Columnists-The Times of India

SPORTING LIFE/AYAZ MEMON
Steve Waugh was characteristically pithy on India's debacle in the recent Test series. "Quite simply they didn't have the stomach for battle," he wrote in a signed article, "and didn't bear any resemblance to the rampaging unit that smashed us around in Australia last season."

[ 01:15:05 AM Sunday, October 31, 2004, TIMES NEWS NETWORK]

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Welcome back, Tendulkar

THE SPORTING LIFE/AYAZ MEMON
Saturday morning, Sanjay Manjrekar and I were discussing Sachin Tendulkar's celebrated tennis elbow and the prospects of his playing the third Test at Nagpur, unaware that he was undergoing a fitness test, perhaps at that very moment.

[ 12:26:01 AM Sunday, October 24, 2004]

Outsourcing elections

INDIASPORA/CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA
Following a talk last week at a college forum about foreign perception of US elections, a bright-eyed student stepped up to the microphone during Q&A; and asked me what advice did Indians have for Americans, especially after India had completed its elections using electronic voting machines.

[ 12:00:27 AM Sunday, October 24, 2004]

Personal vs political thought

EUROVISION/RASHMEE Z AHMED
This Wednesday, Europe's liberal Taliban finally gets the chance to shoot down the infidel within its ranks. That is, the God-fearing Catholic philosopher-politician.

[ 12:07:05 AM Sunday, October 24, 2004, TIMES NEWS NETWORK]

How about Jaggu as CEO?

BOBBILLI VIJAY KUMAR/BETWEEN THE LINES
Is this the end of the road for Jagmohan Dalmiya? Does the silence emanating from the corridors of the Indian cricket board signal a looming defeat for one of the most powerful and shrewdest administrators that the world of sport has seen?

[ 12:23:53 AM Sunday, October 24, 2004, TIMES NEWS NETWORK]

The dye was cast

POLITICALLY INCORRECT/SHOBHAA DE
Veerappan is dead. The 'Moustachioed One' has finally been gunned down. The image that haunts is not the grisly photograph showing the bandit with a bullet hole through his head.

[ 12:00:57 AM Sunday, October 24, 2004]

Fasting and feasting

ERRATICA/BACHI KARKARIA
Gieve Patel, the Parsi poet, despaired over his "ambiguous fate of being neither Hindu nor Muslim" in India. I suffer from no such dilemma.

[ 12:00:55 AM Sunday, October 24, 2004]

Pinch this column

JUGULAR VEIN/JUG SURAIYA
I have a secret to confess: I am an intellectual pirate. I subscribe to the theft of intellectual property. Now and then I watch DVD movies which are unauthorised reprints of the original.

[ 12:00:50 AM Sunday, October 24, 2004]

Getting around job quotas

SWAMINOMICS/SWAMINATHAN S ANKLESARIA AIYAR
Last week I argued in these columns that creating quality schools and colleges for dalits and tribals would be a far better form of affirmative action than job reservation in the private sector.

[ 12:00:15 AM Sunday, October 24, 2004]

The moment beckons India

THE SPORTING LIFE/AYAZ MEMON
India have their nose in front in this match was the consensus opinion of experts at Chepauk after a rivetting third day's play.

[ 12:36:39 AM Sunday, October 17, 2004]

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