Politics & Society
Koli Mitra

Trumped at their own game

It’s easy to understand why liberals or libertarians may be alarmed by Donald Trump, but why do Republican party bigwigs hate him so much? They claim it’s because he is not a real conservative. Yet, there is nothing in Trump’s official

Arts & Culture
Ajachi Chakrabarti

‘It doesn’t matter what you think!’

  “Wrestling is a sum of spectacles, of which no single one is a function: each moment imposes the total knowledge of a passion which rises erect and alone without ever extending to the crowning moment of a result.” —Roland Barthes,

Politics & Society
Debashree Dattaray

A Passage to America

  Route I Every step we took was one away from the songs, old dances, memories, some of us dark and not speaking English, some of us white, or married to the dark, or children of translators the half-white, all

Arts & Culture
Soumabrata Chatterjee

The PTSD Generation

As a kid right out of high school, I became a sworn fan of America and everything related to it. I loved its food, its geography, and most importantly, I believed in the cultural topographies that spoke of a certain

Politics & Society
Paramita Banerjee

Uncle Sam the Ambivalent

I was a teenager in the 1970s, when Indo-US relations reached a nadir following President Nixon’s open support to Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. India supported East Pakistan’s struggle for independence, probably as a consequence of Mrs Gandhi’s

Politics & Society
Gautam Bhimani

Indian Platform League

Even in the month of February, Rajasthan can get unbearably warm. That day was no exception. The hot afternoon desert sun beat relentlessly down on the crumbling walls of the factory outhouse. Bharat Singh was going about his daily routine,

Sports
Novy Kapadia

The Mother of all Upsets

Leicester City have shown that it is not necessary to have a cash-rich squad to win the Premier League. Their success in the 2015-16 season was achieved on a shoestring budget of £52.8 million. The budget of second-placed Arsenal was

Politics & Society
Ajachi Chakrabarti

Cricket is Champion

Sammy from Samuel, Biblical judge and prophet, literally “the name of God” Darren Julius Garvey Sammy is a religious man. He was born in a family of devout Christians, and might have become a pastor if the whole cricket thing

Sports
Shirsho Dasgupta

The Classist Elitism of “Good Football”

A day before the quarter finals of the 2014 World Cup, Forbes ran an article by Agustino Fontevecchia titled “The End of the Beautiful Game: World Cup 2014 is Killing Attacking Soccer”. In a near-apocalyptic tone backed up by statistics,

Politics & Society
Binit Priyaranjan

Better Pay for Better Play?

  “If I was a lady player, I’d go down every night on my knees and thank God that Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal were born, because they have carried this sport. They really have.” Raymond Moore, Indian Wells Tennis