Cricket
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An IPL for field hockey ?
The author argues a sport’s popularity reflects identity and class more than its qualities, and that India could lift field hockey into a global sport with an IPL-style league built…
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Re-finding lost love of Cricket
A personal essay on how the author’s relationship with cricket changed after India’s 2011 World Cup win: from childhood memories of the 1996 tournament and following the game in Marathi…
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MS Dhoni – the Master of Methodical Madness
Nachiketa marks MS Dhoni’s retirement, arguing his career was defined by ‘methodical madness’, with calm nerves in chases and his captaincy in the inaugural T20 World Cup final against Pakistan,…
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When Brownz don’t stand together; the Coloniser wins
After a World Cup without a South Asian finalist, the author argues that India’s wish to be ‘Western’ and its fixation on Pakistan hurt the subcontinent, and that peace needs…
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The Tebbit test is racist
The author argues that the Tebbit test of whom British Asians support at cricket is coded racism, since a Welshman cheering Wales raises no eyebrows, and says Asians were never…
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Good luck Pakistan-
Shares a tweet linking Disney’s Aladdin remake to Pakistan’s World Cup match against New Zealand, and jokes that Pakistan plays cricket like the author plays pool.
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10 Questions on South Asia
A list of ten light questions for readers on South Asia, from whether East Pakistan would have survived without India in 1971 to the Indian Premier League, Bollywood and who…
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India’s Muslim Headache..
A short note, cut off after one sentence, observing that when India loses a cricket match to Pakistan some Indian Muslims celebrate, most openly in Srinagar.
