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thank you @azhagiye for tagging me in the url playlist challenge <3. My url is soo long so this is going to take a fair bit

t- tuta gold by mahmood

h- happy to die by I.M.

e- echale by anthony ramos

h- harlem by new politics. It's one of their best songs

e- ente khalbile by vineeth sreenivasan , song of ALL time

i- into the night by yoasobi

g- gasoline by halsey. The storytelling in her songs is so compelling.

h- hold me tight or don't by fall out boy. I forgot how many letter h's i have in my url lmao.

t- tum tum from enemy

o- oo antava from pushpa because I just choreo'd a dance for this and it was fun

f- this one was really hard but free fall by slot machine

d- decay by jordan adetunji. I really like his music but this song is one of my absolute favourites at the moment. I've listened to it a half dozen times just today.

i- in the heights from in the heights

s- saami saami from pushpa but specifically in tamil

h- hold up by beyonce. It's sooo fun to sing.

o- only exception from paramore (the 'the' doesn't count)

n- this one was possibly the hardest because there's so many songs i love that start with n but rn it has to be neela nilave from RDX

o- otha sollaala, I forgot the movie it's from ngl

r-raavanan by rolex rasathy.

It was so hard to pick for some of these, I'm terrible at making decisions. I alsol have the worst memory ever so i did use help from my spotify playlist to remember song titles.

hmm haven't done tag games in a long time but tagging @alenadragonne and @cescalr because i miss them. Don't feel pressured tho ofc!

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 9, 2023

Enhancement of hippocampal-thalamocortical temporal coordination during slow-frequency long-duration anterior thalamic spindles. Alizadeh, Z., Azimi, A., & Ghorbani, M. (2022). Journal of Neuroscience, 42(38), 7222–7243.

Dynamics of Hierarchical Task Representations. Cellier, D., Petersen, I. T., & Hwang, K. (2022). Journal of Neuroscience, 42(38), 7276–7284.

Causal Inference of Body Ownership in the Posterior Parietal Cortex. Chancel, M., Iriye, H., & Ehrsson, H. H. (2022). Journal of Neuroscience, 42(37), 7131–7143.

Alpha oscillations track content-specific working memory capacity. Chen, Y.-T., van Ede, F., & Kuo, B.-C. (2022). Journal of Neuroscience, 42(38), 7285–7293.

Tonic and phasic effects of reward on the pupil: implications for locus coeruleus function. Cole, L., Lightman, S., Clark, R., & Gilchrist, I. D. (2022). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289(1982).

Circadian rhythmicity of pain sensitivity in humans. Daguet, I., Raverot, V., Bouhassira, D., & Gronfier, C. (2022). Brain, 145(9), 3225–3235.

Observers penalize decision makers whose risk preferences are unaffected by loss–gain framing. Dorison, C. A., & Heller, B. H. (2022). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(9), 2043–2059.

Local field potentials reflect cortical population dynamics in a region-specific and frequency-dependent manner. Gallego-Carracedo, C., Perich, M. G., Chowdhury, R. H., Miller, L. E., & Gallego, J. Á. (2022). eLife, 11, e73155.

Two types of motor inhibition after action errors in humans. Guan, Y., & Wessel, J. R. (2022). Journal of Neuroscience, 42(38), 7267–7275.

Reverse engineering of metacognition. Guggenmos, M. (2022). eLife, 11, e75420.

Human value learning and representation reflect rational adaptation to task demands. Juechems, K., Altun, T., Hira, R., & Jarvstad, A. (2022). Nature Human Behaviour, 6(9), 1268–1279.

Direct eye gaze enhances the ventriloquism effect. Lavan, N., Chan, W. Y., Zhuang, Y., Mareschal, I., & Shergill, S. S. (2022). Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84(7), 2293–2302.

Task specificity in mouse parietal cortex. Lee, J. J., Krumin, M., Harris, K. D., & Carandini, M. (2022). Neuron, 110(18), 2961-2969.e5.

Scene memories are biased toward high-probability views. Lin, F., Hafri, A., & Bonner, M. F. (2022). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(10), 1116–1129.

Social inferences from physical evidence via bayesian event reconstruction. Lopez-Brau, M., Kwon, J., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2022). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(9), 2029–2042.

Controllability boosts neural and cognitive signatures of changes-of-mind in uncertain environments. Rouault, M., Weiss, A., Lee, J. K., Drugowitsch, J., Chambon, V., & Wyart, V. (2022). eLife, 11, e75038.

How does visual working memory solve the binding problem? Shepherdson, P., Hell, L., & Oberauer, K. (2022). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(10), 1137–1152.

Dynamics and Mechanisms of Contrast-Dependent Modulation of Spatial-Frequency Tuning in the Early Visual Cortex. Tanaka, H., & Sawada, R. (2022). Journal of Neuroscience, 42(37), 7047–7059.

Reward prediction errors, not sensory prediction errors, play a major role in model selection in human reinforcement learning. Wu, Y., Morita, M., & Izawa, J. (2022). Neural Networks, 154, 109–121.

Common Neural Mechanisms Control Attention and Working Memory. Zhou, Y., Curtis, C. E., Sreenivasan, K. K., & Fougnie, D. (2022). Journal of Neuroscience, 42(37), 7110–7120.

[ludivineikewolf]

Ratshdjyfuf why are you doing this to me -_-

L - Labour - the cacophony by Paris Paloma

U - Under the influence by chris brown

D - Disco disco by Benny Dayal

I - Impress your creators by Tub Ring

V - Vagina Police 2.0 by Dream Nails

I - Indian summer by Shuba

N - naked poetry by Skylar

E - entammede jimikki kamal by Vineeth Sreenivasan

I - Ivadunarana malsarangal by Shaan Rahmaan

K - kannazhaka by Anirudh Ravichandran

E - Elle m'a dit by Odelly

W - wolves by Selena Gomez

O - odenda odenda - mash up by Sachin Raj

L - LAW by Yoon Mirae

F- fu in my head by Cloudy June

NOW I GOTTA TAG 15 PEOPLE ASSFFGHJK

@leotoru @lolziesitsame @kissmetwicekissmedeadly @pieground @bubblexly @candied-boys @corpiote @daimaoryu @venulus-reblogs @drewadoodle @dododrawsstuff @evil-quartett @maladaptivedaydreamsx @chaosangel767 @cryingaboutit1514

Y'all don't gotta respond. This thing is tuff I'm literally dying

tagged by @helliswaiting ahh thank you 🫶

rules: pick a song for every letter of your URL and tag that many people

T-Taroko- August Greenwood

A-Anpanman- bts

K-Keelhauled- Alestorm

O-Oliolioxinfree- Sworn In

C- Cha Cha Cha- Käärijä

A-Arcadia- Lucifer

F-Fake It- Seether

E-Eyes Sewn Shut- Suicide Silence

Tags: @yanderepuck @wekillandwetake @otomedad @anakinfruit @floydsteeth @tangsweet @vivi-ships @lokis-laugh

[indiarightnow]

The pandemic would possibly perhaps perhaps additionally merely dangle temporarily brought the curtains down on reside presentations and musical gatherings, nevertheless it has no longer silenced musicians from Kerala. Some had been letting their inventive juices circulation through self reliant music movies, perhaps a becoming medium for inventive expression for the times.

It is no longer ethical uplifting melodies or catchy tracks which dangle considered the mild of the day however additionally classical compositions, whereas rap and hip hop namely received witness among the Malayali viewers. Whereas recordings would possibly perhaps perhaps additionally be done indoors, musicians deliver thematic movies too would possibly perhaps perhaps additionally be safely shot at dwelling or nearby areas adhering to pandemic protocols and with a skeletal crew.

Playback singer K S Harisankar, who currently launched his single ‘Neela Mukile’ says the pandemic-brought about lockdown gave musicians love him “extra time” to take a study original indie initiatives. “Recordings for film songs gallop on, in the abet of the scenes for movies releasing, however I continually love coming out with music movies, and the lockdown has lent me the condo to experiment,” he says. At a time when reside presentations are a no-no, the young singer feels it’s paramount to ticket one’s “digital presence and cease reside.”

For him, being an self reliant artiste is as necessary as doing film initiatives. Harisankar feels yet any other motive in the abet of extra takers for music movies now would possibly perhaps perhaps per chance be the swap in entertainment consumption sample. “This present day, extra folks are staying at dwelling and hence survey for contemporary mumble material online, namely when there are so few film releases even by technique of OTT. Song fills that gap,” he provides.

N J Nandini in a mild from the music video ‘Chentharsayaka’   | Photo Credit: Particular Affiliation

Carnatic vocalist N J Nandini concurs with Harisankar’s perceive on the necessity for musicians to nick out a digital presence for themselves. She currently brought out a music video on erstwhile Travancore-generation poet-composer Irayimman Thampi’s Malayalam padam ‘Chentharsayaka’.

“In music, ethical love in a kind of inventive domains, out of search for is out of mind. As artistes, now we must retain working and producing in boom that we abolish no longer tumble between the cracks. Furthermore, I imagine, inventive artistes can not sit down lazy,” she says. Within the absence of reside presentations, creating music movies lends a factor of “self-pleasure”, provides Nandini.

Others, love filmmaker Mridul Nair who currently launched ‘Return — Taka thai tha’, with out a doubt feel that any individual would truly like to revisit an ethical track, some even taking half in them on loop. “In disagreement to a short film or equal mumble material that in most cases stays on your mind ethical for the duration you’re staring at it, a catchy songs linger on your mind longer and also you doubtlessly can additionally merely approach abet to it,” says Mridul. Restful by Manikandan Ayyappa and sung by Vineeth Sreenivasan, the music video capabilities actors Sunny Wayne, Deepak Parambol Ganapathi S Poduval, Subish Sudhi among others.

Having the ethical platforms to showcase work in this digital age is yet any other incentive for artistes. “In the end of the 90s, there became once a enhance in self reliant music in India. However, later, it develop of diminished in size a piece of, largely attributable to concerns of piracy when the digital pattern came in. It has now made a revival thanks to several genuine streaming platforms and there would possibly perhaps be extra reinforce for indie artistes this describe day,” says playback singer Jyotsna Radhakrishnan. She currently launched a soulful English be conscious, ‘Coffee Mug’, on the pangs of affection and featuring Purbayan Chatterjee on the sitar.

Written and mild by Jyotsna herself, ‘Coffee Mug’ is visualised in a no-frills 2D animation video. “I wished to take a study one thing a kind of with the video this time. Also, this kind of music video helps abet the insist in the foreground,” she provides.

Sithara Krishnakumar, who brought out or became once connected to several self reliant music productions sooner or later of the lockdown, says it has been a creatively productive segment for musicians. “Till then, we had been going with the circulation, focusing on film compositions. All of us had time in our fingers, namely those hours we ancient to spent travelling for recordings or shoots or presentations. In spite of technical obstacles and a kind of excellent difficulties, we tailored to the distress,” says Sithara.

Internal about a days of the lockdown, her band, Mission Malabaricus, came up with ‘Song of Valour’. ‘Chaayapaattu’ had musings on the lockdown written by Muhsin Parari, after which came ‘Priyane’. The latter, relate to her dangle lyrics, became once her first strive at enhancing as effectively! “I downloaded original cell applications and picked up several aspects of making music sitting at dwelling,” she provides.

She additionally sang or collaborated in the self reliant initiatives of a kind of composers, reminiscent of Gopi Sunder (‘Indumathi’) and Shahabaz Aman (‘Manassinte Madrassa’). “Within the closing four or five years, I haven’t sung so distinguished of non-film compositions as I did sooner or later of the lockdown. Every person became once stepping out of the film music zone,” she says.

Within the previous few years, rap and hip hop emerged on the customary scene in Malayalam. Tracks by rapper Hirandas Murali aka Vedan (‘Instruct of the Voiceless’) and actor-dancer Neeraj Madhav (‘Panipaali’) went viral. Neeraj’s track video too became once made in 2D animation, effectively the exhaust of the sort for storytelling. “The Malayali viewers has additionally develop into extra begin to various mumble material. So there would possibly perhaps be a rising condo for indie music. Clearly, it has been there for a while however I deem it’s expanding now,” says Neeraj, explaining why there are extra takers for music movies now.

“Every other motive why catchy music movies gallop viral is because they can merely be shared so with out complications, thanks to WhatsApp and social media,” Neeraj parts out.

(With inputs from Athira M)

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Lodha Committee on BCCI Reforms- All you need to know!

This article is written by Ranojoy Mukherjee of Lloyd Law College. The article discusses the findings of the Lodha  Committee.

Cricket in our nation has always been the sport which predominantly dwells in the heart of countrymen regardless of the fact whether the particular one is a cricket fanatic or not. But in return, such amount of love and passions often encounter an unfortunate deformity emanated from the administrative cells of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Such kinds of malpractices within its inner cell can be traced back from the indulgence of their administrative heads into the realms of never-ending controversies. It is pertinent to notice how BCCI every now and then continues to be involved in controversies followed by their large political interference, corruption, match-fixing or betting etc. So far, there have been innumerable debates seething in the favors and against the functioning of the BCCI due to the Indian Premier League ( broadly known as IPL) scam which literally undermined the national pride relating to sporting performance severely.

How it all started

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May 16, 2013– Delhi police unveils spot fixing and match fixing scams.

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July 28, 2013– BCCI appointed 2 member probe panel clears India Cements and Raj Kundra.

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July 30, 2013– Bombay HC rules against BCCI probe panel and declares it illegal.

4

October 7, 2013– SC appoints the Justice Mudgal Probe Panel.

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Feb 10, 2014– Justice Mudgal Probe Panel submits the report to SC finds Gurunath Meiyappa and Raj Kundra guilty illegal betting in cricket events

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Jan 22, 2015– SC rules against BCCI’s controversial clause 6.2.4 which allows BCCI officials to have a commercial interest in IPL teams and appoints the Justice Lodha Committee.  

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July 14, 2015– Lodha committee submits the report on Gurunath Meiyappa, Raj Kundra, CSK, RR; recommends lifetime ban for Meiyappa and Kundra and 2 years suspension for CSK and RR.

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Jan 4, 2016– Lodha committee submits Report on Reforms in Cricket and recommends drastic changes in BCCI.

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Feb 4, 2016– SC asks BCCI to implements Lodha Committee’s recommendation.

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March 3, 2016– BCCI files counter affidavit in SC against Lodha Committee’s recommendation.

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July 18, 2016– SC upholds key recommendations and tasks the Lodha committee to oversee implementation within 4-6 months.

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Sept 14, 2016– Lodha committee files first Status Report; recommends removal of BCCI Office Bearers and appointment of Panel of Administrator.

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Oct 7, 2016– SC asks BCCI to cease further disbursement of funds to state associations until they accept Lodha Committee recommendations.

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Oct 21, 2016– SC directs appointment of auditor fixes threshold value for contracts and instructs BCCI to cooperate with Lodha Committee.

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Nov 7, 2016– Lodha Committee files second Status Report, reiterating non-compliance by BCCI.

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Nov 14, 2016– Lodha Committee files third Status Report; recommends enforcement of recommended eligibility criteria and appointment of Mr. G.K Pillai as Observer.

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Dec 13, 2016– SC releases judgments dismissing review petition filed by the BCCI against judgment delivered on July 18, 2016.

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Dec 15, 2016– SC hears curative petitions filed by BCCI against judgment delivered on July 18, 2016; reserves judgment for Jan 3, 2017.

In a very unprecedented move, the Supreme court got involved in the functioning of BCCI in the case of BCCI vs. Lodha Committee. The inception of such a move by the apex court can be sensed to be the backwash of the IPL betting scam which shook the foundation of belief in the sanctity of the sport. In the abovementioned case, three cricketers, S. Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan, who represented Rajasthan Royal in 2013 Indian Premier League, were involved and also arrested by the Delhi Police on charges of spot-fixing. Upon further investigation, few other renowned names like Vindu Dara Singh and BCCI President N. Sreenivasan’s Son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan came in front as the backbone of such execution resulting which all of them were arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch. In addition to that the apex court ensuring the fairness of the investigation also suggested the N. Srinivasan to step down from his position as BCCI president else, there could have been a verdict asking him to step down.

But the investigations were still on over the allegations of spot-fixing and betting in IPL. Therefore, considering the intricacies of this matter the apex court appointed a three-member committee, which was known as Mudgal Committee, headed by Justice Mukul Mudgal. The other two members were Additional Solicitor General of India L. Nageswara Rao and former cricket umpire Nilay Dutta. Followed by a stretch of inspection, the Mudgal committee unearthed the discrepancies performed by BCCI chief Srinivasan for being reluctant enough to act upon the accused of betting, IPL COO Sudar Raman, Chennai Super Kings’ owner Meiyappan and Rajasthan Royal’s owner Kundra, despite having the cognizance of the violation. The Supreme Court did agree with the Mudgal committee report but partly acceded to all its recommendations. Due to this fact, the Court felt the exigency of more stringent regulations and thus paved the path for another committee under the supervision of CJI, Justice R.M Lodha.

Lodha Committee

Lodha Committee

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Punishing those who are guilty by Mudgal Panel

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Scrutinizing the role of COO

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Transparency in the functioning of BCCI

With the advent of Lodha committee, it mainly focused on three major tasks; punishing those who have been found guilty by the Mudgal committee, scrutinizing the role of COO Sundar Raman in the IPL spot-fixing scam and providing more transparency in the functioning of BCCI to avoid further stings. Going by this agenda this committee did impose a lifetime ban on Meiyappan and Kundra and suspended the IPL franchises, Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals for two years. But the players associated with these franchises were given the liberty to be auctioned for other franchise.

The Lodha Committee further stressing on the issue of providing transparency in the functioning of BCCI, framed questionnaires on exhaustive set of topics such as the role of BCCI’s stakeholders in the board’s election processes, the basis and formation of its various committees, player welfare, conflict of interest and transparency in the IPL’s functioning. With the help of their sent questionnaires, this committee shook the very foundation of BCCI just by introducing its revolutionary reforms within the power structure and functioning of BCCI.  And in addition to that, the functioning of the same had been highly applauded by the Supreme Court resulting which the BCCI had strictly been given an ultimatum to work adhering to the Lodha panel’s recommendations for the overhaul of Indian cricket.

All about Lodha Committee Recommendations

Lodha Committee Major Recommendations

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BCCI Office Bearers not more than 2 years

2

President of BCCI not for more than 2 years

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One Vote Per State

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Separate IPL Governing Body

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Legalizations of Betting

The report laid down by the Lodha panel had its two integral parts. The first part of the report entails its objectives only and the second part of the report titled as ‘Getting off the mark’, critically analyses the gaps in the functioning of BCCI and state volumes about the prevalent corruption, lack of transparency, conflict of interest and such other difficulties. To address these issues, the Lodha Committee came up with following recommendations:

BCCI office-bearer can work for not more than two continuous terms: This recommendation is accompanied by fixing the retirement age at 70, in order to avoid the management of the sport by elderly who could barely speak, which indeed is the current trend. Also, those administrators who are declared as insolvent, or of unsound mind or charged with criminal charges, or who hold any office or post in a sport or athletic association or federation apart from cricket are to be eliminated.

President of the BCCI cannot hold his post for more than two years.

There is a proposition of one vote per state and no proxy voting: This recommendation would take away the monopoly of the suppressing states like Maharashtra, which currently exercises multiple votes owing to multiple associations.

Separate governing body for IPL with a certain level of sovereignty to be made available to IPL as a governing body. The committee has also suggested forming a players association and has called for a “steering committee”. The intention behind the same is to enforce grass root level change in the structure of BCCI.

Legalizations of betting have also been an integral part of such a proposition. It has also recommended that BCCI Officials shall disclose their assets to the boards so that they could be certain about the non-involvement of BCCI officials in betting.

Critical Overview

The board has always been reluctant to show any sort of excitement towards implementing those reforms as it would affect the working of the board to a great extent. The board did accept and promise to take up the reforms but at the same time, they miserably faltered in keeping their promise and implementing these measures. Hon’ble Supreme Court on the other end continues to force the board to implement these recommendations. In a complete resistance to what Supreme Court has stated, BCCI continuously rejected several recommendations of the panel, as in the opinion of the Board such recommendations don’t deem fit and they are subject to criticism.

The committee also recommended a one state-one vote system which cannot properly be implemented in India. The cause of such denials reflects from the instances where some politically stronger states would dominate over the weaker states which with time encourages corruption. Reliance can be placed on one country-one vote system which was adopted by FIFA that led to 2015 FIFA corruption scam in which countries had very little or no football activities were accused of taking the bribe from FIFA officials and countries with more football activity, to vote in a specified pattern. In this way, votes of politically weak states can be tampered by stronger states resulting in an undesirable situation. In the context of India, the votes for politically weak states such as North Eastern states can be tampered by politically strong states such as Gujarat and Maharashtra. Therefore, one state-one vote cannot be implemented in a country like India.  

Among all, the most important recommendation proposed by the committee was to legalize betting in India. Legalizing betting might fetch a lot of revenues to the government and will pull up the GDP of our nation but it will also significantly increase match-fixing in the game of cricket. Even if the government has not legalized betting, it is still prevalent in the nation. As per the recent survey, betting money involved in IPL-7 and IPL-8 were around 7000 crores and 12000 crores, respectively. Hence it is very much evident how the black money earned through illegalization of betting led to flow in the economy.

Furthermore, the exigency of having the Controller and Auditor General (CAG) as a nominee in the managing committee of the society was also felt by the committee. But that proposition, later on, had been termed as contradictory to the constitution of BCCI which does not permit a non-member to be involved in the managing committee meeting of the society. Also, in accordance with the rules of ICC if the governmental representatives are included as a full-time member of the Board then ICC holds the power of derecognizing such domestic cricket board of a country and at a global level, ICC will treat CAG representation as a governmental interference.

The committee also strongly recommended to curb down the frequency as well as the number of advertisement shown on a television during a cricket match live telecast. According to Lodha panel, the advertisement should be telecast only during the drinks break session and unnecessary advertisement after every over and fall of wicket should be avoided. But in reciprocal to that recommendation BCCI was of the view that minimizing the frequency would affect the income of board which would lead to heavy losses. The BCCI being a self-funded organization does not depend on the government for any source of revenue and such an act would hamper its earnings. The revenue earned from such advertisements directly gets invested by BCCI in conducting their various training programs in small towns and villages to search for talented players. Therefore, this recommendation of the committee will restrict the funding of the board and it would be difficult for the board to perform its function.

The Board did not even welcome the proposals of the committee regarding the capping of the age limit to 70 years for the officers of Board. As per the Board, an office-bearer gets elected through a democratic format hence such proposal would give birth to the criticism. In board’s view, if a member attains the age of 70 years that doesn’t make him inefficient to perform the given task by any stretch of an assumption. Therefore implementing such recommendation would lead them to a situation where very few people with good experience will be left in the committee which will further hamper the working of the committee.

Many news agencies, NGOs, and social groups have demanded to include BCCI under the purview of RTI but the board always had the ways to deal with it. The same was also recommended by the Lodha committee in order to make BCCI publicly accountable and also to build public trust in the working of the board. However, the BCCI was of opinion that mere performing public function would not be a sufficient cause to make RTI applicable on it. The board stated that it is a society registered in Tamil Nadu and did not receive any funding from the government.

Suggestive Measures

Suggestions on the Recommendations

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Threshold limit for Legalizing Betting

2

Nomination of CAG to be the Managing Committee

3

Advertisements after every 5 Overs

4

Sports Bodies using ‘India’ as the name must come under RTI

5

Separate Body for IPL

6

Participation of Women in BCCI

7

Introducing an Increased Funding Plan

8

Ceiling Limits for BCCI Members

In view of the misconducts executed by BCCI, Indian Judiciary already took the initiative to curb down the monopolistic approach of the Board by strengthening the recommendations put forth by Lodha panel. Apart from the same, there are few suggestions in the following which can be considered in line with Lodha committee’s recommendation to help in improvising BCCI’s working:

In terms of legalization of betting in our nation, there must be a threshold limit for a person to limit the amount of betting. Only the registered individuals through their authorized online accounts can have the access to such practices but at the same time, proper rules should be drafted considering the same. Betting shall be legalized except for players, BCCI officials or administrators covered under BCCI and IPL regulations.

The nomination of CAG as the managing committee member of the society can be made without affecting any international obligations if no voting rights are assigned to CAG. By this way, CAG can become a member of the Board to ensure that proper books of accounts are being maintained and also India will not violate any international agreement.

The advertisements during a live telecast of cricket match shall be allowed after every five overs, fall of the wicket, drinks or lunch, instead of ad breaks given after an over is finished.

Apart from it, all the sports bodies which enjoy the right to use ‘India’ as the team’s name should come under the purview of RTI. It is performing a public function of selecting the national and international team to represent the nation on a global front. It regulates cricket in India of all forms at all levels. The decision of Zee Telefilms v. Union of India, (2005) 4 SCC 649 requires some reconsideration on the ground that it performs the public function involving millions of funds and arbitrary using its power in recent past. Therefore, it should be considered State under Article 12 of the Indian Constitution.

In terms of managing the affairs of IPL, there should be a separate body which needs to be constituted by a completely different set of rules. And this new committee for IPL should include the members from CAG which will keep the check and balances on the financial transactions.

The women must have a representation in BCCI. Also in terms of promoting women empowerment and their participation in BCCI on a larger scale, there must be few seats reserved for women.

The board must introduce an increased funding plan for promoting women cricket team and providing them with the proper infrastructure, equipment and experienced coaches for the training. The women team has always been subjected to ignorances which resulted in failing to draw the attention of mass media. The training programs and talent hunts in smaller towns for women cricket team should be encouraged.

There must be a ceiling limit for all the members of BCCI whoever are holding the post for multiple terms and various occasions. A stipulated tenure must be framed in order to give chances to the other members. The board must set a complete list of qualification and disqualification for a person to be a member and its removal.

Supreme Court’s observation on the recommendations

Recently on the very date of August 9, the Supreme Court cropped up with its latest iteration in its verdicts on the affairs of the Board of Control for Cricket in India [BCCI]. On a disappointed note, the judgment, delivered by a bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices DY Chandrachud and AM Khanwilkar, scraped off a few of the more path-breaking recommendations proposed by the Lodha Committee, which the court itself had endorsed in July 2016 and at the same time did endorse few of them. Let’s start with a with the ones which have already been scraped off by the apex court.

Lodha Committee Recommendations Supreme Court did not uphold

1

One-State-One-Vote

2

Undergo a cooling-off period

3

Modifies number from 3 to 5

One-State-One-Vote

Among other pronouncements, the court has now scrapped the one-state-one-vote policy that the committee had seen as the backbone for a new constitution of the BCCI. In its place, the court has confirmed the voting power of not only all the existing associations in Maharashtra and Gujarat that are the Maharashtra, Mumbai and Vidarbha cricket associations and the Gujarat, Baroda and Saurashtra cricket associations but has also affirmed the votes available to the government bodies, the Services Sports Control Board, the Railway Sports Promotion Board and the Association of Indian Universities.

“To utilize territoriality as a basis of exclusion is problematic because it ignores history and the contributions made by such associations to the development of cricket and its popularity,” Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, who wrote the judgment, reasoned.

Undergo a cooling-off period

Perhaps even more significantly, though, the court has watered down the much-lauded cooling-off period suggested in the draft constitution that the Committee of Administrators appointed by the court had drawn-up. This clause was included at the behest of the Lodha Panel, which had recommended that the tenure of each term for office bearers of the BCCI and the various state associations should be three years and that there should be a mandatory “cooling off period” after each term; that is, an office-bearer who holds a post for three consecutive years would be disentitled from contesting a succeeding election to any post either within the BCCI or within any of the various state associations.

The judgment, authored by Justice Chandrachud, now makes it clear that while the term of office shall be as suggested in the draft constitution, the cooling off period of three years shall apply only when an individual has held the post of an office bearer for two consecutive terms either in a state association or in the BCCI or in a combination of both.

Modifies the number of selectors from 3 to 5

The court introduced a modification in the very number of selectors which has now following such been recommended to be 5 instead of current 3. These 5 numbers of selectors came into being with the realization that a “board based selection committee” was required to push the prodigious talent pool spread across the country.

“The vast territory of the nation, the extent of cricket being played both at the national and international level, the need for selectors to travel extensively to spot talent from the pool of cricketers and the need to encourage both domestic and international cricket, are considerations which persuade us to accept the plea for modification in regard to the number of selectors to five,” Justice Chandrachud observed.

As similar as these changes which can be reckoned as an undermining of the Lodha Panel’s suggestions, we can at the same time stress upon the suggestions proposed by the committee that has been approved by the apex court.

Disqualification of persons from being an office bearer

The Supreme Court has kept alive key clauses suggested by the panel towards disqualification of persons from being an office bearer or a member of the governing council or any other committee, or as a representative to the International Cricket Council.

This now means that persons above the age of 70 years, ministers, government servants and others holding public office, persons serving as office bearers of other sports federations, and persons charged by a court of law of having committed any criminal offence are all disqualified from contesting for any post within the BCCI or any of its state associations. Also disqualified are persons who have served terms as an office bearer of the BCCI or any of the state associations for a cumulative period of nine years. These requirements, the court has held, serve as important safeguards against the development of vested personal interests and against the concentration of power in a few hands, encouraging thereby a “dispersal of authority,” and the creation of a “wider body of experienced administrators.”

Even before the verdict of August 9 ruling, many of the other suggestions of the Lodha Panel had already been finally approved by the court itself. These incorporate, for instance, recommendations towards the establishment of an apex council of nine members comprising three independent persons, with two from a newly constituted “players association,” and, at least, one woman—overseen by a reputable chief executive officer—to conduct the day-to-day administration of cricket in the country; the creation of a sound set of principles to remove conflicts of interest that had hitherto plagued the sport, including a reduction in the participation of those entrenched in politics; and, crucially, the introduction of a wall divorcing the management of the IPL from the BCCI.

Ending Note

Cricket can no longer be termed as the gentleman’s game as the essence of the gentleman has however been eroded. The existence of IPL might have given fame, success, and money to many upcoming players but it has also introduced avenues for gambling, spot-fixing, and underworld activities in the country. To overcome such problems, Indian judiciary has made several attempts to develop sports law in the nation and one of such attempt was the appointment of Lodha committee. Lodha committee has come up with tremendous recommendations which will not only put checks and balances on the working of the board but will also change its performance. Still, the legality of some recommendations can be challenged and the demand for reconsideration is to be served in order to introduce a better law in the nation.

Opposing the said recommendation is obviously not a viable option for the Board’s point of view instead, they must adopt the necessary modifications for the betterment of cricket in India. The disputes between Lodha committee and BCCI must be addressed by putting emphasis on reforming cricket by removing some necessary evils such as poor governance, match fixing, etc. The report is just a beginning step in reforming the sports and if accepted then will set a benchmark for reforms in other sports.

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This article is written by Ranojoy Mukherjee of Lloyd Law College. The article discusses the findings of the Lodha  Committee.

Cricket in our nation has always been the sport which predominantly dwells in the heart of countrymen regardless of the fact whether the particular one is a cricket fanatic or not. But in return, such amount of love and passions often encounter an unfortunate deformity emanated from the administrative cells of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Such kinds of malpractices within its inner cell can be traced back from the indulgence of their administrative heads into the realms of never-ending controversies. It is pertinent to notice how BCCI every now and then continues to be involved in controversies followed by their large political interference, corruption, match-fixing or betting etc. So far, there have been innumerable debates seething in the favors and against the functioning of the BCCI due to the Indian Premier League ( broadly known as IPL) scam which literally undermined the national pride relating to sporting performance severely.

How it all started

1

May 16, 2013– Delhi police unveils spot fixing and match fixing scams.

2

July 28, 2013– BCCI appointed 2 member probe panel clears India Cements and Raj Kundra.

3

July 30, 2013– Bombay HC rules against BCCI probe panel and declares it illegal.

4

October 7, 2013– SC appoints the Justice Mudgal Probe Panel.

5

Feb 10, 2014– Justice Mudgal Probe Panel submits the report to SC finds Gurunath Meiyappa and Raj Kundra guilty illegal betting in cricket events

6

Jan 22, 2015– SC rules against BCCI’s controversial clause 6.2.4 which allows BCCI officials to have a commercial interest in IPL teams and appoints the Justice Lodha Committee.  

7

July 14, 2015– Lodha committee submits the report on Gurunath Meiyappa, Raj Kundra, CSK, RR; recommends lifetime ban for Meiyappa and Kundra and 2 years suspension for CSK and RR.

8

Jan 4, 2016– Lodha committee submits Report on Reforms in Cricket and recommends drastic changes in BCCI.

9

Feb 4, 2016– SC asks BCCI to implements Lodha Committee’s recommendation.

10

March 3, 2016– BCCI files counter affidavit in SC against Lodha Committee’s recommendation.

11

July 18, 2016– SC upholds key recommendations and tasks the Lodha committee to oversee implementation within 4-6 months.

12

Sept 14, 2016– Lodha committee files first Status Report; recommends removal of BCCI Office Bearers and appointment of Panel of Administrator.

13

Oct 7, 2016– SC asks BCCI to cease further disbursement of funds to state associations until they accept Lodha Committee recommendations.

14

Oct 21, 2016– SC directs appointment of auditor fixes threshold value for contracts and instructs BCCI to cooperate with Lodha Committee.

15

Nov 7, 2016– Lodha Committee files second Status Report, reiterating non-compliance by BCCI.

16

Nov 14, 2016– Lodha Committee files third Status Report; recommends enforcement of recommended eligibility criteria and appointment of Mr. G.K Pillai as Observer.

17

Dec 13, 2016– SC releases judgments dismissing review petition filed by the BCCI against judgment delivered on July 18, 2016.

18

Dec 15, 2016– SC hears curative petitions filed by BCCI against judgment delivered on July 18, 2016; reserves judgment for Jan 3, 2017.

In a very unprecedented move, the Supreme court got involved in the functioning of BCCI in the case of BCCI vs. Lodha Committee. The inception of such a move by the apex court can be sensed to be the backwash of the IPL betting scam which shook the foundation of belief in the sanctity of the sport. In the abovementioned case, three cricketers, S. Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan, who represented Rajasthan Royal in 2013 Indian Premier League, were involved and also arrested by the Delhi Police on charges of spot-fixing. Upon further investigation, few other renowned names like Vindu Dara Singh and BCCI President N. Sreenivasan’s Son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan came in front as the backbone of such execution resulting which all of them were arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch. In addition to that the apex court ensuring the fairness of the investigation also suggested the N. Srinivasan to step down from his position as BCCI president else, there could have been a verdict asking him to step down.

But the investigations were still on over the allegations of spot-fixing and betting in IPL. Therefore, considering the intricacies of this matter the apex court appointed a three-member committee, which was known as Mudgal Committee, headed by Justice Mukul Mudgal. The other two members were Additional Solicitor General of India L. Nageswara Rao and former cricket umpire Nilay Dutta. Followed by a stretch of inspection, the Mudgal committee unearthed the discrepancies performed by BCCI chief Srinivasan for being reluctant enough to act upon the accused of betting, IPL COO Sudar Raman, Chennai Super Kings’ owner Meiyappan and Rajasthan Royal’s owner Kundra, despite having the cognizance of the violation. The Supreme Court did agree with the Mudgal committee report but partly acceded to all its recommendations. Due to this fact, the Court felt the exigency of more stringent regulations and thus paved the path for another committee under the supervision of CJI, Justice R.M Lodha.

Lodha Committee

Lodha Committee

1

Punishing those who are guilty by Mudgal Panel

2

Scrutinizing the role of COO

3

Transparency in the functioning of BCCI

With the advent of Lodha committee, it mainly focused on three major tasks; punishing those who have been found guilty by the Mudgal committee, scrutinizing the role of COO Sundar Raman in the IPL spot-fixing scam and providing more transparency in the functioning of BCCI to avoid further stings. Going by this agenda this committee did impose a lifetime ban on Meiyappan and Kundra and suspended the IPL franchises, Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals for two years. But the players associated with these franchises were given the liberty to be auctioned for other franchise.

The Lodha Committee further stressing on the issue of providing transparency in the functioning of BCCI, framed questionnaires on exhaustive set of topics such as the role of BCCI’s stakeholders in the board’s election processes, the basis and formation of its various committees, player welfare, conflict of interest and transparency in the IPL’s functioning. With the help of their sent questionnaires, this committee shook the very foundation of BCCI just by introducing its revolutionary reforms within the power structure and functioning of BCCI.  And in addition to that, the functioning of the same had been highly applauded by the Supreme Court resulting which the BCCI had strictly been given an ultimatum to work adhering to the Lodha panel’s recommendations for the overhaul of Indian cricket.

All about Lodha Committee Recommendations

Lodha Committee Major Recommendations

1

BCCI Office Bearers not more than 2 years

2

President of BCCI not for more than 2 years

3

One Vote Per State

4

Separate IPL Governing Body

5

Legalizations of Betting

The report laid down by the Lodha panel had its two integral parts. The first part of the report entails its objectives only and the second part of the report titled as ‘Getting off the mark’, critically analyses the gaps in the functioning of BCCI and state volumes about the prevalent corruption, lack of transparency, conflict of interest and such other difficulties. To address these issues, the Lodha Committee came up with following recommendations:

BCCI office-bearer can work for not more than two continuous terms: This recommendation is accompanied by fixing the retirement age at 70, in order to avoid the management of the sport by elderly who could barely speak, which indeed is the current trend. Also, those administrators who are declared as insolvent, or of unsound mind or charged with criminal charges, or who hold any office or post in a sport or athletic association or federation apart from cricket are to be eliminated.

President of the BCCI cannot hold his post for more than two years.

There is a proposition of one vote per state and no proxy voting: This recommendation would take away the monopoly of the suppressing states like Maharashtra, which currently exercises multiple votes owing to multiple associations.

Separate governing body for IPL with a certain level of sovereignty to be made available to IPL as a governing body. The committee has also suggested forming a players association and has called for a “steering committee”. The intention behind the same is to enforce grass root level change in the structure of BCCI.

Legalizations of betting have also been an integral part of such a proposition. It has also recommended that BCCI Officials shall disclose their assets to the boards so that they could be certain about the non-involvement of BCCI officials in betting.

Critical Overview

The board has always been reluctant to show any sort of excitement towards implementing those reforms as it would affect the working of the board to a great extent. The board did accept and promise to take up the reforms but at the same time, they miserably faltered in keeping their promise and implementing these measures. Hon’ble Supreme Court on the other end continues to force the board to implement these recommendations. In a complete resistance to what Supreme Court has stated, BCCI continuously rejected several recommendations of the panel, as in the opinion of the Board such recommendations don’t deem fit and they are subject to criticism.

The committee also recommended a one state-one vote system which cannot properly be implemented in India. The cause of such denials reflects from the instances where some politically stronger states would dominate over the weaker states which with time encourages corruption. Reliance can be placed on one country-one vote system which was adopted by FIFA that led to 2015 FIFA corruption scam in which countries had very little or no football activities were accused of taking the bribe from FIFA officials and countries with more football activity, to vote in a specified pattern. In this way, votes of politically weak states can be tampered by stronger states resulting in an undesirable situation. In the context of India, the votes for politically weak states such as North Eastern states can be tampered by politically strong states such as Gujarat and Maharashtra. Therefore, one state-one vote cannot be implemented in a country like India.  

Among all, the most important recommendation proposed by the committee was to legalize betting in India. Legalizing betting might fetch a lot of revenues to the government and will pull up the GDP of our nation but it will also significantly increase match-fixing in the game of cricket. Even if the government has not legalized betting, it is still prevalent in the nation. As per the recent survey, betting money involved in IPL-7 and IPL-8 were around 7000 crores and 12000 crores, respectively. Hence it is very much evident how the black money earned through illegalization of betting led to flow in the economy.

Furthermore, the exigency of having the Controller and Auditor General (CAG) as a nominee in the managing committee of the society was also felt by the committee. But that proposition, later on, had been termed as contradictory to the constitution of BCCI which does not permit a non-member to be involved in the managing committee meeting of the society. Also, in accordance with the rules of ICC if the governmental representatives are included as a full-time member of the Board then ICC holds the power of derecognizing such domestic cricket board of a country and at a global level, ICC will treat CAG representation as a governmental interference.

The committee also strongly recommended to curb down the frequency as well as the number of advertisement shown on a television during a cricket match live telecast. According to Lodha panel, the advertisement should be telecast only during the drinks break session and unnecessary advertisement after every over and fall of wicket should be avoided. But in reciprocal to that recommendation BCCI was of the view that minimizing the frequency would affect the income of board which would lead to heavy losses. The BCCI being a self-funded organization does not depend on the government for any source of revenue and such an act would hamper its earnings. The revenue earned from such advertisements directly gets invested by BCCI in conducting their various training programs in small towns and villages to search for talented players. Therefore, this recommendation of the committee will restrict the funding of the board and it would be difficult for the board to perform its function.

The Board did not even welcome the proposals of the committee regarding the capping of the age limit to 70 years for the officers of Board. As per the Board, an office-bearer gets elected through a democratic format hence such proposal would give birth to the criticism. In board’s view, if a member attains the age of 70 years that doesn’t make him inefficient to perform the given task by any stretch of an assumption. Therefore implementing such recommendation would lead them to a situation where very few people with good experience will be left in the committee which will further hamper the working of the committee.

Many news agencies, NGOs, and social groups have demanded to include BCCI under the purview of RTI but the board always had the ways to deal with it. The same was also recommended by the Lodha committee in order to make BCCI publicly accountable and also to build public trust in the working of the board. However, the BCCI was of opinion that mere performing public function would not be a sufficient cause to make RTI applicable on it. The board stated that it is a society registered in Tamil Nadu and did not receive any funding from the government.

Suggestive Measures

Suggestions on the Recommendations

1

Threshold limit for Legalizing Betting

2

Nomination of CAG to be the Managing Committee

3

Advertisements after every 5 Overs

4

Sports Bodies using ‘India’ as the name must come under RTI

5

Separate Body for IPL

6

Participation of Women in BCCI

7

Introducing an Increased Funding Plan

8

Ceiling Limits for BCCI Members

In view of the misconducts executed by BCCI, Indian Judiciary already took the initiative to curb down the monopolistic approach of the Board by strengthening the recommendations put forth by Lodha panel. Apart from the same, there are few suggestions in the following which can be considered in line with Lodha committee’s recommendation to help in improvising BCCI’s working:

In terms of legalization of betting in our nation, there must be a threshold limit for a person to limit the amount of betting. Only the registered individuals through their authorized online accounts can have the access to such practices but at the same time, proper rules should be drafted considering the same. Betting shall be legalized except for players, BCCI officials or administrators covered under BCCI and IPL regulations.

The nomination of CAG as the managing committee member of the society can be made without affecting any international obligations if no voting rights are assigned to CAG. By this way, CAG can become a member of the Board to ensure that proper books of accounts are being maintained and also India will not violate any international agreement.

The advertisements during a live telecast of cricket match shall be allowed after every five overs, fall of the wicket, drinks or lunch, instead of ad breaks given after an over is finished.

Apart from it, all the sports bodies which enjoy the right to use ‘India’ as the team’s name should come under the purview of RTI. It is performing a public function of selecting the national and international team to represent the nation on a global front. It regulates cricket in India of all forms at all levels. The decision of Zee Telefilms v. Union of India, (2005) 4 SCC 649 requires some reconsideration on the ground that it performs the public function involving millions of funds and arbitrary using its power in recent past. Therefore, it should be considered State under Article 12 of the Indian Constitution.

In terms of managing the affairs of IPL, there should be a separate body which needs to be constituted by a completely different set of rules. And this new committee for IPL should include the members from CAG which will keep the check and balances on the financial transactions.

The women must have a representation in BCCI. Also in terms of promoting women empowerment and their participation in BCCI on a larger scale, there must be few seats reserved for women.

The board must introduce an increased funding plan for promoting women cricket team and providing them with the proper infrastructure, equipment and experienced coaches for the training. The women team has always been subjected to ignorances which resulted in failing to draw the attention of mass media. The training programs and talent hunts in smaller towns for women cricket team should be encouraged.

There must be a ceiling limit for all the members of BCCI whoever are holding the post for multiple terms and various occasions. A stipulated tenure must be framed in order to give chances to the other members. The board must set a complete list of qualification and disqualification for a person to be a member and its removal.

Supreme Court’s observation on the recommendations

Recently on the very date of August 9, the Supreme Court cropped up with its latest iteration in its verdicts on the affairs of the Board of Control for Cricket in India [BCCI]. On a disappointed note, the judgment, delivered by a bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices DY Chandrachud and AM Khanwilkar, scraped off a few of the more path-breaking recommendations proposed by the Lodha Committee, which the court itself had endorsed in July 2016 and at the same time did endorse few of them. Let’s start with a with the ones which have already been scraped off by the apex court.

Lodha Committee Recommendations Supreme Court did not uphold

1

One-State-One-Vote

2

Undergo a cooling-off period

3

Modifies number from 3 to 5

One-State-One-Vote

Among other pronouncements, the court has now scrapped the one-state-one-vote policy that the committee had seen as the backbone for a new constitution of the BCCI. In its place, the court has confirmed the voting power of not only all the existing associations in Maharashtra and Gujarat that are the Maharashtra, Mumbai and Vidarbha cricket associations and the Gujarat, Baroda and Saurashtra cricket associations but has also affirmed the votes available to the government bodies, the Services Sports Control Board, the Railway Sports Promotion Board and the Association of Indian Universities.

“To utilize territoriality as a basis of exclusion is problematic because it ignores history and the contributions made by such associations to the development of cricket and its popularity,” Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, who wrote the judgment, reasoned.

Undergo a cooling-off period

Perhaps even more significantly, though, the court has watered down the much-lauded cooling-off period suggested in the draft constitution that the Committee of Administrators appointed by the court had drawn-up. This clause was included at the behest of the Lodha Panel, which had recommended that the tenure of each term for office bearers of the BCCI and the various state associations should be three years and that there should be a mandatory “cooling off period” after each term; that is, an office-bearer who holds a post for three consecutive years would be disentitled from contesting a succeeding election to any post either within the BCCI or within any of the various state associations.

The judgment, authored by Justice Chandrachud, now makes it clear that while the term of office shall be as suggested in the draft constitution, the cooling off period of three years shall apply only when an individual has held the post of an office bearer for two consecutive terms either in a state association or in the BCCI or in a combination of both.

Modifies the number of selectors from 3 to 5

The court introduced a modification in the very number of selectors which has now following such been recommended to be 5 instead of current 3. These 5 numbers of selectors came into being with the realization that a “board based selection committee” was required to push the prodigious talent pool spread across the country.

“The vast territory of the nation, the extent of cricket being played both at the national and international level, the need for selectors to travel extensively to spot talent from the pool of cricketers and the need to encourage both domestic and international cricket, are considerations which persuade us to accept the plea for modification in regard to the number of selectors to five,” Justice Chandrachud observed.

As similar as these changes which can be reckoned as an undermining of the Lodha Panel’s suggestions, we can at the same time stress upon the suggestions proposed by the committee that has been approved by the apex court.

Disqualification of persons from being an office bearer

The Supreme Court has kept alive key clauses suggested by the panel towards disqualification of persons from being an office bearer or a member of the governing council or any other committee, or as a representative to the International Cricket Council.

This now means that persons above the age of 70 years, ministers, government servants and others holding public office, persons serving as office bearers of other sports federations, and persons charged by a court of law of having committed any criminal offence are all disqualified from contesting for any post within the BCCI or any of its state associations. Also disqualified are persons who have served terms as an office bearer of the BCCI or any of the state associations for a cumulative period of nine years. These requirements, the court has held, serve as important safeguards against the development of vested personal interests and against the concentration of power in a few hands, encouraging thereby a “dispersal of authority,” and the creation of a “wider body of experienced administrators.”

Even before the verdict of August 9 ruling, many of the other suggestions of the Lodha Panel had already been finally approved by the court itself. These incorporate, for instance, recommendations towards the establishment of an apex council of nine members comprising three independent persons, with two from a newly constituted “players association,” and, at least, one woman—overseen by a reputable chief executive officer—to conduct the day-to-day administration of cricket in the country; the creation of a sound set of principles to remove conflicts of interest that had hitherto plagued the sport, including a reduction in the participation of those entrenched in politics; and, crucially, the introduction of a wall divorcing the management of the IPL from the BCCI.

Ending Note

Cricket can no longer be termed as the gentleman’s game as the essence of the gentleman has however been eroded. The existence of IPL might have given fame, success, and money to many upcoming players but it has also introduced avenues for gambling, spot-fixing, and underworld activities in the country. To overcome such problems, Indian judiciary has made several attempts to develop sports law in the nation and one of such attempt was the appointment of Lodha committee. Lodha committee has come up with tremendous recommendations which will not only put checks and balances on the working of the board but will also change its performance. Still, the legality of some recommendations can be challenged and the demand for reconsideration is to be served in order to introduce a better law in the nation.

Opposing the said recommendation is obviously not a viable option for the Board’s point of view instead, they must adopt the necessary modifications for the betterment of cricket in India. The disputes between Lodha committee and BCCI must be addressed by putting emphasis on reforming cricket by removing some necessary evils such as poor governance, match fixing, etc. The report is just a beginning step in reforming the sports and if accepted then will set a benchmark for reforms in other sports.

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Documentary Evidence: Contracts, emails, invoices, financial statements, and other documents that provide tangible proof of agreements, transactions, or events relevant to the case.

Witness Testimony: Statements made under oath by individuals who have firsthand knowledge of the events in question.

Expert Testimony: Opinions and analysis provided by qualified experts in specific fields, such as accounting, finance, or engineering, to clarify complex technical matters or provide independent assessments of evidence.

Physical Evidence: Tangible items, such as products, equipment, or physical records, that can be used to demonstrate the truth of specific claims.

The Importance of Expert Testimony:

Expert testimony can be a powerful tool in commercial litigation, particularly in cases involving complex technical issues or financial calculations.

Clarifying Technical Matters: Expert testimony can help explain intricate technical concepts or analyses to the court or arbitral tribunal, ensuring a clear understanding of the evidence and arguments.

Providing Independent Assessments: Experts can provide impartial and objective assessments of evidence, bolstering your arguments and increasing their credibility.

Strengthening Arguments: Expert testimony can strengthen your case by providing valuable insights, supporting opinions, and demonstrating the validity of your claims.

Building a Strong Defence with Sreenivasan Chambers LLC:

At Sreenivasan Chambers LLC, we recognize the crucial role of evidence and expert testimony in building a solid defence strategy. Our expert attorneys will work tirelessly to:

Identify and Gather Key Evidence: We will meticulously review your case, identify the crucial evidence required, and develop a comprehensive strategy for obtaining and presenting it.

Secure Expert Testimony: We will connect you with qualified experts in relevant fields to provide expert opinions, analysis, and support for your case.

Present a Compelling Case: We will meticulously prepare and present the evidence, including expert testimony, to the court or tribunal in a clear, persuasive, and compelling manner.

Partner with Sreenivasan Chambers LLC: When dealing with commercial litigation, it is critical to have a strong and skilled legal attorney by your side.At Sreenivasan Chambers LLC, we understand the complexities and challenges involved in building a robust defence. Our team of skilled lawyers will work tirelessly to protect your interests, present a compelling case, and achieve a favorable outcome for your business. Contact us today to discuss your specific case and learn how we can help you navigate the complexities of commercial litigation in Singapore.

[2shalabhsaxena]

Assuming only half, 4 crore migrants require trains, the Railways would still need to run *30,675 trains* for *102 days* (over 3 months) with all *300 trains running every day* to get all the migrants home. 3/n

— Sreenivasan Jain (@SreenivasanJain) May 17, 2020

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 10, 2022

On the relationship between maps and domains in inferotemporal cortex. Arcaro, M. J., & Livingstone, M. S. (2021). Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 22(9), 573–583.

An observer model of tilt perception, sensitivity and confidence. Arnold, D. H., Saurels, B. W., Anderson, N. L., & Johnston, A. (2021). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1956), 20211276.

Experience‐related enhancements in striatal temporal encoding. Bruce, R. A., Weber, M. A., Volkman, R. A., Oya, M., Emmons, E. B., Kim, Y., & Narayanan, N. S. (2021). European Journal of Neuroscience, 54(3), 5063–5074.

What happened? Do preschool children and capuchin monkeys spontaneously use visual traces to locate a reward? Civelek, Z., Völter, C. J., & Seed, A. M. (2021). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1956), 20211101.

Chronic Augmentation of Endocannabinoid Levels Persistently Increases Dopaminergic Encoding of Reward Cost and Motivation. Covey, D. P., Hernandez, E., Luján, M. Á., & Cheer, J. F. (2021). Journal of Neuroscience, 41(32), 6946–6953.

A transient postnatal quiescent period precedes emergence of mature cortical dynamics. Domínguez, S., Ma, L., Yu, H., Pouchelon, G., Mayer, C., Spyropoulos, G. D., … Gelinas, J. N. (2021). eLife, 10, e69011.

Causal Inference Gates Corticostriatal Learning. Dorfman, H. M., Tomov, M. S., Cheung, B., Clarke, D., Gershman, S. J., & Hughes, B. L. (2021). Journal of Neuroscience, 41(32), 6892–6904.

Astrocyte-derived neurons provide excitatory input to the adult striatal circuitry. Dorst, M. C., Díaz-Moreno, M., Dias, D. O., Guimarães, E. L., Holl, D., Kalkitsas, J., … Göritz, C. (2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(33), e2104119118.

Working memory representations in visual cortex mediate distraction effects. Hallenbeck, G. E., Sprague, T. C., Rahmati, M., Sreenivasan, K. K., & Curtis, C. E. (2021). Nature Communications, 12, 4714.

Single caudate neurons encode temporally discounted value for formulating motivation for action. Hori, Y., Mimura, K., Nagai, Y., Fujimoto, A., Oyama, K., Kikuchi, E., … Minamimoto, T. (2021). eLife, 10, e61248.

An image-computable model of how endogenous and exogenous attention differentially alter visual perception. Jigo, M., Heeger, D. J., & Carrasco, M. (2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(33), e2106436118.

Resonating neurons stabilize heterogeneous grid-cell networks. Mittal, D., & Narayanan, R. (2021). eLife, 10, e66804.

Holistic face recognition is an emergent phenomenon of spatial processing in face-selective regions. Poltoratski, S., Kay, K., Finzi, D., & Grill-Spector, K. (2021). Nature Communications, 12, 4745.

Theta-phase dependent neuronal coding during sequence learning in human single neurons. Reddy, L., Self, M. W., Zoefel, B., Poncet, M., Possel, J. K., Peters, J. C., … Roelfsema, P. R. (2021). Nature Communications, 12, 4839.

Direct extraction of signal and noise correlations from two-photon calcium imaging of ensemble neuronal activity. Rupasinghe, A., Francis, N., Liu, J., Bowen, Z., Kanold, P. O., & Babadi, B. (2021). eLife, 10, e69736.

Systematic spatial distortion of quantitative estimates. Shaki, S., & Fischer, M. H. (2021). Psychological Research, 85(6), 2177–2185.

Recurrent dynamics in the cerebral cortex: Integration of sensory evidence with stored knowledge. Singer, W. (2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(33), e2101043118.

Abrupt hippocampal remapping signals resolution of memory interference. Wanjia, G., Favila, S. E., Kim, G., Molitor, R. J., & Kuhl, B. A. (2021). Nature Communications, 12, 4816.

Causal neural mechanisms of context-based object recognition. Wischnewski, M., & Peelen, M. V. (2021). eLife, 10, e69736.

Guided Search 6.0: An updated model of visual search. Wolfe, J. M. (2021). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28(4), 1060–1092.

[michaelfallcon]

Agony And Ecstasy At The World’s Largest Starbucks

The roasting machine at the biggest Starbucks in the world is a khaki-colored Probat P25-2 named Charlotte Jackson. The staff—channeling the Kit Kat Klub in black and white, vests and ties, and felted H&M hats cocked in compliance with the Chicago health code—chose “Charlotte” in honor of the woman walking her dog on the label of Starbucks’ classic Gold Coast Blend. The flavor celebrated Starbucks’ expansion into the Windy City in 1987, while “Jackson” calls out the address of that first Chicago location. While Charlotte was never the dogwalker’s official name, the staff felt it expressed her specific je ne sais quoi, and management agreed.

Charlotte Jackson greets you as you walk into the five-story Starbucks Reserve Roastery that opened on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile on November 15, 2019—the sixth such roastery worldwide, and for now, the largest Starbucks location on Earth. The roastery features four glass-enclosed floors (the fifth floor is the rooftop) that suggest a transparent tiered cake, each floor an indoor diorama of winter-beaten humans seeking heat and comfort. (November in Chicago is winter in Chicago, don’t @ me).

If Charlotte is the building’s ground-floor, immovable hearth, her visual twin is the roastery’s “cask”—a 56-foot cluster of parallel metal tubes shuttling roasted beans to each floor, each bean blend traveling up and down via its own gleaming beanstalk, then hurtling to various locations (bean silos, barista stations) via a web of smaller pneumatic tubes crisscrossing each ceiling. Every roastery has its own uniquely designed cask system; an employee (or “partner” as they are called) shared with me that Chicago’s cask is supposed to symbolize the sun, that the seafoam ceiling planks radiating out from the cask to the opposite end of the building represent the rays of the sun, and that the small light fixtures twinkling across the ceilings represent coffee beans, presumably the children of the sun.

I admit I visited the Big Chungus of Starbucks to have some fun; imagining an event on the level of the Staples Logo Unveiling, I meant to vex the giant glass house with a few well-thrown scones. Starbucks has over 30,000 locations on six continents in 80 countries. If all 35,000 square feet of the Chicago structure can be counted as a coffee shop (and coffee is indeed served on each level), this Davos of the demitasse is not only the largest Starbucks location on the planet, but the largest coffee shop, period, dwarfing Riyadh’s Al Masaa.

Accordingly, when I arrived on opening day a bit before 5PM, I saw a 45-minute wait and two separate lines that folded around the block and doubled back on themselves to spare the sidewalks (the wait time was down from two hours; for the opening at 7AM over 1,000 people were in line). After regrouping inside one of the half-dozen normal Starbucks nearby, I came back at 6PM and began freezing in Line Two as the Starpartners supervising the crowd chanted, “Welcome to the chocolate factory of coffee!” Exactly 60 minutes later, I entered Versailles.

A little fireplace burns by the front door; burlap bags of beans rest fatly in the windows; and the giant beanstalks call to mind the Wonka factory or a theme park. The “Master Roaster” next to Charlotte Jackson holds forth to a crowd, blending the zeal of a circus ringmaster with the humility of a docent. The baristas, as noted, are out of a PG-rated Cabaret, bagging and brewing and ringing up coffee and Princi Italian pastries at the biggest countertops in the world; the music pulses as if you’re browsing in Zara; the mannequins wearing denim on denim invite you to reach for your wallet; and a glance out the window at Ferragamo, Burberry, and Ermenogilda Zegna inspires you to empty it.

I always make my boy happy, I hear a mother say to her son as they walk toward the curved escalator. You know why? Because you’re my everything. Into a tan fabric shopping basket you can pack the contents of an entire trade show: branded Starbucks Reserve keychains, beanies, baseball hats, puzzles, stickers, coin purses, totes, and latte art stencil sets; journals, luggage tags, a “coffee passport,” and a hand-painted La Marzocco espresso machine; woven aprons, leather coasters, cuffs, and wallets from Seattle’s Hardmill; coffee technology ranging from grinders, siphons, pour-overs, and presses to French press stirrer timers and a temperature-controlled mug called an Ember, its travel tumbler priced at $149.95; and of course, coffee. Many of these items have “Starbucks Reserve” printed on them in case you forgot where you bought them (or how much you paid).

The biggest Starbucks in the world is also Starbucks’ shrine to itself, a laboratory to brew its own mythology in perpetuity. Beans rest in glass jars like capsules on an apothecary’s shelf. “WHAT IS CHAR?” asks one display, explaining the secret to barrel-aging coffee. Here, coffee is no longer water passed through beans; it is arcane potion and luxury indulgence, artistic statement and elixir of aspiration, credit card line item and divine mystery. Mud has arrived.

The mysteries multiply by the floor. On floor one, coffee is served in its most approachable forms: hot brew, cold brew, espresso. On floor two, it is served with thick-crusted, oil-dappled pizzas rustled up by the chefs of Princi Bakery; the line stretches all the way across the building, kitchen to cask. On floor three, where PETA is protesting the surcharge for vegan milks, lives the Experiential Coffee Bar, where you can try barrel-aged coffee, “flights” pairing cold brew with whiskey, mulled spiced coffee, coffee with truffles, and liquid nitrogen gelato. Facing yet another line of 45 minutes or longer, I text STARBUCKS to 78322 and within seconds I have auto-sent a petition to make soymilk free.

On floor four, at the Arriviamo Bar, coffee and booze take their relationship to the next level, pairing off in ways even PETA might approve of. Alongside martinis, Manhattans, and other classics, you can sample coffee-based cocktails, including the Chicago-specific, thirteen-ingredient Roastery Boilermaker, featuring Chicago’s infamous municipal liquor of record, Malört. Friends have warned me that Malört tastes like “burnt hairspray” and “floral gasoline,” but I have no chance to disprove this because at 8:50PM, I’m told it’s too long to get on the waitlist to order before last call at 11:15PM.

Unfed and unbeaned, I return to the first floor to say goodbye to Charlotte Jackson (there are also a phalanx of Nuova Simonelli Black Eagle espresso machines, but she is the centerpiece). The Master Roaster, whose name is Patrick, explains how Charlotte roasts coffee in batches of 25 pounds for 10-12 minutes, with thermocouples inside her roasting drum monitoring the uniformity of the roast and the integrity of the roast curve; the beans then pass through a spectrometer to ensure they’re the right color for their roast level, then head downstairs to be destoned and de-gassed for seven days, after which they travel via the cask and its pneumatic web to the baristas, who have six days to use them up.

On my way out, I order Patrick’s recommendation: the Hawaii Ka’u, a dark, frank, bitter face-squincher. I buy one for myself and another for a friend I’m meeting afterward, as well as a cannoli to share with her, and I leave the biggest Starbucks in the world to return to my regular-sized existence.

We are now having important national conversations about exactly how big things need to be, specifically things like individual and corporate bank accounts; before my visit, a friend joked that I should search the Roastery for a golden statue of Howard Schultz. “Billionaire,” despite its jaunty French suffix, has no flair; it’s a buffoonish, bloviant word. It feels tightly spherical and self-satisfied, ready to burst under pressure—and indeed, there are more and more questions being asked as to how, exactly, Starbucks has amassed the sort of fortune necessary to build these Brand Experience Palaces.

For what it’s worth I am entirely satisfied with my usual Starbucks in Fulton Market, with its deep comfortable chairs and the Wi-Fi I feel less guilty about hogging than Stumptown’s or La Colombe’s. What I yearn for in a coffee shop is a sanctuary from bigness; I want it to feel like an extension of my home, cozy, contained, intimate. The world seems more manageable when bounded inside the shop, inside my cup.

It’s true that, inside the biggest Starbucks in the world, there are nooks and corners to read and hibernate (though nowhere in the building is there an electrical outlet). It’s hard to imagine anyone becoming a regular here; it’s built for tourists and gawkers, for holiday shoppers, for people giving out-of-town friends an Experience (if they have the patience to wait on line). But I’m probably the only one worrying about this. “You know how everyone thinks about Starbucks, like it’s just Starbucks, it’s everywhere,” said a young partner who welcomed me to the top floor. “This is about brand elevation.” He is the same one who explained to me the connection between the four-story cask and the rays of the sun. The sun is going nowhere, at least for now.

Starbucks Reserve is located at 640 N Michigan Ave, Chicago. Visit their official website and follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Janani Sreenivasan (@jennyvasan) is a comedy writer, filmmaker, and political strategist based in Chicago. Her work has appeared in Reductress, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and The Toast. Read more Janani Sreenivasan on Sprudge.

Photos by Janani Sreenivasan for Sprudge Media Network.

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[shebreathesslowly]

Agony And Ecstasy At The World’s Largest Starbucks

The roasting machine at the biggest Starbucks in the world is a khaki-colored Probat P25-2 named Charlotte Jackson. The staff—channeling the Kit Kat Klub in black and white, vests and ties, and felted H&M hats cocked in compliance with the Chicago health code—chose “Charlotte” in honor of the woman walking her dog on the label of Starbucks’ classic Gold Coast Blend. The flavor celebrated Starbucks’ expansion into the Windy City in 1987, while “Jackson” calls out the address of that first Chicago location. While Charlotte was never the dogwalker’s official name, the staff felt it expressed her specific je ne sais quoi, and management agreed.

Charlotte Jackson greets you as you walk into the five-story Starbucks Reserve Roastery that opened on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile on November 15, 2019—the sixth such roastery worldwide, and for now, the largest Starbucks location on Earth. The roastery features four glass-enclosed floors (the fifth floor is the rooftop) that suggest a transparent tiered cake, each floor an indoor diorama of winter-beaten humans seeking heat and comfort. (November in Chicago is winter in Chicago, don’t @ me).

If Charlotte is the building’s ground-floor, immovable hearth, her visual twin is the roastery’s “cask”—a 56-foot cluster of parallel metal tubes shuttling roasted beans to each floor, each bean blend traveling up and down via its own gleaming beanstalk, then hurtling to various locations (bean silos, barista stations) via a web of smaller pneumatic tubes crisscrossing each ceiling. Every roastery has its own uniquely designed cask system; an employee (or “partner” as they are called) shared with me that Chicago’s cask is supposed to symbolize the sun, that the seafoam ceiling planks radiating out from the cask to the opposite end of the building represent the rays of the sun, and that the small light fixtures twinkling across the ceilings represent coffee beans, presumably the children of the sun.

I admit I visited the Big Chungus of Starbucks to have some fun; imagining an event on the level of the Staples Logo Unveiling, I meant to vex the giant glass house with a few well-thrown scones. Starbucks has over 30,000 locations on six continents in 80 countries. If all 35,000 square feet of the Chicago structure can be counted as a coffee shop (and coffee is indeed served on each level), this Davos of the demitasse is not only the largest Starbucks location on the planet, but the largest coffee shop, period, dwarfing Riyadh’s Al Masaa.

Accordingly, when I arrived on opening day a bit before 5PM, I saw a 45-minute wait and two separate lines that folded around the block and doubled back on themselves to spare the sidewalks (the wait time was down from two hours; for the opening at 7AM over 1,000 people were in line). After regrouping inside one of the half-dozen normal Starbucks nearby, I came back at 6PM and began freezing in Line Two as the Starpartners supervising the crowd chanted, “Welcome to the chocolate factory of coffee!” Exactly 60 minutes later, I entered Versailles.

A little fireplace burns by the front door; burlap bags of beans rest fatly in the windows; and the giant beanstalks call to mind the Wonka factory or a theme park. The “Master Roaster” next to Charlotte Jackson holds forth to a crowd, blending the zeal of a circus ringmaster with the humility of a docent. The baristas, as noted, are out of a PG-rated Cabaret, bagging and brewing and ringing up coffee and Princi Italian pastries at the biggest countertops in the world; the music pulses as if you’re browsing in Zara; the mannequins wearing denim on denim invite you to reach for your wallet; and a glance out the window at Ferragamo, Burberry, and Ermenogilda Zegna inspires you to empty it.

I always make my boy happy, I hear a mother say to her son as they walk toward the curved escalator. You know why? Because you’re my everything. Into a tan fabric shopping basket you can pack the contents of an entire trade show: branded Starbucks Reserve keychains, beanies, baseball hats, puzzles, stickers, coin purses, totes, and latte art stencil sets; journals, luggage tags, a “coffee passport,” and a hand-painted La Marzocco espresso machine; woven aprons, leather coasters, cuffs, and wallets from Seattle’s Hardmill; coffee technology ranging from grinders, siphons, pour-overs, and presses to French press stirrer timers and a temperature-controlled mug called an Ember, its travel tumbler priced at $149.95; and of course, coffee. Many of these items have “Starbucks Reserve” printed on them in case you forgot where you bought them (or how much you paid).

The biggest Starbucks in the world is also Starbucks’ shrine to itself, a laboratory to brew its own mythology in perpetuity. Beans rest in glass jars like capsules on an apothecary’s shelf. “WHAT IS CHAR?” asks one display, explaining the secret to barrel-aging coffee. Here, coffee is no longer water passed through beans; it is arcane potion and luxury indulgence, artistic statement and elixir of aspiration, credit card line item and divine mystery. Mud has arrived.

The mysteries multiply by the floor. On floor one, coffee is served in its most approachable forms: hot brew, cold brew, espresso. On floor two, it is served with thick-crusted, oil-dappled pizzas rustled up by the chefs of Princi Bakery; the line stretches all the way across the building, kitchen to cask. On floor three, where PETA is protesting the surcharge for vegan milks, lives the Experiential Coffee Bar, where you can try barrel-aged coffee, “flights” pairing cold brew with whiskey, mulled spiced coffee, coffee with truffles, and liquid nitrogen gelato. Facing yet another line of 45 minutes or longer, I text STARBUCKS to 78322 and within seconds I have auto-sent a petition to make soymilk free.

On floor four, at the Arriviamo Bar, coffee and booze take their relationship to the next level, pairing off in ways even PETA might approve of. Alongside martinis, Manhattans, and other classics, you can sample coffee-based cocktails, including the Chicago-specific, thirteen-ingredient Roastery Boilermaker, featuring Chicago’s infamous municipal liquor of record, Malört. Friends have warned me that Malört tastes like “burnt hairspray” and “floral gasoline,” but I have no chance to disprove this because at 8:50PM, I’m told it’s too long to get on the waitlist to order before last call at 11:15PM.

Unfed and unbeaned, I return to the first floor to say goodbye to Charlotte Jackson (there are also a phalanx of Nuova Simonelli Black Eagle espresso machines, but she is the centerpiece). The Master Roaster, whose name is Patrick, explains how Charlotte roasts coffee in batches of 25 pounds for 10-12 minutes, with thermocouples inside her roasting drum monitoring the uniformity of the roast and the integrity of the roast curve; the beans then pass through a spectrometer to ensure they’re the right color for their roast level, then head downstairs to be destoned and de-gassed for seven days, after which they travel via the cask and its pneumatic web to the baristas, who have six days to use them up.

On my way out, I order Patrick’s recommendation: the Hawaii Ka’u, a dark, frank, bitter face-squincher. I buy one for myself and another for a friend I’m meeting afterward, as well as a cannoli to share with her, and I leave the biggest Starbucks in the world to return to my regular-sized existence.

We are now having important national conversations about exactly how big things need to be, specifically things like individual and corporate bank accounts; before my visit, a friend joked that I should search the Roastery for a golden statue of Howard Schultz. “Billionaire,” despite its jaunty French suffix, has no flair; it’s a buffoonish, bloviant word. It feels tightly spherical and self-satisfied, ready to burst under pressure—and indeed, there are more and more questions being asked as to how, exactly, Starbucks has amassed the sort of fortune necessary to build these Brand Experience Palaces.

For what it’s worth I am entirely satisfied with my usual Starbucks in Fulton Market, with its deep comfortable chairs and the Wi-Fi I feel less guilty about hogging than Stumptown’s or La Colombe’s. What I yearn for in a coffee shop is a sanctuary from bigness; I want it to feel like an extension of my home, cozy, contained, intimate. The world seems more manageable when bounded inside the shop, inside my cup.

It’s true that, inside the biggest Starbucks in the world, there are nooks and corners to read and hibernate (though nowhere in the building is there an electrical outlet). It’s hard to imagine anyone becoming a regular here; it’s built for tourists and gawkers, for holiday shoppers, for people giving out-of-town friends an Experience (if they have the patience to wait on line). But I’m probably the only one worrying about this. “You know how everyone thinks about Starbucks, like it’s just Starbucks, it’s everywhere,” said a young partner who welcomed me to the top floor. “This is about brand elevation.” He is the same one who explained to me the connection between the four-story cask and the rays of the sun. The sun is going nowhere, at least for now.

Starbucks Reserve is located at 640 N Michigan Ave, Chicago. Visit their official website and follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Janani Sreenivasan (@jennyvasan) is a comedy writer, filmmaker, and political strategist based in Chicago. Her work has appeared in Reductress, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and The Toast. Read more Janani Sreenivasan on Sprudge.

Photos by Janani Sreenivasan for Sprudge Media Network.

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[bharatiyamedia-blog]

Vinay Forrt lends grace and appeal to an endearing Everyman- Leisure Information, Firstpost

http://tinyurl.com/y5ya2q3a Language: Malayalam In one of many earliest seasons of the enduring American TV sitcom Mates, Chandler Bing’s gang learns that he has a 3rd nipple. Many episodes later, Chandler hesitates up to now a girl with a picket leg however overcomes his mindblock solely to seek out himself rejected by her when she feels grossed out on discovering what he calls his “nubbin”. The boisterous comedy of Mates is a world away from the sublimeness of Thamaasha, however that episode in Chandler’s life got here to thoughts with good motive as I watched Sreenivasan Masha’s first assembly with Chinnu on this new Malayalam movie. Sreenivasan is a soft-spoken school professor with a fancy about his untimely baldness, Chinnu is a supremely assured teenager who’s conscious of individuals’s perspective to obese girls however doesn’t permit anybody to eclipse her sunshine smile. He is aware of what it’s to face prejudice, but whereas talking together with her on the telephone at some extent when she is a stranger to him, he unwittingly reveals his personal bias (Minor spoiler forward) when she guides him to the spot the place she is ready for his or her rendezvous, and he replies: “However I see solely a fats woman standing there.” Sreenivasan crumbles with embarrassment on realising that the girl on the opposite finish of the road is the very lady he simply casually labelled, when she replies quietly: “That is me.” (Spoiler alert ends) Vinay Forrt with Divyaprabha in a nonetheless from Thamaasha Thamaasha doesn’t let anybody off the hook simply, it doesn’t paint its sweetly likeable hero as a sufferer with out blemishes, and it feels extremely actual. Debutant director Ashraf Hamza’s movie stars Vinay Forrt as Sreenivasan Masha (instructor), a socially awkward, shy Malayalam prof who’s anxious to be married however can not discover a lady who will settle for him, baldness and all. On the recommendation of his buddy Raheem (performed by Navas), he decides to hunt out a bride among the many girls he meets professionally and socially. In the meantime, his household’s efforts to discover a match for him proceed. His stumbling makes an attempt to get a spouse result in amusing encounters with Gayathri Instructor (Divyaprabha), Safiya (Grace Antony) and Chinnu (Chinnu Chandni). Collectively produced by Malayalam cinema stalwarts Sameer Thahir, Shyju Khalid, Lijo Jose Pellissery and Chemban Vinod Jose, Thamaasha is the antithesis of the type of business Indian cinema that’s filled with crass wisecracks about weight problems, shortness, baldness, pores and skin color and different chopping private remarks. This movie is about people who find themselves the targets of such merciless comedy on display screen and in actual life. Thamaasha is reportedly a remake of the 2017 Kannada movie Ondu Motteya Kathe directed by Raj B Shetty. It’s a tribute to the unique, which obtained wonderful evaluations when it was launched, that the Malayalam adaptation is heartwarming, humorous, clever and weird. That Thamaasha has some extent to make is obvious proper from the beginning, however removed from being a lecture, it’s a nice slice of life in up to date Kerala and a  character examine of Srinivasan and Chinnu, providing moments of nice humour together with its worthwhile classes. Sameer Thahir’s camerawork is as considerate as the general tone of the movie and as unassuming because the main man. The standard of cinematography in Malayalam cinema as an entire is high notch and a continuing aching reminder of the magnificence of God’s Personal Nation for these of us who reside elsewhere. As an alternative of sweeping panoramic views and excessive aerial photographs that deliver out the luxuriant greens, blues and reds of the pure panorama, Thahir opts for comparative smallness of scale and fewer acquainted sights, managing to showcase the attractiveness of Sreenivasan Masha’s environment even whereas retaining the movie’s intimate really feel. Hamza’s writing of the protagonist and Chinnu are impeccable, and the 2 actors reside their characters as if that is who they’ve all the time been. FTII graduate Vinay Forrt’s most high-profile efficiency until date was as Malar Miss’s suitor Vimal Sir in Alphonse Puthren’s 2015 blockbuster Premam. Within the tiniest of elements on this month’s megaproject Unda, he managed to make a mark. There’s one other function that doesn’t get talked about as a lot within the media, however I completely loved his flip as a hot-headed policeman in Shanavas Ok Bavakutty’s Kismath (2016). Each iota of appearing excellence he has achieved up to now recedes into the background within the face of his utter genius as Sreenivasan Masha. The Everymanness of Sreenivasan, the Malayaliness of him, the diffidence, the clear coronary heart, the traditionalism that exists contiguous to his fashionable considering in some issues, the way by which he metamorphoses right into a passionate being when discussing a literary textual content within the classroom – it’s unimaginable to put a finger on precisely what he does to embody every of those points of his character, as a result of he does it with a subtlety that ought to make its method to cinema research texts. Chinnu Chandni and Vinay Forrt in a nonetheless from Thamaasha The discover of Thamaasha is fairly newcomer Chinnu Chandni who has performed satellite tv for pc roles in different movies however is pushed to the foreground – deservedly so – with this one. Bless you, Ashraf Hamza for envisioning her display screen namesake as a vivid, confident, optimistic lady, but not turning her into the manically energetic however hole, bubbly cliché of a heroine seen advert nauseam in business Indian cinema. The actor offers Chinnu depth and maturity with out diluting her cheery persona in any means. The solid member who’s let down by the screenplay is Divyaprabha taking part in Sreenivasan’s colleague Gayathri. She is nice to the extent that she is allowed to be by the writing of the one character that’s given such quick shrift by Hamza’s creativeness. (Minor spoiler forward) There’s a second within the movie the place Sreenivasan drops her like a sizzling brick for causes I can’t go into. Whereas his hesitation to proceed his affiliation together with her is in line with who he’s, the movie’s full disinterest in her thereafter is disappointing. It’s as if she is irrelevant as soon as she is off the male protagonist’s radar, by no means thoughts her personal feelings and opinions on the scenario. That she isn’t completely unaffected by his behaviour is implied by a fleeting expression on her face when he later mistakenly performs a voice message from one other lady whereas she is inside earshot. (Spoiler alert ends) This passage in an in any other case charming movie is a tragic pointer to the unlucky fact that though Malayalam’s ongoing parallel cinema motion does provide girls many robust roles in distinction with the marginalisation of girls in mainstream megastar-driven  tasks, this motion too predominantly tells tales of males from a male standpoint and equality of illustration is but to be achieved even on this comparatively enlightened house. Among the many remainder of the supporting solid, Grace Antony is spot-on as the article of a mighty misunderstanding in Sreenivasan Masha’s muddled head. As soon as the confusion surrounding her is sorted out, should you rewind her efficiency you will notice how correct she was in each body. Navas is a firecracker because the hero’s greatest buddy. I felt barely uncomfortable although with the scene by which his character introduces his spouse to Sreenivasan. The equivalence being implied there between her, Chinnu and Sreenivasan is the one level of overstatement within the movie. Hey, we obtained it already. Why underline it with a thick pink pen? Arun Kurian’s brooding depth works nicely for his function as Sreenivasan’s handsome youthful brother. The rationale why Thamaasha works so nicely is as a result of its messaging is couched in amusing, endearing, relatable realism. There are a number of strains and moments that linger lengthy after the final credit score has rolled off the display screen, however my favorite of the lot comes from Raheem who turns an outdated stereotypical notion on its head when he means that the best way to a girl’s coronary heart is thru her abdomen with these words, “If served properly, there are solely two issues nobody can flip down, Mashe – affection/love and meals.” In per week when a Hindi film has resurrected one of the vital repugnant stalker lovers Telugu cinema has ever created, that is such a delicate, refreshingly non-aggressive assertion by which to recollect this genteel pattern of Malayalam cinema. Score: 3.5 All photos from YouTube. 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