Kapil’s Kaplish

What Is BCCI’s Problem?

The 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?

The Brief History of a Friendship

Even 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

Sports Crazy

No cricketer among them yet, but Manipuris are doing Indian sport proud. And it’s not just that winning medals is their ticket to secure jobs

Kaps and I Wish Each Other

The legend whose name is mispronounced in his own country (it’s Gaa-vas-kar, not Ga-vaas-kar), just turned 60

The Ronaldo Economics

One of the most beautiful footballers of our times is also a highly liquid commodity

Yes, They Could Have

In the 1980s we tried to use the genetic advantages of Indians of African descent to aim for Olympic medals. The plan was good, but something familiar happened

Moral of the Federer Story

The misfortune of those who do not follow the tennis of our times is that they are missing a unique form of literature, a one-man art, and a genius as rare as an asteroid strike

Despite Cricket

Badminton star Saina Nehwal repaid her nation’s indifference with a sporting crown

Fantasy Football