How the mighty fall
First a confession: I am a T20 convert. I find the T20 game inventive, exciting and almost addictive. I have even learnt to take Sidhu’s pun-a-minute motor mouth in...
Bowling a dot ball
If not in politics, Pakistan’s world cup winning captain Imran Khan has certainly always been a larger than life cricketer. My favourite Imran story dates back to a Sharjah...
Silence as a curse
It may seem incongruous to say today, but there was a time when one found Manmohan Singh’s silence a mark of quiet dignity. In this age of noise, where...
An ‘Ajit’ joke falls flat
In the 1970s, Marathi cinema threw up a comedian in Dada Kondke who went onto create history by churning out the maximum number of silver jubilee films in a...
An inconvenient truth
‘Justice’, the new rallying cry in street and studio, can be awfully selective at times. The brutal gang rape of a Delhi girl in December led to an avalanche...
Surname of the game
India’s two main national parties are facing distinctly contrarian leadership dilemmas: while the BJP is confronted with managing the vaulting ambitions of its multiple leaders, the Congress must deal...
It is one vs the many
It is not without reason that the BJP in recent times has been referred to as the ‘Hindu Divided Family’. Impressed by the speech given by Sushma Swaraj at...
Trouble with home minister Shinde
Every home minister of the country has had to live literally in the shadow of the first occupant of the post. In the stairway of North Block leading to...
Have no links with AgustaWestland, Haschke is lying: Sanjeev Tyagi
Former Air chief marshal SP Tyagi’s cousin Sanjeev Tyagi on Saturday rubbished allegations of his involvement in the tainted AgustaWestland chopper deal in an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN. Speaking...