Special Reports
One Academy, Many Hats: Six Questions Hyderabad Cricket Cannot Dodge Special Correspondent The pressure is mounting on the Telangana High Court-appointed Single Member Committee (SMC), Justice P. Naveen Rao, which was entrusted with sweeping powers to clean up the mess that has damaged both the image of the game and the credibility of the Hyderabad…
Shrikant Rao The mid-September engineering summits at IAA Transportation 2026 in Hannover centered on a critical cross-continental reality: how the automotive and industrial supply chains are completely rethinking traditional component paradigms to match the future of electric movement. As electrified powertrains accelerate rotor speeds, thermal stresses, and high-frequency electrical loads, the technical focus has locked…
In March 1890, a British lieutenant riding across Chinese Turkestan on a secret mission to track a killer was handed a bundle of brittle birch bark by a local digger. He paid for it, rolled it up, and sent it to Calcutta, unaware that he had stumbled upon what was then regarded as the oldest…
Special Correspondent Speak Up, Don’t Just Cheer Reforms in the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) will remain a distant dream unless every stakeholder who claims to be concerned about the game finds the courage to speak up. Sitting on the sidelines, applauding those who raise uncomfortable questions and privately agreeing with them, will not clean up…
N Nagarajan Names in our multicultural India can often play havoc with our official lives. The mere mention of the Election Commission’s SIR—Special Intensive Revision—now sends shivers down the spine of many people who have discovered, sometimes rather late, that their names do not remain the same across different records. Let me begin with my…
Special Correspondent Golden Chances, Half Medicines Part 4A described how a few have kept the Hyderabad Cricket Association captive. This part asks the harder question: if the disease is so well known, why has nobody cured it? Few sports bodies in India have had so many eminent doctors. Since 2017, the Association has passed through…
History is not merely a collection of dates and names. It is also a record of how knowledge is transmitted, challenged and, sometimes, distorted. That is why the story of a Wikipedia editor known as Jagged_85 deserves attention. The controversy does not establish that the scientific achievements of the medieval Islamic world were fictitious. They…
Special Correspondent How to Capture a Cricket Association: The Hyderabad Handbook For nine years, the Hyderabad Cricket Association has been run, watched, audited, investigated and supervised by courts, committees and investigative agencies. Criminal cases have been registered. An office-bearer has been arrested. The Enforcement Directorate has opened a money-laundering case. A Special Investigation Team has…
Dr. B. Sandhya Rani Revered as Mahalakshmi, radiant and divine, Beside Lord Venkateswara, You eternally shine; His beloved consort, compassionate and gracious, Alivelu Manga, bless us with peace! In Tiruchanur’s sacred light, You rise like dawn, serene and bright; Your gentle glance makes sorrows cease— Alivelu Manga, bless us with peace! Lotus-eyed Mother,…
BG Srinivas When Turkey’s financial regulators moved to crack down on a sprawling market-manipulation scheme, they unveiled a staggering web of systemic risk. The numbers behind the investigation are massive: 56 arrests, 131 investment funds frozen or liquidated, $19 billion in assets impacted, and over 455,000 retail investors left reeling. Yet, tucked away inside the…
