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New Zealand beat South Africa to reach Champions Trophy final

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ICC Men’s Champions Trophy New Zealand 362-6 (50 ov) Ravindra 108 off 101, 13 fours, 1 six, Williamson 102 off 94, 1o fours, 2 sixes, Mitchell 49 off 37, 4 fours, 1 six, Phillips 49 no off 27, 6 fours, 1 six, Ngidi 3-72, Rabada 2-70. South Africa  312-9 (50 ov)  Bavuma 56 off 71, 4 fours, 1 six, van der Dussen 69 off 66, 4 fours, 2 sixes, Miller 100 off 67, 10 fours, 4 sixes, Santner 3-43, Henry 2-43, Bracewell 1-53, Phillips 2-27, Ravindra 1-20. New Zealand won by 50 runs. New Zealand beat South Africa and into the Champions … Continue reading New Zealand beat South Africa to reach Champions Trophy final

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India reaches Champions Trophy Finals

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ICC Men’s Champions Trophy Australia. 264ao (49.3ov) Smith 73 off 96, 4 fours, 1 six, Carey 61 off 57,  8 fours, 1 six, Head 39 off 33, 5 fours, 2 sixes, Shami 3-48, Chakravarthy 2-49, Jadeja 2-40, Pandya 1-40, Patel 1-43. India 267-6 off 48.1ov Kohli 84 off 98, 5 fours, Iyer 45 off 62, 3 fours, Rahul 42 off 34, 2 fours, 2 sixes, Pandya 28 off 24, 1 four, 3 sixes, Zampa 2-60, Ellis 2-49,  Connolly 1-37, Dwarshuis 1-39 India won by 4 wickets India held their nerve to reach the Champions Trophy final with a four-wicket win over Australia … Continue reading India reaches Champions Trophy Finals

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Happiness is contentment of having enough

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Paul Theroux, the bestselling novelist, travel writer and “master of the short story”  in The Vanishing Point, gives us an exotic but domestic, ranging from Hawaii to Africa and New England. Each focuses on life’s vanishing points – a moment when seemingly all lines running through one’s life converge, and one can see no farther, yet must deal with the implications. With the insight, subtlety, and empathy that has long characterized his work, Theroux has written deeply moving stories about memory, longing, and the passing of time, reclaiming his status, once again, as a master of the form. “I lost most … Continue reading Happiness is contentment of having enough

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Her love…

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Nigerian travel writer living in America, Chiamaka, alone in the midst of the pandemic, recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until – betrayed and broken hearted- she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Dream Count is a unremarkable story about three affluent Nigerian women, Chiamaka the writer, her best friend Zikora, a lawyer, and her cousin Omelogor, a financial executive.  They navigate their mid-thirties, wrangle with romance and manage dislocations of diasporic identity in the US.   Omelogor, is a … Continue reading Her love…

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Spotify sold itself to major record labels as musicians earnings fell

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Music critic and journalist, Liz Pelly, weaves an unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, with incisive cultural criticism, illuminating how streaming is reshaping music for listeners and artists alike. If you stream a song on Spotify, how money does the artist make? Spotify has been profoundly damaging for all but the most commercially successful musicians and even shaped the kind of music that they make. Like several digital start-ups, Spotify, founded in Sweden in 2006 by tech entrepreneurs Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, purported to be revolutionsing an industry when really it was just reinforcing the status … Continue reading Spotify sold itself to major record labels as musicians earnings fell

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Democracy is in Crisis

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Democracy is in crisis across the globe, especially in UK, it has been rocked by Brexit, the pandemic and successive attempts by governments to bypass legal norms.  Jonathan Sumption renders acute analysis of the state of democracy today – from the vulnerabilities of international law to the deepening suppression of democracy activism in Hong Kong, and from the complexities of human rights legislation to the defence of freedom of speech. One of the finest examples is of Jonathan Sumption, whose career has been an unusual combination of medieval historian, barrister, supreme court judge, member of the House of Lords. The … Continue reading Democracy is in Crisis

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Gene Hackman, wife Betsy Arakawa, dog found dead in bathroom

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Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman (95), his wife classical pianist Betsy Arakawa (63, and their German Shepherd dog was found dead in their bathroom, at Old Sunset Trail in Hyde Park, on 26th February 2025, around 1:45am, in the US state of New Mexico, according to the  Santa Fe County Sheriff’s office.  Gene Hackman who played more than 100 roles during his career, including Lex Luthor in the Chrisopher Reeve-starring Superman movies in the 1970s and 1980s, won two Academy Awards for his role as Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in William Friedkin’s 1971 thriller, The French Connection and best supporting actor for playing Little … Continue reading Gene Hackman, wife Betsy Arakawa, dog found dead in bathroom

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Has Silicon Valley lost its way?

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Palantir Technologies, a company that is intertwined with the national security state, Silicon Valley’s utopian tech thinking was always untethered from reality and it’s a good thing that it is now ending. Palantir’s co-founder and CEO Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska claims that in order for the West to retain its global edge – and preserve the freedoms we take for granted – the software industry must renew its commitment to addressing our urgent challenges, including the new arms race for artificial intelligence. Government, in turn, must embrace the most effective features of the engineering mindset that have … Continue reading Has Silicon Valley lost its way?

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The giant Trauma

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The German Peasants’ War was the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe before the 1789 French Revolution. In 1524 and 1525, it swept across Germany with astonishing speed as thousands of people massed in armed bands to demand a new and more egalitarian order. The peasants took control of vast areas of southern and middle Germany, torching and plundering the monasteries, convents, and castles that stood in their way. But they would prove no match for the forces of the lords, who put down the revolt by slaying somewhere between seventy and a hundred thousand peasants in just over two … Continue reading The giant Trauma

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Have we lost ability to make things?

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We live in a manufactured world, Unless you are floating naked through space, you are right  now in direct contact with multiple manufactured products. How ofoten we stop to think: where do the things we buy actually come from? American President, Donald Trump, promised in his recent inaugural address, America would soon become “a manufacturing nation once again”. His planned tariffs, will encourage some global companies to relocate factories back to the US.  Academic expert on innovation and technology at Cambridge University, Tim Minshall’s Your Life Is Manufactured is about perils of losing touch with the art of making things .  This … Continue reading Have we lost ability to make things?