In an innovative strategy to combat unplayable bowling, Sunil Gavaskar came out and batted with his other hand for an hour to save Bombay from an outright defeat.
13 August 2010As he sets the record for the highest number of cricket Tests ever played, everything that should be said has been said.
06 August 2010Travel with daughters to protect them from sexual harassment, say parents of sportswomen.
30 July 2010Imagine you are King Vikramaditya, carrying Betaal on your shoulders. And Betaal asks you, “Who is a better bowler, Warne or Muralitharan?”
15 July 2010What is Team Modi’s next plan of action, now that the Indian cricket board has unanimously ratified all its charges and both civil and criminal proceedings will soon be initiated against him?
08 July 2010With three titles in three weeks, Saina Nehwal is now No 3 among 528 ranked players in a demanding sport played in over 150 countries.
02 July 2010Once upon a time, men used to outgrow porn. But now, the internet ensures that men of all ages simply cannot renounce such a beautiful thing. Executives, dentists, bureaucrats, surgeons, editors and a host of important men become boys by night.
01 July 2010Unlike in cricket, a football coach is very powerful. There are deserving reasons.
24 June 2010There is nothing more striking about this World Cup than the sight of Maradona in the costume of ‘the establishment’.
16 June 2010Ibrahim Lakadawala speaks like a celluloid cult character. But the former basketball player is using the sport to stop youngsters of Nagpada from becoming criminals.
10 June 2010Brahma 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 is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
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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