Open picks its own favourites to watch during the World Cup in South Africa.
02 June 2010The semi-literate ‘inventor’ of herbal petrol has a secure place in the modern Indian pantheon of conmen. After 15 year, he’s back with new tricks.
27 May 2010Dhirubhai’s younger son is a businessman who once had the grandest of plans for his half of Reliance in a wide variety of sectors. Today, he has little to show for them.
22 May 2010For India’s most successful public image manager to suffer an image crisis is an irony that requires us to think beyond the obvious.
06 May 2010The BCCI’s charges against Lalit Modi are unlikely to get very far so long as there are fears of what else might show up.
28 April 2010When a renowned free market economist takes to translating an entire epic from the original classical Sanskrit, his passion can only be marvelled at.
28 April 2010It is not just about Lalit Modi and some greedy businessmen and politicians. If the IPL mess is not contained quickly, the entire world cricket economy could be staring at disaster.
22 April 2010The latest controversy surrounding the Indian Premier League will impact its credibility as a professionally run sporting spectacle.
15 April 2010It better be, for no business that takes its core customers for granted can survive long. If Tests go, cricket dies.
15 April 2010As a masterpiece of poetry, it remains unparalleled. As a signifier of a civilisation’s ethical and spiritual heritage, it is unsurpassed. What makes it so unique is that it is ‘alive’ in many senses of the word.
01 April 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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