How Chauri Chaura deepened the Hindu-Muslim divide

After Chauri Chaura, Gandhi withdrew the Non-Cooperation Movement.The Nehrus were furious....Zaheer Ali reveals what happened during one of the most momentous events in India's freedom movement.An......

ISI chief likely to be replaced soon: Pak media

Chief of Pakistan’s powerful spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence Lt Gen Rizwan Akhtar is likely to be replaced within the next few weeks, a media report said on Saturday. Akhtar was......

'Faiz was devastated by the aftermath of Partition'

'The original dream of people like Faiz was that Pakistan would be something different from the old India: Progressive, forward looking, democratic (if not socialist), tolerant, diverse and......

India, ISI and the Hamid Mir attack

'ISI mouthpieces in the media have been quick to blame India for the attack. Clearly, the intellect and worldview of these characters (which includes fairly senior retired military officers) is......

Kohli leads India's MVP race

Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji present the most valuable players in the just-concluded Asia Cup in?Mirpur. Bangladesh's Shakib Al Hasan is the tournament's MVP. The in-form Virat Kohli, who......

Afridi leads World Cup MVP race

There was a time when the One-Day InternationalsWorld Cup tournament was over in just two weeks! Now it drags on for many weeks. We also have a lot of one-sided matches; which are bothersome......

Check out the 14 squads for the World Cup

Less than a month to go for the ICC World Cup andthere are a lot of areas where work is still in progress. The venues, tickets, strategies et al are yet to be put in place. However, one thingstands......

Squads: ICC World Twenty20

All 12 men's squads for the ICC World Twenty20 2010 have been confirmed with the very best players in the world all getting ready for the big event, which gets underway in the West Indies later......

Afridi emerges the Most Valuable Player

It was always going to be a toss-up between Tillakaratne Dilshan and Shahid Afridi. Dilshan's duck, and another brilliant allround performance by Afridi, tilted the scales in favour of the......