India

🏏 Not a lot you can do when de Kock shows up to the game. 90 out of 46 is mind numbing. Wonderful hitting by South Africa over all! Imagine if this were the T20 World Cup Semi-finals. To India, I will simply repeat: you are only as strong or weak as your bowling is.

vpalepu

December 11, 2025
🏏 Finally a string of resounding wins by Team India. Both wins had in one thing common: the bowlers took 10 wickets in a single innings. In both – the 3rd One Day International and the first T20 International – batters did not have to show heroics because the bowlers did their jobs. Going to…

vpalepu

December 9, 2025
Well played South Africa! Chasing down any score over 300 in 50over cricket is commendable. No matter where you are playing and whom you are playing against. 300+ in 50 overs is a test of skill, focus and effort. Well done. And then we have India. Team India needs some soul searching. For starters ask…

vpalepu

December 3, 2025
It is impressive how bad Indian bowlers are in 50-over cricket. If this team cannot defend 358 runs over the course of 50 overs, what can they defend?

vpalepu

December 3, 2025
🏏 😬 India won by the skin of their teeth. This is a team that cannot play cricket. And it is run by a cricketing administration that is hellbent on driving away its senior players (who are actually performing). smh. SA might have lost this one. But I expect them to come out strong in…

vpalepu

November 30, 2025
🏏 Far from resounding. Or a win. Where are the Indian bowlers with the wickets? Cannot believe that South Africa actually reached 300 runs in this chase. SA is going to win.

vpalepu

November 30, 2025
🏏 Every Indian cricket lover has been pissed off for the last couple of weeks. Nothing short of a resounding win will help today.

vpalepu

November 30, 2025
🏏 Ending superstar culture in Indian Cricket

The current coach of the Indian national cricket team is on a simple mission: to end the team’s “superstar” culture. He is accomplishing it, by becoming the center of attention.

vpalepu

November 28, 2025
The Weekly: India does not need Generative AI

… and more from this edition of The Weekly. I contend that India does not need to worry about advancing fundamental GenAI research. Instead it needs to worry about knowing how to apply all of computer technology, and not just GenAI, to an Indian context. A tale of two problems: Research and Applications of Gen…

vpalepu

March 2, 2025
Cantonments and Campuses

Why do army cantonments look like 18th century Britain? What does that even mean? What works about them? What can we learn from them? Have army campuses influenced corporate and college campuses? In a long rant that is more of a discussion I got together with an old friend from college to chat about army…

vpalepu

December 17, 2022