During the early part of my career, an era when the wheel was just about starting to gain popularity, I came across a horror story of how ruthlessly companies behaved with their staff.
May 1 2013, 10:04 pm
Read MoreThis is not going to be a rant about how commercial the IPL is and how I hate the fact that commercials are shown in between "natural breaks" (between overs) and "contrived breaks" (strategic) and how it breaks momentum of a match.
April 13 2013, 11:03 am
Read MoreThe last time the Australian cricket team looked extremely pathetically was when Kim Hughes broke down emotionally in front of the media. Michael Clarke’s latest ‘tactical masterstroke’ in disciplining four of his team-mates eclipses that feat.
March 12 2013, 3:40 pm
Read MoreOur own Harbhajan Singh came out with a pearl a couple of days back when he expressed his heartfelt opinion that the Indian seamers bowled rubbish in the second innings of the Cape Town Test. They might as well have changed their profession and become dance show judges (well at least one of them) and he was the only person doing all the hard work out there in the middle.
February 14 2013, 3:11 pm
Read MoreBy Rahul Namjoshi With cricket producing so many characters, one believes that the cricketing world, too, should have these days on the birthdays of their favourite cricketers.
October 13 2012, 6:01 am
Read MoreBy Rahul Namjoshi The reams of newsprint spent on discussing Ravichandran Ashwin and his absence from the playing XI has reportedly eaten up a forest the size of Chennai. If clutching of straws was what the media was attempting, it was a spectacular success.
October 13 2012, 6:05 am
Read MoreBy Rahul Namjoshi Mahendra Singh Dhoni – Boys, did the Pandavas need a strategy when they had a Shakuni mama on their side? Sorry, I meant Krishna on their side. There’s nothing to worry. Cheeka (Krishnamachari Srikkanth) and Srini (N Srinivasan) will take care of us.
October 21 2012, 12:30 pm
Read MoreBy Rahul Namjoshi Santa and Ghanta were two brothers who had conflicting opinions on Shahidbhai’s age. They could either solve the issue in a socially acceptable manner by going hammer and tongs at each other or take the tougher way out and appeal to a higher authority.
October 13 2012, 5:24 am
Read MoreBy Rahul Namjoshi One does not propose to give a match report and will point that the one time that the stand went completely quiet was when Mahendra Singh Dhoni threw the ball to Ashish Nehra. It was almost in a state of shock and disbelief and if reports are to be believed Nehra was equally shocked to see the ball in his hands.
October 13 2012, 5:22 am
Read MoreBy Rahul Namjoshi When Kamran Akmal was asked about the two catches he missed, he was quick to point out that instead of the untraceable superglue that was supposed to be applied to his gloves the support staff had coated, his gloves with Teflon - the same Teflon that was to be applied on all players so that no betting charges could stick against them.
October 13 2012, 6:05 am
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