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…
Tag: Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin, Modi, Nitish monumental achievements
The last few days, India celebrated and mourned the end of Sachin Tendulkar’s stupendous career, fostered by hard work, sweat and grit. Apart from the well deserved Bharat Ratna, Sachin’s grand career was topped off by a farewell speech that made every Indian weep more than ever managed by any family drama on TV or…
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…
Bye Bye Sachin Tendulkar
The God of Indian cricket, Sachin Tendulkar, has decided to retire. God’s don’t fade away, they endure. Youtube videos of Sachin taking on Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne, Shoiab Akhtar, will remain forever, I am sure recording millions more hits. I am going to be watching Sachin again and again, in Perth, South Africa, Sharjah, like…
The case of Durga Shakti Nagpal (IAS)
The Uttar Pradesh (UP) government has suspended IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal as she dared to take on the sand mafia operating under her jurisdiction. Inspired by her, there are going to be some doubly divinely named daughters born hereon, though I am not sure parents would encourage them to study hard for a career…
Roads full of rage in India
A Pakistani diplomat was recently assaulted in Delhi when his car bumped a motor cyclist. Although Islamabad sees a larger conspiracy, this gives too much credit to India’s intelligence agencies which, unlike Pakistan’s dreaded ISI, are incapable of executing such a delicate operation — getting a lowly paid agent to ride a bike, bump a…
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…
Enduring Indian Gossip
Some relationships seem to be forever under scrutiny. In politics, there is the one between Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh. Despite the analysis and speculation, Manmohan-Sonia plane of operation is clear – do as she says or don’t do anything at all. Given such sound understanding that has stood the test of two uneventful tenures…
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…
Another Coalition Tamasha in India
India is in the midst of another tamasha linked to coalition politics with the DMK withdrawing support to the Congress-led government. The DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi is a first-rate example why no job beats being a politician in this country. He is nearing 90 and harbors hopes to be chief minister of Tamil Nadu again….
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