In the continuing season of cover-ups in Indian cricket, its establishment has worked single-mindedly over the past fortnight to suggest...
Category: National Interest
Racket Before Wicket
You can’t keep cricket out of any discussion on India, even a heavy-duty academic conference that Brown University organised last...
IPL baby, IPL bathwater
Responding to the charge last year that the BCCI was forced to pull IPL out of India to South Africa...
Thank god they fought
At a time when the dominant sentiment on the IPL was breathless adulation, following its success in South Africa, this...
The Buck Starts Here
On the Republic Day of 1995, terrorists set off an IED right next to the podium where General K.V. Krishna...
Hype And Hyphen
The US-Pakistan strategic dialogue in Washington marks the formal beginning of the endgame on the Afghan war. The Americans are...
Our Hockey High
Let me begin by asking you a simple question. And if you cannot answer even this one, you can ask...
Them and Us
There was nothing un-Holbrooke-like about his utterly insensitive statement that the Kabul attack had not particularly targeted Indians. The use...
A Week in politics
Pranab Mukherjee’s Budget is the third of the significant developments over this week that, in their own different ways, mark...
Shara-Kiri
Let me begin with a disclosure. I have always believed Sharad Pawar is one of our most fascinating politicians. To...