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  1. Rain, rain, go away, says Paris

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    / June 11, 2012 / 1 Comment
    The clouds opened up in Paris at an inopportune time forcing a furious Rafael Nadal and a grim Novak Djokovic indoors even as they were busy scripting yet another colossal final. It was a fourth straight grand slam final for the two leading tennis stars and just when it looked...

  2. Thai cuisine for Saina Nehwal

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    / June 10, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The issue with tournaments just before the Olympics is that either top players skip them or play very carefully to avoid any injury. Pretty much the case at the Thailand Open, where none of the four top Chinese players took the field, making Saina Nehwal the top seeded player at...

  3. Chess to be introduced in 32000 TN clubs

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    / June 6, 2012 / Leave a comment
    32000 clubs in Tamilnadu will now play chess on a regular basis. This was one of the announcements made after a meeting between World Chess champion Viswanathan Anand and Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa in Chennai today. The CM had earlier announced an award of 2 crore rupees for Anand....

  4. Will Sachin Tendulkar, MP take guard please?

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    / June 4, 2012 / 1 Comment
    This news did not feature on any TV news channel, certainly not in Delhi. Television reporters did not ask aam janta to react to this new Rajya Sabha MP. And no, it did not trend on Twitter either. Obviously, I am not talking of Sachin Tendulkar, whose oath-taking today was...

  5. Sreesanth is back after surgery

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    / June 3, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Speedster Sreesanth is back in India after surgery on his toes. Sreesanth tweeted last week, informing that the surgery was successful, thanking the BCCi and Dr James Colder and physio Ashish Kaushik. “It is another two weeks and then six months of rehabilitation @nca Bangalore,” Sreesanth tweeted, asking fans to...

  6. Anand, champion of the world

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    / May 30, 2012 / 1 Comment
    At the same time that Viswanathan Anand was battling Boris Gelfand of Israel at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow in the World Championship, the Indian team was playing in the Asian Nations Cup in China. The team, consisting of Grandmasters like P Harikrishna, K Sasikiran, Parimarjan Negi won the...

  7. Wake up Sid

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    / May 18, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Does Sidhartha Mallya know the meaning of “Aa bail mujhe maar?” Ok, I shall translate it for you. Something like `Come bull, hit me.” And no, I am not talking of the Deccan Chargers Bulls who haven’t charged at all in IPL 5 but Sidhartha pronouncing judgement on the character...

  8. Badminton on court, Sanskrit off court – the Sindhu way

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    / May 17, 2012 / Leave a comment
    After a three-hour long gruelling session on court, P V Sindhu is relishing her breakfast of puri-subzi and watermelon juice at the canteen at the Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy. Destresser is in the form of a loud Telugu film showing on the 32” inch LCD, which Sindhu tells me, is...

  9. The sting on cricket exposes the stink

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    / May 15, 2012 / 1 Comment
    So the worst fears have come true. (Read T S Sudhir’s blogpost : IPL has a perception issue. Fix it). The India TV sting which showed five cricketers talking openly about spot fixing and IPL franchisees paying them remuneration in black and in kind, has just opened a can of...

  10. `Indian’ Premier League. But where is the Indian?

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    / May 15, 2012 / 2 Comments
    IPL 5 has seen more last over finishes than any other IPL season. The number of teams at this stage that can reach the play-pffs are seven. But this post is not about who gets in and who stays out. This is about the missing `Indian’ in the Indian Premier...

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