15 Years Ago
On Sachin relinquishing captaincy after Australia tour: SHORTLY before the ‘Bha-Ja-Pa’ bowled him over, Girilal Jain, the late editor of the Times of India, wrote that in India ‘idest’ Bharat, politics sets the pace; everything else merely follows in its wake. Sachin Tendulkar may not have been of legal age to devour the outpourings of the leaderwriter; he was 16 back then. But his dramatic decision to relinquish captaincy of the Indian cricket team, 96 hours before the start of the Test series against South Africa, belongs squarely to the theatre of the political. http://bit.ly/1D7foLw
10 Years Ago
Rajesh Ramachandran on corporate games: Has the government shortchanged its own PSU to favour an MNC? Ignoring a cheaper offer from PSU navaratna BHEL, a mega contract worth over Rs 1,600 crore to build a 2,000 MW hydel station in Arunachal for the NHPC has gone to French conglomerate Alstom. http://bit.ly/1w70HFJ
5 Years Ago
Pushpa Iyengar on bachelors homing in on mansions: If there is a place where the soul of old Madras slumbers on, refusing to yield to the gleaming new malls, multiplexes, lounge bars and highrises, it is Triplicane. Its ‘mansions’ lining narrow, chaotic streets have for decades beckoned young men in search of a home. And many who responded to their invitation of cheap, convivial bachelorhood—even stalwarts such as Periyar, C.N. Annadurai and CM Karunanidhi—went on to lead bigger lives. http://bit.ly/1JGVOOY
