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Mr Tebbit goes to Meerut

We are going through a phase of socio-political evolution where patriotism is back in fashion, rooted in deeply troublesome insecurities.

Advantage home

Don't cry for India's loss in Australia. None of the top teams today is likely to win if it is not playing at home.

The game’s gentleman

Apart from willing athleticism, Mansur Ali Khan Tiger Pataudi brought much more that was unfamiliar to Indian cricket. He brought a sense of aggression, and an intent to win.

First slip, then cover-up

The right issue to debate is not whether IPL is responsible for the decline of Indian cricketers’ performance but if its riches so dazzled administrators that it devastated the management of our talent.

Racket before wicket

The Indian cricket team's failure in two successive T20 World Cups has nothing to do with short-ball pitching but rather the timing of the IPL.

IPL baby, IPL bathwater

Responding to the charge last year that the BCCI was forced to pull IPL out of India to South Africa because the government was...

Our hockey high

More than anything sports ministry, Indian Hockey Federation or even the afterglow of Chak De India have done to revive the game, the 2010 World Cup could signal a second innings in India.

The shame game

India is now the heart and soul of international cricket. We give it stars and bucks. Unfortunately, we have also given it match-fixing.

Sport without borders

To build excellence in any sport create domestic competition. In all great sporting nations, inter-state or inter-club rivalries are as passionate as between national teams at the Olympics.

Tigers at home, why the Indian cricket team gets so easily slaughtered abroad

A truly great cricket team wins abroad, and consistently so. But at this point in world cricket, there is no such team.

On Camera

I finally got to say goodbye to Zubeen Garg. ‘Roi Roi Binale’ left me in tears

I wasn't home when others could pay their respects to the singer or catch a last glimpse. The movie was my way of accessing him one final time.

Consumer Price Index gets up to date. Airfare, OTT plans, e-commerce prices in new basket—MoSPI secy

New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.

Joint production, closer ties, emerging tech: The foundation of new defence pact between India & US

The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.