The landscape of boxing is dominated by the mountainous heavyweights who tower over the hardest game, wielding the massive blows which send seismic shudders through each other and voyeuristic tremors through blood-lusting crowds. As the two mightiest of the present era stand aloft at this start of another massive fight week on Saudi Arabia's desert plains, Tyson Fury at 6ft …
The insults fell as heavily as the rain on the stadium and as fast as the punches in the ring. This Saturday's IBF world title fight between Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois at Wembley is stirring echoes of the animosity which stalked Lennox Lewis and Frank Bruno as they came to verbal as well as physical blows in the old …
It was fashionable among the Western scholars, evangelists and Indologists to refer to India not as a nation but a conglomerate of nations. Articulating the British view, John Strachy wrote in 1880: “This is the first and foremost thing to learn about India that there is not, and never was an India, or even any country of India possessing, according …