R Ashwin, 38, calls it a day in international cricket in all formats. Right-arm off spinner, off-break bowler and batsman. 106 Tests, 116 ODIs, 65 T20Is. 537 Test wickets, 156 ODI wickets, 72 T20I wickets. 4000+ runs. 5 centuries. Second highest wicket taking Indian. Only Anil Kumble is ahead of him. Highest test wicket taker in India; Four instances of a century and five wickets in a Test; 12 man of the series awards; 37 five wicket hauls; first bowler to reach 100 wickets in a World Test Championship; Highest wicket taker in the World Test Championships; 300+ bowled-lbw dismissals, third bowler to do so. Ashwin has scored – 3503 Test runs, 707 ODI runs, 184 T201 runs – more than 4000 runs in international cricket. He has scored six centuries and 14 half-centuries in Tests; a half-century in ODIs. He was part of the winning teams of 2011 world cup; and 2013 Champions’ Trophy.
Ashwin runs a cricket linked YouTube channel; runs a cricket academy ‘Gen-Next Cricket Institute’ in Chennai. He wrote his memoir: ‘I have the streets: A kutti cricket story’. He will continue to play in IPL, TNPL. Many more cricket linked activities are expected to become part of his portfolio.
Goa. Liberated in 1961. Smallest state, with highest GDP per capita. 1.5M people. A Portuguese colony for 456 years. Konkani is the main language. 57% forest, 60% of this is government forest. 62% urban. 90% literacy. Tourism and excise are important sources of income, amongst other things.
Migrants. Migration. A person who moves away from his or her place of usual residence, whether within a country or across an international border, temporarily or permanently, and for a variety of reasons. Migrant workers; internally displaced; pushed, pulled migrants. People with better human capital migrate often. Migration is the most direct route out of poverty, for most. Migration could be by: individuals, families, communities. Nomadic movements, seasonal movements, and temporary movements are not considered migration. Seasonal migration is considered as such sometimes. For work, urbanization, back to towns or villages from cities. Migration and remittances are also linked. World/external migration is 3.3% and their contribution is 9% of global GDP. A study says: opening all borders could add 78 Trillion USD to world GDP. India receives the highest remittances globally. This year, it is USD 130 billion from the diaspora. This is equal to the budgets of Pakistan and Bangladesh combined. Remittances are more than the Foreign Direct Investment FDI inflows.
Forced migration, distress migration is what we are worried about. Forced, by internally displaced, is caused by disasters, projects, poverty, politics. The situation of these PVM people at the sites of migration is often worse than their situation at their native places. These conditions need to be significantly improved. Rights and entitlements need to be honoured.
We are not blessed to remember everything. So we see patterns, trends, frames, abstractions. Simplified. Sometimes details would not help. They come in the way. Approximations, averages, briefs help. Focus helps. Generalized lens(es) to apply in multiple scenarios helps. Master one, we may master ‘all’. Taking understanding across domains helps. Applying helps. Can we learn logic, algorithms, and coding? Philosophy, language? Mathematics, literature, art? Sciences, biological, social sciences? Essential to observe, try, practice, learn. Can we invest in building ourselves for these?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, keep flowing. In gut, intuition, body memory. In N? adhiyoga for 7L.
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