Ananyabrata Chakravorty

Vivek is 17, and as every middle-class family in India would attest, it is high time he was enrolled in coaching classes for the notoriously competitive entrance exams of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). Vivek’s father, who sees an IIT degree as a moral certificate, ships his only son off to a residential preparatory school in Kota, the Mecca for IIT coaching. Over two years, Vivek goes through the motions of Indian adolescence, but it is his parents who do the growing up.

An Indian man leaves his job to crack a simpler and more effective alternative to Cricket's most questionable rule- The Duckworth Lewis Method, while his wife is six months into pregnancy and a bad financial crisis is waiting to hit them.

An Indian man leaves his job to crack a simpler and more effective alternative to Cricket's most questionable rule- The Duckworth Lewis Method, while his wife is six months into pregnancy and a bad financial crisis is waiting to hit them.

An Indian man leaves his job to crack a simpler and more effective alternative to Cricket's most questionable rule- The Duckworth Lewis Method, while his wife is six months into pregnancy and a bad financial crisis is waiting to hit them.