Category: Editorial

Russia wants to be back in the sports business – very seriously. One of the main aspects it is concentrating in order to refurbish its sagging global image is to improve its rating in the ...

After a month of hectic hockey journalism, I sit in peace this week. What a month I had recently – which is professionally satisfying, if not profitable too. I wish to savour those events in ...

I was undergoing an operation in Mumbai when I learnt Indian hockey’s ouster from the Beijing Olympics. Therefore excuse me for giving my views so late. I watched all the Olympics since 1948 in some ...

Carvalo informed the whole world of his resignation. It was in the fitness of things as he felt that he has failed to deliver, which is also true. His gesture, and its timing, was welcomed ...

Indian team was nervous at the Chile Olympic Qualifier and lacked in the measure of mental toughness that was required to play in such tournament as the Chile one, where one single mistake can spell ...

He may turn out to be our hero. Or, could well be our villain. March 9 is judgement day for national chief coach Joaquim Carvalho, more so for his monolithic approach. The ongoing Olympic Qualifier ...

Normally print media’s sports writers place themselves morally above their counterparts in the television domain. This is despite the fact that most of the screen people migrate from the print. One of the reasons why ...

The shifting Champions Trophy venue against the will and logic of the hosts Pakistan needs to be viewed in broader spectrum. Rather in a historical perspective. Blossoming the under glare of Olympics, World Cup and ...

March 6 2007: Satinder Sharma is not a run of the mill umpire. He is the only Indian to have umpired in the final of the elite Champions Trophy tournament. He is on the Olympic ...

‘Arise. Awake. And stop not till the goal is reached’. This is how Swami Vivekanand thundered at the World Religious Congress in Chicago a hundred years ago, in order to bring awareness amongst the Indians, ...