Eye Culture

Reading & in-betweens: Making sense of words

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

Gully cricket is dead, and so are its quaint rituals

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

The last picture: Capturing the memory of a lifetime

A woman's quest for the perfect final shot

What next for hockey?

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

Wimbledon invents a time machine

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

Dhoti chic

In popular culture, the bhadralok usually wears a dhoti

Flawed superheroes

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

Kranti Saran: The shifty strategy

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

Ahmed Khan's world

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

Pakistan's shayar-e-awaam

Jalib was born in 1928 in Hoshiyarpur in British India

Uddalok Bhattacharya: Statistics don't tell the full cricket story

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

Kanika Datta: Situations vacant

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

Shuma Raha: Misogyny unplugged

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

Shreekant Sambrani: Learning from masters

A critical take on academics

Dhruv Munjal: End of the road for Le Professeur?

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

Shuma Raha: Remaking history

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

Vikram Johri: Locating the sublime within the unbearable

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

Rajendran Narayanan: The flag bearers

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

N Sundaresha Subramanian: How the Jallikattu bull was let loose

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

Shuma Raha: Meryl's moment

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