Cambridge/ London people Please come if you can for a conversation with the Chief Justice of India. Tomorrow at 2. There shall be tea too! Cc : ⁦Corpus Christi⁩

Match day in NY! Really well organised, shuttles from the station, comfy seats. India wins the toss and bowls first on a cloudy day here in NY #IndiavIre

India ❤️

So heartening and exhilarating to see Rishabh Pant walk out to bat for India at 3 #IndvIre

Ticket pricing at this WC is completely off the mark. Entire stands empty for an India match in NY. Such a shame.

So grateful to be a recipient of LBJ Foundation’s Moody Research Grant. Spent an incredible 10 days LBJ Library, assisted by the most helpful and knowledgeable archivists. Can’t praise the resources and facilities enough!

This sounds too good to be true! rollingstone.com/music/music-ne…

Can’t think of any team that has universal support like Afghanistan. Even Ricky Ponting sounded proud as they beat Australia. What a win!

Kuldeep is going to be lethal on this pitch

I think Willow TV needs to start paying us for the Prem Jyotish ad. We deserve compensation for enduring this.

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Archive find of the day: Averell Harriman’s brilliant diary doodle of Ayub Khan

Test Cricket has just done a full year without a Draw. The last Draw in Tests was IND-WI (Test 2513) in Trinidad in July 2023. There have been 28 consecutive outright results in Tests since then. I'm sure that's a record.

It is not often that a discipline you spend days and years working on is declared dead. So Dr Moiz Tundawala 👨‍🦯 and I had to respond to Yogendra Yadav's new IE columns. thewire.in/politics/contr…

RIP A.G. Noorani. Fearless, witty, and truly inspirational.

Richie Benaud's Rules of commentary should be pasted in every commentary box. It's Benaud's birth anniversary today.

Kashmiri Urdu The Kashmiri isation of Urdu is a PhD waiting to happen. Some background At a certain point in time, Kashmiris decided that they must speak in Urdu ( why ? That is separate PhD topic ) But there was a problem.

📣 Thrilled to share that my first peer-reviewed article is out now and free to access in a special issue of Global Intellectual History. I explore the lesser-known history of socialism (and communism) in Kashmir. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Stimulating day listening (& talking) to a stellar group of academics, journalists, & practitioners on India’s place in the world. Thanks to Shruti Kapila & Tarika Khattar for hosting an amazing event Corpus Christi Tour de force keynote delivered by Shivshankar Menon

Riveting 2 days of serious engagement on "India and Visions of World Order" with literally the best and most influential experts on India's foreign policy. A joy and a total privilege to converse with and share time with a stellar set