Of all sports, cricket has the most special quality to inspire superior prose. At Portsmouth yesterday, it was Rahul Dravid...
Category: National Interest
Generally speaking
Thanks to the Jang group of newspapers in Pakistan, which also publishes The News which was at such odds with...
Tigers and the Taj
Years after the conservative English columnist Bernard Levin had got us so outraged we have now provided evidence — with...
Azaadi to autonomy
For once Kashmir is in the national headlines for reasons other than the daily business of violence and killings. The...
Sport without borders
There are some striking similarities between Indian cricket and English football. Both lose consistently. Both make news for all the...
The `Passwan’ factor
Are you likely to be on Yashwant Sinha’s side or Ram Vilas Paswan’s on thequestion of giving away free phones...
Asia’s power brats
Unlike last year when the Pakistanis ruined his party in Kargil, the Prime Minister left for his vacation earlier this...
Venezuelisation of India
Not surprisingly, I have spent the past week thinking of Lou Bega, he of `Mambo No 5′ fame. Not surprising,...
United colours of memory
Among the many memories of covering wars in Sri Lanka over a decade, here is one that endures and comes...
Bet and better
In early 1992, while India were getting pasted at the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, Manmohan Singh was...