Sports

Sholay in Mohali

Akshay Sawai

Something makes a Laxman at half-mast even more dangerous. We see Aussie heads nodding in sober agreement

Geography Lesson under an Aerostat

Akshay Sawai

The Commonwealth Games are a time for new acquaintances—like, countries you didn’t know.

The Fastest Indian

Madhavankutty Pillai

From 1996 to 2008, when he retired, Anil Kumar, national record holder for both the 100 and 200 metres, had little competition from anyone in India. And yet no one knows him in this country.

The President is Staying

Akshay Sawai

Shashank Manohar is expected to stay another year as BCCI president. He seems ready to step out of his comfort zone, but if Lalit Modi needed to be transparent, so does the BCCI.

Desis Who Love American Sports

Akshay Sawai

Overwhelmed by an entirely new sort of crowd frenzy, Indians in the US eventually find themselves cheering along lustily. It does not happen overnight, though.

The Brown Guy in Nascar

Ryan Whirty

Narain Karthikeyan’s first six months in the fiercely White world of Nascar have been about grasping a new style of racing, watching grid-iron football, and yoga.

Sucker Called the Sports Fan

Akshay Sawai

Match-fixing is by no means endemic to cricket. If diehard followers of a game, whichever they follow, feel let down or enraged when such news breaks, they have only their own credulity to blame.