Karunya

Digital sports journalist | Co-author of The Fire Burns Blue – A History of Women's Cricket In India | Ex @WisdenCricket @ICC @THBengaluru

[Karunya @kuks]

The Fire Burns Blue is in some pretty decent company!

@crossword_book #storiesthatinspire

[Aayush Puthran @aayushputhran]

For as much I hoped the news wasn’t true, it is. Ayesha Naseem has retired from cricket due to religious reasons.

When I first spoke to her, in Jan 2020, she was only 15 and hadn’t even played an international match. Yet, she wanted to be an inspiration. https://t.co/2YXoFt2HTt

[Apar Gupta @apar1984]

I deeply hope our constitutional courts recognise beyond security theatre there is also a state interest in shaping media narratives through internet shutdowns. It is often done for purposes of evading accountability, documentation and calls for relief by victims of violence.

[W Golazo @WGolazo]

A government minister in Brazil announced a change in office hours during the #FIFAWWC to allow for the public to support @SelecaoFeminina. 🇧🇷

— When the games are at 7:30 AM, work starts at 11 AM
— When the games are at 8 AM, work starts at 12 PM

[Karunya @kuks]

🙌

[ICC @ICC]

JUST IN: Equal prize money announced for men’s and women’s teams at ICC events.

Details 👇

[hypocaust @_hypocaust]

Should be remembered when looking at Ireland's results for example, that their budget is being used to support both men's and women's senior and age-group programmes.
https://t.co/d4MblhQd6I

[Karunya @kuks]

@bhanu_sridharan @LandConflicts @citizenmatters Have found your work with Citizen Matters so informative! Looking forward to gaining more perspective through the new work too!

[Karunya @kuks]

@a_upendran11 🥹🤗

[Viren Rasquinha @virenrasquinha]

We take our daughter for local tennis tournaments often. Courts are good but toilets are pathetic, dirty, doors do not lock, no water. This is the case across sports. We build big sports infra but always forget the basics. Hard to take my wife/daughter to any sports facility.

[Karunya @kuks]

@tarequelaskar You're too kind :) Thanks for so generously sharing your love for sports too!

[Kunaal Majgaonkar @kunmajgaonkar]

“So, I’m going to have to score, and we’re going to have to win if this has to happen? Okay, no pressure."

This one was going to be a gamble, and a big one at that. But we had the man in the flesh, at his home, in front of 25,000 people who love him. How could we not take it?

[Karunya @kuks]

I shouldn't be, but I am surprised by the wage gap in England cricket. Important work by the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket.

https://t.co/L0CyE2mTIn

[hypocaust @_hypocaust]

Recommendations from the report by the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket include:

"a fundamental overhaul of the professional women players’ pay structure within English & Welsh cricket"

in order to achieve equal pay domestically by 2029 and internationally by 2030.

[Karunya @kuks]

The #WomensAshes runs parallel to the men's #Ashes this time. England have put both their teams on the posters, but the expectations for the series are high for more reasons than that: A five-day Test and bigger venues and crowds to name a few.

https://t.co/6eh2kvDY1c

[Andrew @AndrewAmsan]

“'Bhayon, kahin nhi jaana hai (Brothers, please don’t go away). We need to take a picture and that should get published in the papers,’” Tejaswin told his decathlon competitors after winning the event with Asian Games qualifying standards. @IExpressSports
https://t.co/1sEZcJHUFb

[themsahab @pettyparthy]

this incredible article by the way talks about how this benefits women specifically.
https://t.co/NZZ5RFYexK

[Samar Halarnkar @samar11]

Speaking up is a privilege in a country where sharing what happened to you can mean persecution, even death.
Priya Ramani, who fought a case for 2 years, accused by a minister of criminal defamation, writes a letter to the wrestlers.
1/3 https://t.co/75eFmRVne3

[Aditi Chauhan GK 🇮🇳 @aditi03chauhan]

So the men’s team gets a fine for what they did and the money comes from the women’s team budget by shutting it down? Great, that’s how women’s football will develop in india. Horrible!

[Karunya @kuks]

We often use sports as an escape from the mundane and ugly things in life. And that's fine. That's what sports is for. But we shouldn't hide behind it. Sometimes, we can't and shouldn't look away from things that make us uncomfortable.

https://t.co/plt4m631Ml

[krtgrphr @krtgrphr]

There is no law, there is no fairness, there is no retribution, and there is no justice.

There is no closure.

There is only responsibility.

Will we forget? Or will we remember?

Or will we just file this away in a small corner of our brains, and be back in the 1990s again?

[Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊 @nilanjanaroy]

The message is clear. No matter what you've done for the country — women will be shown their place in the नया देश if they dare ask for justice.

The way @SakshiMalik, @Phogat_Vinesh and protesting wrestlers were treated today is beyond shameful. They deserve full support.