Aug22

Olympian questions

We did it! Three medals, including one gold at the Beijing Olympics. That’s a lot more than we have had in a while and a good deal greater than what we had come to expect. India’s hauls of medals, modest as it is in the overall rankings, is very significant indeed. It offers […]

Feb28

Too geeky or too snooty?

Considered as a whole, South Asia is easily the world’s most populous entity, with India and Pakistan alone accounting for well over a billion people. So how come there are so few desi sportspersons of any note (barring our cricketing demigods, of course)? There was a time when our part of the world was home […]