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APJ Abdul Kalam Foresaw This: Gulf War's Hard Lesson On Energy Imports

The war in the Gulf has exposed India's underbelly, this huge crisis on the shortage of petroleum products only exposes how energy insecure the country remains.  If only someone had heeded to the plaintive calls made two decades ago by India's visionary "People's President" APJ Abdul Kalam. Two decades on, India is still at the mercy of Gulf oil. Nearly two decades ago, India's "missile man" and then President, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, laid out an audacious national mission, energy security by 2020, leading to energy independence by 2030. He framed it not as an engineering target alone, but as a strategic necessity: "Energy Independence is the lifeline of a nation." Kalam's prescription, spelt out in his address at the South Asian Conference on Renewable Energy in New Delhi in April 2006, was clear-eyed about geopolitics, economics and technology. He warned that fossil-based oil, coal and gas reserves would not last forever, and that the ...
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India Coach Asked Samson To Slam A Ton In T20 World Cup. Reply Startled Him

Sanju Samson's three consecutive half-centuries at the T20 World Cup 2026 was the inspirational story to emerge from the tournament. For long, Samson has been considered as having the talent to make it big on the biggest stage. Somehow, the consistency never arrived, and ahead of the T20 World Cup, he suffered a torrid run. He did not play in all matches in the tournament either. But once he started to fire, beginning with the Super 8 match against West Indies, there was no stopping him.

India batting coach Sitanshu Kotak revealed the quiet confidence that preceded Samson's resurgent run to becoming the Player of the Tournament in India's triumphant 2026 Men's T20 World Cup campaign, recalling how the wicketkeeper-batter promised that he would contribute whenever the team needed him.

"I always used to tell Sanju, 'Sanju, you don't know - sometimes in two or three days, an injury or form issue could come up, or even a combination issue may appear. So you have to be ready.' He has so much experience, but he would laugh and say, 'Arey Kotsi bhai, don't worry. Whenever the team needs me, I will contribute,'" Kotak told IANS.

The India batting coach even asked him for a hundred, and Samson gave an interesting reply.

"I told Sanju, 'Ek toh hundred karna hai' (you have to score one hundred). He replied with a smile: 'On one hand you say it's not about personal milestones, and on the other you say I should score a hundred. How are both things possible?'" Kotak said in an interview to Sportstar.

After being an unused member in India's 2024 Men's T20 World Cup win, Samson ended up amassing 321 runs across just five innings in 2026 to finish as India's leading scorer, surpassing Virat Kohli's 319-run mark from 2014 - making him the most prolific Indian batter in a single edition of the tournament.



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