It’s not often that you’ll critique a guy for a knock that yielded 180+ test runs, or dissect his game as he’s working his way to a decent ODI knock. But between the two innings of the Indore test and the Dharamshala ODI, Ajinkya Rahane...
In December 2002, Delhi Metro’s first line ran its first trip from Shahdara to Tis Hazari. It was just a 5 km joyride, but it changed the psyche of a city. In the years that followed, Delhi’s famously short-tempered populace has cheerfully endured beaver-like digs...
(This story was written just after the episode of tiffin-box bombs deployed by Islamic outfits in Bombay and elsewhere, followed by a crib session by Ms.Shabana Azmi, saying she was not getting a house in Bombay because she was muslim) Shabana Azmi is not happy. People...
(This story was written in the aftermath of the Bombay Terrorist Attack at Taj Hotel) As the grist-mills of Gateway-gate turned, they threw up (pun intended) all manner of noticeables. Among them, was the persisting generation gap between our news channels and their first-world counterparts. It’s...
11.12.10. 12 noon. The phone in my pocket felt like a time-bomb… I finally had the number of an informer, someone who, after 21 days of testing my skull against dead ends, seemed to know a way out. As soon as Judge Saheb was finished...
The Internet today, is made up of two kinds of people, those peddling their political preference for all it’s worth, and those cowering from the noise, wishing it didn’t exist. I’ve tried living in Category-2 for almost a year now, watching the English speaking elite...
10:30 pm. That awkward time, when Secular India's dumb smile has retired for the day, and the showdown is inevitable. In the Blue corner, the Bengalis, who have successfully made 2 small pegs and left-over Railway namkeen last a full 90 minutes, discussed whether Tagore wrote...
Dear Pakistan, Watching you get trounced at the Asia Cup, even we felt a twang of melancholy. It’s unfamiliar this, feeling sad for you, but the lack of hemoglobin in your cricket almost took the joy out of thrashing you. Of course, we’re the enemy, and...
1986 – The School is spending an entire year doing this big show called ‘Rediscovering India’. Each class has been given a theme to live out, and make museum space out of its classroom. Our class got the Mahabharata. Normally between George & I, anything in the...