Nice games and the beautiful game
Cricket is a nice game and millions of Indians love it. Whether it is the World Cup, IPL or any other occasion that involves bat, ball and stumps (of course, with an ample sprinkling of international...
View ArticleThere's a war ahead for Mamata
The battle has been won, but the war has just begun for Mamata Banerjee. The new chief minister of West Bengal has heralded in a new era, but also brings with her some questions. The first and the...
View ArticleIPL gambles and the extra spice
Chennai are the Super Kings again, but then will the other franchises be able to digest it without a pinch of salt? The fact that the Chennai team's owner is also the BCCI secretary hasn't been well...
View ArticleStrange that Gayle continues to remain away from action
It’s strange that the West Indies Cricket Board continues to think that their team can do without Chris Gayle. In the current state of affairs, West Indies could well be considered at par with...
View ArticleDoping comes back to haunt India
Doping has come back to haunt Indian sport and all those glorious moments of Commonwealth and Asian Games look so distant. The women’s 4x400m quartet, from whom so much was expected, are in a shambles....
View ArticleSometimes, I feel lucky to be alive
Sometimes, I just feel lucky to be alive. These are the times when a train derails, leaving close to a hundred dead; or when a bus full of school children plunges into a river; or when a plane...
View ArticleNo intelligence and some scary thoughts
Some scary thoughts crossed the mind after the Mumbai blasts, when home minister P Chidambaram admitted that there had been "no intelligence". The confession came in a calm and composed manner, but...
View ArticleCan Sehwag make a difference?
Beaten and battered, the Indian cricket team would be looking forward to the arrival in England, of the balm called Virender Sehwag. There is strange assurance in the team when this Delhi Dasher is...
View ArticleDhoni's men could have adandoned the England Tour
November 26, 2008 in Cuttack. The England cricket team loses the fifth One-dayer of the series against India by 38 runs and immediately rush back to the hotel in Bhubaneswar. The first thing they do is...
View ArticleTime for BCCI to come under RTI Act
The RTI Act is a crucial weapon in the hands of the common man. A weapon, which can help the likes of you and me have information that is our right, but are never conveyed to us. And if we do inquire...
View ArticleHopefully, England tour was just a passing phase
The tour of England is over, thank God! Should India rejoice? Feel relieved? Or just forget it as a bad dream and look ahead? Maybe India should just look ahead. After all, they will now be playing at...
View ArticleAkhtar could not have asked for better publicity
A colleague wants to lay his hands on "Controversially Yours" as soon as possible. "Just want to see what Shoaib Akhtar has written that has made it so talked about," he says. This colleague is not...
View ArticleCan Team India strike back?
Mahendra Singh Dhoni saw a positive side to the early exit in Champions League. That he would get a few days of rest. Even as the debate rages whether the Indian cricketers are overworked or not,...
View ArticleBuddh was always meant to smile
Buddh is smiling. But then, Buddh was always meant to smile. Right from the time the idea of hosting a Formula One race was conceived. It was always going to be another show of India’s rising stature...
View ArticleCricket: Skills vs conditions
India have won the Test series against the west indies, congratulations to them. Most probably, they’ll complete a brownwash. Just before this series against the West Indies, they had routed England in...
View ArticleDo we care about the North-East?
Manipur was cut off from rest of the country for over 120 days. But do we really care? The North-Eastern state grappled with fuel shortage, food shortage even as tribals and a host of others blocked...
View ArticleEvery Indian should be trained in disaster management
The hospital deaths in Kolkata have once again exposed how ill-equipped we are as far as disaster management is concerned. And this does not necessarily mean only the government and its agencies. We...
View ArticleRanji Trophy: Ignored and irrelevant
Indian cricket’s humiliation in two successive overseas tours would call for some serious introspection. If the BCCI has plans to do away with the seniors, the question is, who are the candidates to...
View ArticleSomething wrong with Mamata's Bengal
If you get beaten on a Kolkata street, you have staged the entire thing. If someone you know is murdered, the incident is a plant to defame the state government. If a woman gets raped, she has just...
View ArticleIndia cricket’s Wall of strength
You could see it coming, yet it came with an element of shock. Rahul Dravid’s retirement was inevitable, yet it left you with an empty feeling. The Wall is no longer standing for India in Test cricket...
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