For two decades, India won impressively in home Tests. The pitches may have turned a mile, but they held their shape, and dignity of cricket, over five days. Playing on Indian soil is now like Russian roulette—laws of cricketing physics stand disfigured. These pitches insult the game, players, fans.

Sheikh Hasina death sentence shows Bangladesh hasn’t built basic democratic institutions

Sheikh Hasina’s death sentence by a Dhaka court is consistent with the best political and judicial traditions of Bangladesh and Pakistan. Sentencing a leader to death in absentia shows these countries didn’t invest in building basic democratic institutions. What one side did to Bhutto, another side has done to Hasina.

UP govt’s plea in Akhlaq’s lynching case is sketchy. Court should have been allowed to

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