New Delhi, June 17 -- A recent meeting of the INDIA bloc was held at Delhi's Constitution Club, bringing together representatives of 23 political parties. The gathering aimed to highlight what opposit... Read More
New Delhi, June 17 -- Imtiaz Ali's Main Vaapas Aaunga (I Will Return) offers a timely and thoughtful counter to the spate of hyper-jingoistic films currently flooding Bollywood. When history's borders... Read More
New Delhi, June 17 -- THE British author Terry Pratchett writes in his Unseen Academicals : "The thing about football-the important thing about football-is that it is not just about football." And so ... Read More
New Delhi, June 17 -- IN the year 2009, a slightly built 17-year-old Brazilian lad flitted about the football field like a bird and scored a breathtaking goal that immediately marked him for greatness... Read More
New Delhi, June 17 -- EVEN as the attention of the whole world was focussed on the FIFA World Cup being played in Brazil, a country considered to be the Mecca of football, thousands of Brazilians from... Read More
New Delhi, June 17 -- "Oh, the foes will rise With the sleep still in their eyes And they'll jerk from their beds and think they're dreamin' But they'll pinch themselves and squeal And know that i... Read More
New Delhi, June 17 -- "In the frigid soccer of today's world, which detests defeat and forbids all fun, that man was one of the few who proved that fantasy too can be effective," wrote Eduardo Galeano... Read More
New Delhi, June 17 -- Even before the greatest market-driven spectacle on earth got underway on June 12, Brazil witnessed a series of violent protests against spending huge sums of money for playing h... Read More
New Delhi, June 17 -- In 2010, Tomas, a young Brazilian student, was visiting Kolkata. The FIFA World Cup was taking place in South Africa, and football-crazy Kolkata was in the grip of a sporting fev... Read More
New Delhi, June 17 -- "The Championship is something you either believe in or you don't, like God," wrote Nick Hornby in his seminal book on football, Fever Pitch . Though the Championship he refers t... Read More