Can we please get some perspective?

It’s an opinion which some of you already share, but I’m going to go ahead and say it anyway. The Indian Premier League aka The IPL is bloody over-rated. Here is a league, which is consisting of merely 6 teams, in a sport which is played by only 16 odd teams (of which only 10 […]

War on Cricket

It has not come entirely as a shock to me. Neither was I expecting it to happen. It is certainly a shocking piece of news, nevertheless. It is an unprecedented attack on cricketers, though not on sportsmen by and large. One can never erase the Munich Massacre from his mind – an incident that left […]

Chak De India!

India’s tour to New Zealand has always been a bit special. India-NZ are not traditional rivals like India-Pak or Aus-NZ, but there have always been a profound rivalry between the two teams. India undoubtedly has a poor record in New Zealand. The last time India visited NZ they just managed to win 2 out of […]

A Walk with the Tigers

Tiger! Tiger!

I am in the midst of reading The White Tiger, and I am admittedly totally awe-struck with the Man Booker Prize winning novella. Aravaind Adiga has done amazing well to describe the many faces of our multi-hued state (pun intended). He narrates the story of a villager who is recruited as a driver with […]

Sunday

There is something about Sundays, for everyone. School-going kids get to sleep till their heart’s content and working population gets to sleep as well, apart from clean the house and catching up with their friends, not to mention shopping and eating out.
For me, Sunday is usually another day at work (from home), but of course […]

The Legend of Dada

Like Kumble, Ganguly was also a part of my growing years. I still vaguely and excitedly remember watching him taking off his helmet when he reached his century at Lord’s. In those times, when cable TV was a luxury to have and often considered bad for school-going kids like me, I usually relied on 9 […]

The Kotla Stinks…So do the Aussies!

Yesterday was different because of many reasons. It was a Sunday, the only day in the week when we get an off and when we can think of relaxing and getting all the miseries out of our system. It was Shah Rukh Khan’s birthday, a person whom I admire a lot and who has been […]

The Spinner Who did Not Turn the Ball…But Many Matches he did

He conquers who endures. 
~Persius
Since there was no contribution from anyone else today, I thought I would write briefly on the book that I am reading right now – Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. But I guess that will come another day, as there is a piece of news that has inspired me write on something […]

The Death of Tests

I was sitting with two associates/friends of mine last evening in a restaurant and having a sip or two, and of course discussing many issues and strategies. Behind one of the friend, on a semi-giant TV screen, I could watch the Test match between India and Sri Lanka. There is nothing much to said about […]

The Sporting Sunday

I had wished for a better Sunday. Not a day when I would see India and Federer lose their respective matches. Once Sri Lanka scored 270-odd I had sensed that India would lose this match, because of the Spin threat Sri Lanka had and because of India’s ability to lose crunch […]