Indian cricket stars make a lot of money, recently reinforced by the IPL auctions. Yuvraj Singh will be paid Rs 14 crore, Dinesh Karthik will pocket a cool Rs 12.5 crore for a few weeks of effort on the field. The two are not even regulars in the Indian cricket team anymore. Each minute on…
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Records of sorts in India
Records are meant to be broken. In India, if you ask me, world records are most frequently broken by stock markets — the fastest rise, fall in 24-hours, change in a week, month, etc etc. Indian stock exchanges should be in the Guinness book for the instances that current highs or lows are scaled for…
Its the Indian economy, stupid
I have not watched Chennai Express as yet. I like to catch the usually low IQ blockbuster Bollywood movies at the multiplex, to marvel the immensely successful Hindi movie mindless masala business model play out yet again. With CE, there is also the added incentive of viewing Deepika Padukone’s fab abs on big screen. Lot…
Indian cricket needs fixing
Just as one was beginning to believe, for a change, the IPL this season would end without any major controversy, the spot fixing scandal has happened. Issues of the past such as party brawls, cheer leaders in little dresses and Shahrukh Khan losing his temper, seem piffling in comparison. The spirit of the game is…
T20 Cricket Fever in India
It is T20 IPL cricket season in India again. Able bodied young, old, superannuated, dropped, playing cricketers from across the world have converged to try and hit the ball like Chris Gayle, the Don Bradman of capsule cricket, with added ability to do the Gangnam dance. T20 cricket has subsumed evening prime time at the…
Siddharth Srivastava 