


How India Can Close Olympic Gap with China
To match Beijing’s glory, New Delhi is gunning to snag the 2020 Games, but India has a ways to go in infrastructure and athlete training
by Gunjan Bagla
Asia
Across Asia, hosting the Olympic Games is treated as a sign that a developing country has arrived. Tokyo became the first Asian city to host the Olympics, in 1964, within two decades of Japan’s defeat in World War II. South Korea announced its economic ascendancy by hosting the Games in Seoul in 1988.


Kaveetaa Kaul
Just returned from a trip to Mussoorie and reckoned our NG friends might need a respite from the mind boggling BO figures. A reminder to life beyond movies..quite as exciting and fulfilling and so peaceful, nurturing the inner spirit and reinvigorating our core. Man is part of nature, a component in its completion.. after all. I guess we need to loop it in periodically.






