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Akshay Sawai

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True Life
Praising the Bar

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 2010
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Sports
Tee Break with Jeev

It’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 2010
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Sports
When Sehwag Went SehWhack

Life that ebbed and flowed around the field as one man came close to a triple century.

09 December 2009
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Living
The Complex Maharashtrian

Most Maharashtrians look down upon ‘leaders’ like Raj Thackeray, but he is politically successful because of a strange Marathi gene.

02 December 2009
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Sports
Gambhir to Sherawat: An Evening’s Progress

From the sidelines of the most prestigious Indian cricket honours, the Ceat Cricket Rating awards

02 December 2009
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Sports
Character Artiste

A 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 2009
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Sports
One Afternoon…

We played carom. If someone made a great connection, Sachin, kissing his own fingertips, would say, “Chumma shot”.

12 November 2009
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Sports
The Games He Plays

Suresh Kalmadi and his battle with White men over the Commonwealth Games.

05 November 2009
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Sports
How Cricket Became Boring

It 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 2009
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Living
The Giggler on the Roof

Laughing is fun, more so when it is forbidden. Welcome to the world of inappropriate gigglers.

15 October 2009

Authors

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

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 a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm

Makarand R Paranjape

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

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