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Essays

The day he was God with a bat of clay

From an India of mediocre cricket writing comes a minor classic on Sachin Tendulkar’s inglorious Final Test

Regaining the Past to flow into the Future

The Ganga is moving away from the ghats. Can Modi save it?

A Brief History of Colour and Power

What the nomination of Richard Rahul Verma as America’s ambassador to India tells us about race and the American Dream

SCOTCH WISDOM

Why the Scottish vote against independence is good for British Indians

Let us read the Tea Leaves

Times have changed since Mao told Richard Nixon (and Deng Xiaoping repeated to Rajiv), “Business? Discuss with the premier. Here we discuss philosophical matters”

Soulmates of the East

The Modi-Abe bromance is built on a grand Asian project

Is it the end of the Cricket Nation?

India’s Test humiliation in England tells a bleak story of the future of a great Indian obsession

Silence of the Civilised

The beheading of James Foley and the sinister truth about ISIS

The Rise of Ideological Jihadists

And why India should be really worried

CURSE OF THE GAME

Cricket and Pakistan: When military dictators and politicians thought they could win the people through a surrogate triumph on a playing field

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