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Carry on Doctor Dhoni

namya — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:15:00 GMT

It has been reliably learnt that the De Montfort University in Leicester is revoking the ‘honorary’ doctorate conferred by it on MS Dhoni. The University which had praised Dhoni’s exemplary leadership qualities and his achievements before making him an...(read more)

Welcome Jimmy!!

namya — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:40:00 GMT

The first meeting of the new look Indian selection committee is underway on an auspicious day and time per You Know Who’s astrologer with all selectors wearing yellow India Cement jerseys. The new selectors are supposed to take an oath of allegiance to...(read more)

How come no Aniruddha Shrikanth?

namya — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:22:00 GMT

If selector Cheeka had really read the blogosphere seriously, he would have dropped himself from the selection committee and voted for Homer instead. But he chose to ignore the relevant stuff and read the fluffy stuff. The stuff that talks about Chanakya's...(read more)

Is Cricket a Team sport?

namya — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:56:00 GMT

I saw it 3 days back.. It is not a team sport. Look at Abhinav Mukund, Gautam Gambhir, Ojha, A Mithun, Irfan Pathan.. They are not playing for a team for god's sake Every one is playing for himself. Write back to me if they are'nt.....(read more)

A shot at History - what a shot!

namya — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:48:00 GMT

Hi Abhinav, I just wanted to wish you all the best for tomorrow. As I have said to you before, I believe that your dedication and professionalism-the most important personality traits-leave you with nothing left to prove to anyone, including yourself...(read more)

Tiger Woods and Roebuck

namya — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:51:00 GMT

The fallen hero has been a favorite character right from the times of Greek and Indian mythologies. Somehow a tainted genius has appealed to authors across centuries. He gives them a complex character with various layers and umpteen shades of grey. Most...(read more)

Sehwag and the wrong number

namya — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:28:00 GMT

This is a true story. Really! It was pointed out to a friend by his driver that the new annual insurance papers of his car (which is technically owned by his employer and hence insurance is done by his admin department ) mentioned the wrong car #. Instead...(read more)

It just doesn't feel like 2007

namya — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:25:00 GMT

This upcoming Indian tour of Australia doesn't in any way feel like the last time the Indians were down under. Somehow the spark seems to be missing. I admit that the last time the Indians were in Australia it was more like the wild Australian bush...(read more)

The mental disintegration of the Indian fan

namya — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:04:00 GMT

Brad Haddin was spot on when he said that the Indians break quicker than anybody else in the world when things are not going their way. He may or may not be correct about the Indian Team but he surely was on the money about the Indian media and the India...(read more)

Stuck at 99

namya — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:25:00 GMT

The former great was a bitter man. The joke went at the CCI that bar tenders asked him to stick his fingers in a cocktail if they had run out of bitters. But it could all have been so different. His entire career would have meant something if only he...(read more)

Indian debacle on Prickinfo

namya — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:41:00 GMT

Location: A room full of neutral observers sitting in a prickinfo studio analysing India’s defeat in Australia with a Not Cricket reporter disguised as Poonam Paan de. (It was very difficult to get in because the reporter wasn’t ugly enough but when threatened...(read more)

Calm Dow(n)

namya — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:44:00 GMT

The Indian Olympic Association has demanded that the Dow Jones Index should drop the 'Dow' from its name and henceforth call itself the Jones Index. When told that Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Chemical Company are two entirely different entities...(read more)

Wodehouse & Tendulkar

namya — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:10:00 GMT

............This was not the case. The latest news which Vladimir Brusiloff had had from Russia had been particularly cheering. Three of his principal creditors had perished in the last massacre of the _bourgeoisie_, and a man whom he owed for five years...(read more)

Nice guys finish first

namya — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 05:36:00 GMT

Dear Rahul, I watched your press conference today teary-eyed on one of the news channel websites and though I had promised myself that the words ‘second fiddle’ or ‘overshadowed’ won’t appear anywhere in the piece, the irony wasn’t lost on me that before...(read more)

How Sachin got saved from moving to South India

namya — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:26:00 GMT

Sachin frantically calling up Bhajji just before the commencement of IPL V – “Aila, Bhajji, we have a problem on our hands. Arjun has suddenly started saying since yesterday that he wants to shift to Bengaluru and wants me to move to RCB. He says that...(read more)