-Shahid Hashmi افکار سے ہے انکی تباہی۔۔۔ رکھتے نہیں جو فکر و تدبر کا سلیقہ ۔۔۔…
Tag: Boria Majumdar
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…
How The Cricketer manipulated social media for his own ends
The athlete is always right because he is an athlete. An Indian reality. For days and…
Tendulkar belongs in the sporting pantheon, not to cricket alone
A 100 international hundreds. Impossible, but true. A testament to greatness that can never be challenged…
Shutdown pill for troll trauma on social media
“We can’t put this beast back in the cage. So it’s important to understand this beast…