Daily Archives: 8 August 2011

When cricket journos call Graeme Swann’s home

In June, we saw what happens when itinerant Indian cricket correspondents following Team India on the West Indies tour landed up at batting legend Brian Lara‘s house. On the current tour of England, two of them landed up at the offspinner Graeme Swann‘s. On top is the first paragraph of Sandeep Dwivedi‘s despatch, published in…

The saplings Usha Rai planted on our Fleet Street

Delhi is celebrating its centenary as the capital of India, and a number of newspapers led by the Hindustan Times have been using the opportunity to take a stroll down memory lane.  The Hindu Business Line too is running a series, and the sports journalist Norris Pritam (left) turned his eyes on the Fleet Street of India—Bahadurshah…