1. Will Sachin Tendulkar, MP take guard please?

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    This news did not feature on any TV news channel, certainly not in Delhi. Television reporters did not ask aam janta to react to this new Rajya Sabha MP. And no, it did not trend on Twitter either. Obviously, I am not talking of Sachin Tendulkar, whose oath-taking today was...
  2. The sting on cricket exposes the stink

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    So the worst fears have come true. (Read T S Sudhir’s blogpost : IPL has a perception issue. Fix it). The India TV sting which showed five cricketers talking openly about spot fixing and IPL franchisees paying them remuneration in black and in kind, has just opened a can of...
  3. IPL has a perception issue. Fix it.

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    Every morning, one of my co-walkers in the neighbourhood park – a senior citizen – describes in vivid detail the previous night’s IPL match. Since most of the matches this season strangely are last over – sometimes even last ball – finishes, it is a lot of excited chatter. But...
  4. Shukla bats for Sachin against Shoaib

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    By T S Sudhir Rajiv Shukla, who took over as IPL chairman just the other day, has started batting immediately. And he is up against the verbal pace of Pakistan bowler Shoaib Akhtar. Shukla is upset that Akhtar did not say charitable things about the God of Indian Cricket and...

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