It was a boyhood fantasy to disrobe the glittering 5 Star and devour it. I dreamt, I salivated, I even stole money to get my fix.
20 January 2010It’s the country’s fastest growing sport. It has sponsorship money other sports envy. But you have to catch a champion like Jeev Milkha Singh to get its essence.
20 January 2010Life that ebbed and flowed around the field as one man came close to a triple century.
09 December 2009Most Maharashtrians look down upon ‘leaders’ like Raj Thackeray, but he is politically successful because of a strange Marathi gene.
02 December 2009From the sidelines of the most prestigious Indian cricket honours, the Ceat Cricket Rating awards
02 December 2009A look at the man who lurks inside the run machine called Sachin Tendulkar—his unique stamina, his famous humility, his constant disappointment with humanity...
13 November 2009We played carom. If someone made a great connection, Sachin, kissing his own fingertips, would say, “Chumma shot”.
12 November 2009Suresh Kalmadi and his battle with White men over the Commonwealth Games.
05 November 2009It was unthinkable. That a day would come when the urban Indian male would admit he is bored of cricket. But the truth is that the sport is fast losing its charm among its most commercially influential devouts
21 October 2009Laughing is fun, more so when it is forbidden. Welcome to the world of inappropriate gigglers.
15 October 2009Brahma 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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