Shougat Dasgupta

The queues in Bow Barracks offer clinching evidence that word of Kolkata's star-spangled Christmas has spread far and wide

What tennis offers is an escape, a retreat from the world, a forgetting. And what about this world, at this time, is worth remembering?

Middle age is the boot stamping on our face, says the author

Top flight football in England is a global phenomenon, more than anywhere else in Europe, more indeed than any league in any sport

He doesn't stick to the script that others would write for him.