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Sach hain yeh..: August 2010
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Saturday, August 21, 2010. As I sit on a looong cross country flight with nothing to do till I land in San Fran, I thought it would be apt time to pen a blog on one of my favorite cricketers.Somebody that has redefined the word rebel. In an era where hundreds are scored everyday at the Sinhalese Sports club, with Mahela achieving a stupendous 2 tons every week and Samaraweera contributing a generous 3, Virender "Viru" Sehwag comes across as a breath of fresh air. When all your adrenaline rush fizzes out ...
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Sach hain yeh..: Planning for tomorrow!
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Monday, January 16, 2012. My previous post in August was just after the nightmarish English summer. As MS Dhoni put it, everything that had to go wrong, did! I genuinely believed it was a one-off and that is what it should have been, provided some remedial actions were taken. How can one explain that this team under MSD can be seemingly worse (atleast in the results column) than the pedestrian India sides Azharuddin and Tendulkar led in the 90s? Not a good enough answer. If SRT cannot make it to the ...
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Sach hain yeh..: This too shall pass!
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011. This too shall pass! Failing per se, is not bad. Failing to prepare, is. That phrase runs across my mind as I sit to analyze the misery inflicted on India in the English summer. Why does Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (of all people) play 14 meaningless games for Mumbai? Does anyone care a sh*t if Mumbai wins or Bangalore wins? It is INDIA that matters. And Khan sahab? And I am not saying this because we lost 4-0. No. All of them played every game of the IPL and then decided to conveni...
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Sach hain yeh..: October 2010
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Saturday, October 02, 2010. A lovely Saturday morning.Bright and sunny with "Bangalore" weather.Not a usual occurrence for New Jersey/New York at this time of the year.The thought of catching a bus right outside my hotel doorstep in NJ and being dropped off at the Port of Authority Terminal near Times Square in New York City(NYC) was refreshing, after a week of intense work pressure. Given that I prefer being around friends, this was a slightly intimidating thought. Next stop was Ground zero and Wall str...
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Sach hain yeh..: BJP's travails affecting India
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Sunday, July 17, 2011. BJP's travails affecting India. At my Grandpa's (called him Ajja) home in Mangalore, following Vinod Dua/Prannoy Roy all night long on Doordarshan and deciphering trends of the 1996 elections was a new beginning.Ajja was there by my side helping me make sense of the numbers and an-almost teenager nodded. Ajja was a very RSS oriented thinker and adored/respected Vajpayee. My tryst with Indian politics started with this Vajpayee "victory". In some of my conversations with well read I...
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Sach hain yeh..: February 2011
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Saturday, February 12, 2011. World Cup fever is here.A week to cricket's flagship event and TV channels back home must be deep in the frenzy.A good time to be not watching them. These days I dread looking to the left hand side of the Times of India newspaper online.Every day, an Indian cricketer is paraded, praised to the skies and proclaimed as a world beater.For all you know, he might be one.The eye ball grabbing headlines must stop and so must the silly quotes "We will win it for Tendulkar! Muralithar...
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Sach hain yeh..: An artist, a magician!
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Monday, September 10, 2012. An artist, a magician! As a teenager, I was excited by the debut of Vangipurappu Venkata Sai Laxman, a name I had heard a lot on the domestic circuit. Forget knocking on the selector's door, the young man had banged it wide open with his stellar performances. Quota selection this certainly wasn't. It was merit as merit could be. Laxman was India's bankable second slipper. I would certainly have loved to be a fly near the slip cordon, for those interactions between him and ...
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Sach hain yeh..: January 2012
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Monday, January 16, 2012. My previous post in August was just after the nightmarish English summer. As MS Dhoni put it, everything that had to go wrong, did! I genuinely believed it was a one-off and that is what it should have been, provided some remedial actions were taken. How can one explain that this team under MSD can be seemingly worse (atleast in the results column) than the pedestrian India sides Azharuddin and Tendulkar led in the 90s? Not a good enough answer. If SRT cannot make it to the ...
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Sach hain yeh..: July 2011
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Sunday, July 17, 2011. BJP's travails affecting India. At my Grandpa's (called him Ajja) home in Mangalore, following Vinod Dua/Prannoy Roy all night long on Doordarshan and deciphering trends of the 1996 elections was a new beginning.Ajja was there by my side helping me make sense of the numbers and an-almost teenager nodded. Ajja was a very RSS oriented thinker and adored/respected Vajpayee. My tryst with Indian politics started with this Vajpayee "victory". In some of my conversations with well read I...