Grit, Gumption and Greatness. These were the three infallible attributes of the man voted by the Runners World Magazine as the Greatest Runner of All Time. Setting a slew of world records (18 in total), achieving the incredible treble victories (5000 metres; 10,000 metres and the Marathon) at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952, and leaving … Continue reading Endurance: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Emil Zátopek by Rick Broadbent

On the 24th of March 2018, at Cape Town’s Newlands Stadium, the Australian cricketers were being run ragged by the hosts. Clueless against the resoluteness of Aiden Markram and the nonchalance of A B De Villiers, shoulders began to sag and heads to bend. The series was already on a knife edge, and not just … Continue reading Crossing The Line: How Australian Cricket Lost Its Way – Gideon Haigh

A scintillating piece of narrative non-fiction by the Pulitzer Prize winning Katherine Boo, “Behind the Beautiful Forevers”, has at its bedrock the squalor, sentiments and sanguine atmosphere surrounding the sprawling Annawadi slum in the glitzy Metropolis of Mumbai, the financial nerve centre of India. Squatting behind the glamorous 5 star hotels and the renovated International … Continue reading Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo

“Listen! And understand. That Terminator is out there! It can't be bargained with, can't be reasoned with! It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear, and it absolutely will not stop. EVER! Until you are dead!” – Michael Biehn a.k.a Sgt Kyle Reese in The Terminator  The chilling lines set out above have now attained … Continue reading A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence – Kartik Hosanagar