Special Reports
Special Correspondent The Court appointed an SMC to supervise HCA, not to run behind its office bearers. Did the Apex Council ever formally seek approval for an AGM, an Electoral Officer or the election of a President? If it did, where is the paper trail? If it did not, what was it waiting for? Hyderabad…
Special Correspondent Age discrepancy, selection controversy and unanswered questions demand accountability The Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) appears unable to escape a familiar cycle of controversies, with fresh questions emerging over women’s team selections, an alleged age discrepancy involving a registered player and complaints about objectionable messages allegedly sent by a selection committee chief. The allegations…
Special Correspondent Merit sidelined, parents allege; SMC must answer The Hyderabad Cricket Association’s (HCA) selection of its Women’s U-23 T20 squad has triggered a storm of allegations from aggrieved parents, who question whether merit, transparency and accountability have survived the latest exercise. Their daughters, they contend, have justifiable performance records but have been overlooked, while…
Special Correspondent The expiry of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) Apex Council’s term on October 20 appears to have triggered anxiety and a fresh debate among club secretaries over the Association’s future. After years of controversies, litigation and administrative disputes, stakeholders are once again debating what went wrong, who should be held accountable and what…
Dr Sandhyaa Bombay Little Goddess Bala Tripura Sundari arrived lightly, Dressed in turmeric yellow and brown, As though the sun had slipped from the sky, To dance on earth with a golden smile. Glancing around, she softly said, “I have come to play, to bless, to bring delight. Next came Maa Gayatri. In orange-pink…
An Open Letter to the Telangana High Court-appointed HCA SMC With the term of the present elected Apex Council of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) ending yesterday, October 20, a well-wisher of Hyderabad cricket has chosen the Orangenews9 media platform to address an open letter to Justice P. Naveen Rao (Retd.), the Telangana High Court-appointed…
N Nagarajan Four decades in publishing taught me that books are not merely products, but bridges between minds. My association with the world of books began on 12 October 1976, when I joined the then Orient Longman at its head office in Delhi. I was a B. Com graduate from a college affiliated with the…
P.A. Rama Rao Having worked as a journalist in Delhi for a decade, from 1989 to 1999, I had the privilege of witnessing and reporting several significant events that shaped the political and national landscape. Yet, among the many memories I carry from those years, one stands out for its sheer rarity: a Member of…
Special Correspondent Old questions, old habits and a decade of deafening silence Two messages are doing the rounds among Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) members this week. One wonders where HCA is headed after the Apex Council’s term ends. The other objects to the appointment of a Ranji Trophy team manager who is not an HCA…
M Radha Madhavi या देवी सर्वभूतेषु शक्तिरूपेण संस्थिता। नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमो नमः॥ \Yā Devī Sarvabhūteṣu Śaktirūpeṇa Saṃsthitā, Namastasyai Namastasyai Namastasyai Namo Namaḥ.\ The Divine Mother, who abides in all beings in the form of primordial energy, is worthy of our repeated salutations. This sacred invocation, celebrated in the Devī Māhātmya of the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa,…
