Unguaranteed Prophecies & Guaranteed Ramblings

“There is Cricket and then there is IPL”

I am getting the feeling that they (??) are sucking life out of Cricketers and sending them in to a phase of disillusionment. If true, Modi has succeeded in his vision of turning Cricketers in to Entertainers - much like Pratap Reddy has turned the Profession of Medicine [...]

Imagine a situation:

“G W Bush pitches a leather ball and Hu Jintao on the other end sways his bat. Gordon Brown keeps the wicket while Fidel Castro is tired to be the non striker”

Hell breaks loose when the Chinese President announces his intention to start a Chinese Premier League to counter the threat of Indian [...]

I was at Chennai during the first weekend of May to attend a Friend’s wedding. When I attend a wedding, I make sure I carry a newspaper with me as the occasion is inevitably - ritualistic. OK, I’m biased, so please take it lightly. Two reports caught my attention. One was, P. Sainath’s address at [...]

OK. With the new economy, India is booming and the middle-class, especially in the Metro and surrounding areas, are benefited by the surge in wealth (am I writing like a salaried reporter from mainstream media?). Now, when money gets in…there should be a way out as well. So, new shopping malls spring up and the [...]

I suffer from acute Sinusitis. I go to Doctor A. Doc A prescribes an expensive medicine, say, “Allegra”. The drug isn’t a permanent cure for Sinusitis. It is only a temporary cure for allergic cold. The so-called miracle drug doesn’t do any wonder to me. So, I end up with Doctor B. Doc B [...]