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The (in)significant fans
[Disclaimer: If you are a fan of any player (playing or retired) and get offended if someone says something about him, PLEASE DO NOT READ THIS ARTICLE.] I thought adding a disclaimer is a good idea, especially after reading the comments on my previous article “Everything is not fine with Team India” which irked quite…
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What is India’s number 4 batsman conundrum?
As soon as Shikhar Dhawan was ruled out of the tournament because of a fractured thumb, a Pandora box of India’s incompetence opened up. India is literally figuring out its playing XI for the world’s biggest cricket tournament during the tournament. They say they are struggling with a “number 4 batsman” i.e. a batsman who…
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Everything is not fine with Team India
I grew up watching cricket. I would watch all of India’s matches ball by ball. Even though, India would be clearly loosing, I would still be optimistic about its win; maybe a batsman becomes the hero by hitting the fastest hundred or a bowler makes a hat-trick. But it rarely happened with India, although similar…
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Unpredictable Cricket
Recently, India defeated Pakistan in the world cup. Defeating Pakistan is a feat only because of the bitter relations that the two nations. Otherwise there was nothing great or spectacular about the cricket played by the two sides. Fans, media and analysts swivel in between the two extremes. As per them everything was wrong with…
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The Inconspicuous Syndicate
? Knowledge is having the right answer, intelligence is asking the right question Framing a question is not just putting a question mark “?” at the end. Good deep questions need imagination. Unfortunately Indian Journalists are showing least possible imaginative skills. Either they are doing it intentionally or they have lost this skill in the course…
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Why this Kolaveri Di?
Back in 2014, the intellectual class in India came up with a variety of sophisticated connotations for BJP’s overwhelming majority of 282 seats. They said it was “a black swan moment” or “in the era of coalition politics it was a fluke”. And here we are in 2019, with BJP surpassing its own personal record.…
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The Cash Nexus: Criminals and Politics
Almost every person who disproves demonetization comes with one of the two arguments: Black money is stashed in Swiss Banks and is not in India. Gathering information on this lead me to write Modi gov’s surgical strike(s) on Black Money Whatever black money is in India, is not in the form of cash. This is the…
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Your Karma awaits you!!!
Indeed Mr. Modi’s karma awaits him. And so does Mr. Rahul Gandhi’s and mine and yours and every one else’s. Maybe Rahul Gandhi is just overwhelmed by the “laws of Karma”. He might have just come across this Hindu laws during this festival of elections which Indians have been not only aware of but also…
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