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During the early part of my career, an era when the wheel was just about starting to gain popularity, I came across a horror story of how ruthlessly companies behaved with their staff. Many a gutter water has flown through Mithi since then and the I have...
I have yet to get HD on my cable due to pure lethargy which stems from the perception that it doesn't really matter much in terms of viewing experience. Many readers may disagree with this perception but being a huge fan of Didi, I find their attitude...
India has seen various forms of justice or injustice, depending on the way one wants to look at it, served in March. On one hand was the ban imposed on the Lankan players from their IPL team games played in Chennai. The reason given is on the one hand...
The first time I watched him in action was on the new year's day in 1989 playing for Mumbai against Baroda at the Dadoji Konddev Stadium in Thane. It was his first season of first class cricket but he was already famous for his world record partnership...
One of the few links that one can find between cricket and chess is that both words start with the letter C. Another one is that coaches use a lot of computer analysis to find the opponents' weaknesses. How much does it help in cricket is as open...
Spoiler alert - Don't read if you are planning to watch the movie One was desperately looking for Sachin Tendulkar's name in the credit list of the latest Bond movie 'Skyfall'. The rationale was simple. The first half of the movie rotates...
Ok so I was discussing a few crossword puzzles with a couple of equally vela friends and came up with some related to cricket. The crossword clues will be a bit lateral and similar too the cryptic puzzles in newspapers but again concerned with cricketers'...
Before the start of that all important match the Champion’s fan’s verdict is short, sharp and matter of fact. ‘He is going to lose! He may be the better player, history may be in his favour and on form he should win. But I know he is going to bungle it...
Dear Rahul, I watched your press conference today teary-eyed on one of the news channel websites and though I had promised myself that the words ‘second fiddle’ or ‘overshadowed’ won’t appear anywhere in the piece, the irony wasn’t lost on me that before...
............This was not the case. The latest news which Vladimir Brusiloff had had from Russia had been particularly cheering. Three of his principal creditors had perished in the last massacre of the _bourgeoisie_, and a man whom he owed for five years...
The former great was a bitter man. The joke went at the CCI that bar tenders asked him to stick his fingers in a cocktail if they had run out of bitters. But it could all have been so different. His entire career would have meant something if only he...
This is a true story. Really! It was pointed out to a friend by his driver that the new annual insurance papers of his car (which is technically owned by his employer and hence insurance is done by his admin department ) mentioned the wrong car #. Instead...
The first meeting of the new look Indian selection committee is underway on an auspicious day and time per You Know Who’s astrologer with all selectors wearing yellow India Cement jerseys. The new selectors are supposed to take an oath of allegiance to...
It has been reliably learnt that the De Montfort University in Leicester is revoking the ‘honorary’ doctorate conferred by it on MS Dhoni. The University which had praised Dhoni’s exemplary leadership qualities and his achievements before making him an...
All Indian cricket fans are clamouring for Facebook to be renamed as Book since they have lost their ‘Face’ at Trentbridge. Mark Zuckerberg read all those messages, watched the low lights of the Indian batting and decided to rename Facebook as Shamefacedlook...
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