The Joy a Newspaper Brings

July 21st, 2011 | Shonali Burke | 37 Comments

I had a delightful surprise waiting for me this morning. When my husband went out a short while ago to get the newspaper (yes, we still get one newspaper delivered), he also brought in a box that had apparently been waiting for me on our doorstep since last evening.

I opened it to find the April 3 edition of several Indian newspapers, exulting and reveling in India’s victory in the 2011 World Cup.

The newspapers themselves took rather a circuitous route to get to me.

I’d asked my father to pick up a couple of newspapers for me, for posterity. He didn’t just find a couple of newspapers. He found every single English language newspaper he could, and held on to them patiently while I mulled over the best way to get them to me (FedEx would have been exorbitant and the Indian postal system is, shall we say, not too reliable, especially when it comes to international mail).

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Farewell, World Cup; Hello, Misogynistic Media

August 17th, 2010 | Bryce Keane | 6 Comments

I’m aware that it’s now been more than a month since the World Cup ended, with Spain taking home their very first victory ever. And, in all fairness, I almost let this post go.

Image: Axel Bührmann, Creative Commons

But the truth is that there was something that really really began to grind my gears as the Cup went on.

Don’t get me wrong, I actually got quite into the spirit of the whole thing (not bad for a guy from a country in which “soccer” is far down the list in terms of national support levels) and really enjoyed the getting along to the local pub to catch as many games as I could.

What I didn’t like was reading about those very same games the next day.