King of runs

The Master Blaster has braved many odds and injuries to achieve the twin milestones of being the highest scorer in both Test and one-day cricket, writes Abhijit Chatterjee When Sachin Tendulkar crossed the 12,000-run mark in Test cricket during the Mohali Test against Australia, Krish Srikkanth, chairman of the national selection committee, said the Master Blaster should now aim to represent the country in the next World Cup, which is over three years away.

CROWNING GLORY: The 12,000-plus runs in Test cricket is not the only record that Sachin holds. He is also the batsman with most centuries in both forms of the game.

Who’s afraid of Rakhi Sawant
Her life is the story of a lower class woman breaking Bollywood’s glass and class ceiling, writes Shakuntala Rao
Last season Karan Johar, the connoisseur of upper class cheeky modesty, announced the arrival of ‘kachchra queen’ (as a popular media pundit called her) Rakhi Sawant, as a guest on his show Koffee with Karan. Often ridiculed by Karan Johar and his other guests, Rakhi Sawant’s life is the quintessential story of the lower-class woman breaking Bollywood’s glass and class ceiling.