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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. Ajith – Cool, grey and Billa 2

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    / May 15, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Actor Jeeva was shooting inside the Madras Race Course and a large crowd had gathered, hoping to catch a glimpse. This was December 2007 and my cameraperson and I were waiting for Ajith Kumar to arrive, to record what was going to be his maiden interaction with a national TV...

  5. Valmiki rewrites the last chapter of Ramayana

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    / May 14, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The original Ramayana : Lord Ram returns to Ayodhya after 14 years in exile, after vanquishing Raavan in Lanka. His younger brother Bharat has been holding fort, worshipping Ram’s sandals on the throne. Bharat is overjoyed to see Ram back and the elder brother is crowned king of Ayodhya. But...

  6. Tell your child, Main Hoon Na

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    / May 13, 2012 / 5 Comments
    It was around 4:30 in the evening. Three boys, all class 4 students, were playing near their home. A youth, in his late 20s, known to be an alcoholic in the locality, called one of them out and asked for directions to Block C4. The boys pointed out the way...

  7. Yeddy and Jagan. Xerox copies

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    / May 13, 2012 / Leave a comment
    If they were of the same age, you could have concluded they must have been separated at birth. Or could have inspired `Suresh-Ramesh’ kind of bilaang jokes. How else does one explain the pretty similar fate lines of Y S Jaganmohan Reddy and B S Yeddyurappa. Both men possessed by...

  8. Swami and Friends. And foes too

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    / May 12, 2012 / Leave a comment
    In July last year, Swami Nityananda’s attempts to get his followers to levitate turned into a hopeless attempt at hopping. Levitation means `to rise or cause to rise into the air and float, in apparent defiance of gravity’. What his disciples ended up doing instead was to simply jump up...

  9. Spare us please. It isn’t funny

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    / May 11, 2012 / 1 Comment
    While in college, when I started freelancing in the late 80s, I used to write stories for `Children’s World’. A monthly magazine published by the Children’s Book Trust. An institution established in 1957 by the late Shankar Pillai, known as the patriarch of political cartooning in India. It was therefore...

  10. Chhota Bheem comes of age

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    / May 11, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The pace has been frenetic at the Hyderabad office of Green Gold Animation Private Limited. And why not. Chhota Bheem’s big day is fast approaching. On May 18, Chhota Bheem, after four years of being the number one show in its genre on the small screen on Pogo channel, will...

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