john cheeran

By John Cheeran Considering the outright rejection of Congress and UPA across India, chief minister Oommen Chandy and KPCC president V M S...

By John Cheeran So who did not know that Manmohan Singh was an accidental prime minister? Everyone, including Dr Singh, knew it. Manmohan ...

By John Cheeran Will reading a Pakistani writer’s novel be sedition in Narendra Modi’s India? Not yet. Reading Pakistan-born British wri...

By John Cheeran A mandatory period of mourning follows when an idea gets buried, given that it was an idea, and not petty posturing for s...

By John Cheeran V S Achuthanandan has seen the writing on the wall. It’s every man’s right to have an honourable funeral. And there is no ...

By John Cheeran Man is driven by ambition. To lead India is the ultimate honour an Indian cricketer can aspire for. Equally, it is a prize ...

By John Cheeran Everyone agrees on this point. To breathe fresh air into Indian football, you have to work at grassroots. Indian footbal...

By John Cheeran The captaincy question returns. It is time to lessen the burden of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Stepping down as captain would ser...

By John Cheeran The outcome of the second Test in Wellington has become irrelevant. India may win it tomorrow, but New Zealand has won it a...

By John Cheeran Should India move towards a presidential system, an American or French model of governance?  As the election campaign for 2...

By John Cheeran Are cricketers a commodity that they need to go up in auction? The player auction for IPL-7 is happening in Bangalore today...

By John Cheeran What next for Chennai Super Kings? Will they be terminated from IPL for one of its team officials having brought the game t...

By John Cheeran The Church’s truck with Narendra Modi is becoming apparent by each passing day in Kerala as the alert has been sounded for ...

By John Cheeran Delhi is a city of graveyards. Of reputations as well as of people, some of whose names died before them. Empires have ri...

By John Cheeran That there was no doubt about the outcome of India’s fourth ODI against New Zealand, even Mahendra Singh Dhoni agrees. For,...

New Delhi: Help yourself. Bloomsbury India has cut a deal with renowned author Shiv Khera to publish all his books, including the bestselle...

By John Cheeran When Churchill Brothers won the Federation Cup for the first time in  the club’s history, you could not miss the big broth...

By John Cheeran A budget without taxes is like a Harold Robbins novel without sex. When Kerala’s finance minister K M Mani presented his ...

By John Cheeran In case you have forgotten, India are still world champions. Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his merry band of men will contin...

By John Cheeran Kerala has been regarded as a political laboratory for long. For the first time in the world, Communists came to power thro...

By John Cheeran The barren state of football in Kerala can be best gauged from the eerie silence at the empty Jawaharlal Nehru Internation...

By John Cheeran Football fever comes a little early to Kerala in the year of World Cup. The average Indian football fan, who will never ma...

By John Cheeran Cricket needs to reinvent itself. The game has been tinkered with many times in the past with one-day cricket being brough...

By John Cheeran Who is afraid of Virender Sehwag? Alas, no one. Not bowlers, anyway. The most destructive of modern batsmen, who pushed t...