Most Indian parents follow a religion of making available to their kids all they missed out on. Some go a step further; wanting to give their kids all that they did not have plus what they think the next generation ...Read More
From a helpless young girl being pawed by a pack of hounds in Guwahati, the media focus has shifted now to a sinewy Manipuri woman punching her way to international attention. Some shift. I wonder how the powerful women competing ...Read More
It was a dank wintry evening of November 1993 and we had had our fill of Bengali sweets. My girlfriend and I were stepping out of a confectioner’s in Gol Park, Calcutta when I noticed a lanky, slightly slouching, man ...Read More
Far before the debate warmed up about pregnant heroines signing films at all, there was Sharmila Tagore, visibly pregnant and carrying Saif Ali Khan Pataudi through the shoot of Asit Sen's Safar. Decades before film magazines wondered if a married ...Read More
In the middle of the spectacularly lopsided India-England test series, I was trying to steer a simulated Ashish Nehra on this rather dated computer game. It was tough – the left-armer was running in and from around the wicket, moving ...Read More
Looks like the last thing Novak Djokovic’s coach Marian Vajda told the champion before he stepped out of the locker room was, “punish Nadal when he serves weak, push him way behind the baseline”.
Novak executed it so well that it ...Read More
It’s difficult not to write about tennis after having lost many nights of sleep over rain delays and upset schedules. Frustrating times at the Flushing Meadows for the second consecutive year. But there’s another reason why it’s difficult to give ...Read More
Has the much-talked-about aura of invincibility deserted Roger Federer?
Obvious question, you would say. Although the answer is ‘yes,’ his arch rival Rafael Nadal does seem to inhabit the same hostile world these days.
Although hard court isn’t Nadal’s favourite, one could ...Read More
Looks like I am late to catch up with this current tennis season. Montreal whizzed past with, expectedly so, No.1 Novak Djokovic lifting the trophy, winning five ATP 1000 tournaments in a year, and tucking in “a winning percentage of ...Read More
So, it happened. The Serbian’s surge wasn’t just a bit of fluff. As the 125th Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic stood patting his trophy in the sanctum sanctorum of the cathedral of tennis in SW19 on a cloudless Sunday, the sun ...Read More
Wild card German Sabine Lisicki ousting French Open champion Li Na, a sluggish Serena Williams battling against her little-known opponent Romanian Simona Halep to win a three-setter, and yesteryears' favourite Leyton Hewitt (he still has his band of disciples in ...Read More
Seven titles (three of them against the world No.1 Rafael Nadal on clay!), a dream run of 43 matches halted by Roger Federer at this year’s French Open semis – this was clearly not the Novak Djokovic I have to ...Read More
