How business channels covered the Cyrus Mistry ouster Mumbai, Oct 26: The sacking of Cyrus Mistry as the Chairman of Tata Group has been understandably bold-face headline news for the business papers and channels, and they rose up to the occasion manfully and wetted their collective pants over it. They smartly sidestepped the fact that they had absolutely no inkling… Read more →
A non-nonsense Q&A on Triple Talaq and Uniform Civil Code Chennai, Oct 19: Triple Talaq and the Uniform Civil Code are making controversial headlines again. As with most matters, the general public is uninformed on these too because most of the time it is getting its information from the wrong sources — internet, WhatsApp forwards and news outlets that are… Read more →
*Plus: Fascinating history of Nobel, including literature prize for Zambian telephone directory Chennai, Oct 12: With all but the Nobel prize for literature declared for 2016, there is an understandable buzz among the writing community. And the odds on favourite to walk away with this year’s literature prize, according to the betting company Ladbrokes, is “yet another obscure writer from… Read more →
“Cricket board to ask Karnataka Assembly to help pass resolution to avoid implementing SC orders” New Delhi, Oct 5: The BCCI today said that it had agreed to the formation of the Lodha Committee under the strong hope that it would be like, you know, any other committee. “At any rate, we had merely agreed to the formation of the… Read more →
Unique records and anecdotes involving the Indian Test team Chennai, Sept 21: The Indian Test team is on the cusp of a record — 500 Tests. Just say it once again ‘500 Tests’ and let it all sink again. For, it has taken 84 long years, over which time — to give you a proper perspective — roughly 75,000 T-20… Read more →
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