On Satyamev Jayate and our Sunday tear leader

Jhakas |  Sanjay Jha

(The fact that we need an education from a Bollywood actor being paid an astronomical sum to understand our social woes is as much a ...
10:51 AM, May 14, 2012

Outbreak nation

Jhakas |  Sanjay Jha

(We Indians are in a perpetual state of 'outbreak' these days. Moderation has deserted us completely. It happens sometimes in the cycle of growth when ...
04:11 PM, May 03, 2012

46 minutes to friendship and understanding

Jhakas |  Sanjay Jha

The biggest political lesson from cricket for both India and Pakistan is to meet more often with or without specific goals and agenda. It lowers ...
04:55 PM, Apr 23, 2012

Ides of April

Jhakas |  Sanjay Jha

The brouhaha over the SIT report (incidentally not a court verdict) on Gujarat riots exonerating Modi was on expected lines; hard-core supporters of the bearded ...
02:58 PM, Apr 16, 2012

Toast for the JAM

Jhakas |  Sanjay Jha

Just how do you write a farewell piece on a cricketer and a person who is indescribable? Decency, I think, is in human DNA. ...
01:13 PM, Mar 12, 2012

Hey Kingfisher: Stay 'grounded' to fly high

Jhakas |  Sanjay Jha

One of my most embarrassing moments happened on Kingfisher Airlines. Comfortably ensconced in the Business Class after a long day, a charming lady in red, ...
01:17 PM, Feb 27, 2012

The lonely BJP candidate of UP

Jhakas |  Sanjay Jha

The BJP has just one Muslim candidate among its 403 in Uttar Pradesh where there live 37 million Muslims. It is symptomatic of the party's ...
12:05 PM, Feb 15, 2012

THE LEGEND OF BHAJJI

Jhakas |  Sanjay Jha

Only Bhajji (Harbhajan Singh) can fry the Kiwi! To say that one was always aware of the unpredictable, irrational ways of Harbhajan Singh, India's brash, ...
05:40 PM, Nov 19, 2010

The scary sad case of Zulqarnain Haider

Jhakas |  Sanjay Jha

Like a frightened soul apprehending a swift end looking for a desperate escape route for sheer survival, he just disappeared. He was officially declared "missing". ...
02:59 PM, Nov 10, 2010

Gabby Gibbs and our double-standards!

Jhakas |  Sanjay Jha

"To be honest, I still don't know how we , the Deccan Chargers won the damn thing in 2009". -Herschelle Gibbs in his autobiography ...
04:05 PM, Nov 03, 2010

Sunny days in Kochi

Jhakas |  Sanjay Jha

(FACT: The author's first real favorite cricketer was Sunil Manohar Gavaskar). They say a week is a long time in politics. In cricket, ...
01:51 PM, Oct 27, 2010

IPL: Of Royals and Kings

Jhakas |  Sanjay Jha

During the razzmatazz of the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony I could not help tweeting that when the tax-haven ( usually misused for ill-gotten wealth) Cayman ...
05:07 PM, Oct 13, 2010

Clubbing with the Racists

Jhakas |  Sanjay Jha

India is inspiring anger. Lots of inflammatory rage. And worse , of a rather pathological morbid variety. The controversial Commonwealth Games in New Delhi have ...
05:04 PM, Oct 12, 2010

Hyderabadi No 281

Jhakas |  Sanjay Jha

Laxman is more than just special. But he has never got his dues At the CCI the tall lanky Hyderabadi sat watching a veterans ...
04:45 PM, Oct 05, 2010

Butt, of Course!

Jhakas |  Sanjay Jha

Last Saturday, one awoke to another round of spot-fixing allegations, now appearing religiously in regular fortnightly installments. If they promise to sustain the revelations at ...
05:39 PM, Sep 21, 2010