While we bring out the sweets and the crackers, these champion athletes are sweating it out at training and passing up the goodies with steely resolve
09 October 2009Upton’s dossier to the Indian cricket team is not going to make them promiscuous—they always were. It will only lend itself to some cheap double entendres.
30 September 2009Robin Uthappa gets personal about the new billiards champion who was also his fellow student in college
10 September 2009The fastest man, Usain Bolt, has unexpectedly liberated a vegetable from the humility it has been forced into
02 September 2009The conditions were not ideal for cricket. The field was filled with snow. The pitch was rigged. But former cricketing greats played a memorable match among themselves. The best part, though, was how they behaved off the field
01 September 2009Racing jockeys have to be small light men so that their horses can run faster. As a result they follow terrifying diet regimens. Guess what they do once they retire
13 August 2009The BCCI’s rejection of the doping clause has set up yet another cricket-administration battle. But is it really about invasion of cricketers’ privacy as the BCCI pleads? And does the Indian cricket body really have the option to not toe the line?
06 August 2009Why is it that Ashok Kumar is the eternal favourite of mimicry artistes?
29 July 2009Even before the overrated controversy around a reality show, Vinod Kambli and Sachin Tendulkar were drifting apart. Here is a moving story of what was once a pure and improbable friendship between a boy from the shanties and a professor’s son
29 July 2009The legend whose name is mispronounced in his own country (it’s Gaa-vas-kar, not Ga-vaas-kar), just turned 60
16 July 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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