For a decade and a half following their Test debut, India didn't think much of offspin as a weapon of attack. Legspin was king, and ...
12:40 PM, Jun 19, 2012
I live in a flat of a posh, prestigious, populous, well designed and well planned DDA colony. One day responding to doorbell I confronted a ...
03:43 PM, Jun 18, 2012
The lack of awareness on social media when the Ranji Trophy recommendations were first announced was baffling. '27 teams now in Ranji' was the call ...
12:06 PM, Jun 18, 2012
The needle on my irony meter is quivering at 'maximum' as I write this post. A month ago Mamata Banerjee was upset about a cartoon ...
01:03 PM, Jun 17, 2012
The other day I wrote about a steady stream of service people ringing the doorbell all through the day at my parents' home in Gurgaon. ...
03:54 PM, Jun 15, 2012
If you thought of PayPal as a registered trademark of the US, think again. Many moons prior to the advent of the first digital transaction, ...
01:54 PM, Jun 12, 2012
The vehement denials are in. But the waters are already muddied, especially given contextual developments. Both America and Bangladesh's pooh-pooing of an Indian news report ...
11:40 AM, Jun 12, 2012
"Who's the Chief Minister of New Delhi?" "Hello, yes you in pant shirt, mein aap se baat kar raha hoon, who's the CM ...
02:40 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Friday was a typical weekday morning at my parents' home in Gurgaon where I'm staying. First, a guy came to fix the printer. Then another ...
12:52 PM, Jun 11, 2012
"It takes our men 27 days to trek from base camp to the highest post in Siachen," the officer with long experience of service on ...
11:49 AM, Jun 11, 2012
May 15th 1999. Must have been just another ordinary day in our lives. I must have gone to school, played with my friends and probably ...
02:15 PM, Jun 09, 2012
If it happens this will definitely be a first for Pakistan and Russia. The buzz doing the rounds is a visit by President Putin to ...
03:29 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Viswanathan Anand has done it yet again. With his nail-biting victory over Boris Gelfand, Anand has proved that he is one of the greatest chess ...
06:18 PM, May 31, 2012
Urban romances and stories set in Delhi and Mumbai have dominated Hindi films for the past few years. But the same can't be said about ...
12:33 PM, May 30, 2012
Nearly 10 years ago I travelled from India to the US for the very first time, to join an MFA program in creative writing. Like ...
12:22 PM, May 30, 2012
A cavorting Shah Rukh Khan pulled off the impossible - much like his team, the previously pitiable Kolkata Knight Riders - by demonstrating that there ...
08:12 AM, May 29, 2012
PIA, the carrier that connects India with Pakistan, is often referred to, in jest, as the short form of 'please inform Allah' by domestic flyers. ...
08:58 PM, May 28, 2012
As the curtains come down over this fifth edition of the Indian Premier League, it is time to fantasize about an eleven that could have ...
01:41 PM, May 28, 2012
The Indian cricket board is among the most reviled organizations in the sporting world. Perhaps in the real world too! That reputation is well earned ...
12:36 PM, May 25, 2012
The Indian cricket board is among the most reviled organizations in the sporting world. Perhaps in the real world too! That reputation is well earned ...
12:22 PM, May 25, 2012
