I need not be writing this at all. For, one of the first lessons that they teach at the journalism school is: Nothing other than cricket ever gets read in the aftermath of India’s victory over Pakistan on the cricket field. For the record, the Indian Constitution was published the day after India’s triumph against its archrivals in a Test… Read more →
Orders inclusion of Chawla in the playing XI at Mohali Pak reciprocates by retaining Akmal New Delhi/Mohali: In a major show of goodwill and earnestness in building longstanding relationship with Pakistan, the Indian government today unveiled the most impactful of goodwill gestures: Ordering the inclusion of Piyush Chawla in the Indian cricket XI that will do duty at Mohali against… Read more →
As a newspaper man, who is believed to be at the cutting edge of news flow (this is the trade euphemism for watching a lot of TV and browsing the internet), the reports that intrigue me are the ones relating to some serious scientific conclusions apparently based on every-day phenomena. Usually, these findings are sourced to some obscure lab in,… Read more →
Path-Breaking Pre-Poll Survey in TN Chennai: Free grinders. Free laptops. Free washing machines. Free-for-all inflation. Free pollution. Freebies are raining in Tamil Nadu these days. With the all-important Assembly election on its way, wily and wizened politicians are indeed playing the Santa Claus, by which we mean they are making promises that only a pre-school toddler would believe in. The… Read more →
From the replica at Tussauds, that is. London: To have Sachin Tendulkar turn up for its national team could perhaps the dream of any cricketing country. Understanding that this dream is basically unrealistic, the England cricket selectors have done the next best thing possible in the circumstance: Pick a replica. From the wax museum of Madam Tussauds at London, that… Read more →
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