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Far from breaking social barriers, the COVID-19 crisis actually reinforces them as elite sports coronate high achievers from India’s despairing hinterland. In Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal, as plague claims half of Europe, a knight challenges Death to a game of chess to save himself and his friends. What follows is a celebration of the […]
Jitendra Nath Misra is a former ambassador, and vice president of the Jawaharlal Nehru Hockey Tournament Society. If a film can trigger unexpected emotions and sensations that connect us to our surroundings, it would have done its job. Such a film is Alone in Berlin, starring Brendan Gleeson and Emma Thompson, which never made it […]
– Jitendra Nath Misra Jitendra Nath Misra is a former ambassador and vice-president of Jawaharlal Nehru Hockey Tournament Society. Observing sport has many takeaways. One of them is gender discrimination. Sports meritocrats usually argue that sport is for all to see, and thus gender- blind. Sport is a concrete activity, with a victor […]
By Jitendra Nath Misra Short of a political tsunami, a failure of State or a devastating natural calamity, change in the international system tends to be incremental. Dalveer Bhandari’s victory over Christopher Greenwood at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is exactly the sort of gradual change which occurs when established and rising powers jostle. […]