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Indian sport & the political players
... but politics is just the tip of the iceberg, the rot runs much deeper. We examine why India is not a sporting nation

Other Articles

The Sour Taste of Eye Candy

Sonakshi Sinha embodies a particularly regressive fantasy — surely, it’s time to avert the male gaze  

Ajit Pawar’s brazen reinstatement marks a new low in Indian public life

Corruption has become so pervasive in our society that our outrage lasts for not more than a...  

Power Bites

He Said <> She Said <> We Said  

Gerard Da Cunha – The Visionary Reformer

Gerard da Cunha was hired to restore Goa’s oldest fort — the Reis Magos. He shares the...  

The Lake of Forgotten Dreams

Valley of Saints is on a victory lap across the international festival circuit, but all Musa Syeed...  

The Postmodern Sutradhar

Adi Parva tells the story in full colour, with charcoal depictions of the sutradhar scenes  

‘Little things contest grand civilisations’

Saba Naqvi talks about her first book, In Good Faith, an exploration of marginal, heterodox, less divisive...  

Dumb Gets Dumber

As a commercial film, as a slapstick comedy, as a soundtrack (Hookah Bar? Really?), Khiladi 786 is...  

‘Instead of a two days’ walk to bring back rice, they can now hire a jeep’

Armstrong Pame talks about how the 100 km road in Tousem was carved out of a...  

Master takes

A compilation on art, book, music, film, food  

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