Prem Panicker

It is a sight that both warms and breaks the heart. The women of Shaheen Bagh seem oblivious of the cold, these women and their children, the latter ranging in age from 19 days to early teens, who have been occupying the road for over two weeks…

Permanent address? The place you were born, the house where you grew up, the city your parents live in—just what makes a home? And what if, at the end of the day, you no longer have one? In the second part of our Going Home series, Prem Panicker…

Epics have ordinary, even commonplace beginnings. The one on Sunday, at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow, Scotland, begins with a low PV Sindhu service – the most common start to a point, badminton’s version of e4. Nozomi Okuhara responds with a wristy…

Sign in | Create a Rediffmail account 'That is what Gauri was, in her essence -- the principle of free, open, forthright words, made flesh.' 'And that is what was gunned down -- her words, and with them our freedom to fashion our own opinions, to…

There is something about the French. The unforgiving clay of Court Phillipe Chatrier has broken hearts and melted minds, revealed invisible weaknesses and brutally exposed carefully-hidden fragilities. It is the kryptonite of tennis, denuding…

'Every Ali obituary I read made the point that he 'transcended his sport' -- a reference to the many battles he fought with America even as he fought in America.' 'What the obituaries leave out is that Ali equally transcended the boundaries of…