The Mumbai Cricket Association’s Wankhede Stadium celebrates its golden anniversary this year. On 23 January 1975, the new stadium hosted its first Test Match – India versus the West Indies. Ever since, Wankhede has had an impressive run rate in hosting first-class test matches and its shorter 20-over variants. Long forgotten, but worth recalling, are the struggles to build the stadium - the result of an ego clash between two Mumbai titans, a legendary cricketer and a state minister. read more

The rules-based world, perceived to be functional till last year, seems broken, giving way to an increasingly multipolar order. Manjeet Kripalani, Executive Director, Gateway House discusses in the Abhijit Chavda podcast, how emerging middle powers like India, Brazil, and Indonesia to name a few, have the heft to rewrite the rules of global trade and reform, away from U.S. and China. read more

South Asia today is the world’s most populated region and fastest growing, in a global economy experiencing a period of tepid growth and suddenly faced with mounting risks. This economic reality has put the international spotlight on South Asia with some economic historians drawing parallels between the gloomy world economy today and the economic uncertainties and trade protectionism of the 1930s era. This paper critically analyses South Asia’s trade architecture in the sluggish world economy in the 2020s and makes read more

On March 15, 2025, the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, during his visit to Bangladesh, proposed a humanitarian corridor to Myanmar’s Rakhine state. Rakhine is affected by the compounding impacts of mass atrocities, civil war, repeated cyclones and inadequate access to humanitarian relief. The unprecedented disaster is resulting in an imminent threat of famine, with over 2 million people at risk of starvation. A humanitarian corridor is the need of the hour. However, Bangladesh chief advisor Muhammad Yunus wants a read more