Watch: TIF Webinar - A Question of Language

The cricket on the field has been full of joy, but the cricketers have played under the shadow of an overbearing BCCI; the Board's uber-nationalism has sullied the game and its carte blanche to the money men has brought in indecent marketing. The ICC, on its part, has been rendered powerless.

"When the world’s foremost body on the protection of cultural heritage limits itself to cautious generalities, it fosters a permissive environment. It allows the destruction in Gaza to be treated as regrettable collateral damage of war, rather than an actionable crime."

"The tenor of this city’s language was arranged carefully to suit a specific aural temperament that was a need for some; the colourful pastiche of the city was hidden. When the memory of a city is reconstituted as ‘timeless’ within a particular milieu, what gets forgotten and what is remembered?"