Page 2 - Eye Culture

Higher, faster, stronger, weirder: Strange sporting disciplines in Olympics

From trampoline to skateboarding and breakdancing - the Olympics' expanding roster of sports has become increasingly questionable

Airbrushed existence

Bad air is an equaliser, uncontained by physical borders and social boundaries, but dialogues around air pollution don't extend to everybody. They have blind spots

The lunar challenges

The repeated setbacks prompt a pressing question: If we could put humans on the moon in 1969, why are we stumbling now?

Reading & in-betweens: Making sense of words

We appear to be natural at reading, but is that true?

Gully cricket is dead, and so are its quaint rituals

The alley game once demanded a special devotion; it wasn't just for recreation. Today, its devotees are gone, replaced by ambitious young players who think the game restricts their playing style

The last picture: Capturing the memory of a lifetime

A woman's quest for the perfect final shot

What next for hockey?

Till a few years ago, to even dream about India winning a medal in hockey would have been considered foolish

Wimbledon invents a time machine

Over the past fortnight, the All England Club has been live streaming via Wimbledon.com a retrospective of tennis matches dating back to its centenary in 1977

Dhoti chic

In popular culture, the bhadralok usually wears a dhoti

Flawed superheroes

Maybe it's time superheroes were increasingly projected in films as flawed humans and not gods

Kranti Saran: The shifty strategy

While you can't coerce anyone to recognise your legitimacy to speak out, nobody can deny you the self-recognition of your own legitimacy to speak

Ahmed Khan's world

Footballer Ahmed Khan, say, Chuni Goswami & Pradip Banerjee, is India's greatest forward

Pakistan's shayar-e-awaam

Jalib was born in 1928 in Hoshiyarpur in British India

Uddalok Bhattacharya: Statistics don't tell the full cricket story

Nostalgia and anecdotes, given to us by cricket's great writers, do much greater justice to the game

Kanika Datta: Situations vacant

None of them have the remotest connection with the jobs listed out for my perusal in this mail

Shuma Raha: Misogyny unplugged

The girl in question is Gurmehar Kaur, whose father died fighting for the country

Shreekant Sambrani: Learning from masters

A critical take on academics

Dhruv Munjal: End of the road for Le Professeur?

Once upon a time, Wenger was a revolutionary; Arsenal's modern, studious version of Herbert Chapman

Shuma Raha: Remaking history

Winston Churchill got the Nobel Prize in literature for 'History is written by the victors'

Vikram Johri: Locating the sublime within the unbearable

Manchester by the Sea is a film, based in the seaside town of Manchester, Massachusetts