Simon Kuper (Illustration: Saurabh Singh) SIMON KUPER has earned a reputation over the years as one of the world’s greatest football writers. A columnist with the Financial Times, 51-year-old Kuper is an author of several books on football, including perhaps the most influential of them all, Soccernomics, co-authored with sport economist Stefan Szymanski. His latest book, Barça: … Continue reading I am very surprised about India making so little progress in football, says Simon Kuper
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‘Regional’ movies are more national than ‘national’ movies, says Manoj Bajpayee
Manoj Bajpayee (Photo: Getty Images) Do you think there will be films made separately for the OTT platform and for theatres? Or do you think one will cannibalise the other? I want both to coexist and provide competition to each other. That is my personal opinion. Problems arise when there is just one medium, which … Continue reading ‘Regional’ movies are more national than ‘national’ movies, says Manoj Bajpayee
Every Gandhi-sceptic and Gandhi-adherent must bear in mind that he was human: Grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi
Gopalkrishna Gandhi (Photo: Wikipedia) Restless as Mercury is an outcome of Gopalkrishna Gandhi’s extensive research into the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi and books and accounts of him written and recollected by those close to him under his guidance besides An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Which is why Gopalkrishna, an alumnus of St Stephen’s College, writes as if … Continue reading Every Gandhi-sceptic and Gandhi-adherent must bear in mind that he was human: Grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi
Benny Tai on Hong Kong’s Special Role in ‘Withstanding the Global Rise of Authoritarianism’
When I met him in the afternoon of April 17th last year at his office, 801 Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Hong Kong University, Benny Tai, Associate Professor of Law at the prestigious institution, was already a hero to thousands of pro-democracy activists in the semi-autonomous Chinese city that was under British control until 1997. He … Continue reading Benny Tai on Hong Kong’s Special Role in ‘Withstanding the Global Rise of Authoritarianism’
Tridip Suhrud: ‘Did Gandhi fear a violent death? No. He feared a purposeless death’
Tridip Suhrud, 52, is a multilingual scholar and translator renowned as an authority on Gandhi and his intellectual tradition. While he was director of Sabarmati Ashram, he had helped create the Gandhi Heritage Portal, a free digital archive running into over 1.4 million pages. Armed with knowledge of all three languages in which Gandhi wrote, … Continue reading Tridip Suhrud: ‘Did Gandhi fear a violent death? No. He feared a purposeless death’
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