Sport without borders
There are some striking similarities between Indian cricket and English football. Both lose consistently. Both make news for all the wrong reasons. In India, it is match-fixing. In England, it is football hooliganism.



Vajpayee fails the test, again
Last week, in the aftermath of his giving in to Communication Minister Ram Vilas Paswan's Rs 1,200 crore free phones dole, this column questioned if Prime Minister Vajpayee was up to it.



A word called freedom
Sometimes silence speaks more eloquently than words. The Indian Express did not appear on June 26, the day India awoke to unfreedom and the Emergency.



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Little green quests
That midnight knock