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Chidambaram’s open letter to…Ashwani Kumar?
While reading all I could find about police and judicial reform, I came across this gem — a checklist of five ways to un-clog courts that are affected by severe arteriosclerosis. With apologies to the...
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Suryanelli rape case reopened
Just how good is this news? For nearly eight years, a woman from Kerala who was gang-raped by 42 men in 40 days has been waiting for the Supreme Court to take up her case. Today, the Chief Justice of...
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Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn!
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn: #Not for the likes of Kailash Vijayvargiya who displayed appalling misogyny and a corresponding lack of knowledge of the epic he was citing when he talked of...
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Truth is sadder than fiction
“Na tho sachchayi ke liye ladnewala rahega, na insaaf maangnewala. Reh jayega tho sirf tareeq!“ Remember the classic Sunny Deol rant from Damini? January 3, 2013: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court...
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Tumbling into something new
For the longest time, folks on Twitter have been complaining that there is no easy way to follow the various links I keep tossing up; elsewhere, blog readers complained that ‘eye browse’, an occasional...
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Crime and lack of punishment
A small story on the front page of the Times of India, May 10, merits some attention. The money quote: Some will still recall the famous episode in which he broke down a door after being dismissed at...
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May the best fixer win?
Fixing is so rife in the domestic T20 league that players on opposing sides in one match were on different bookies’ payrolls, a high-level police source said on Wednesday. This led to a situation that...
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Paradise Lost
And so I find myself in an emotional cauldron; in a sport I love, in a tournament whose cricket I genuinely believe in, but in an atmosphere, even if created by a few, tinged with moral decay and...
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‘What will I tell my son?’
Of the responses in the wake of my post of this morning, one — from Professor Upadrasta Ramamurty of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore — is particularly poignant. Here it is, with Ram’s...
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The fault, dear Brutus…
Law Minister Kapil Sibal made an interesting statement the other day: Kapil Sibal said the government should keep away from sports “as far as possible” as it could damage it. “Sports can’t be run by...
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The Kapil Sibal connection
Consider this sequence of events: Betting and match-fixing allegations hit IPL BCCI pleads helplessness as there are no laws in place covering deliberate under-performance IPL Commissioner Rajiv Shukla...
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How ‘binding’ is ‘binding’?
So Rajiv Shukla — after ‘prolonged discussions’ with Arun Jaitley — finally grew a pair. Or so his statements indicate. Until you parse them, that is. For instance: Shukla says Board President N...
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Dear Srini… With love, Sharad
So on TV just now, I heard Sharad Pawar — who recently announced his candidacy for the post of Mumbai Cricket Association president — say that “this situation would not have happened if I had been BCCI...
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Srinivasan should go — but why?
So it is all down to numbers. Which, in other words, means open bidding for votes, promises of largesse, and which faction can make the more potent promise (or threat) to buy votes. Just the great...
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The Dummies’ guide to bookies and punters
We who love our stories clean and unambiguous have over time created an archetype: the super-fixer. Per legend and lore, as crafted in the media and given further heft by Bollywood (think Emraan Hashmi...
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The carrot-and-stick society
Kunal Pradhan and GS Vivek produce a longform narrative on the BCCI. Sample graf: Srinivasan, the often underestimated vice-chairman and managing director of the Rs.4,050-crore India Cements, has...
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The Talented Mr Jaitley
In ‘Breaking News’ just now, Arun Jaitley tells NDTV, among a lot of other stuff that would win top honors at any stand-up competition, that “The administration of cricket in India has been good”. Mr...
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Dalmiya and the new broom
I read, on Cricinfo, that the BCCI has “initiated Operation Clean-Up” — and I was so impressed. Were you not? A clean-up, even if it is only ‘initiated’, is good, no? Particularly when Jagmohan...
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24 Hours (and an announcement)
As on June 20, 2013, New Delhi alone has recorded 860 cases of rape. (Note: Those are only the documented cases.) That is a little over twice the incidence of the first six months of last year. And...
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To hell and back
“I was sick of being called ‘Park Street’. I realized that I can’t fight this behind a mask. I had to make the point that we have nothing to be ashamed of. Society should be ashamed to make rape...
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