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How the mighty fall

First a confession: I am a T20 convert. I find the T20 game inventive, exciting…

Bowling a dot ball

If not in politics, Pakistan’s world cup winning captain Imran Khan has certainly always been…

Silence as a curse

It may seem incongruous to say today, but there was a time when one found…

An ‘Ajit’ joke falls flat

In the 1970s, Marathi cinema threw up a comedian in Dada Kondke who went onto…

An inconvenient truth

‘Justice’, the new rallying cry in street and studio, can be awfully selective at times.…

Surname of the game

India’s two main national parties are facing distinctly contrarian leadership dilemmas: while the BJP is…

It is one vs the many

It is not without reason that the BJP in recent times has been referred to…

Trouble with home minister Shinde

Every home minister of the country has had to live literally in the shadow of…

It’s noise, not news

American pop art icon Andy Warhol was probably right: everyone is looking for their 15…

The game’s wide open

There is nothing journalists and the viewer love more than a ‘big fight’. A Roger…