Also: Afridi’s advice to Tendulkar Mumbai: Amidst growing chorus for his retirement, Sachin Tendulkar is all set to become the first cricket player in the world to get pension benefits even while playing active cricket. The BCCI’s working committee, which met here this morning, formally approved a proposal to this effect. ‘We cannot hold back his pension benefits based on… 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 →
New Delhi/Chennai: Twitter and other social media platforms are under the scanner yet again. According to highly-placed sources in the government, the Union Home Ministry has sent out a ‘high priority note’ to the IT Ministry ‘to keep a close watch’ on the ‘hate speeches’ and ‘rabid exchanges’ that seem unstoppable on social media platforms, especially Twitter. But unlike… Read more →
Chennai turned 373 a couple of days ago. This is enormously historic for a city that had turned Chennai itself only in 1996. Hahaha. No, I am not joking as ever. I am just stating the facts. But talking of facts, how many of you actually know how Chennai, the city that you live in, came into being? Put your… Read more →
A True Tribute to V V S Laxman Chennai: Not Sachin Tendulkar. Not Rahul Dravid. Not Virender Sehwag. It’s V V S Laxman who has to be the cricketer for all occasions. I just can’t see any Indian journalist disagreeing to this view. For, no matter what the situation was, Laxman unfailingly lent himself to what any discerning journalist would… Read more →
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