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Athletes can’t run

On the day of the CWG badminton finals, I ran into Ashwini Nachappa, former track star who was once called,...

You should have been at the boxing stadium in New Delhi’s Talkatora sports complex this Thursday evening. There wasn’t an...

P Chidambaram says the media is over-analysing the Ayodhya judgment. He is right for the simple reason that this is...

If you look at bare facts, the end of our most brilliant monsoon in a decade ushers in an even...

I think almost two decades have passed since this happened, I can probably declassify this nugget from my past years...

Here is a three-question quiz for the top leadership of the Congress party. One, do you want Rahul Gandhi to...

It is always challenging to be an observer of politics and government in this city. It is also never boring....

My favourite on our wall displaying The Indian Express front pages, recording the major turning points in this newspaper’s 75-year...

As anniversaries go, Rajiv Gandhi’s 67th would not sound particularly extraordinary, in some sort of commemorative terms, not like a...

Let me ask you a trick question. How would you describe the UPA-II government, one that talks too little, or...

Last Saturday, I found myself at an unusual sort of book release. This was the launch, at India Habitat Centre,...

Just about a few months back (‘Pak daydream, wake-up call’, IE, March 20) I had written that the Pakistani establishment...