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Akshay Sawai

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Hurried Man’s Guide to India’s Asian Games Heroes

Indian athletes are making quite a fist of it at the Asian Games 2010

26 November 2010
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Sports
Mission Plausible

How exactly does the Olympic Gold Quest function? And what it means for India’s prospects at the 2012 London Olympics

27 October 2010
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India
Sania vs Saina

Hate comparisons as much as you like but they are hard to resist. All the more so when it is about India’s two top lady racquet wielders.

20 October 2010
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Sports
What I Saw at the Games

For all the administrative bungling, the brazenness of smug officials, the stench of greed that surrounded the Games, it had its moments

14 October 2010
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Sports
Sholay in Mohali

Something makes a Laxman at half-mast even more dangerous. We see Aussie heads nodding in sober agreement

07 October 2010
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Sports
Geography Lesson under an Aerostat

The Commonwealth Games are a time for new acquaintances—like, countries you didn’t know.

06 October 2010
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Sports
The President is Staying

Shashank Manohar is expected to stay another year as BCCI president. He seems ready to step out of his comfort zone, but if Lalit Modi needed to be transparent, so does the BCCI.

23 September 2010
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Sports
Desis Who Love American Sports

Overwhelmed by an entirely new sort of crowd frenzy, Indians in the US eventually find themselves cheering along lustily. It does not happen overnight, though.

23 September 2010
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Living
The Fading Away of Parents

You may not have shared a great relationship with your parents. But even at the mere thought of their passing away, the world around you will collapse.

17 September 2010
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Sports
Sucker Called the Sports Fan

Match-fixing is by no means endemic to cricket. If diehard followers of a game, whichever they follow, feel let down or enraged when such news breaks, they have only their own credulity to blame.

09 September 2010

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle

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