Siladitya Ray / @siladitya.bsky.social

Indian obsession with entrance exam results is hilarious. As if a single exam someone wrote when they were 17 counts for anything. I can tell you that the entrance ranks of my law school class had zero correlation with intellect, capability, grades, career path, or "success".

Sooryavanshi is him...

Pankaj Mishra on the “rupture in historical memory” that has led India to forsake Iran go.nybooks.com/3N19jS3

T20 is a ridiculously fickle format. To build a dynasty in this format is quite something extraordinary. This is the greatest T20 team of all time. Well played, Team India.

Some brilliant reporting from Soumya...

@himganj153 Refreshing to see. Big series wins should always hold more value than a silly solitary game played before the start of the cricket season in England based on a nonsense points system.

True Aussie mentality. Zero damns given about fake things like WTC points.

@cricketingview The problem stems from people being sold on the fact that DRS is supposed to entirely remove doubt and provide an exact/perfect binary outcome, which is obviously not possible. It's why there's so much bad discourse on Umpire's Call in LBWs.

Cricket Twitter, and especially the cricket journalists on Cricket Twitter, do not understand the concepts of doubt and marginality. Or, if they do, they don't let this understanding get in the way of the thing they say.

@gauravsabnis You must watch the Oversimplified video on this. Incredible stuff. youtube.com/watch?v=BXpu6t…

Did you know that the Australian military once went to war with emus and lost? 😂😂😂 They thought they'd mow down emus with machine guns. Emus did not cooperate. Turns out survival is a strong instinct.

@cricketingview "26/143 in T20 is better than 40/143." Nailed it. This is a fundamental thing about T20 cricket that too many people fail to understand. Especially since it sounds counterintuitive at first glance.

That's 5 successful outings out of 14, and only 1 bad failure. That's a pretty good record for a T20 opener. It shows that he's trying to plunder, not accumulate. 26/143 in T20 is better than 40/143 and 50/125.

@parthpunter The 3-person commentary booth has been the worst thing to happen to cricket broadcasting (esp. in India). Started with one play-by-play guy and two colour commentators/analysts, then became three colour commentators and finally devolved into three people clowning on the mic.

Watching the Ashes is such a good experience because of the quality of broadcasting. Why are English and Australian commentators so superior, insightful and outspoken? Playing cricket for many years does not automatically qualify one to be a good commentator. It is a separate skill. But not many in Asia seem to acknowledge that. Barring Dinesh Karthik, I can't think of a decent commentator we have produced among recently retired cricketers. On the other hand, listening to Stuart Broad has been a pleasant surprise. He is sharp and to the point. I guess it also boils down to the conditions. When you become a commentator in a society that rewards jingoism and sycophancy, that's what you develop as a commentator. Or, you become a Siddhu or a Sehwag, playing the role of a joker to pull the audience in.

@gauravsabnis Straight to jail...

At this location, as a musician started playing Kal Ho Na Ho, I said "Why is this Roop Zindagi person changing all the clocks?" Stunned silence from my friends. "Cos daylight savings time started today!" Friends start discussing whether to throw me in the pond or fountain.

Zohran Mamdani quotes Jawaharlal Nehru in his victory speech: "A moment comes rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance."

World Champions. At the stroke of the midnight hour India awakes to history. This is a moment in time that will change the course of the women's game.

They’ve done it! All rise to the Women In Blue for their spectacular World Cup victory. In achievement and impact, stands alongside 1983 World Cup win by Kapil Dev’s team

A marquee night for women's cricket. What a team. What a team. World Champions.

Incredible. Amazing. One of the greatest run chases ever. Jemimah Rodrigues. Take a bow...

@RishiAlwani Vaishnaw's cringe comment aside, the non-Pro 17 version's price in India is actually pretty on par with the U.S. Rs 70,557.69 ($799 US pre-sales tax price)+18% GST=Rs 83258.07, which is on par with the Rs 82.9 K they are charging. The Pro version, though, is much pricier here.

So why are we paying more than the world?

Only believe in Siraj bhai. What a star, build the guy a statue.

@KiranDhillonTV Please stay safe Kiran.

The skies over #doha #qatar right now #iran #israel #unitedstates

@pranshuverma_ Congrats Pranshu.

some personal news: Thrilled to be The Washington Post's next New Delhi bureau chief. I start in India on April 1. Please email pranshu.verma@washpost.com for any tips or DM me for my Signal if it is sensitive.