Last week, I was witness to a wedding that had to contend with the most dreadful of situations. The bride or groom running away? No, much worse — the official photographer failing to capture on his camera the all-important sacred thread-tying moment. There are only three earthly possible scenarios in which such a calamity can happen 1) The camera person… Read more →
‘Greenhouse gas emissions gobbled up two days in Feb’ Chicago: Scientists seem to have stumbled on to a convincing answer to the conundrum of ‘why just 28 days in February’. According to a team of researchers attached to the Warnings Unlimited Pvt Limited (WUPL), which is the world’s apex scientific body that issues weird warnings that nobody pays much heed… Read more →
Have you ever tried to understand why cricket is so popular in India? It occurred to me, while in the course of typing the previous line, that cricket has so many followers and fans because it pretty much allows Indians to do what they even otherwise indulge themselves in: Gather around, munch something, and dole out free advice on how… Read more →
As a writer who deals with words day in and day out and as a man who is constantly swirling in literary waters, you can very well imagine what would have caught my keen artistic eye at the Chennai Book fair this week: Yes, the kosubats, which were sold right near the entrance by an importunate salesman, made a fine… Read more →
Why did the captain not court controversy, asks ICC Dubai: Concerned over the fact that a Test match involving Pakistan had failed to trigger even a whiff of controversy, a shaken ICC has ordered a high-level probe into the just concluded Hamilton Test, in which New Zealand dramatically collapsed to lose in just three days. Announcing the investigation, a ICC… Read more →
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