“Ek kachori, do samosa… In mardon ka kya bharosa..." How safe is a cricket match in India for women, especially the late-night games? Several women fans/reporters open up about their thoughts about a topic that hardly (anyone?) Is spoken about. wisden.com/cricket-news/i-do…

RT @SushantSin: Indeed, time to pursue alternatives.

#WPL Who’s going to keep wickets for Delhi Capitals?

My first piece for the Guardian on why the Serbian student movement should be studied accross the globe: "The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange once told an interviewer in Belgrade that Serbia was “a country where the future happens first”." theguardian.com/commentisfre…

@RestofWorld will publish its final stories at the end of January. I’ve been sitting with this news for a few days, and I keep thinking about how personal this project was for me. When Sophie Schmidt asked me to help build Rest of World, it felt like a chance to fix something I’d been frustrated by for my whole career: seeing the parts of the world I come from covered as an afterthought. I was there at the beginning, with a handful of hires and a bet that sounded obvious to us and strange to almost everyone else: that most of the world’s internet users live outside the West, and their stories deserved to be covered with the same depth, ambition, and care. We didn’t want to cover “emerging markets.” We wanted to cover the people who were building, hacking, gig-working, organizing, and surviving through technology in countries like Nepal, where I grew up. We hired reporters who lived those stories rather than parachuted into them. We edited from the assumption that a delivery rider in Lagos was as important a protagonist as a CEO in San Francisco. The thousands of stories Rest of World published helped change how a lot of newsrooms think about who tech journalism is for. Media ventures end for many reasons, and most of them are economic. That doesn’t change what Rest of World was able to prove: the audience was real, the journalism mattered, and the model of covering the world from the world actually works. Thank you to Sophie for making the publication possible for all these years; to Christine Glancey, Michael Donohoe, Michael Zelenko, Itika Sharma Punit, Rina Chandran, Indranil Ghosh, and the team for carrying it this far; and to every reporter, editor, designer, and producer who passed through Rest of World and made it what it was. A special shout-out to Eli Berger, who’s been a rock for Rest of World since the beginning, navigating us through Covid-19, messy international hiring, legal threats, reporter safety, and a dozen other things. The publication’s archive is a gift. I encourage everyone to read it. And if you’re hiring, hire Rest of World’s journalists. You won’t find a better group of people.

Have always wondered about the impact local T20 leagues have had. In men’s cricket, so much talent has come from leagues like DPL, TNPL and UPT20 league. It’s headed there even in women’s cricket but more needs to be done Lovely points made, @vinayakkm vinayakkm.substack.com/p/fre…

HARRY KANE IS THE NEW BALLON D'OR! #ballondor

Three batting sessions a day, 25-minute skill blocks and a lesson in patience. Himanshu bhaiya opens up on the rebuild behind Harmanpreet Kaur’s return to form. sportstar.thehindu.com/crick…

In one of Delhi-NCR's top schools, parents are planning to pool-in funds to buy Dyson/Honeywell/Sharp Purifiers for their children's Nursery classrooms, for the upcoming bad-AQI season. Some parents logically asked, "Why doesn't the school buy these air purifiers?" The school said that their AC systems have HEPA filters, to take care of dust to some extent. Unconvincing. Parents decided to go ahead with their own safety systems. Next, they asked- "What happened to the Air Purifiers that the classroom had last year? The previous batch too had purifiers with AQI monitors." School's response: "The air purifiers travel with the batch of children. As the students move up a year, the Air Purifiers do too. So the Purifiers that were in first grade last year, are in second grade now." Welcome to the incredibly complex world of public-health moving into private hands.

So good to see Bhuvneshwar Kumar back in Indian colours.

I held my cat’s face in my hands today and realized she has no idea what money is, what taxes are, or what the news says. She just knows peace and love.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who would have thought? After almost four years, he makes a comeback. At the venue, where he made his T20I debut against Pakistan. Plays for RCB at the Chinnaswamy. One can only dream!

The madness of T20 is making cricket richer, yet poorer in so many ways. And every six hit in the India vs WI series makes me wonder where the game we grew to love is headed... My piece in @htTweets today. Do read: hindustantimes.com/cricket/t…

.@SamreenRazz of HT’s formidable Sport team collaborates on this week’s Vital. Read more of from our new new health science effort here hindustantimes.com/ht-vital

The science of recovery: why injuries need the right load, not complete rest. What elite sport can teach us about healing and getting stronger. @VinayakD and I for this week’s HT Vital: hindustantimes.com/ht-vital/…

#ExpressInvestigation | Defence PSU gives tender for anti-tank missile part to ex-chief’s family firm Investigation by: @PratyushDeep1 Read: indianexpress.com/article/ex…

Absolutely fantastic story. Wish I could take a better photo, but encourage everyone to read this story by Anjali Singh. Great work! @scribe_anjali

98 sixes. Four games.💥 India and West Indies are have take T20 hitting to another level this season. A deep data dive on boundary-scoring in this series, Hope’s approach and more. My piece for @htTweets 👇 hindustantimes.com/sports/in…

Civilian protests across India have been increasingly met with police intervention — and allegations of excessive force have taken center stage. Reuters examined the guidelines and recent protest data to explore where these possible excesses against demonstrators are happening and why reut.rs/47jBORq

New captain, new era for the Indian team. Why Smriti Mandhana’s leadership could look very different from Harmanpreet Kaur’s. My piece for @htTweets hindustantimes.com/cricket/h…