Many passionate Indian cricket followers, who had kept track on TV the World T20 matches, would doubtless be in a mood to ask the captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni a few pertinent questions. Let me, as a person who had once been a sports correspondent and covered international cricket matches, start off with the most important one that begs an immediate… Read more →
It was a rare holiday in the middle of the week. The morning was pleasant and sunny. A stray cool breeze was drifting in from the balcony. The house was sweetly suffused with the interminglement of crisp aroma from the kitchen and scented fragrance from the puja room. And then, out of nowhere, pappapenpappapen pappapenpappapen … the doleful strains of… Read more →
Every leap year, a contest of intriguing intensity and rivetting rivalry unfolds which the world watches with interest and involvement. It’s a quadrennial quest for prestige and power. I know what many of you are already thinking: ‘But dude, the Olympics ended last month itself. Why are you flogging it now?’ And to you thinking in this vein, my response… Read more →
As the Teacher’s Day passed this week, I got down to think deeply about teaching, a profession so noble and respectful that they have gone ahead and named a whiskey after it. When I first came to know that there was a whiskey named Teacher’s, my immediate reaction, as a sincere professional who is in a field that is also… Read more →
The thing that most people seem to look for from a humour writer is serious writing. I say this because the one question that I am most often asked typically runs: ‘Humour and all is fine, but when will you attempt anything serious?’ But I guess this is not the experience of writers of serious stuff. I suppose nobody walks… Read more →
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