So as many of you will know, Ishani and I recently moved to start new jobs at Rutgers. One of the nice features of the move, which I hadn’t appreciated in advance, was how much more like home it would be. I knew about “Little Australia”:http://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/chinatown-little-italy/3322/rubys, but I hadn’t quite appreciated how South Asian the area was. One cute sign of this is that the deli across the street from me features (enormous) trophies won in local cricket tournaments. Another was that the bus stop across from the department in New Brunswick is currently festooned with fliers recruiting players for the Rutgers Cricket Club.

If only I was half as good at playing cricket as watching it, I’d have plenty to do around here. As it is, I have to hope that the “Indian Premier League”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_premier_league will be broadcast on some convenient American TV channel.