Mumbai is a place Delhiites generally don’t like to travel. Heavy traffic logs, un-warmly behavior of people, and dearth of good-looking girls often are the major grievances of those who have been bred in Delhi or North India (disclaimer: I don’t want to instigate the North India-West India divide issue here). On my second trip […]
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Remember, Red. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things and no good thing ever dies.
These famous words were said by Tim Robbins to Morgan Freeman in the 1994 classic The Shawshank Redemption. These words are engraved in my mind and soul like a small baby clings to the mother’s chest. Hope […]
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Rishikesh is exactly what you expect it to be: disorganized, replete with firangs, overpriced on the weekends, and full of excitement and natural beauty. My decision to go river rafting in the Ganges this weekend was a hasty one, but one that I absolutely enjoyed. I had earlier done rafting at the River Beas at […]
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I would like to take on from where Malvika left. It is no big news that the Indian economy now is the second-fastest growing in the world, after China (the Indo-China comparison is inevitable). However, the perception of Indian in the western world has undergone a sea change in the past decade.
I can remember a […]
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Whoa! We were waiting for this for a long time. Shoaib Akhtar, whose ban has been suspended for a month by the Pakistan Cricket Board, uprooted the top order of Delhi Daredevils through an extraordinary display of fast bowling. He bowled fast, in the right areas and was at his scary best against a daunting […]
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Finally, yes finally Dravid did the sane thing of playing Craig White and Misbah ul Haq together, but sadly both of them disappointed when given chances to stamp their presence in the Indian Premier Leage 2008. Anyhow, it was the Kings XI Punjab who deserved to win the match, largely due to a scintillating knock […]
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I have been inspired to write this post because I have suddenly realized something, and I believe I need to speak it out to 200-odd people who visit Mantrablogs everyday. I was going thru the list of Times Influential Personalities under the section “Heroes and Pioneers” and realized that most of the personalities listed there […]
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After the ecstasy, comes the downfall. To put it straight, the Deccan Chargers have disappointed me again. I was over the moon a few days back when the Deccan Chargers defeated the Chennai Super Kings and Shahid Afridi finally fired, not to mention the blitz by Adam Gilchrist and Rohit Sharma’s stunning straight six. I […]
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I just cannot understand what’s wrong with the Deccan Chargers. Shahid Afridi in particular has made me angry. I expected him to do a lot better. Even Praveen Kumar has scored more runs than him now. Had Rohit Sharma not been with the Deccan Chargers, I am afraid they would have also lost their pride […]
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It has been quite some time since I expressed my thoughts on the Indian Premier League. Well, nothing important has happened since then, except that all the Aussies have flown back home, except the retirees and the unwanted ones. “Unwanted” I guess will be a demeaning word for Shane Watson and S Marsh, both of […]
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