#LondonLetter: The rivalry is ingrained in the memories of millions, from Javed Miandad’s last-ball six at Sharjah in 1986 to India’s victory over Pakistan in the 2011 World Cup
#LondonLetter: The rivalry is ingrained in the memories of millions, from Javed Miandad’s last-ball six at Sharjah in 1986 to India’s victory over Pakistan in the 2011 World Cup
#LondonLetter: What Bengal’s treasury financed in the 1760s had, by 1774, become the financial bedrock of England’s universities, churches and parish life
#LondonLetter: Clive’s career in India began as a clerk for the East India Company and ended with him being among the wealthiest men in Britain
#LondonLetter: The Kohinoor is a part of our Muslim heritage which rightly belongs to the people of Pakistan. With those words, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto pressed Britain in the mid-1970s to hand back the diamond originally mined from the Kollur mine near Golconda in Telengana, before travelling from Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s treasury to the British Crown Jewels collection in London.
#LondonLetter:Dishoom’s leap across the Atlantic was seeded last summer during a week-long pop-up at Pastis, the fashionable French bistro in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District
#LondonLetter:After Independence, Jawaharlal Nehru saw diplomacy as performance — India, a new actor on the world stage, needed to be seen
Siraj fifer helps team seal England Test series 2-2 with 6-run victory
#LondonLetter: In front of a roaring, near-hysterical crowd draped in tricolours and tension, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja, and Mohammed Siraj pulled India back from the brink
Laurence Binyon, best known for his Remembrance Day verses, chose to portray the emperor as a philosopher-king
#LondonLetter: As IPL expands, and as Indian fans juggle Tests, ODIs and multiple T20 leagues, The Hundred serves as a warning: new formats and big branding don’t always translate to loyal viewership
#LondonLetter: The message is clear: courtesy cannot be one-sided. And respect, like good cricket, must be played on level ground
The England and Wales Cricket Board has announced a remembrance during the lunch break
#LondonLetter: While China has moved on from the vocabulary of grievance, India continues to approach global affairs with a vivid memory of imbalance, writes Shyam Bhatia
#LondonLetter:It was India, weathered but unbowed, who left with their dignity intact, writes Shyam Bhatia
Shubman, Rahul keep India in game with solid stand after Stokes century
#LondonLetter: For him, Old Trafford is more than a venue — it’s a living, breathing character in cricket’s unfolding epic, writes Shyam Bhatia
#LondonLetter:The dholaks outside Old Trafford speak of something the scoreboard never can; cricket is no longer a colonial inheritance, reports Shyam Bhatia
#LondonLetter:Their dominance was familiar, not gloating, not aggressive, just assured writes Shyam Bhatia
#LondonLetter: Pant’s sudden injury reminded us of cricket’s deeper drama: its unpredictability, its physical toll, and its psychological edge, especially when played in English conditions, where cloud cover and a green pitch can unnerve the most confident visitor, writes Shyam Bhatia
Among other places, he will avoid Pentonville Prison, where Udham Singh was hanged in 1940 for assassinating Michael O'Dwyer, the former Lt Governor of Punjab.
SPECIAL to The Tribune: Shyam Bhatia in London
While the names change and theatres of war shift, the core betrayal remains constant
The colonial yoke was never just about conquest. It was about rewriting the imagination — training us to doubt ourselves and worship elsewhere.
Under the Free Trade Agreement, which is set to be formally signed in London later this month, duties on Scotch will fall from 150% to 75% immediately, with a further reduction to 40% over the next decade
The incident stems from a 2022 error by a Ministry of Defence (MoD) official, who mistakenly sent a spreadsheet containing the personal details of more than 33,000 Afghan citizens applying for resettlement in the UK under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy
Shyam Bhatia, The Tribune’s London Correspondent, writes about the morning after at Lord’s and the run up to the next India-England cricket Test at Old Trafford
The British Museum is presenting its exhibition Ancient India: Living Traditions as a celebration of shared culture. This is not cultural diplomacy; it is state-funded imperial nostalgia.