In the Sporting universe, yesterday was a day of extremes in a nation usually given to mono-sports mania. Its funny how sometimes, events in a day seems so full of meaning…almost as if the gods are making an emphatic point, almost to the point of a thrusting a finger on our forehead… Cricket in India has been in decline for some time, a decline it brought upon itself by being so popular. Which is why it attracted obscene amount...

So this truly is the end of Sourav Ganguly as we know him best – the bat in his hand, pads on feet and the classic charge down the pitch for the lofted six – stuff now to be seen only on YouTube videos, never live again… Emotions are running high now and will remain on boil for some time to come – especially among the easily excitable Bengalis who see this as a personal snub…how dare some movie stars and corporates not see fit to...

World Cup is gone…long live World Cups!!! Its only been a few days since the void has started to get filled up..the void that inevitably comes after the end of what is arguably the most awaited one month in four years. A month when TVs are switched on no matter what the hour is and you hold your breath as fame and infamy exchange hands within seconds… World Cup South Africa 2010 was the sixth world cup for me and over the years, no...

There are some sporting moments that become marked in the collective memory of the world and which become iconic events, burnt deep into the history of the game. They are talked long after the shock, bewilderment and the euphoria has died down. And decades down the line, people will talk in wonder about the spectacle that was. They will wonder whether they would be able to watch anything like it themselves – watch it as it unfolds, live...