Caught India bowled Bharat
It might sound like a cheap pun but it is too tempting to be ignored. The day after the famous victory at Chennai, who else could have provided all of India a break from the shame and scandal of our politics but the first Indian spinner in a long time who can actually turn the ball?



Mir odyssey
There was delicious symbolism in Mir's last moments before it plunged all aglow to a watery grave in the South Pacific last week.



A moveable madness
Insanity is contagious, or at least this brand of insanity is. One mindless episode enacted in Delhi some three weeks ago, entailing the alleged burning of the Koran, has now had its repercussions in states as far-flung as AP, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, UP and Punjab.



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In Pakistan, do as the Indians do...