Land of Lime

One Stephen Waugh seems to attribute the current cricket controversy to cultural differences.
At the end of the day, much of what is happening between the teams springs from an inability to understand each other’s culture. For an Indian, calling someone a monkey is not a terrible insult, and certainly not a racist one.
Others aren’t so [...]

I missed the European Cup finals between Liverpool and A C Milan earlier this week. Doesn’t look like I missed much but as I browsed through reports in the Guardian and Soccernet, here is something that caught the attention of ever perceptive Richard Williams:
Kaka, incidentally, reacted to the final whistle by heading for the [...]

Many forests will be felled abusing Indian cricketers, postmorteming India’s performance. Blame will be assigned and scapegoats will be found. That’s always fun and we, in South Asia, have much expertise in that blood sport.
I am sure the same will happen in Pakistan. But the additional misfortune of losing their coach, Bob Woolmer, under such [...]