Sambhal is the result of Supreme Court opening a backdoor with flawed Gyanvapi order

Supreme Court’s Ayodhya order placed the Places of Worship Act within Constitution’s basic structure. Then, with flawed Gyanvapi order, it opened a backdoor. Sambhal is the result. Even Mohan Bhagwat’s call to stop looking for shivlings under every mosque is ignored. This pushes India back into contestations Ayodhya should’ve resolved.

Cricket now drives India’s soft power. IPL auction in Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah is latest evidence

Cricket now drives India’s soft power. The latest evidence is the IPL auction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. After the super-wealthy region’s import of football and F1, it’s India’s turn to take cricket across the Gulf. Cricket is a virtuous strategic and diplomatic asset for India, and IPL is its currency.

‘One Nation One Subscription’ is the JSTOR India needs. It opens Tier-2, Tier-3 to global research

The government’s new drive to open single-window access to global paywalled academic research under ‘One Nation One Subscription’ is an empowering quantum leap for Indian scholarship. It’s the JSTOR equivalent that India needed. What’s particularly transformational is that now Tier-2 and Tier-3 educational institutions can also use the best resources.