If you want, I can send you the copies of some articles from well known newspapers in the 1980s, where they argued that the introduction of computer will make everyone jobless. This sort of FUD is normally vomited by some extreme-left politicians, to create obstacles for technological innovation. So far, technology has benefited the human kind massively. Those who are against technological innovation is against human well being.

The economy has been restarted in most countries and if the trend continues, then the market recovery will start from early next year. In that case, the introduction of the vaccine is not going to have much impact. Also, even if the vaccine is available, it is going to take at least 6 months to vaccinate all the 7.5 billion people who are living in this planet.

KXIP has a habit of losing matches which they could have won easily. On the other hand, so far in this IPL the Rajasthan Royals have won matches from a position in which they were written off (against SRH yesterday, and then against KXIP on 27th September). Among other factors, captaincy also made the difference. People such as Steve Smith and Shreyas Iyer have captained their teams very efficiently so far in this tournament. On the other hand, Rahul and Dhoni were not that impressive.

Yeah.. Tewatia was lucky there... the zing bails were glowing, but they didn't fell. But this incident happened in the 18th over (5th ball), and by then RR was almost home. At this point, they needed 23 runs from 14 balls. So even if he had got out, there was a good chance that RR could have won the match. And regarding the dropped catch, I don't think you can blame Parag for that. 

I never purchase any asset when it's price is going down, unless I have a solid reason to decide otherwise. Because from what I have seen so far in my career, it is always best to invest in an asset when the price is recovering. You may have to pay 5% or 10% extra, but you will be sure that the asset will not become completely worthless in near future. Anyway.. different people have different investment strategies..

Well.. this is a very common method employed by the campaign managers to cheat the participants of their rewards. Initially they will not mention about the KYC requirement. Only when the campaign is over, or during the last week they will announce that all the participants need to undergo the KYC process. More than 50% of the participants will refuse and the team will keep that much tokens for themselves.

Why his age should be a factor here? He committed a serious crime, and therefore he should get the adequate punishment, irrespective of the age, race and gender. Allen Stanford was 62-years old when he was sentenced to 110-years in prison. What McAfee did was much worse than what Stanford did. I expect a minimum of 100 years behind bars for McAfee.

I don't think that it will be that delayed. Donald Trump was saying that he expect the vaccine to be available in the United States from this month onward. He also said that by December, the vaccine should reach the majority of the citizens there. Various European nations were also giving similar timelines. So by mid-2021, I expect most of the world population to be vaccinated.

Well.. that's true. One of the reasons why the odds are so biased against Conor McGregor is due to his poor performance three years ago, when he fought against Floyd Mayweather. Back then also, the odds favored Floyd, but Conor's performance was really bad. On the other hand, Manny is in good form, especially after his win against Thurman.

Out of the 26 matches completed till now, the team batting second have won only 6 times. 18 out of 26 times, it was the team that batted first which tasted victory and two times it went to super-over. Now out of the 6 matches where the team batting second won, 33% was as a result of Rahul Tewatia. That shows how important he is. SRH tried really hard with their young bowlers... but hard luck...

Just unbelievable. Lord Tewatia did it again. This time around, he got the support from Riyan Parag as well. When Sanju Samson was out, RR was struggling at 78/5. At this point, I thought that RR had zero chance. But then Tewatia had other plans. This win is quite big for Rajasthan Royals, after their four consecutive defeats (some of them by very big margins).

Can Tewatia do another miracle? RR in pretty bad shape against SRH. They need 65 runs from just 5 overs, with 5 wickets remaining. Rahul Tewatia and Riyan Parag are currently showcasing their defensive skills, and neither of them have hit a boundary till now. Rashid Khan has one over remaining, and I don't think that RR has much of a chance here. Excellent performance form the SRH bowlers, in defending such a small total.

I don't think that people are hoarding. That may have happened during the initial phase of the pandemic, but it stopped when they realized that the shops and supermarkets are going to remain open. Even I stocked as much as I can during March and April. On top of that, online retailers such as Amazon greatly expanded their coverage during the pandemic. A lot of people shifted to online retailers from local shops.

The impact from COVID 19 will be there for many years to come. But that doesn't mean that we should shut down our economy and stay at home. The economy needs to be restarted. As you said, many of the businesses are in huge debt, and closer to bankruptcy. If they don't do business, then the owners will slip further into debt and this situation is not going to benefit anyone.

Around 100 years ago, 30% of the population of Turkey was Christian (mostly Armenian, Greek and Assyrian). Then the Ottomans massacred all the Christian minorities there. Now less than 0.1% of the population is Christian. On the other hand, the proportion of the Muslims in the former Russian Empire (up to 1917) was lower than what it is now. The fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan is an extension of the Armenian genocide of 1918. The Christian population is declining due to massacres and low birth rate, while the Muslim population is increasing due to high birth rate and immigration. Now the target is Armenia. The next targets will be Georgia, Southern part of Russia, Cyprus, Greece and Macedonia. Do you think that Erdogan will be satisfied with just Armenia?

All the three batsmen threw away their wicket. This was a game which they could have won easily. A very low total set by SRH, and the target was below 160. First it was Stokes who threw away his wicket and after that an unnecessary run out by Steve Smith. The RR batsmen just wasted the hard work put in by their bowlers. Feels bad for Archer, Tyagi and Unadkat.

Anyone remember this?


The Venezuelan Bolivar will end up like Zimbabwe Dollar. Hardly anyone store their money as Bolivar in Venezuela. In most cases, US Dollar and gold is being used for this purpose. And I heard that Bitcoin usage is also going up there. Venezuela is a perfect example of how socialism can destroy a nation. And the joke is that we still have a lot of people who would still vote for Socialist politicians.

I think now KXIP needs to think seriously about including Chris Gayle in the playing XI. The reason why they haven't included him till now is that they don't want to disrupt the opening pair of KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal. But they need Gayle now (probably in place of Maxwell). And on top of that I think they should also include Karun Nair. Players such as Prabhsimran Singh and Mandeep Singh have failed to impress.

Having one world class bowler, and having multiple world class bowlers is different. For sure Zaheer was of international class. But most of the time, he was supported by mediocre bowlers such as Tinu Yohannan, Ashish Nehra and Vikram Singh. Irfan Pathan was not exactly a world class bowler. He was good, but played only a few dozen test matches. So Zaheer had to take the sole responsibility of pace bowling, most of the times. The situation has changed now.

Many of the cricket boards are in difficult financial situation. So they may prioritize the franchise cricket leagues over international cricket. For example, the BCCI receives most of its revenue from the IPL (which lasts for just 1.5 months). The same can be said about Cricket Australia (BBL) and the WICB (CPL). Even when international tours are being organized, test matches will receive the lowest priority.