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Watch the Ball
I remember playing cricket as a seven-year-old in the cricket grounds across the road from our apartment building in north London.
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February 11, 2026
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History of Sound
From villages to the national squad, India's blind women cricketers battled disability, patriarchy and caste to win the inaugural World Cup. Beyond sport, their journeys reveal their fight for dignity
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February 11, 2026
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One Battle After Another
Women's cricket in Jharkhand is not built on infrastructure, funding or institutional care. It has survived on endurance and sacrifice
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February 11, 2026
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“Fix the Pipeline, Not the Pay Cheque”
When Doorva Bahuguna played cricket in the late 1980s and ’90s, there was no money, little recognition, and no illusion that the sport could become a career. You played, she says, because something inside you demanded it. Today, women’s cricket in India has a league, salaries, sponsors, and visibility—but also new constraints, new narratives, and familiar battles over agency, safety and femininity. In conversation with Lalita Iyer, Bahuguna—who captained Andhra Pradesh’s sub-junior, junior and senior cricket teams and later built a corporate career—speaks candidly about why grassroots matter more than pay parity, how sport reshapes women's sense of self; and why the real revolution in women’s cricket is still unfinished.
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February 11, 2026
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Where Roses Bloom
If the oligarchs return to Venezuela, the social housing will go, the public schools will go, the healthcare clinics will go, the food parcels will go, and the forests will be cut down
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February 11, 2026
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Baramati's Dada
Ajit Pawar's sudden death leaves a power vacuum, but for people, especially from rural pockets in and around Baramati, who considered him a grassroots strongman, the loss is more profound
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February 11, 2026
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The Foreigner India Came to Trust
The Indian media fraternity appears unable to live up to Mark Tully's standards of balance, honesty, trustworthiness and credibility
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February 11, 2026
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'Mother of all Trade Deals'
The EU-India trade agreement is an economic bonanza as it will merge two of the world's largest economic blocs into a single trade zone
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February 11, 2026
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Fiery Kolhapuri
Pratiksha Pawar's cricketing journey is a reminder that dreams know no boundaries
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February 11, 2026
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Spice Girls
In the once nondescript villages of Wayanad, cricket is no longer just a sport. It has become a way to dream and to rise above the limits of geography, poverty and custom
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February 11, 2026
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I Was at the Elsewhere Party
Excerpt from an unpublished manuscript, The Speculative City: A History of the Future
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February 11, 2026
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Barmer Bradman
Almost three years after she first shot to viral fame, Mumal Meher has fallen out of the spotlight. The talented cricketer keeps practising, hoping to find sustained backing for her sporting journey
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February 11, 2026
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Tearaway Teens
Torn shoes with exposed soles, borrowed kits and almost no financial backing ... in many suburbs of West Bengal, cricket pitches silently bear witness to stories written by girls from humble backgrounds
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February 11, 2026
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Power Shift
THE untimely death of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has the potential to tweak a political order in the state that had learned to accommodate his presence; on either side of the ideological fence.
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February 11, 2026
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Mona Supreme
Mona Meshram rose from anonymity to attention, excelling at cricket and also balancing employment with an elite sport
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February 11, 2026
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Curfew-Free Dreams
Jasia Akhtar's journey from a small village in Shopian to the Women's Premier League is what dreams are made of, especially those that are threatened and throttled, particularly in underrepresented areas
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February 11, 2026
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Green Shoots of Siliguri
LANDING in Siliguri, the busy northern Bengal town, one might find cutouts and hoardings of a sportsperson drawing special attention among those of politicians.
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February 11, 2026
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Haryana Hurricane
Twenty-year-old Kashvee Gautam became the most expensive player at the Women's Premier League auction in 2023, picked by Gujarat Giants for Rs 2 crore.
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February 11, 2026
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Racing Ahead
For years, women were forced to support their passion for cricket with other paying jobs. But with well-paying playing contracts and opportunities in professional leagues, more women than ever are embracing the sport wholeheartedly.
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February 11, 2026
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Joy Words Club
Lit fests are defined by their audience. Organisers, speakers, curators are all replaceable but not the readers, not the audience
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February 01, 2026
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The Sting of the Bar
India today has more than 4.3 lakh undertrial prisoners. A significant number of them are linked to political cases
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February 01, 2026
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The Dispossessed
The systematic creation of criminal and security legislations view Adivasis as an inherently suspect class of criminals and terrorists
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February 01, 2026
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The Hypocrisy of Liberals
Favour of the self-proclaimed 'liberals' is lost the minute religion intervenes
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February 01, 2026
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Inside the Phansi Yard
Death row intensifies the structured brutalities of the penal system and reminds us why the struggle against the death penalty must also include the fact of prison violence
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February 01, 2026
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The Detention Legacy
Since Independence, a number of laws have been enacted that allow preventive detention which have been widely used by all regimes against their political opponents
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February 01, 2026
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“This Could Happen to You
The Bhima Koregaon case is not only about those who were imprisoned. It is also about the fate of democracy itself
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February 01, 2026
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"I Remember Swinging Between Hope and Despair"
HOPE and despair are basic human emotions and I believe that all human beings, now and then, swing between these two ends of the spectrum in life.
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February 01, 2026
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Think Ink
In 2026-the 'year of analog'-how will our relationship with literary festivals evolve?
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February 01, 2026
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Who Stole My Youth?
A Delhi district court granted Mohammad Iqbal bail in the riots case within three months. On March 18, 2025, he was discharged in the Babbu murder case, even as the riots trial continues
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February 01, 2026
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Half-Freedom
In Jharkhand, thousands of Adivasis have been arrested on Maoist allegations. They have spent years in prison before being declared innocent
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