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Why it's a joy to watch Shikhar Dhawan do well

Jun 10, 2013

One of the joys of watching Shikhar Dhawan is knowing that he exists; that he has survived; that he hasn�t faded away. #India #South Africa #Rahul Dravid #Champions Trophy #Shikhar Dhawan #Champions Trophy 2013 #CT13 #CT13 War Room
India's cricket heroes need to break the BCCI's omerta on IPL

May 31, 2013

The only way to end the lies and denial is if the country�s top cricketers came together on one platform and demand a change in cricket�s governing structure. #BCCI #Sachin Tendulkar #InMyOpinion #Sreesanth #Rahul Dravid #Sunil Gavaskar #N Srinivasan #Spot fixing #IPL 6 #illegal betting #Gurunath Meiyappan
IPL spot-fixing: Srinivasan, Shukla should take responsibility and resign

May 28, 2013

The failure of the IPL to arrest this lies with the BCCI chief and Rajiv Shukla as the IPL chairman. #Sports #BCCI #Cricket #Sachin Tendulkar #Rahul Dravid #N Srinivasan #Spot fixing #SportsTalk #IPL 6

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The five players who kept Rajasthan alive in the IPL

May 27, 2013

There were a few players who were crucial to Rajasthan's success in this season of the IPL � the vital cogs that kept the machinery chugging #Sports #Cricket #Rajasthan Royals #Rahul Dravid #Ajinkya Rahane #IPL 6 #IPL6 #IPL6 Fan Blogs
IPL spot fixing: Legalise gambling to make it harder to fix matches

May 21, 2013

The first advantage of legalising betting would be increased revenue to the Government by way of taxes on betting. #Sports #Cricket #Rajasthan Royals #InMyOpinion #Sreesanth #Rahul Dravid #Spot fixing #IPL 6 #IPL6 Fan Blogs #Ajit Chandila #Ankeet Chavan
IPL: How Dravid's strategy helped Rajasthan beat CSK

May 13, 2013

A few critics/purists may call Dravid's strategy against CSK defensive � but anything that's effective can never be defensive. #Sports #Cricket #Rajasthan Royals #Rahul Dravid #CSK #IPL 6 #IPL6 Fan Blogs #IPL 2013

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Dhoni: A strange but successful captain

2013-06-18 03:45:00

In just two matches Rohit has hit two 50s, Dhawan has hit two 100s and the duo has given two century stands. In the third match, which was a low-scoring affair plagued by rain and Duckworth-Lewis, the duo still came out with an opening 50-run partnership #Virender Sehwag #Gautam Gambhir #India
Times of India
Dhoni doing a Dada, with some success

2013-06-17 21:14:00

CARDIFF: As the Champions Trophy meanders towards its business end, the talk here does not centre around India's opponent in the semifinals. Rather, it is around the lines of who will be lucky enough not to run into the Group B toppers in the knockout ma #India #Sourav Ganguly #Chennai Super Kings
Cricket Country
Pakistan's batting woes due to absence of role models: Zaheer Abbas

2013-06-16 16:11:00

Karachi: Jun 16, 2013 Former captain Zaheer Abbas has lamented the shortage of quality batsmen in Pakistan and said the absence of role models has led to the side's woes in batting department. "The way I see it our poor batting performances in recent yea #Pakistan #Zaheer Abbas #Karachi

Editor's picks

Why India should have been prepared for Uttarakhand floods

But we aren’t helpless: we’ve failed because, though we’ve done our homework on how not to fail, we haven’t actually turned these lessons into practice.
Why the political isolation of Narendra Modi is temporary

If Modi stands in splendid isolation today, it would appear that he represents a break from the consensual leader. But once again the disagreement over Modi is all about optics.
Why is the Kedarnath pilgrimage so important? Five key points

According to reports, while the temple is safe, the outer compound has been damaged and the town around the temple has suffered massive losses as it felt the full force of the rising waters.
It's batting vs batting as India take on SL in Champions Trophy

The key player battles for the Champions Trophy semi-final between India and Sri Lanka in Cardiff.

The 4 MLAs who helped Nitish Kumar keep calm and carry on

Nitish Kumar’s fate today might swing on six independents. Four of them have extended their support, and two are undecided. Here we give you the low-down on who the decision-makers might be today
Hauz Khas Village: The hypocrisy of high-end 'alternative' chic

HKV provides Delhi’s socialites and chatterati with what they need most: Obnoxious status display masked as anti-establishment virtue.
Why diversification is at the heart of a good financial future

Diversification is a risk management technique that mixes a wide variety of investments within a portfolio. The rationale behind this technique contends that a portfolio of different kinds of investments will, on average, yield optimally desired returns while lowering a risk that is posed by any individual investment found within the portfolio.
India lose 1-5 to Australia, crash out of Hockey World League

An error-prone India needed a miracle to topple Australia in what was the 100th international fixture between the two sides.

Lok Sabha polls 2014: Back to basics for Congress and BJP

With the playing field level, from now on it will be a battle of strategies for the Congress and the BJP
Chidu's 'Ferrari' of reforms has an autorickshaw engine

A slew of economic reforms has been promised this month, but one should not expect anything more than fancy footwork from the FM.
From a fed-up, die-hard fan: An open letter to SRK

Forget all this surrogacy business. The reason we love Shah Rukh Khan is that he’s been one of Bollywood’s smarter actors. But of late, SRK’s been a bit disappointing, complains a fed-up, die-hard fan.
Dhoni has Ganguly's touch but with a difference

Rohit, Kohli, Raina, Jadeja, Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar, Umesh – that’s the core of the Indian team today and perhaps it wouldn’t be wrong to say that they are Dhoni’s boys.

Vajpayee, Advani, Modi: Every leader has given Hindutva a twist

From Vajpayee to Advani to Modi –the Sangh Parivar has come a long way, presenting before India every few years a Hindutva face rendered presentable through a shrewd makeover
Why Nitish 'really' dumped the Modi-led BJP

While prima facie it might seem to be a clash of two strong personalities i.e. Modi and Kumar, there is much more to the split than that.
3 Indias at war: Sensex India, Maoist India, and Bharat

The current tensions in India can directly be traced to three visions of India – one of which will involve breaking the country
Last man standing: Why it's easy to feel sorry for Misbah

Sympathy for a Pakistani cricketer, especially a batsman, is a novel emotion for those of us coming from the 90s.

Fear of the unknown grips the BJP in Bihar

Although the party is maintaining a brave face, the eventuality of a split has left many leaders on tenterhooks.
In Mamata's Bengal: Zero tolerance for rape or protesting against rape?

Bengal tops the list in violence against women. There have been several reports of gang rape in the past few weeks. The Mamata government has taken quick and stern action – against the women protesting the rapes in front of the CM’s residence.
Food security: For poor’s sake, jholawalas must speak up

The subsidy to the rich accounts for more than 7 percent of the GDP while that for the poor, with the food security act, would account for 1.1 percent.
Patients get HIV in Assam hospital after blood transfusion, panic spreads

Many patients who were administered blood from the same blood bank fear the worst.

Why a BJP-JD(U) split will be good for India

Neither UPA nor NDA is an alliance. And the BJP and JD(U) were mere power-sharers, not allies. To grow, alliances have to be built around principles not just power-sharing
Chidu takes comfort in Fitch upgrade, but where are real reforms?

At a press conference, Finance Minister P Chidambaram, however, did not reveal any concrete steps but promised more reforms by August. He said the rupee’s decline is in line with that of the currencies of other countries with high current account deficit like India.
Why cutting interest rates will have little impact on industrial production

The index of industrial production (IIP), a measure of the industrial activity in the country, grew by a meagre 2% in April 2013, in comparison to the same period during 2012. The index was expected to grow by around 2.4% (source: India: Weak growth and sticky retail inflation. Sonal Varma and Aman Mohunta, Nomura). In [...]
Why 'Sir' Ravindra Jadeja is a people's genius

If one was simply to go by numbers, young and jolly Jadeja is on course to be a great. That’s not overrating him — it’s the simple logic of statistics one cannot argue against.