I am a little worried about the growing anger aimed at the Commonwealth Games to be held in New Delhi (India). Former Union Sports Minister and a senior member of the ruling Congress Party Manishankar Iyer said “Personally, I will be unhappy if the Commonwealth Games are successful … If the Games do succeed, that [...]
A few years ago in walked a person by the name of Shashi Tharoor. He was young (by Indian political standards) and came from a storied family. He was western educated, sophisticated and opinionated. The Indian middle-class loved him. He was one of them. He brought a breath of fresh air in an otherwise stinking [...]
I have in the past defended both Mayawati and Shashi Tharoor. Mayawati is a traditional Indian politician and Shashi Tharoor represents the more modern and more transparent version. On the surface they look poles apart but I see many similarities between the ways they operate particularly when it comes to dealing with adversity. In general [...]
One of my pleasures in life is to sit on my deck on a warm summer day and watch my favorite baseball team (Philadelphia Phillies) play on television. This gets even better when you have a cool lager in your hand (in the Philadelphia area a Lager by default means a Yuengling Lager which is [...]
In an yet another blow to the Indian Premier League English cricketer Ravi Bopara said that he had concerns about the security situation in India and indicated that he has postponed his trip to India to play for Kings XI Punjab. In a statement he to the Daily Mail he said that “Cricket is my [...]
A few weeks ago I wrote an article on what I thought was discriminatory practices by the Indian Premier League cricket when it came to selecting players from the World T20 Champions Pakistan. The reasons provided by the IPL for not picking players from Pakistan went from availability issues, to lack of visa guarantees by [...]
I live in the United States which is a country that has a long history of racial discrimination. Slavery was abolished in 1865 but legalized segregation lasted for more than a hundred years and ended only in 1968. During segregation minorities (mostly African-American) lived in their own separate communities, went to segregated schools and had [...]
The Indian Premier League (IPL), the nations top cricket league and one of the most important cricket leagues in the world held their player auction Today in Mumbai. The base price varied from $200,000 for players like Kieron Pollard (West Indies) and Wayne Parnell (South Africa) to $50,000 for Adam Voges (Australia) and $20,000 for [...]
