Special Reports
Who really rewired the 50-over game Vinay Rao In 1977, a media mogul who had never played first-class cricket sat down with a stopwatch and a problem. Kerry Packer wanted the broadcast rights to Australian cricket, the board wouldn’t sell, and so he decided to simply build a rival version of the sport instead. He…
N Nagarajan Health insurance is meant to provide financial protection during medical emergencies. Unfortunately, for many policyholders, the real struggle begins only after the patient survives. The following is a first-hand account of how a genuine emergency claim was rejected on a technical ground. Someone known to us in his early sixties, working with a…
Indian politics thrives on narratives. Every election throws up fresh slogans, accusations and counter-accusations. But beyond the din of political rhetoric lies a far more consequential question that deserves a serious national debate: Who created the ecosystem that enabled some of India’s biggest financial offenders to secure enormous loans from public sector banks, despite warning…
Shekhar Maramraju Infrastructure is not built overnight. It is the product of vision, policy, execution and sustained political commitment. While roads, railways, ports and power projects invariably take years to complete, there are certain periods in a nation’s history when the pace of development accelerates dramatically. India’s infrastructure story since 2014 is one such chapter….
“The Earth is my mother and the Rain-bearing Sky is my father” is not merely a poetic expression but the very heartbeat of Vedic civilization. The ancient seers perceived human existence as an inseparable part of the cosmic family. The Earth nourishes every living being with patience, while the life-giving rains sustain every seed, river,…
As India’s aviation market expands, the real race is shifting beyond passenger numbers to the businesses, investments and economic ecosystems taking shape around its airports. India’s airport story has long been told through passenger numbers, which remain the clearest indicator of how quickly Indians are taking to air travel and have been reinforced by the…
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…
Questions over institutional representation, financial transactions and governance demand credible answers T Shesh Narayan For nearly eight years after the Hon’ble Supreme Court ushered in sweeping governance reforms in Indian cricket through its landmark judgment in the BCCI constitutional reforms, one fundamental question continues to haunt the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA): Who is responsible for…
As someone who has spent most of my life following cricket with unmatched passion, I never imagined that athletics, boxing, wrestling or long-distance running would one day command my attention with the same excitement. Yet, the recently concluded Glasgow Commonwealth Games made me rethink my own sporting preferences. Like many sports lovers, I too wondered…
Rajarao Pochiraju Japan has long been admired as an economic miracle. From the ashes of the Second World War, it built one of the world’s most technologically advanced and prosperous economies. For decades, Japanese manufacturing, innovation and financial discipline became benchmarks for the rest of the world. Yet today, the world’s third-largest economy finds itself…
