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Dileep Premachandran

Dileep Premachandran is a sports columnist for The Independent, Mint Lounge and Arab News. He was formerly editor-in-chief of Wisden India

By defeating Germany in the 2002 World Cup final in Yokohama, Brazil won their fifth title
FIFA World Cup 2018
Romancing Brazil

The beautiful legacy of the last redeemer

07 June 2018
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THE HOUR OF THE PROTEAS

It’s South Africa’s chance after two decades of hurt

11 February 2015
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Books
The Master and the Neighbour

The best cricket book you will read this year, from Pakistan, outscores a passionate commemoration of the Tendulkar legacy

05 February 2015
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Sports
Spearhead

From a discard five years ago, Zaheer Khan is now a lynchpin of India’s cricketing ambitions. His is the greatest turnaround story of Indian cricket

06 January 2011
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Sports
Season of the Long Knives

For all the dust kicked up by the ouster of two franchises, the IPL juggernaut is not about to stall. But from the look of it, every last trace of Lalit Modi will be erased in its new avatar

14 October 2010
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Sports
You Are Not Tiger’s Wife…

So stop berating him. Tiger Woods only owes his family an explanation, not us. All we can demand of him is golfing excellence. In any case, he is not the first world-class sportsman to face such embarrassment, if that’s what his ‘infidelity’ really is. It is a path down which some of the best athletes have strayed, and still stayed on top of their game.

16 December 2009
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Sports
Goalie No. 1

The talented but controversial Subrata Paul redeemed himself in the Nehru Cup. Now, he must play for an overseas club to raise the bar higher

09 September 2009
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Sports
Dhoni: Darling to Effigy

Dhoni is now in that familiar place where an Indian cricket captain, inevitably, arrives. That place where his back will slowly transform into a dartboard

19 June 2009
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Sports
Why Indians Love Manchester United

On 27 May is a match every football fan in India is awaiting: Man U vs Barcelona in the Champions League final. Indians know who they will support. But do they know why?

12 June 2009

Authors

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

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