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Australia, West Indies and England, all major cricket countries have seen cricket lose major ground to other sports. The introduction of T20s hasnt really stemmed the decline. Even in Bangladesh, the game has taken a back seat to football in the last decade.

South Africa seems to be an exception. Cricket there seems to have grown in the last decade.

Is cricket structurally not amenable to mass popularity ? Will it retain its pole position in India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan ?

Sports journalists mention jeopardy a lot these days. Having something on the line always makes for a more interesting game and more eyeballs.

Instead of playing a 2 game and 5 game series, the three teams could have simply played a 6 game triangular, followed by a final. Ireland’s victories would have elevated the India-England games past the usual boring bilateral formality games.

I am quite certain that such a triangular series will secure higher broadcast deals than bilateral series.

Sports journalists mention jeopardy a lot these days. Having something on the line always makes for a more interesting game and more eyeballs.

Instead of playing a 2 game and 5 game series, the three teams could have simply played a 6 game triangular, followed by a final. Ireland’s victories would have elevated the India-England games past the usual boring bilateral formality games.

I am quite certain that such a triangular series will secure higher broadcast deals than bilateral series.

Sports journalists mention jeopardy a lot these days. Having something on the line always makes for a more interesting game and more eyeballs.

Instead of playing a 2 game and 5 game series, the three teams could have simply played a 6 game triangular, followed by a final. Ireland’s victories would have elevated the India-England games past the usual boring bilateral formality games.

I am quite certain that such a triangular series will secure higher broadcast deals than bilateral series.

When mass market LLM’s were introduced in 2022, many analysts predicted a difficult future for India’s service export industry. And most commentators have maintained that AI will be a net negative for India’s IT and software industry.

However, the data seems to point in the opposite direction. Service exports have surged from $254 billion in the 21-22 fiscal to $421 billion in 25-26. If we factor in the depreciation of the rupee, the growth is even faster, with exports nearly doubling in value.

What are the reasons for this counter intuitive trajectory?

When Western households moved from buying hand-crafted, artisanal goods to cheap, mass manufactured goods, more workers in Asia could actually provide them economic value. Is it possible that by lowering the barrier to code generation and basic tasks, AI is actually allowing more US businesses to leverage the Indian workforce?

Speech is not merely a harmless means of communication, when the powerful speak, it shapes narratives, decisions and psychologies.

Europeans (and offshoots) are much more powerful than Indians militarily, economically and culturally. I have noticed that there is a consistent pattern of derogatory and offensive speech from Europe (and offshoots) regarding India. Be it the German cartoon showing Indians clinging to an overcrowded train, New York Times cartoon mocking India’s space program and now the Norwegian cartoon equating an elected PM to a racist stereotype.

If you guys really gave two hoots about freedom and democracy, China would not be your largest trading partner and Europe would have never sourced energy from the Middle-East and Russia.

If your government and broad society thinks Indian elections and democracy are a farce, why invite the PM in the first place ?