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Rohit Sharma Admits Misjudgement In The First Test
Rohit Sharma was brave to admit that he read the pitch wrong in the first Test against New Zealand at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Captains rarely speak with courage and own up a lapse at the toss. Sharma came to the presser after he was bundled out for 46 on the second day of the three-Test series and expressed disappointment. Sharma said he did not see grass on the surface that was under protection from the heavy and continuous rainfall for nearly three days and that the pitch would be flat.  Only recently his teammates and the cricketing world lavished praise on him for going all out in the  batting and bowling departments in order to force a result in the Kanpur Test against Bangladesh. It was his 19th Test as captain (in Bengaluru) with a winning record of fractionally lower than 67%. After two days of action the pendulum appears to have swung in favour of New Zealand which has won only two Tests in India in nearly seven decades. Sharma’s bold call at the toss helped New Zealand’s fast bowlers to run through the home team’s batting line with no fuss. Captains consider the atmosphere, pitch conditions and their team’s strength before writing the playing XI and the decision to be taken at the toss. Once he chose to drop in-form fast bowler Akash Deep and bring in Chinaman practitioner Kuldeep Yadav, Sharma was only going to choose to bat. It was a call that saw India in a sorry plight, shot out for its third lowest score in Test cricket.
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Image Makeover For Lady Justice At The Supreme Court, But What About 51 Million Pending Cases
The Chief Justice of India has inspired and installed a brand new Lady Justice in the SC library, in an effort to bin many a vestige of British colonialism. The just sculpted Lady Justice is as Indian as she can get…she wears a bindi, bangles and strongly resembles Goddess Saraswati. The makeover immediately flashes memories of how justice was strongly and tellingly portrayed in our films with titles like Andha Kanoon, Insaaf ka Tarazu in Hindi, Sattam Oru Iruttu Arai (law is a dark room) in Tamil. The stark inequalities and systemic interpretation of class, gender and caste that torment society were portrayed as the “interpretation” of the law by the Lady Justice, blindfolded, holding a weighing scale in her right hand and a sword in her left. These symbols were meant to convey an impartial system that did not discriminate, and one that meted out punishment, swiftly. The new symbol is significant in keeping with the new Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita replacing the old, the saree clad Lady Justice has no blindfold and the Indian Constitution replaces the sword as a revered Tome in her left hand. She strongly resembles Devi Saraswati from the paintings of Raja Ravi Varma or from the Pooja idols of Kolkata’s Kumartuli. But mere intent to clean up colonial cobwebs is not enough. With 51 million cases clogging the judicial system, 80,000 in the SC alone, delaying justice delivery in a shocking way, how is the system gearing up for fast redressals and closures?

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Editor’s Note: Big Punch In Small Pack

It is the Third Anniversary of Short Post and as a news media startup launched during the Covid-19 pandemic it certainly feels better than good to find ourselves where we are today. Here, I must cite the unstinted support of our seasoned contributors, all senior editors in the country, who brought a great degree of maturity and sagacity to the Short Post newsroom. But for them, our tagline “Authentic Gossip”, an Oxymoron, would not have matured viably. Our user numbers may be small but our stories have created the desired impact among people who matter — decision makers and influencers. We offer a big punch in a small pack and Short Post with its 225-word stories has been punching above its weight category. Having posted close to 3,000 stories in the last 36 months, Short Post, I feel, is an idea whose time has come.
And this is vindicated by our two marquee advertisers – IDFC FIRST Bank and ICICI Lombard. Both believed in our story and have supported us from Day one. A big thank you to both.
If you look at the media landscape – print, TV and digital — it is a mixed bag. There are job losses as some outfits have closed down while a lucky few were bailed out by large corporate houses. Yes, there is a lot of action in the digital space. However, the entry of corporate houses has raised the question of independence of news media outfits. Sadly, there are just a handful of independent media outfits in the country that are highly respected for their neutrality. At Short Post, our credo is not to take sides, prejudge issues or be biased but, informing readers of behind-the-scenes happenings. In essence, Short Post strives to be a neutral editorial platform — neither anti-establishment nor pro-establishment.
As I said last year, disruptions in the media world are moving at a fast and furious pace. Technology is playing a very big role in how content is generated and consumed. But, we are neither alarmed nor perturbed as it is all a part of the evolution process. What gives us comfort is that AI is unable to create original gossipy content. And that is the news arena where we have achieved a distinction.