Clinching Evidence – WhatsApp chats between two almost-friends

The Cricketer had alleged I had been intimidating him for years. See clinching evidence below, and…

Boria’s journalism carries the DNA of getting up, close and personal with people and not bowing under pressure.

-Jayanta Ghosal Mr Boria Majumdar is much younger than me. I am 61, Boria is 48.…

When truth is sacrificed at the altar of likes and subscribers

‘You fetch social-media likes.’ It was October 2022, and I was on my way to Australia…

Social media ‘freedoms’ have turned some into beasts

-Shahid Hashmi افکار سے ہے انکی تباہی۔۔۔ رکھتے نہیں جو فکر و تدبر کا سلیقہ ۔۔۔…

Back to Eden Gardens, scene of my first cricket memories

Twenty-six months. More than 800 days, to be exact. I hadn’t stepped inside a cricket ground…

An innocuous text message painted as a threat

Sukhwant Basra I distinctly remember the day Boria Majumdar was banned by the BCCI. Not for…

Gautam Gambhir’s straight talk while I was banned for home World Cup

During the two years of my ban, the event that I was most apprehensive about was…

R Ashwin, Sunny Gavaskar and not losing hope

I may have been away from cricket, but there were occasions in the two years when…

How Gopichand and the Thomas Cup win helped me get back on my feet

I left for Oxford on May 15, 2022. With the abuse continuing unabated, it was perhaps…

How an official fan club became the apex of a lynch mob

In one of the book signings today, a gentleman asked me where the maximum abuse came…