It may be hugely difficult but we must take a momentary pause from the interminable madness of the repugnant IPL-Lalit Modi mess and its vicious ugly confrontation with Congressman Shashi Tharoor to briefly reflect on an event simultaneously playing out, which we may be cursorily overlooking; just why is the franchise owners of Kings XI… [Read more…]
April 18, 2010
Congressman Shashi Tharoor will perhaps hereafter never give his kindly “ blessings” in a hurry, judging from the massive flak he has drawn for his advisory role in the IPL Kochi franchise. As a smart politician Tharoor obviously saw the IPL franchise as an opportunity to create a sustained annual model to remind the frequently… [Read more…]
April 16, 2010
On April 6, 1998, Sonia Gandhi was unanimously elected the Congress president. The intervening 12 years have seen huge changes. In Gandhi herself and in the way we see her. Soon after taking over the Congress presidency, Gandhi visited, Mumbai. Murli Deora, then the head of the state Congress, hosted a lunch to introduce her… [Read more…]
April 16, 2010
Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s re-appointment as the Chairperson of the National Advisory Council (NAC) is a clear signal from the party of its overall assertion over the government. It is also, in a way, an admission by the party that the government needed better direction to implement the party agenda that was in tune with… [Read more…]
April 15, 2010
It was bound to happen, the inevitable repercussion of mounting superciliousness and power-obsession combined in a toxic tonic. The IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi has, as is his customary practise, indulged in another provocative transgression this time dragging down the equally controversial and high profile Congressman MOS for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor. The murky money-making machinery… [Read more…]
April 9, 2010
In a laissez-faire economy of free demand and supply there is no such thing as a price cap or artificial man-made or mandated ceilings. It defies pure capitalism, which is exactly what IPL actually personifies. Thus, it comes as a peculiar paradox that the “recession-proof IPL” ( as vocally pronounced by their astute masters of… [Read more…]
March 31, 2010
Mayawati , UP chief minister, took majestic strides supervising the bricks and boulders near her half-constructed towering statue. She looked furious as her concrete nose was incorrectly positioned at a vertical angle of 82 degrees north-west. A disconsolate crow sat there pensively staring at parched agricultural land. Cancel that stupid police commissioner’s investigation into the… [Read more…]
March 15, 2010
By Sanjay Jha In IPL money does not just speak, it shouts. If today’s report in a leading national newspaper is to be believed then Mr Sunil Gavaskar and Mr Ravi Shastri have risen in a collective remonstrance against the supposed “reprimand” given to their beloved reincarnate of Moses Lalit Modi, IPL Commissioner by the… [Read more…]
March 5, 2010
By Sanjay Jha I was in nearby Dubai watching Janko Tipsaveric upset constant British-hope of renewal Andy Murray in the ATP Masters 500 tennis tournament when I received a text message from both a passionate cricket aficionado and the publisher of my forthcoming book. It was as concise and compact as the man it described,… [Read more…]
February 23, 2010
MS Dhoni it seems perpetrated the most horrendous, barbaric and grizzly crime since August 15 1947 against his own beloved country when India mercilessly thumped South Africa in Eden Gardens, Kolkata to joyfully avenge it’s equally mortifying defeat in Nagpur in the first Test just a few days earlier. At the time of writing though,… [Read more…]
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