In reply to South Africa A's total, Priyank Panchal (24) and Prithvi Shaw (42) gave India A good start with a 57-run opening wicket stand. Earlier, coming into bat at No.8, Marco Jansen top-scored for hosts with an unbeaten 70 off 123 balls.
India A pacers Navdeep Saini (2/54), Ishan Porel (2/26) and Arzan Nagwaswalla (1/44) shared five wickets between them as South Africa A finished Day 1 on 233/7. The first match ended in a draw.
Drafted into the SRH squad as a replacement for T Natarajan, who was down with Covid, Umran Malik surprised everyone with his raw pace and clocked the fastest delivery of the tournament against RCB.
Ishan Porel's three-wicket haul helped India Green keep India Blue to 112/6 in a rain-curtailed opening day of the Duleep Trophy in Bengaluru on Saturday.
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.