Here’s the piece again. And special thanks my wise advisors: Osman Samiuddin , Suresh Menon , Ramachandra Guha , and the ever offline Rahul Bhattacharya.

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The crux of the thing, really, is this. 👇 And it turns out there's psychology, evolution, biomechanics, and the English class system all hiding behind the curtains of this singular phenomenon of batting beauty. [2]

I wrote a little essay about why we consider some batsmen beautiful and others not so much -- and more curiously, why there's so much unanimity on who belongs in which category.

Cameos: Steve Waugh, David Gower, Mike Brearley, and more! [1]

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So delighted to have this essay by ⁦Samanth Subramanian⁩ in the magazine this weekend. A philosophical and scientific quest to understand why some batsmen are acknowledged beautiful and some not. It’s a wonderful and surprisingly moving read.
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'I don't consider myself a freelancer because we are not free in any way. We do exactly what anyone with a staff job does, but we don’t have the advantages that they have. We don’t have insurance, weekends, paid vacations, sick leaves.' Such an important piece by our Gretel Kahn

The prime minister of the world's largest democracy is worried about people eating mutton.

If you're a media company and your newsletters just aren't cutting it, the best-ever newsletter editor and thinker is now free to work for you! 👇

#Archives | If the IPL’s story is unusual, the story of its mad architect is positively bizarre. With a string of business failures and a host of foes, Lalit Modi shouldn’t have been able to build anything nearly as successful as the IPL.

Samanth Subramanian✍️
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JBS would have loved Jacobin. More to the point, he’d have loved to start and edit Jacobin. Something I forgot to mention when I spoke about “A Dominant Character” on this very fun Jacobin Radio podcast recently.

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My essay in Foreign Affairs on how growing public and elite nationalism in rising powers can produce self-defeating foreign policy risks. This was as true of the United States in the 19th century as it is of India today.

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MS Dhoni, Andre Fletcher, Dewald Brevis, Saim Ayub and the no-look six - this season’s must have batting accessory

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Sometimes the book you write finds the right reader. Here is James Wood on my novel in the New Yorker magazine.
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Samanth Subramanian on TN Subramanian, one of the protagonists of the iconic film ‘I am 20’ by SNS Sastry.

TNS, a precocious, endearing and annoying IITB student stands for an India, 20 years old, just like himself and all the characters of the film. 1/2

Very true. This m rajshekhar epic, immaculately researched, is indispensable to understanding how India works today.

If you're in @yale next week, come say Hello! I'm giving the annual Walker lecture on the subject of my ongoing book research, and then I'll be talking to Sushant Singh about what we talk about anyway: the state of the media.

A few years ago, there was a crackdown on child labour in the Indian sandstone industry.

Then businesses found a workaround: rather than bringing the children to the mines, they brought the mines to the children.

Today's The Guardian Long Read by Romita

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