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Dravid on spot-fixing and fear of consequences 7 Aug 2013 | 03:56 pm
Like I said, I can’t speak for other people but at a personal level if I were to doubt everything that happens in this game, it would take away the joy and the love of the game, from what it’s meant t...
Eye Browse: The Spy Edition 7 Aug 2013 | 12:14 pm
Margaretha Geertruida Zelle McLeod — Mata Hari, to give her the name she is best known by — was born this day in 1876. In his book Children of the Days, under the entry for this date, Eduardo Galeano ...
The power of the story 7 Aug 2013 | 11:26 am
“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” A chunk of my morning, wh...
Srini to Jaggu: Cheers, mate! 2 Aug 2013 | 04:45 pm
In a private corner of a bar someplace, N Srinivasan and Jagmohan Dalmiya are likely sharing a single malt and laughing fit to bust; their laughter probably crescendoes with each new headline in the m...
‘BCCI tried to bribe me’. Indeed? 1 Aug 2013 | 10:16 am
“A particular South Indian lobby tried to bribe me to withdraw the case,” Verma told Mail Today on Wednesday. “It offered me many things, including money, but I did not buckle under any pressure and c...
Sins of omission 31 Jul 2013 | 01:37 pm
Bihar does not have a recognized cricket association. Or rather, it has two — the Cricket Association of Bihar whose head, last heard from, was Lalu Prasad Yadav and the Association of Biharl Cricket,...
How about a ‘DMS’? 17 Jul 2013 | 10:49 am
It has been wrong from the beginning to bill this as a contest between humans and technology, when in reality it has always been a case of humans using technology and interpreting the evidence it prov...
To hell and back 3 Jul 2013 | 11:45 am
“I was sick of being called ‘Park Street’. I realized that I can’t fight this behind a mask. I had to make the point that we have nothing to be ashamed of. Society should be ashamed to make rape victi...
24 Hours (and an announcement) 2 Jul 2013 | 12:55 pm
As on June 20, 2013, New Delhi alone has recorded 860 cases of rape. (Note: Those are only the documented cases.) That is a little over twice the incidence of the first six months of last year. And th...
Dalmiya and the new broom 11 Jun 2013 | 10:55 am
I read, on Cricinfo, that the BCCI has “initiated Operation Clean-Up” — and I was so impressed. Were you not? A clean-up, even if it is only ‘initiated’, is good, no? Particularly when Jagmohan Dalmiy...
