There is nothing more reassuring to Bharat than the sight of an ISRO rocket climbing into the sky. It represents scientific excellence, institutional discipline and, above all, national capability. That is precisely why a series of recent developments surrounding the Indian Space Research Organisation deserve far more scrutiny than they have received. Let us be…
Nine years, five committees, endless allegations — and accountability still missing Special Correspondent There comes a point when “governance failure” becomes too polite a description. Hyderabad Cricket Association has crossed that point a long time ago. What is unfolding at the HCA is no longer merely an unpleasant internal dispute between rival factions, competing office-bearers…
Special Correspondent If Hyderabad cricket genuinely wants to restore its lost glory, it must have the courage to examine not merely who occupies the offices of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA), but how the entire talent-to-selection pipeline functions. It is easy to speak about systemic reform in abstract terms. It is considerably harder to identify…
MS Shanker The controversy at the Congress headquarters on Independence Day may have begun with a few seconds of a video clip, but it has quickly turned into something much larger: a political test of how Bharat’s oldest national party relates to one of the most emotive symbols of the freedom struggle. During the Congress…
Special Correspondent Sometimes, a lengthy defence does more damage than the allegation itself. The latest response of the “controversial” club secretary of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA), ostensibly questioning why this e-paper chose to highlight the controversy surrounding his club, is a classic example. Instead of addressing the substantive issues raised, he appears more concerned…
Special Correspondent In what is being viewed as a significant step towards decentralising cricket development across Telangana, the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) has constituted a District Cricket Infrastructure Development Committee (DCIDC) with former HCA Secretary T. Sheshnarayan as its Chairman. The development assumes significance in the backdrop of proceedings initiated by the Telangana Cricket Association…
Special Correspondent Barely had hopes begun to rise that the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) was finally turning a corner under its new dispensation, when questions are once again being raised over whether anything has really changed. For many stakeholders, the recent appointment of former cricketer B.V. Suvarna Lakshmi as Chairperson of the Women’s Selection Committee…
MS Shanker Every Indian knows that Siachen is the world’s highest battlefield. Few realise that it has claimed more Indian soldiers through its unforgiving weather than through enemy fire. At temperatures plunging below -50°C and at altitudes where oxygen levels are nearly half of those at sea level, Siachen tests not just human endurance, but…
MS Shanker There is an old saying in politics: leaders deliver the speeches, but it is often the nameless faces in the crowd that pay the price. A few hours of slogans can sometimes become a few years of litigation. That is perhaps the most uncomfortable truth that thousands of young Bharatiyas are never told…
MS Shanker The loudest protests against the latest amendments to the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Rules, 2026, tell us something important. Those who claim that the new regulations are an attack on civil society would have the country believe that transparency itself is a threat. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The fundamental question is…
