Shougat Dasgupta

Why Kolkata, a city of manifold joys, is best enjoyed in the winter

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

Tennis partners

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

This is middle age

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

Finding football's soul

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

ZZ quits at the top

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