Eye Culture

We appear to be natural at reading, but is that true?

The alley game once demanded a special devotion; it wasn't just for recreation. Today, its devotees are gone, replaced by ambitious young players who think the game restricts their playing style

A woman's quest for the perfect final shot

Till a few years ago, to even dream about India winning a medal in hockey would have been considered foolish

Over the past fortnight, the All England Club has been live streaming via Wimbledon.com a retrospective of tennis matches dating back to its centenary in 1977

In popular culture, the bhadralok usually wears a dhoti

Maybe it's time superheroes were increasingly projected in films as flawed humans and not gods

While you can't coerce anyone to recognise your legitimacy to speak out, nobody can deny you the self-recognition of your own legitimacy to speak

Footballer Ahmed Khan, say, Chuni Goswami & Pradip Banerjee, is India's greatest forward

Jalib was born in 1928 in Hoshiyarpur in British India

Nostalgia and anecdotes, given to us by cricket's great writers, do much greater justice to the game

None of them have the remotest connection with the jobs listed out for my perusal in this mail

The girl in question is Gurmehar Kaur, whose father died fighting for the country

A critical take on academics

Once upon a time, Wenger was a revolutionary; Arsenal's modern, studious version of Herbert Chapman

Winston Churchill got the Nobel Prize in literature for 'History is written by the victors'

Manchester by the Sea is a film, based in the seaside town of Manchester, Massachusetts

The normalcy about kids selling a commodified notion of a nation for a meagre price is frightening

Leadership vaccum and spurious WhatsApp forwards combine to make it an issue of Tamil pride

After Streep's speech, Trump hit out at her with his usual hair-trigger petulance