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In Defence Of Swami Agnivesh
Read more here: In Defence Of Swami AgniveshCricket is my favourite game. In school at St. George’s College, Mussoorie, I was as feared a left-arm demon bowler as Bedi has been on the international scene. I followed the doings of the great Bradman, Hutton, and Denis Compton with a diligence that few could match. We kept scrapbooks of the pictures of all…
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Give them hockey sticks
Read more here: Give them hockey sticksAfter a long time I had occasion on Monday to see women at play. The occasion was the final of the Women’s Hockey Championship at Chandigarh. The spectacle was something of a revelation for me. Many years ago we used to enjoy watching the women students of Government College, Ludhiana, participate in the annual college…
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Corner Shot From Coorg
Read more here: Corner Shot From CoorgOutlook | May 17, 2010 A people’s initiative for hockey with lessons to learn from This April, I had a chance to visit the Kodagu hills. Fifty minutes by chopper from Bangalore, these forested hills, 2.500- 4.500 feet high and with wide, shallow valleys full of paddy fields, are a southern delight. They are home…
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The Five-Day War
Read more here: The Five-Day WarOutlook | August 10, 2009 India-Pakistan cricket fed a chauvinist imperative for decades. The liberal wind in the willows changed all that. A small-time cricketer, but a passionate observer, I have watched Indo-Pak cricket since 1947. I have seen many India-Pakistan matches, from the one in Amritsar under Imran, to the 1996 World Cup Bangalore…
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Batman Forever
Read more here: Batman ForeverOutlook | May 25, 2002 That’s Tendulkar, with brilliance on the field and modesty on his sleeve. It is odd for a former CEC to write on cricket and Sachin. But I have some qualifications to do so. I was a small-time cricketer and a fairly mean left-arm medium-pace bowler, though nothing like Wasim Akram!…
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Sun, Salmon And Cambridge Spires
Read more here: Sun, Salmon And Cambridge SpiresOutlook | September 3, 2001 Former CEC M.S. Gill on an English summer, lazy flashbacks … and lots of cricket. Sitting in the garden of an elegant two-hundred-year-old house, within sight of college spires, a cool zephyr gently blowing, I feel a million miles away from the Election Commission. How could it be otherwise? The…
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Musings on the Match
Read more here: Musings on the MatchThe Sunday Tribune, Chandigarh | December 2, 1979 AMRITSAR, Dec 1 – The cancellation of play on the first day was a big disappointment. A huge crowd had gathered and a large number of tickets were sold at the gate even though there was little chance of play. But Amritsar has a long tradition of…
