing the accepted bail-jail pattern. This needs correction
The settled principle in democracies’ judicial practice is: Bail is the rule, jail is an exception. It has also been firmly underlined by the Supreme Court. Our lower judiciary, where the citizen has her first brush with justice, is lately following this in reverse. It’s disturbing and calls for correction.
On the cricket test:
Broadly speaking the England batting could not take Root on the pitch. Leach could not make the pitch bite either. Olly Stone could not slip past one through RoHIT(s). The Indian team did well to hold Pant(s) around the middle.
In the end the England team realized that Ashes win is not the same as Ashwin.
Meaning no disrespect, the lower judiciary is petrified.