Special Reports
Vinay Rao HCA’s new season calendar arrived with real credibility behind it — a defined Super League stage, open trials across districts, practice matches for every category, and the imprint of serious cricketing names attached to this phase of the association’s work. On paper, it’s the most structured selection system Hyderabad cricket has had in…
Special Correspondent Indian cricket may be flourishing on the field, but the picture off it is becoming increasingly uncomfortable. The latest controversy surrounding the Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) and the continuing turmoil in the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) may appear, on the surface, to be two separate disputes. In reality, they expose a strikingly similar…
MS Sparsha For years, the equation was brutally simple. If India wanted advanced artificial intelligence, cloud computing and massive computing power, it had to largely depend on technology companies from the United States and other global giants. The servers were owned by companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft. Computing power was rented, often in…
There are some infrastructure projects whose importance goes far beyond the concrete, steel and wires that go into building them. They change the destiny of an entire region. The Srinagar–Alusteng–Drass–Kargil–Khaltsi–Leh 220 kV Transmission Line is one such project. On February 3, 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi formally dedicated this remarkable piece of high-altitude infrastructure to…
MS Shanker The question may sound provocative, even uncomfortable. But recent developments in the administration of state cricket associations make it impossible to ignore: are elected cricket bodies gradually surrendering their autonomy to the judiciary because they have repeatedly failed to govern themselves? The danger is not that courts intervene when there is serious illegality,…
Special Correspondent How much longer is Hyderabad cricket expected to live like this — under judicial supervision, surrounded by allegations and counter-allegations, factional battles and complaints, and forever waiting for a resolution that somehow never arrives? Every few months, the script seems to repeat itself: a fresh complaint, a new allegation, another investigation, another committee,…
There is a popular tendency to speak of history as though the South merely watched helplessly whenever invading armies swept across the Deccan. That narrative does a grave injustice to the people who fought, resisted, and reclaimed their homeland. The story of the Telugu people in the fourteenth century is one of the most striking…
The 2024 Lok Sabha election in Baharampur offered a political lesson that went far beyond one constituency, yet very few seemed interested in reading it. Yusuf Pathan, a 41-year-old cricketer from Vadodara, Gujarat, entered West Bengal politics as an outsider and defeated Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, the 68-year-old Congress veteran who had represented Baharampur for five…
Dr Sandhya Rani Bombay Prema and Parakrama of Divinity In Annamayya’s sacred composition Govinda Namalu, each name of Lord Govinda reveals a distinct divine quality. Among these names, Verse 10 holds a special place, as it brings together two powerful aspects of Krishna: Prema, or divine love, and Parakrama, or supreme strength. The verse says:…
K.S. Nagarajan As a retired ONGC scientist and 1971 war veteran, I have appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for urgent intervention to strengthen accountability among public servants and provide institutional support to innovators whose ideas, I believe, are being lost due to bureaucratic delays. In this open letter to the Prime Minister, I argue…
