menu_open Columnists

The Hindu
We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

Column by Saba Mahjoor | Of gods and potatoes

Column by Saba Mahjoor | Of gods and potatoes

On the third day of chillai kalaan (a period of extreme cold weather that starts on December 21 and lasts 40 days), while everything outside lay...

26.12.2025 1

The Hindu

Saba Mahjoor

Class is useful, but form is everything in a T20 team

Class is useful, but form is everything in a T20 team

Selectors are a strange lot, doing the strange job of looking into the future armed with little more than scorecards, instinct, and the knowledge...

24.12.2025 3

The Hindu

Suresh Menon

Column by Devdutt Pattanaik | Transformation of the stupa

Column by Devdutt Pattanaik | Transformation of the stupa

In 1898, William Peppé, a British engineer, excavated the Piprahwa stupa near Siddharthnagar in Uttar Pradesh (nine miles from Lumbini, the...

19.12.2025 8

The Hindu

Devdutt Pattanaik

The new rules of cuffing season: From situationships to NRI flings and everything in between

The new rules of cuffing season: From situationships to NRI flings and everything in between

It is cuffing season again — Nature’s annual reminder that humans, like migratory birds and Delhi influencers, become deeply seasonal creatures....

19.12.2025 1

The Hindu

Barry Rodgers

Bazball is worth saving — a call England must make despite losses

Bazball is worth saving — a call England must make despite losses

If Bazball is dead — and obituaries are being written furiously — it would be a pity. England didn’t invent the attacking, free-flowing style,...

10.12.2025 4

The Hindu

Suresh Menon

Sorry, but the captain’s apology is now part of the game

Captains apologising for team failures is approaching the status of a cliché in the modern game. It is undoubtedly a noble gesture, this acceptance...

03.12.2025 1

The Hindu

Suresh Menon