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 22:27 | 10/May/2006
Gag, gag, gag!
What's with the BCCI?Virender Sehwag says he misses Ganguly, says the Indian team plays too much cricket, he is gagged. The BCCI warns him not to speak on such issues.Sachin Tendulkar has his first net in months. The media is not invited. When they land up they are asked to shoot for afar.So TV has a sideways angle of Sachin playing a few shots. So... more...
 23:15 | 4/May/2006
Contract blues
The BCCI has handed contracts to Sreesanth and Raina. That’s good. These guys are great prospects and deserve the contracts. But look at the list. There are only 17 guys there. Why not more people? Like Munaf Patel, Ramesh Powar. Maybe Robin Uthappa. Even Shikar Dhawan. That kid is good.May be they should have a grade 4 and give Rs 10 lakh contract... more...
 16:39 | 4/May/2006
Agarkar's angst
Ajit Agarkar in an interview to DNA, Mumbai, says that he is disappointed that he has never got a regular place in the Indian team.Quite frankly, I DON'T think the man has done enough to be on the team in the first place.But I agree with him on this:"Look at Anil Kumble who has 500 Test wickets," Agarkar says. "Personally, I think he is India's gre... more...
 11:38 | 25/Apr/2006
Chuck cluck
An unusual column  in Cricinfo. The writer was obviously a bowler in his playing days. He has some refreshing views on the LBW laws. But I cannot fathom his argument for bowlers with suspect actions. What is the man trying to say? That we make chucking legal? more...
 11:44 | 24/Apr/2006
Sachin, Sachin!
The Maestro turns 33 today. One of his great rivals Wasim Akram launches a passionate defence of Sachin Tendulkar. Calling him one of the 'unbowlable' batsmen of his era with Viv Richards and Sunil Gavaskar, Akram goes on to shame those who booed him in Mumbai. Way to go Wasimbhai, some people just don't know how to treat a genius and a national icon. more...
 11:59 | 22/Apr/2006
Out in the cold
Sourav Ganguly is refusing to give up on his cricketing career.The former captain says he will continue to play domestic cricket. He also expressed his disappointment at not being picked in the team for the West Indies.Another story in the Indian Express says that Ganguly and V V S Laxman do not feature in India's World Cup plans. But it says there... more...
 23:10 | 20/Apr/2006
Something fishy in the desert
Can someone please tell me what the point was of the two-match series with Pakistan?A series played for charity, that pays the hosting association $1 million (about Rs 4.5 crore) and has a 45 kg precious stone-encrusted trophy makes my eyebrows go up.I don't know about you, but this overdose of Indo-Pakistan matches is making interest levels go dow... more...
 23:08 | 20/Apr/2006
Break ke baad
Back from a well deserved break, which saw me in Banglore when madness engulfed it after Dr Rajkumar's death. Regular service should hopefully resume, in a manner of speaking. more...
 16:05 | 7/Apr/2006
Agarkar again
In my previous post on Agarkar, I was surprised at the number of supportive comments that the fast bowler got.So I did a bit of digging. The last time Agarkar took 5 wickets was against Sri Lanka when they were here last time. (BTW the man has taken 5 wickets in an innings only twice in a career of 157 matches, proves my point that he is not a matc... more...
 10:14 | 7/Apr/2006
What's with Agarkar?
I can't figure the curious case of Ajit Agarkar.The man has an extremely modest ODI record in recent times. I really cannot remember the last time he won us a match. He's pushing 30 and so isn't really a prospect for the future. His batting too hasn't really helped the team. Yet brilliant prospects like Munaf Patel are sat on the bench, while our m... more...
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 rajith r | 15:47 | 1/May/2006
Friends: (5)  | Interests: cricket, bike rid...
CCD
HEY HI 2 EVRY1................IT WAS SATURDAY NITE..........ND DAT MEANS....CHILLIN OUT.........V VER OUT 4 CCD.....AS USUAL THE HOOKHA...............MY FAVORITE.............ND THS TIME I TASTED MY ALL TIME FAVOURITE CAPPACHINO ND CHERRY FLAVOURS.....IT WAS GREAT.....AFTR DAT IT WAS BAK HOME ON THE ROOF...........AT MIDNIGHT.............IT WAS SPEC...  more...
 sudipto das | 17:53 | 6/Jun/2006
Friends: (10)  | City: Nagpur  | Interests: playing cricket
Nice Quotes
We may not always realiseThat every thing we do,Affects not only our livesBut touches others tooIt takes only a minute to get a crush on someone,an hour to like someone,and a day to love someone,but it takes a life timetime to forget someoneIts true that we dont know what we'vegot until we loose it,but its also truethat we dont know what we've been...  more...
 Mitul Shah | 18:59 | 22/Dec/2006
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The Power of 11
This is how devil's mind work for power of 111) New York City has 11 letters2) Afghanistan has 11 letters.3) Ramsin Yuseb (The terrorist who threatened to destroy the Twin Towers in 1993) has 11  letters. 4) George W Bush has 11 letters.  This could be a mere coincidence, but this gets more interesting:1) New York is the 11th state.2) The first pla...  more...
 sasi mohan | 08:42 | 4/May/2006
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Hi I am going to my home place today..  more...
 vikram ram | 19:14 | 28/May/2006
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confusion
a confusion has confused my mindwhich is already confused with some confusion. i dont know whythis confusion had confused my confused mind which was not confused till now.if my confusionhad confused your mind then try to gat a solution for my confusionto rectify my confused mind .if my confused message didnt confuse u then be happy thinking that a ...  more...
 Anil Goel | 12:28 | 13/Dec/2007
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Can Maruti make car bombs?
Brainstorming exercise for fiction writers.Can someone stop Maruti Udyog if they decide to manufacture car bombs? Here's the thought... We go through security checks at airport or at important places where too technology and people are able to scan us for 'known' threats...in most cases electronic items are usual suspects as are metallic devices an...  more...
 Sachin HC | 21:25 | 2/Nov/2006
Friends: (10)  | City: Mangalore  | Interests: Watching movies a...
Shammi Kapoor turns 75!
A couple of weeks ago, Oct 21st to be precise, Shammi Kapoor turned 75. Shammi Kapoor is and always will be my all-time favourite, so what if he had long moved into character roles by the time I was born! There are others whom I like a lot be it Amitabh or Dharmendra or Sunny Deol or Govinda or Aamir or Hrithik but no one comes even near to him. Sh...  more...
 venkata kand... | 21:23 | 23/Apr/2006
Friends: (1)  | City: Vishakapatnam  | Interests: CRICKET,YOGA,HOT ...
College Life
I recollect an incidence that took place about couple of decades back while I was at Engg.college. Usually, after our classes in the evenings, we used to sit at a tea stall just outside the university campus.In those days in the engineering campus there used to be Basketball coaching for the university team.One day, while we were chating at the te...  more...
 Trim Pershad | 23:37 | 13/Apr/2006
Friends: (1)  | City: newark  | Interests: Cricket
Ponting the best
Ricky Ponting has done it again against Bangladesh by scoring a match winning century. He won the match which seemed lost and the way he batted till the end shows his greatness once again. That he has he scored 9 hundreds in last 14 tests and most of them either match winning or match saving ones puts beyond doubt that he is the best in the world c...  more...
 Ayush Luthra | 12:56 | 11/May/2006
Friends: (5)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: cricket,skating
wats rong wid BCCI
why doesnt bcci give a straight forward answer.yesterday dere was a check up of sachin, but dey didint tell nething abt wether or not he would b available for test series with west indies.n how dare dey gag at sehwag for sayin dat he misses ganguly. india is a democratic country n everybody is free to pass his/her comments.d whole world is talkin a...  more...
 Shah Prashant | 11:18 | 5/Jul/2006
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Work for Leaving
Dear Reader,Everybody goes through a cycle in their life.... And almost everybody do not like the present and think that past was better. A kid cannot think hence he does not bother. Once he starts going to school he wishes he was still a toddler and never required to go to school. Once he is in high school and pressure increases, he wishes he w...  more...
 Amit Limaye | 14:36 | 15/Jun/2006
Friends: (8)  | City: Solapur  | Interests: CricketSocial Iss...
Another Trick to Annoy
Are you witnessing the the new IT return form drama? This is another example of insane minds governing at the Centre in India. Why the hell they want to know how I spent my hard earned money once I earn it dutifully and pay all my taxes? Is work not tiring enough for us that the government now wants us to meticulously keep each and every details of...  more...
 m r | 11:11 | 10/Apr/2006
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SBI strike called off, staff to get more...
New Delhi, April 10 (PTI): The week-long strike by SBI employees was called off Sunday night following a settlement, which gives higher pension to 2.10 lakh staff of the country's largest commercial bank. Announcing the settlement after a marathon meeting lasting more than 10 hours between the Finance Ministry, striking workers and SBI management h...  more...
 satyajit mitra | 01:30 | 31/Aug/2006
Friends: (4)  | City: San Diego  | Interests: Cricket
Upward Bound
What makes a clock tick? What makes a winning horse? What constitutes a winning team?One can look at this from a minimalist viewpoint and say the quality of parts used by the Swiss, or thorough and fine breeding or simply great individual talent. But what is it that makes the horse go that extra yard in the last moments or makes ordinary people do ...  more...
 dheer rajpoot | 11:26 | 31/Aug/2006
Friends: (1)  | City: Lucknow  | Interests: cricket,songs
hi
i think ricky ponting is best crickter  more...
 Sourav Mukhe... | 05:55 | 5/Apr/2006
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Bong versus India?
That Sourav can not find a place in the team in the absence of Tendulkar and the much publicized bad forms of Sehwag, Gambhir and Kaif is shameful to him. Agreed that Sourav has not helped his cause by his woeful performance in Deodhar and just above average in the Ranji. But is it on the basis of form that he is being disincluded? It does not seem...  more...
 anusha subra... | 15:23 | 1/Feb/2007
Friends: (7)  | City: Mumbai(Bombay)  | Interests: adventure sports,...
Voting: Essential or Waste of Time
I think most of Mumbai youngsters who have the right to vote have not voted in the current Civic elections. For most it is waste of time. Having exercised my right to vote ever since I turned 18, I diligently went this morning as well to vote. I was taken aback at the turnout of people at the voting booth. We were precisely around seven or eight vo...  more...
 Kathik Venka... | 20:50 | 4/Apr/2006
Friends: (1)  | City: Calcutta  | Interests: Quizzing, Reading...
Time to go
This is my first post. Where shall I start? Should I wallow in existential angst or go for the bindaas who gives a damn kinda style. Decisions....decisions.....  more...
 suryakanth m | 13:20 | 22/Jan/2007
Friends: (106)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Reading,Writing,W...
Aashiq marte nahi....
Aashiq marte nahi,     Dafnaye jaate hai... Kabr khod kar dekho,     Apne mehbooba ke intezaar me paaye jaate he... Hindu kehte he ise jala do,     Musalman kehte he ise dafna do... Magar is bedard zamane me koi ye nahi kehta,     Isko iski mehbooba se mila do...  more...
 priya chobra | 14:08 | 1/Sep/2007
Friends: (247)  | City: Chandigarh  | Interests: Hot Hot N Mast Ma...
HANDWRITING TIPS!!
Your Handwriting Means  If letters slant to the left: Indicates introspection and a lot of emotional control. If letter slant to the right: Reveals a person who's outgoing, friendly, impulsive, and emotionally open. If letters are straight up and down: The sign of someone who's ruled by the head, not the heart. Letters that slant in more than one ...  more...
 Fasih Baig | 00:09 | 3/Mar/2006
Friends: (2)  | City: San Ramon  | Interests: cricket
The enigma of Jaffer's arrival
Dileep Premachandran posted a nice article on Cricinfo.com about the return of Wasim Jaffer.....enjoy. http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/indveng/content/current /story/239329.html  more...
 manoj kumar | 15:22 | 19/Mar/2006
Friends: (3)  | City: BANGALORE  | Interests: Chess,cricket,wat...
Anything can happen
Yesterday night. That was saturday. Yes, it was saturday night. On this night , everybody plans to go out for dinner. Me too. I was roaming in hostel n asking everybody for dinner. Some guys were busy in having bathe.In other room, an argument was going on regarding Cricket.Cricket captain was looking outrageous, as everyone in his team has argumen...  more...
 Praveen Soma | 18:19 | 3/Sep/2007
Friends: (53)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Beautiful interio...
Dear Architects
Please Visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ associatearchitectshyd   Please Visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ associatearchitectshyd  more...
 shishir bhate | 19:52 | 21/Mar/2006
Friends: (152)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Reading, writing,...
Are more H-1B visas good for India?
By the end of this month, if will be clear if the US Senate Immigration Reform Bill introduced to decide whether H-1B visa limit should be increased from 65,000 to 115,000 has been defeated or allowed to sail through successfully. Everyone says an increase in the H-1B visa limit will help Indians the most. Will it, really? But more on that in just ...  more...
 Raja Sen | 18:39 | 19/Nov/2007
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Surreal lunacy with a fun filmmaker
When you write a negative review, there is almost always backlash. Most of you who have read me before do thus realise I'm not the most popular man in Bollywoodland -- to say nothing of Rediff's messageboards -- and there are filmmakers who loathe me, having taken a review too personally.Anyway, last week I wrote a column about Anurag Kashyap and h...  more...
 Vijayendra M... | 13:46 | 24/Jan/2007
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Am watching Power Rangers. First SPD and now Mystic Force. Kind of addictive.  more...
 Sandeep Ozarde | 10:47 | 26/Oct/2007
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The Real Shopping-Cart Revolution
Five hundred years of progress packed into a sack of flour.By J. Bradford DeLong, Wired MagHere's some food for thought.A smart shopper can buy a 5-pound bag of Gold Medal flour for 69 cents. That's enough to feed three people for a day - 7,500 easy-to-digest, relatively nutritious, and potentially tasty calories. All for less than 0.7 percent of a...  more...
 ganesh nadar | 04:36 | 1/Oct/2007
Friends: (54)  | City: Panickanadarkudieruppu  | Interests: writing, reading
annual day and temple festival
The village temple festival and the school annual day The quarterly exams were over but holidays were not declared. The school had to celebrate its annual day on October 4th. The children would be practicing dance and drama. At least the selected ones, the rest would just laze around and play games.They needed two chief guests for the annual show. ...  more...
 venkatesh ra... | 12:03 | 26/Mar/2006
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Prevention is better than cure…………………….....
Prevention is better than cure……………………..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  more...
 Dilip Saha | 00:59 | 13/Mar/2006
Friends: (1)  | City: Calcutta  | Interests: Journalism on Cri...
Wake Up call for Indian Selectors
It is high time that Indian Selectors should be more rational about selecting the Cricket Team for World Cup'07. It should be good balance between experience and young blood.Here I will highly recommend Sourav Ganguly.He is such a sensational one day player that I can not think of the team without Sourav.This I am telling not because I am a die-har...  more...
 Shakeel Abedi | 08:25 | 20/Mar/2006
Friends: (6)  | City: Kluang  | Interests: WritingReadingCri...
We Are A Fan
We are a fan!  A wrong sentence certainly, one that my grammar teacher would have a fit over, but precisely the sentiment. We don’t care if you have spent a decade and a half giving to cricket what no one before you have done. We don’t care because we have given you in return even more than that. We gave you sleepless nights watching you play at al...  more...
 Arjun Swarup | 19:43 | 16/May/2006
Friends: (5)  | City: West Lafayette  | Interests: Blogging,Travelli...
Cricinfo Agenda
I like Cricinfo. I really do. They have a good bunch of correspondents. Amit Varma is good, so is Siddhartha Vaidyanathan. Rahul Bhattacharya and Sambit Bal are super.  Yet, http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/246445 .html">this latest piece, by Dileep Premachandran, is kick-worthy.  My grouse ? This particular line (which he has used b...  more...
 Dinesh Nambisan | 03:02 | 9/May/2007
Friends: (25)  | City: Fremont, CA  | Interests: Cricket. Technolo...
Muck raking
It had to happen sooner or later, with "stings" being in vogue in Indian media it was just a matter of time before one of them focused on cricket (Come to think of it, if memory serves me right, it all started with cricket: The first widely-known "sting" operation conducted by the media was by Aniruddha Bahal (then Tehelka) with the help of Manoj P...  more...
 Ruchir Joshi | 19:04 | 7/Jun/2007
Friends: (21)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: IT
Daily Roundup (June-07-2007)
Vaughan and Flint. That the hot news in English cricket, it seems. Vaughan said that Fredalo wrecked English World Cup plans by his drinking."We arrived at the World Cup in a positive frame of mind," Vaughan told The Guardian. "But unfortunately incidents happened which affected the team. You have to be honest, the 'Fredalo' incident did affect the...  more...
 janus janus | 18:03 | 13/Dec/2007
Friends: (259)  | City: Mumbai(Bombay)  | Interests: Music, cooking, t...
Bees saal baad
I think it’s the time for re-runs in my life! Last year I embarked on a road trip down south and visited places that I had not been to for 20-odd years. And in a week’s time, I will be visiting another country which I last saw 20years ago. A lot has changed in India in the meantime, and in life. I wonder what kind of changes have happened in a coun...  more...
 Prem Panicker | 10:49 | 7/Jun/2007
Friends: (71)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Cricket, Books, M...
Transition
While Ruchir maintains the daily updates, am working on migrating him, and other colleagues on this blog, to the new site. Will take a week, tops. In the meantime, Ruchir, Manish and others will be found here; I meanwhile have as of today begun posting, on cricket and all else, here .  more...
 Jaimin Chokshi | 10:10 | 1/Apr/2006
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Hello....!
Hello....! I m Jaimin Chokshi. I have completed my graduation recently. (waiting for results) & now i m prepering for my masters. my hobbies are playing music, sports, traveling & making friends. my goal is to become entreprenuer. so thats it for now. if u wnt more info abt me just send me friend request.  Jaimin....  more...
 Tushar Chande | 10:19 | 4/Nov/2006
Friends: (17)  | City: Mumbai(Bombay)  | Interests: Mumbai, Music, mo...
Science Takes Aim at Supernatural Myths
All this may seem obvious, but to physicist Costas Efthimiou and other scientists, the public often isn't as skeptical as you might think. Efthimiou points to National Science Foundation reports showing widespread belief in pseudosciences -- such as vampires, astrology and ESP. It may be the season for vampires, ghosts and zombies. Just remember, t...  more...
 Aamer Kapadia | 07:39 | 13/Apr/2006
Friends: (4)  | City: Toronto  | Interests: Cricket,Photograp...
The Guitar Player of Yore
Hmm....just something that I wrote for an english assignment....Here goes....The Guitar Player of Yore...He plays so fast,Fingers skimming over the frets...You ask him to play something,He plays it without taking a breath...He plays rock, metal , country and moreThere's no such player like him now,He's the guitar player of yore...a bit squeaky...bu...  more...
 rajeev warathe | 03:25 | 18/Apr/2006
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narmada bachao andolan
Hi all .Dont u all think that we all hav a bigger role to play in the society then to just live for our own personal cause . In India with sensex touching new heights and Big IT firms declaring their Q4 profits making people happy , no body is their to bother about the farmers who lost their land and and were kicked off from their land on the name ...  more...
 vivek mayinkar | 11:48 | 28/Jun/2006
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June 28th 2006
hmmm... after my official visit to melbourne ..now here i am back in Blore ...my home-town ....i wasnt a tech saavy guy but just to let everyone know that i am also in this category i bought a 8 megapixel digicam from aus ....and bought a couple of electronic gadgets from banagalore itself ....i spend almost half a day in the office and now spendin...  more...
 TUSHAR DESHMUKH | 13:14 | 31/Mar/2006
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DOMESTIC CRICKET STRUCTURE
DOMESTIC CRICKET STRUCTUREFIRST OF ALL I WOULD LIKE TO APOLOGISE FOR ANY SPELLING AND GRAMATICAL  MISTAKE WHICH I WILL MAKE WRITING THIS BLOG. ITS MY FIRST BLOG AND CRITISISM OR HELP IS WELCOME.            To begin i will confess that I am a big cricket fan. With the way indian team has been playing in recent times makes me happy and sad all at sam...  more...
 shuvajyoti g... | 14:45 | 31/Mar/2006
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can any body explain the meaning of the song---'shine on your crazy diamond' by pink floyd ? does it refer to excesses and hallucinations????  more...
 Amrutaa Chan... | 22:20 | 21/Jul/2006
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Setting the records straight....
I am very glad the Indian team physios have spoken out in defence of SachinTendulkar in lieu of the atrocious allegations made by Mr.Manjrekar in his now infamous article. It was surprising that being a close friend of Sachin's he would have come out with such an article. Nevertheless, i hope the physios have cleared any misocnceptions harboured by...  more...
 Nataraj TR | 12:26 | 21/Apr/2006
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Things Leaders Do
When GE's CEO Jeff Immelt teaches up-and-coming leaders at the company's famed management-development center, he runs through a checklist of what he calls "Things Leaders Do." In an interview with Fast Company, Immelt reveals his own leadership checklist.1. Personal Responsibility."Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and t...  more...
 Akhil Chandran | 22:01 | 28/Nov/2007
Friends: (54)  | City: Cochin  | Interests: Cricket, Music, D...