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Suresh Menon

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It’s not yet control-alt-delete for civilisation 

It’s not yet control-alt-delete for civilisation 
01.03.2025 10

The Hindu

Suresh Menon

Kerala’s Kelappan Thampuran and the birth of the one-day game

Kerala’s Kelappan Thampuran and the birth of the one-day game
26.02.2025 10

The Hindu

Suresh Menon

Corrections and Clarifications — February 22, 2025

22.02.2025 10

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Suresh Menon

The monkey and Shakespeare, and why the twain won’t meet 

15.02.2025 10

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Suresh Menon

On playing Afganistan | When sport is politics by other means, self-interest is key

05.02.2025 30

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Suresh Menon

Home is where the art is, the science too 

01.02.2025 7

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Suresh Menon

An architecture of thinking 

19.01.2025 10

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Suresh Menon

‘If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet’ and other joys

The older you get, the fewer new year resolutions do you need to make. In your 20s and 30s it is easy to make a list: give up smoking, wake up...

05.01.2025 10

The Hindu

Suresh Menon

Warning: don’t monkey around with the language 

There’s a scene in an episode of the sitcom Seinfeld where Kramer is in trouble for allegedly teasing a monkey at the zoo. The monkey throws a...

21.12.2024 3

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Suresh Menon

Kohli to Jaiswal: A change not just in generation, but in culture too

Strange things happen when you are out of form. Or when you develop a technical flaw late in your career. You tend to get the best deliveries and...

11.12.2024 3

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Suresh Menon

What it means to be in listed company 

There is something about the last month of the year that unleashes the list-maker in us. It is widely known from one end of my table to the other...

08.12.2024 6

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Suresh Menon

Jay Shah has his hands full as he takes over as ICC chairman

Jay Shah takes office as chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC), at a critical juncture. There is the re-entry of cricket in the 2028...

04.12.2024 10

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Suresh Menon

A world of rare books and rare people

Civilised cities have used bookstores. Great cities have antiquarian bookstores. Bengaluru has graduated from the former with the Antiquarian...

23.11.2024 3

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Suresh Menon

Incompetence rights a wrong, but for how long?

India’s customs notification No. 405/12/88-CUS-III shook the world 36 years ago. For it banned the import of Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses....

09.11.2024 4

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Suresh Menon

India rely on the kindness of others as WTC final dreams fade

Coaches and selectors who train themselves to spot ability in a young player are reluctant to acknowledge its decline as the same player ages....

06.11.2024 5

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Suresh Menon

Money, happiness and the connection between the two 

At the turn of the century, a friend, an India cricketer, told me, “If you can make around eight and a half lakh rupees a year, you can be happy.”...

26.10.2024 3

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Suresh Menon

Ind vs NZ: The joys and sorrows of the high-risk game in a single frame

To his credit, skipper Rohit Sharma said he had made a mistake batting first on the Bengaluru pitch, but it might not have been a mistake after...

23.10.2024 7

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Suresh Menon

India’s emerging 150-plus bowlers need careful looking after

Ahead of the Gwalior T20I match, India skipper Suryakumar Yadav repeated the essential rule for handling a fast bowler. “It’s important to manage...

09.10.2024 2

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Suresh Menon

When spilling the beans is not an option

In my schooldays when reading an entire series of thrillers or spy novels was good etiquette, Alistair Maclean supplied both genres. We regretted...

29.09.2024 2

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Suresh Menon

Denialism and ‘assertism’ are two sides of the same coin

When you believe in nothing, you can believe in anything. World leaders might deny climate change, evolution, or genocides involving their...

14.09.2024 6

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Suresh Menon

Two-tier system for Tests is an old idea whose time has come

For a long time now, the International Cricket Council has been contemplating a two-tier system for Test cricket. In 2004, David Richardson, then...

11.09.2024 2

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Suresh Menon

Corrections and Clarifications — September 7, 2024

In the article, “The Food Security Act has revamped the PDS” (Editorial page, September 6, 2024), a sentence should have read as: “In spite of the...

06.09.2024 2

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Suresh Menon

Cricket has much on its plate, including a new disruptor — Jay Shah

Jay Shah, 35, is a year younger than India captain Rohit Sharma. We know little of his cricket skills or acumen. We do know a bit about his cricket...

04.09.2024 2

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Suresh Menon

Ten million ways to give Test cricket the boost it needs

In a larger sense, sport is about the strong helping the weak. In a world where it is argued that sport is an artificial construct, a fantasy, we...

28.08.2024 2

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Suresh Menon

No global solutions for cricket, however positive, can work without India

In theory it is a good move, even overdue. The World Cricketers’ Association (WCA) is reviewing the game’s global structure to find solutions to...

21.08.2024 6

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Suresh Menon

Laxman’s 281 and other cricket feats that speak for special players

Cricketers, like all athletes, have defining performances. The one that above all others reveals the essential style, the uniqueness, the essential...

17.07.2024 3

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Suresh Menon