Of Dinosaurs and Eternal Sunshine
Sunil Gavaskar , our perennial headlines grabbing discovery, finds it difficult to keep his mouth shut. It has been a chronic problem, usually self-inflicted with an orchestrated objective. Sunny bhai is a smart cookie who can anticipate wind pattern changes by even the subtle shift of his handkerchief in the summer breeze. Having seen frenzied nationalism from Kolkota to Kerala and Chandigarh to Cochin provoked by the Harbhajan Singh Monkeygate affair , when we Indians reminded ourselves of history lessons about the Quit India movement, Sunny bhai has quickly doubled....
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Why IPL can be a big flop?
BCCI big wig care-a-fig attitude man Lalit Modi has called the IPL , a "cricket reality show", with the perfected cockiness of Nero himself, even as he smiles condescendingly at frantic camera-men hailing him as cricket's new "money-minting Messiah". Modi announces with rehearsed confidence that IPL will be competing for advertising bucks and audience viewer-ship from the saas-bahu Ekta Kapoor serials for week-end entertainment masala. Ahem! Frankly, to give the characteristically unrestrained Modi due credit, at least he is now cut out that sanctimonious silly pretense of "developing....
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The Importance Of Second Innings
Friday March 12th 1993, this month exactly 15 years ago, seemed like just another pre summer day, clear blue skies, odd shaped clouds drifting away in a cluster as if in animated conversation, with crisp sunshine flooding the skyscrapers of Nariman Point. Bombay (as it was still called that then, and to which I still) seemed to exhibit it's usual brisk pace, a breezy bustling like environment, unrelenting speed, chaotic frenzy, and a no-nonsense business-like exterior. In a few hours, it was all to change. A corpulent colleague....
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BHAJJI FRY AND RED CHILLIES
"Saar, can I have the car keys, please"? I looked at the peculiar-looking object in front of me with more than mild astonishment . He looked like a cross between a Harry Potter creature and a sea-animal from the Pirates of the Caribbean. "Gosh, it's you Aspi? What have you done to yourself? Aspi's regular grey hair was gelled black with a Brylcream like finish, a few strands poking with contemptuous disdain skywards in a spike-cone shape, which would have given even MS Dhoni....
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