A golden opportunity lost!
By Vijay Darda | 20-11-202 For us, cricket is not just a game but like a national religion Vijay Darda The Indian team’s determination was invincible and 140 crore Indians expected it to win the World Cup! In this background, it is difficult to digest the defeat of the Indian team, but that is […]
Don’t drag cricket into fog of religion, Janab!
By Vijay Darda | 31-10-2021 The statement of interior minister of Pakistan Sheikh Rasheed and trolling of Indian player Mohammed Shami is extremely embarrassing Vijay Darda I have never understood why a cricket match between Pakistan and India is looked upon as a war between ‘enemies’ rather than a pure sporting event? The players […]
We should learn spiritedness from country like Croatia
By Vijay Darda | 16-07-2018 It is painful to see India, with a population of more than 125 crore, standing at the last rung in the world of sports A small country with a long coastline between Central and Southeast Europe on the Adriatic Sea, Croatia though lost the title clash, astonished the whole […]
Rural India is our true wealth
By Vijay Darda | 05-02-2018 Enough of announcements… Now it’s time to do something..! Irrigation, healthcare and education are the basic problems of the villages The BJP government has made several important announcements in its last full Budget, especially for the villages and the farmers. It’s a good development. A majority of India’s population […]
This is manslaughter! Will anyone be sued?
By Vijay Darda | 02-10-2017 If criminal cases can be filed against school directors for murder, why not against railway officials? After three consecutive train accidents in Uttar Pradesh, stampede on the Elphinstone Road railway station foot-over-bridge (FOB) in Mumbai has rocked the nation. This incident has raised several questions. The biggest question is […]
Our World Cup loss no disgrace
By Vijay Darda | 30-03-2015 That we are a cricket crazy nation, and the game is our only secular religion need not be over-emphasised. This is something that is internalised by the millions of fans who have imbibed all the nuances of the game from the live coverage and bi-lingual commentary that beams into […]
Gender bias: A problem of faulty attitudes
By Vijay Darda | 23-03-2015 Recently, there have been two prominent episodes in our public discourse that have highlighted the chronic curse of gender bias in our society. The first was the knee jerk reaction of the Union government banning the BBC documentary India’s Daughter narrating the story of that 23-year-old braveheart who was […]
Jammu & Kashmir: Handle with care
By Vijay Darda | 09-03-2015 For 68 years we have had a problem called Kashmir. It does not offer itself to any easy solution. In fact, a difficult one is also tough to discern on the horizon. We have fought wars across the border, and our armed forces maintain an eternal vigil within our […]
Missing Brazil-a national failure
By Vijay Darda | 16-06-2014 The excitement in faraway Brazil around the 32-nation World Cup Soccer (football) has begun and in the weeks to come is bound to reach a feverish pitch. There will be several tell-tale signs through flags of participating nations, their team jerseys all marking their dominating presence, with animated discussions […]