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Rahul Jayaram

Rahul Jayaram

Academic

The writer is Assistant Professor at the Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities.

By Rahul Jayaram

Of dropping the gully cricket World Cup, and other tales of mimicking my heroes

What it meant to be the Wasim Akram of underarm bowling.

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A decade without India-Pakistan Test tour: How players and cricket fans are the biggest losers

Matches between the two countries have made stars out of players, but also mortals out of heroes.

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Why BCCI should closely follow South Africa versus Australia series

See how basics can be got right.

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Should India give up its number one Test team title?

The hurt, as Virat Kohli himself said, is less in the defeat, than in the lack of fight.

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India vs South Africa Test: What Virat Kohli must answer

In the era of fake news, the fakest news may be that India is the best Test team in the world.

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Why can't the Hindu Right accommodate dissent?

The resignation of ABVP members in the aftermath of JNU crackdown is a unique footnote in right-wing politics in India.

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Hello Bajrangi Bhaijaan, bye bye hit-and-run

The Salman Khan starrer will perhaps put the final nail in the coffin of the memory of September 8, 2002 victims.

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What CPM must do to stay relevant in Modi's India

The party needs to renew its stand on the development debate to become prominent again.

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How the selfie will change us

If narcissism is a prominent feature of our age then the front-facing camera is its font.

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How Haider has changed the way we look at censorship in Bollywood

The film provides a good lesson on how to criticise the Indian state without criticising it on its face.

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