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Can one watch sports without emotions? Can one be so involved without the heart in it? Tough, isn’t it? But there comes a moment when one has to keep aside the emotion and view it with purely dispassionately. For Chennai Super Kings and M S Dhoni, this is that time. There can be no doubt
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A writer’s block does not fill me with as much dread as does the far more trickier ‘writer’s flight of fancy’ does. With the block, if it doesn’t roll over a period of time, one can find ways around it. But my fanciful takeoffs leaves me with zilch, and at times even invites the dreaded
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A chance discussion before the Bogi day had my wife and her sister attempting to locate the Red Diary, and in it a family recipe. Pongal being a big festival certainly calls for an elaborate menu and it was this discussion which reminded them of a Red diary and the special ‘gobbi kuura’ recipe. While
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So here it is. Yet another New year, of course as per Gregorian calendar. And If not for all the hulla-bulla it is just another day. Yes, yes, I know, the more things change the more they remain the same. So shouldn’t we herald in the new year? Should we not have a small celebration.?
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Margazhi, a month many poets have waxed lyrical about, stays in a special memory box in my brain. Especially Margazhi and Thiruppavai. But before you think that I am a trained singer about to break into songs, I should warn you early. I do not remember margazhi because I sang, but because I couldn’t? Frankly
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Love fashion? Does your heart go boom boom seeing all those anorexic tribes dolled-up with inexplicable paraphernalia and strutting on a thin piece of platform they call the ramp? And want to make it big in the world of fashion.? Have you ever felt that the sequined long or short piece of cloth has more
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नीलामी चल रही थी नहीं, किसी की सच्चाई या सत्यवादिता की नहीं न ही किसी के ईमान की, ना ही किसी की निष्ठा की और पत्रकारों की तो बिलकुल नहीं । कहीं आम वस्तुओं की भला नीलामी होती है क्या? नीलामी हो रही थी एक अमूल्य पायदान की कुछ ढाई सौ साल पुराने पायदान की,
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Shubham, Abdul Majid, MV Pranjal, Sanjay Bisht, Sachin Laur. Do these names ring a bell? Now what about Virat, Rohit, Shubman Shreyas, Shami.. Of course it does. Almost the whole nation plunged into a collective grief when the anticipated World Cup glory failed to materialise. And their actions were dissected, talked, roasted, defended in almost
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And so it was upon us. Unannounced? Almost so. For if one is fair, a game has a winner and then, one who didn’t cross the line. But for a fan, who has invested so much emotion into it, the loss inexplicably hurts. Yes, it is all about that one day and then an
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आज एक बहुत पुरानी किताब से मिला मेरा एक पत्र । ऐसे पत्रों का किताबों से करीबी नाता होता है। ना जाने कितनी किताबों का आदान -प्रदान हो जाता है सिर्फ एक पत्र को पार लगाने में। यह किताब एक पुराने संदूक में विराजमान थी। इतने दिन वह वहीं रही , यह भी एक अचरज
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