**Sanju Samson: Cricket’s Beautiful Enigma and the Global Theater of Almost-Greatness** In the grand, often absurd opera of international cricket—where nations outsource their self-esteem to eleven men in polyester—Sanju Samson has become a recurring aria of promise, heartbreak, and selective amnesia. To the uninitiated, he is merely another Indian cricketer with a Instagram-ready smile and…
Tilak Varma: The IPL’s Latest Export in Global Cricket’s Never-Ending Yard Sale By Our Correspondent in a Hotel Mini-Bar Somewhere Between Mumbai and Melbourne When Tilak Varma wrist-flicked Pat Cummins over extra-cover for six on a Tuesday so humid even the spider-cam perspired, the moment was instantly GIF-ed, NFT-ed, and WhatsApp-forwarded into the collective bloodstream…
Jacob Bethell: The 20-Year-Old Who Reminds Us the Empire Still Owes Rent By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, somewhere over the Atlantic Somewhere between Bridgetown and Birmingham, the ghost of Lord Nelson is quietly updating his LinkedIn. The reason? Jacob Bethell—Barbados-born, England-polished, and now Mumbai-hardened—has become the accidental poster child for every post-colonial fever…
