Sachin 200-dulkar – The Master

I was a 14 year old teenager, who had just finished his Xth board exams when I watched an innings. An innings I would remember for a long long time. In a bad way.
It was the 1997 India-Pakistan match at the Chepauk stadium. A lot of hype was built around the match in line with [...]

Elections 2009 – Urban India Voter Turnout – Appalling!

I) Quoting from an article in Mail Today -
“Sample this: Mumbai, the commercial capital of the country and the city that witnessed massive public mobilisation after the 26/11 terror attacks, managed a figure of only 43 per cent in the phase held on April 30 (the lowest since 1977); Bangalore, the seat of the country’s [...]

Preview – 2009

One phrase to sum it all – ‘Hold tight, brave the storm’
Now that we are done with the excitement and enthusiasm of ushering in the New Year and all that, let’s look at what 2009 has in store for us.
With the hypothesis of ‘data doesn’t lie’, let’s look at some of the news across the [...]

Happy New Year!

First up, Wish you all a very happy and prosperous New Year.
It’s been a crazy year, hasn’t it? The tradition across the blogosphere nowadays is to blog about lists – 2008’s list of good events, bad events, improbable events, good movies, bad movies, resolutions, number of girlfriends etc etc – the theme goes something like [...]