Sandipan Deb

Can people look at smoking with a scientific temper?

The big screen. Up there dreams are built and spilt, lives are lived, loved and lost and all of us are along for the ride.

A recalcitrant Bengal under Chinese control, a gallery of grotesques, murder—this futuristic comedy can hurt

A new clothes brand marries international chic with the wealth of Indian craftsmanship

Till the 1960s, India was a fooballing power. Then came the decline.

Cricket, lovely cricket! And Wisden India Almanack—poignant, joyful and indignant—has served it well.

Alumni cults have been there as long as there have been alumni. It’s a members only club, and it looks out for its own.

What is ‘smart’ and how does it fit our consciousness? Is there just one way to it? Are smarter people happier, richer? The answers may not always be that obvious.

Time was, you could feel cricket. YouTube killed the radio star.

An extract from the best-selling book on the trial of the former Goldman Sachs director who has been ordered to pay USD 6.2 million to his former employer for legal expenses in the insider trading case

Exclusive extracts from a re-imagining of the Mahabharata set in the Mumbai underworld

The decision to dramatically reduce the fees is unnecessary, stupid and dangerous. While his government speaks of aggressive disinvestment, the human resource development minister is hell-bent on nationalising our finest educational structures.

So asked Robert Redford of Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, referring to the relentless posse which is chasing them across the American West (and finally to Bolivia)

History is always written by the victorious. But that doesn't mean it's true. There is so much else to remember when you look back on World Cup 2003. And screw history as written by the victorious.

Cricket is the greatest game invented by man. And nothing else even comes close.

Filmwallahs have a 'nexus' with him, everyone else hates him -- poor, misunderstood sod.

So Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj is Wisden's Indian Cricketer of the Century. Well, could it have been anyone else? More Coverage

Mike Denness must be sacked, ostracised and humiliated in public.
Free Speech: Vent your contempt and disgust here

Why Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a good old Hindi film — and who cares if it's in Mandarin?