Shoot First, Mumble Later

Yesterday, Viswanathan Anand capped a disappointing performance in his World Championship match against Boris Gelfand by playing out a...

Syed Modi, who was born poor in a small town in Uttar Pradesh in 1962, broke free of his circumstances by excelling at badminton. He won the...

Roger Federer has often won matches that seemed lost. Two days ago, he lost a match that seemed won. He later came across as oddly complacen...

I can't remember the last time I watched a tennis match, outside of Grand Slams, that didn't involve Rafael Nadal playing Roger Fede...

It was a painful experience that recurred over a number of years. I'd wake up, switch on the television and find Australia on approximat...

My Yahoo! column for the fortnight can be read here . It's about football, powdered eggs, textile mills, John Lennon, and majoritarianis...

Suresh Kalmadi's definitely not going to survive as chair of the Commonwealth Games organising committee. So who can take over with just...

Today's column for Yahoo! India can be read here .

I’m back from a three day poker trip, and sort of rested, although the ground still moves under my feet every now and then. That’s to be exp...

It wasn't a beautiful match, the just-concluded World Championship between the reigning champion Viswanathan Anand and his Bulgarian cha...

On May 2 last year, Jabeen and I were waiting at Esfahan's bus terminal for our overnight coach to Tehran. On a snowy television set, a ...

The recent auctions of new teams and raising of salary caps marks the beginning of the end of the Indian Premier League. All the revenues im...

For the past week, I've been tracking the Main Event of the World Series of Poker, highlight of the international poker tournament calen...

So much has been written about Roger Federer's victory at the French Open, there's little left to add. I'm going to take the eas...