1. Sreesanth is back after surgery

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    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...
  2. Wake up Sid

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    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...
  3. Ajith – Cool, grey and Billa 2

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    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...
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    New rules for the cops in Kerala. They have been forbidden from using their official designations when expressing their opinion on social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter. The Kerala government feels expression of opinion on issues on such sites is against police rules. However, Home minister T Radhakrishnan has...
  5. IPL has a perception issue. Fix it.

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    Every morning, one of my co-walkers in the neighbourhood park – a senior citizen – describes in vivid detail the previous night’s IPL match. Since most of the matches this season strangely are last over – sometimes even last ball – finishes, it is a lot of excited chatter. But...
  6. #TweetLikeDravid

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    The twitteratti often comes up with interesting ways to keep the platform buzzing. Today was one such day when someone (I suspect it was @BoredCricket) who thought of tweeting like Rahul Dravid with the hashtag #tweetlikeDravid. Here is what TSR thought were some of the most witty #tweetlikedravid. @_fakeiplplayer :...
  7. Guilty till proven innocent

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    Last night Mumbai’s Joint commissioner of police Himanshu Roy was on CNN-IBN, to talk about the Vijay Palande-Simran Sood duo, accused of four murders. No doubt this story has been a talking point in Mumbai over the last few days, with newspapers devoting a significant share of newsprint to how...
  8. Who do you hold a beef for?

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    Twitter, where `outrage’ is more often than not, the dominant emotion, yesterday degenerated into verbal diarrhoea of the worst kind. The issue at the centre of it all was the Hyderabad Beef Festival, organised by a group of Dalit students at the Narmada Research Scholars (Ambedkar) Hostel on Osmania University...
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    No this is not Virat Kohli showing his middle finger. This is the hand that has scored one hundred centuries ! Sachin Tendulkar tweeted a photograph of his finger which was injured in the first IPL match against Chennai Super Kings, forcing him to retire hurt. Tendulkar tweeted : “Finger...

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