Cross Connections

Often, the most meaningful things are said in the simplest manner. One must, therefore, appreciate this effort to get Indians and Pakis...

A quick weekend roundup of what made news and what it means. The Tehreek-i-Taliban chief Hakeemullah Mehsud has been killed in a drone a...

I am glad they left Parvez Rasool out. I am glad because by the act of not sending him — the "first Kashmiri" to represent Indi...

Why should a former Pakistani cricketer not get a visa to visit India? The obvious reason is that his son is married to underworld don Daw...

Not many in Pakistan would have heard about their cricket team for the blind. Fewer would have known about Zeeshan Abbasi, the captain. ...

Is hatred a handicap? Can't you move with it? In fact, people keep alive ideologies and patriotic zeal, the killer instinct in many comp...

I don't need to watch the IPL matches. The photographs are on the ball. I don't care much about checking out men's butts, but...

Cricket does not interest me much anymore. I liked the white flannels, and whatever money the players may have made, the idea of them being ...

Teary on camera, 2011 You have heard about cricketer Vinod Kambli crying on a television channel. You have heard the experts. The “I was...

Pakistan gave India the honour of being the Most F…. Nation. The F stands for Favoured. When Pakistan does that to us, we are truly f……. O...

I want to applaud Narendra Modi. Inadvertently, he has shown up the fake liberals for what they are. The Gujarat government decided to give ...

Pakistani captain Shahid Afridi has hit out at India and the Indian media. It is amusing, so let me present here an imagined conversation b...

Forget the hype about extra local trains, offices working half a day. And let us please try to forget some itsy-bitsy model who wants to str...

I don’t understand why Pakistan’s interior minister Rehman Malik’s ten commandments to the cricket team should cause a “furore”. All the po...

This is such an obsequious sucking up to a trend, and a trend this WikiLeaky thing has become. The Times of India that often front pages its...

So M.S.Dhoni blames the T 20 fiasco on exhaustion and partying and everyone starts talking about how cricket is supreme and these excuses wo...

I do not know which of these ‘outings’ is the worst. THIS: Fans of Marilyn Monroe will be able to bid for an intimate snap of the sta...

The stadium is empty. He sits on a bench. He won’t play. But he will cheer. He will paint his face with the tricolour. He will root for our ...

Tony Blair’s sycophancy towards the US is well-known. He is now defending himself before the first official grilling of sending 45,000 troo...

Every new “twist” in the IPL tale would be yawn-producing had it not been full of lies. Some West Indies cricketer suddenly needs surgery, s...