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Great cricket tidbit

English selectors "rested" the great George Hirst and Wilfred Rhodes by dropping them for 1901-02 Ashes tour

Reason: They had exerted too much during 1901 season helping Yorkshire win the championship

Yorkshire management wanted them fresh for 1902 season!
Interestingly this "drop" of the two Yorkshire stars was engineered by England selector Lord Hawke (also very powerful in Yorkshire cricket)

This forced AC MacLaren the England captain (who was short on bowlers) to pick Sydney Barnes for the 1901-02 tour

It was Barnes's debut!
Barnes ofcourse went on to play 27 tests for England (off and on) taking 189 wickets at average of 16

WIdely regarded as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, bowler in cricket history
Am trying to imagine a similar scenario today

Ben Stokes and Jofra Archer "rested" from the 2021-22 Ashes tour as they have exerted heavily for Durham and Sussex during the summer, and the counties need them to be fresh for 2022 season
County cricket no longer has the pre-eminence it enjoyed 100 years ago

Nor is it strenuous!

Back in early 1900s, top cricketers played unto 25-30 games in a season - that's 80-90 days of cricket in 4 months
Today even regular county players play far less 3-day cricket..

And even if one includes ODIs / T20s etc, the domestic season does not involve as many days of cricket as it did in say 1920
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Mein Kampf has sold more copies in India over the years than Churchill's History of Second World war, or his history of the English Speaking Peoples

Though Churchill was a better writer, and also his subjects should be of more interest to the general public
How do we rationalize this -

1. "Extremes" appeal to people more. As simple as that

2. Indians are more inclined to fascist, authoritarian politics than we assume (I don't buy this)

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Fair enough

In which case is there any Sanskrit literature at all that is "secular"?

Bhasa? Magha? They all dealt with the itihAsas

Or should we take the stance -

In SVDV (BHU) these kAvyas should be taught by Hindus
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How much longer will it take for this bogey to be raised at other universities?

And will the H-Right voices take up the cudgels on behalf of a University of Bombay student, who may protest the appointment of a Christian to teach Sanskrit / theology
If the argument is going to rest on the point of "shraddha", students elsewhere can protest too.

And what's problematic here is that the "shraddha" of Hindu professors will never be questioned

It takes a lot more egregious stuff for people to question them than a non Hindu
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Inclined to agree. There is no free lunch

Any painful policy has to have a very significant "upside risk" to be worth undertaking

Art 370 revocation, though painful, presented that long-run upside risk, outweighing short-term costs
This reminds me of a funny line from a favorite movie of mine - "A Canterbury Tale" (1944)

Where a character says -

"Did I ever tell you about old Dad Butler...
who killed the fly on his baby's head with a sledgehammer?"
Shah and team may insist that the fly will be killed, the baby will be alive and kicking, and no net harm will be done

But I doubt that
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