Sports
Against All Odds
The journey of almost irrational probabilities from youth cricket academies, to the different club teams, to the selection of state teams, and finally (for thetop .0000001%) onto a position on Team India.
Kushti
Traditional Indian wrestling isn’t just a sport — it’s an ancient subculture where wrestlers live and train together and follow a strict regimen on everything from what they can eat to what they can do in their spare time. Drinking, smoking and even sex are off limits.
IPL v Bollywood Clash of the Titans
The Indian Premier League is no longer perceived as a great threat for film releases.
The Foreign Face of IPL Cheerleaders
The companies that bring these women to India chose them because they are hardworking professionals.
The Promised Land
For a glorious half century, India dominated international field hockey and Sansarpur was its secret weapon. The village of just 4,061 people has nurtured 300 national hockey players and produced more Olympic medalists per capita than any other place in the world.
Dow Caves on Olympic Branding
Dow owns Union Carbide, the company that owned and ran a pesticide plant in Bhopal, where a gas leak in 1984 killed thousands of people in the world’s worst industrial disaster.
World Cup 2011 Long Shots, Close-Ups & Side Shows!
Examining the incredible hype, hoopla, hysteria and histrionics that gripped the one billion plus awe-struck fans.
Is Dhoni India's New Youth-icon?
Has Captain Cool’s sensational new mega endorsement deal propelled him to a new stratosphere for resurgent India’s aspirational youthfrat of humble background residing in small towns, dreaming of that one big break?
FIFA Fever In India
In a country where cricket is divine, FIFA fever makes you wonder whether the new generation is headed for a religious conversion.
Chhetri Brings Rock-star Status To Wizards
The reaction in India to Chhetri’s move to the U.S. has been like what happened in Japan nine years ago when Ichiro Suzuki switched to Major League Baseball
Snooker Facing Commercial Death
1985, what a year. Mikhail Gorbachev took power in the Soviet Union, Microsoft shipped its first version of Windows 1.0, the cartoon Calvin and Hobbes was born
Playing For India
The tug-of-war between the country’s bureaucracy and its judiciary over the rights of overseas Indians to represent India in international tournaments.
T20-DEBACLE After The Toast, The Roast
As defending champions India fall early in this year’s T20-cricket tournament, questions and accusations fly thick and fast.
Not Required Indians?
Without an Indian passport you can no longer represent your ancestral homeland in international sports events. A look at what this latest policy diktat from the Indian government means for 20 million overseas Indians worldwide
T-20 & Women
Cricket has some surprising new cheerleaders.
Ode to Willow
"When poetry romanced cricket" Poems through the ages have rhapsodized the true joy and spirit of this great game.
Pedaling Glory
Alexi Singh Grewal, the only Indian American ever to win an Olympic gold, seeks to reform bicycling.
Olympian Neuroticism
The Olympics are a demonstration of the dominance of the few, of their obsessive, neurotic pastimes.
Whose Gold?
A nation bereft of a sporting culture should pause to ask itself why its athletes have always been also-rans.
Chuck de Yadain!
Call it professional sports, but it is organized gambling and slave trading
Rebirth At Perth?
Team India's historic victory in the Perth Test against Australia has sadly been obscured by controversies on and off the field.
Damn Those Who Damn Cricket
Why fault a beautiful game because Indians are less equipped to excel at other sporting pursuits?
Does Team India Really Need A Cricket Coach?
The latest buzz in Indian cricket centers on the selection of the national team's cricket coach. How much of this hungama is really justified?
Cricket in India: It’s Big Business but Not Businesslike
While money keeps rolling in, disasters keep rolling out for India's cricket fans.
Why Do We Pamper These Losers in Blue?
One quibbles not so much with the fact of a defeat, as much as the manner of the defeated.
World Cup Schedule
ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 Match Schedule Warm Up Matches Date Group ATrelawny, Jamaica Group BSt. Vincent Group CTrinidad & Tobago Group DBarbados Mon 05 Mar West IndiesvsKenya EnglandvsBermuda South AfricavsIreland Sri LankavsScotland Tue 06 Mar IndiavsNetherlands AustraliavsZimbabwe PakistanvsCanada New ZealandvsBangladesh Thu
Shane Warne Hold That Hat!
A great spinner? Certainly. A great bowler? Conceded. The greatest ever leg-spinner? Hmmmm. The greatest ever cricketer? No way.
