Akshay Sawai

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.