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| Cricket as spectacle |
| Test cricket will survive the IPL only as a sporting curiosity |
| The cricket stadium at Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi used to be uncomfortable and squalid, now it’s comfortable and vulgar. The concrete terraces have been replaced by plastic seats, there’s a giant video screen for replays, the lavatories are better, bu... |
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| Still waiting |
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Sir — The Supreme Court of India has for long introduced a system of scrutiny of all petitions filed. The flaws, if any, are supposed to be displayed on its website so that ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — The attempts of women from villages of Rajasthan to make their daughters more self-reliant is ... |
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| POOR DATA |
| The jump in the wholesale price index from 5 to nearly 7.5 per cent came as a nasty shock to markets. True, the sudden jump w...|
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| SAY CHEESE |
| Italian voters have not lost their sense of humour. Unamused by the antics of the two-year-old centre-left government of Roma...|
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| Just the gear and a bit of luck |
| Last Sunday, I was at the Eden Gardens, watching the Kolkata Knight Riders play the Deccan Chargers in the Indian Premier League. Or was I? I could have been watching a contes... |
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| Revving it up in the gathering gloom |
| I have no feelings for cricket, and know nothing about the game. Nor does it figure in my fondness for, and exasperation with, India or England. So I went to the Eden Gardens ... |
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| Bring on the real entertainers |
| Had it not been for the power failure, the IPL match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Deccan Chargers would have been shorter than Jodhaa Akbar and just a tad longer t... |
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As someone pointed out recently, if you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation. — JEAN KERR
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