In my book, no cricketer, including the likes of Sir Donald Bradman, Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, can ever achieve one important honour that Rahul Dravid has. And that remarkable record which can never be erased, ladies and gentleman, is that he was the first top-flight sportsperson that I happened to interview. It was in February 1997. I was a… Read more →
New Delhi: The Union Budget is just a week away. We can already hear experts like Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyar and T N Ninan clearing their throats in anticipation of explaining the budget to a large section of population who cannot answer a question like ‘what is 12 +23’ without the help of options. Anyway, when you hear the Finance Minister… Read more →
Today’s topic is: Eating right. The beauty of modern-day living is that it has thrown up plenty of delectable choices at the dining table, a plethora of succulent options in terms of cuisine, none of which a human being can begin to eat without feeling extremely guilty or scared of its ramifications in terms of health. Yes, food has evolved… Read more →
In Chennai these days, if you want to read about a newspaper you open the pages of its rival newspaper. Yes, each one is so full of the other. One newspaper claims that the way its rival presents the news makes the readers to fall asleep. The newspaper that has made this charge seems to be confident that its own… Read more →
Oscars. The mere word triggers memories of myriad English movies that we, youth from Madurai in the 80s and early 90s, gave a miss to based on the irrefutable fact they contained a lot of English. The problem with the Oscar-type movies, in the clinical summation of one of my friends, was: ‘avangai pesikitte irupainga, bossu’ (They keep on talking,… Read more →
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