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Beyond the boundary
When a pandemic takes grip, even cricket knows when to stop buying its own hype.
Andrew Fidel Fernando | Dec 16, 2020
The costly spectacle of cricket
What COVID-19 reveals about the spectacle of cricket and inequality within the cricket fraternity.
Amol Ranjan | Oct 13, 2020
Changing the rules
The Supreme Court verdict on the Lodha committee report heralds the most radical shift in cricket administration in India.
Boria Majumdar | Jul 20, 2016
So, India just won the cricket World Cup
FICTION: Almost finding love, over a game of cricket.
Niyantha Shekar | Feb 06, 2015
‘I bowled left-arm chinaman’
Shehan Karunatilaka speaks about winning awards, spin bowling, italics in fiction, and much more.
Jahnavi Barua | Mar 28, 2013
Kacha Garhi to the Kensington Oval
Being forced to choose between supporting the Indian or Pakistani team is now a thing of the past for cricket-crazy Afghans.
Mujib Mashal | Jun 01, 2010
Whine, or play cricket
In an atmosphere of heightened militant threats, continuing to play cricket might just be a way to counter the paranoia.
Michael Roberts | Jan 05, 2009
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Podcast: Uttar Pradesh’s halal ban, Myanmar’s armed groups expose military junta’s weakness, and more
Your Southasia news roundup from 20 Nov - 1 Dec 2023, plus an interview with Aung Kaung Myat on Operation 1027 in Myanmar
India’s slow-burn affair with Israel heats up
Azad Essa’s 'Hostile Homelands' explores the ideological convergence of Hindutva and Zionism, and the consequences for Kashmir and Palestine – but there is much more driving India and Israel’s deepening ties
Disillusioned with the Taliban, Pakistan reverses its four-decade Afghan policy
As Kabul refuses to act against the TTP and Baloch militant groups, Pakistan is ending the support it has extended to the Taliban since 1994 and its welcome to refugees from Afghanistan since the 1980s
The limited genius of Geoffrey Bawa
‘Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the Archives’ allows an exploration of the rift between the celebrated architect’s vision for nation-building in Sri Lanka and the country’s present reality
