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Of all sports, cricket has the most special quality to inspire superior prose. At Portsmouth yesterday, it was Rahul Dravid...

Thanks to the Jang group of newspapers in Pakistan, which also publishes The News which was at such odds with...

Years after the conservative English columnist Bernard Levin had got us so outraged we have now provided evidence — with...

For once Kashmir is in the national headlines for reasons other than the daily business of violence and killings. The...

There are some striking similarities between Indian cricket and English football. Both lose consistently. Both make news for all the...

Are you likely to be on Yashwant Sinha’s side or Ram Vilas Paswan’s on thequestion of giving away free phones...

Unlike last year when the Pakistanis ruined his party in Kargil, the Prime Minister left for his vacation earlier this...

Not surprisingly, I have spent the past week thinking of Lou Bega, he of `Mambo No 5′ fame. Not surprising,...

Among the many memories of covering wars in Sri Lanka over a decade, here is one that endures and comes...

In early 1992, while India were getting pasted at the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, Manmohan Singh was...

It is too early to write Mian Nawaz Sharif’s obituary. From Mujib to Mandela to Benazir, post-War history is replete...

Military historians will have a hard time resolving this one. Which date should mark the anniversary of the war in...