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March 8, 2021 I am a 70s kid, or like to at least believe I am one. The 70s were India and Indira Gandhi’s decade of  socialism and the emergency, which meant that we had to learn to live with both state power and economic scarcity. We didn’t have 24 x7 breaking news thankfully: it was the age of  black and white tv and Doordarshan, of  Chaya Geet on Thursdays, Phool Khile Hai Gulshan Gulshan with the ever smiling Tabassum on Fridays and a much awaited old Hindi movie on Sunda...

With India’s recent series victory in Australia, I thought it might be fitting to continue my series of greatest all-time XIs with the nation currently ranked #second in the ICC Test rankings. There can be no doubt that we are in a golden era of Indian cricket, led by a fast-bowling unit that for the […]