My uncle's pharmacy downstairs got a notice last month from some committee about removing the old 'Vimal' board—said it encouraged betting. But I've seen his shopkeeper friends lose a month's stock money on a single IPL over, and that's a different kazari altogether. Maybe we should ask why we're painting the signboard instead of checking whether the rules that let apps advertise on every tea stall are actually fair to the guy who can't afford to lose.

Saw David Jonsson’s name in the listings and it made me smile, remembering the Guwahati night I spent tuning my radio to a crackly interview with some midfielder talking about fish markets in Shillong. That whole pipeline has a susegad genius to it—Highlanders’ scouting finds a gem where everyone else just sees a kazari of hills.