As a wonderful land full of paradoxes, one that the curious world visits often in a bit to understand its diversity, India does pose myriad challenges to those within and outside but nothing can be quite intriguing as its intense love affair with FIFA World Cup. For four weeks every four years, you get...
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The release of the list of seeds for the men’s doubles at the start of the French Open brought a lump to my throat yet again. The romantic in me wished that Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi, two of India’s finest sporting ambassadors were paired up together and not with Czech Lukas Dlouhy and...
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The pursuit of sporting excellence has always been more fascinating than anything else. A study of single-minded devotion will always throw up amazing stories of sheer determination. And I can already see that India’s elite athletes preparing for this year’s Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games are engaged in such relentless pursuits – against...
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Like the society it reflects, sport offered us many different emotions in the past few days. And no, I am not talking about the madness that spread in our country when Chelsea won the English Premiership. Nor am I talking about the emotions that Tiger Woods has ignited with his faltering comeback, missing a...
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The Ministry of Sports has bitten off more than it can chew by saying that the National Sports Federations – registered societies, actually – would cease to have the right to select and depute the national teams for participation in continental and world-level international sports competitions if they did not comply with the guidelines issued...
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It has been some week and cricket conversations have dominated drawing rooms, dining rooms and board rooms. If we are not discussing l’affaire IPL – Lalit Modi, deals, share-holding et al — we are talking about Sachin Tendulkar – and Mumbai Indians’ decision to hold Kieron Pollard back until just three overs were left...
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