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• Lanka Beats WI in Rain Curtailed Semis ... Will SA Choke Again Tomorrow ???

  There was much expectation in the air as we sat before the TV sets …. WI has reached Semis in style – the six hitting madness it has been…. The familiar sight o... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2014 SOCIETY

• the Man of Many Symbols - This Time in 'Hand' at Ramanathapuram....

  

  Almost all my posts are my own thoughts ….there are some which get influenced by the newspaper articles and this one … totally influenced (almost reproduction o... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2014 SOCIETY

• T20 WC at Bangladesh : Line-up in Men and Women Too...

  

  Krish Srikkanth captained India in that tour to Pak when Sachin Tendulkar made his debut … Cheeka had Kapil Dev, Vengsarkar, Ravi Shastri – playing under him. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2014 SOCIETY

• 'if Name is Easy to Pronounce' - People Are More Likely to Trust.... ?!?!

  

  What is in a name … a rose by any other name would smell as sweet - the names of things do not matter, only what things are !! ~ but perceptions do matter …. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Depositing Cheque in a Bank.... the Day in News - Rakhi Sawant Claims Illiterate

  

  A star worth several crores of rupees entering election fray has declared that she is an illiterate………till a few years ago, even literates were not too confiden... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Golf Balls Lights up When Hit ... Play the Game Colourfully

  

  At a time when so much of IPL happened in Court and on a day when Indiais playing Bangla, one may not read anything else …. Still I read the news of Virender... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2014 SOCIETY

• the Little Marmoset Landing in Chennai .....

  

  In Marina beach, one would find group of vagabonds [kuravas] and they keep some chirpy monkeys tied alongside… not bigger ones, but small, they jump, dance and... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Chaos, Confusion and Anarchism in the Elections of World's Biggest Democracy

  

  Indian economy is the best economy …… those of us who see Tamil cinema regularly know this dialogue too well…. ‘India is the biggest democracy and Indian... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Google Launches 'Shelfie' on All Fools Day ...

  

  1st April is a different day … it heralds the starts of Financial year (I started my career with the present company 11 years ago) … for strange reasons, it is... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 SOCIETY

• the English View of 'doosra' - Some Spinners Who Suffered !!!

  

  Subash Gupte, VV Kumar, BS Chandrasekhar, MV Narasimha Rao, Laxman Sivaramakrishnan, Narendra Hirwani, Anil Kumble, Amit Mishra, Piyush Chawla ……….all leg... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Statue of First CM of Andhra Pradesh Stands in Esplanade, Chennai

  

  Ozymandias is a sonnet written by the PB Shelly and published in 1818 ~ its central theme is the inevitable decline of all leaders and of the empires they... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Election Watch - Campaign, Candidate, Commandering ...

  

  First a Q for Insurers on this election related post… [General insurance is all about Motor these days !!!] do you know what GR 38 is ?Goldman Sachs is again... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Aussie Faulkner Brings out 'gangnam' Dance by Bravo, Gayle, Sammy... !!!

  

  There are always hypes that precede match – be it ‘India – Pak’ or ‘Aussie – England’ …….the calypso team which dominated the Cricketing World is now-a-days hav... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Herath Bamboozles While It is Double Dutch for England...

  

  Have you heard of Mudassar Bukhari, 30 year old born at Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan and Logan Verjus van Beek, 23 year old from Christchurch, Canterbury, New... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2014 SOCIETY

• India Thumps Australia ~ Ashwin in News for That 4/11 and for Long-sleeves

  

  Those days there used to be ‘benefit matches’ for retired players – in such matches and in Test innings when game meanders to draw – have seen some players mimi... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2014 SOCIETY

• Anand Wins World Candidates .. Set to Challenge Magnus Carlsen Again..

  

  This photo of Anand receiving award did not make us happy – as he lost the challenge ……Photo credits : //chennai2013.fide.com/Anand is back………. Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2014 SOCIETY

• IPL Show is On; CSK & RR Will Play Too ... Something on BCCI Presidents

  Those genuine lovers cannot remain without watching the game … such is the love for the game that as Neville Cardus wrote – you travel in a train, see a bowler... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2014 SOCIETY

• UN Resolution Against Sri Lanka - India Abstains from Voting..

  Alex Hales hit a sensational unbeaten hundred as England pulled off a dramatic six-wicket win over Sri Lanka to throw open the Group I for semifinals places in... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2014 SOCIETY

• BCCI & Indian Cricket at Cross Roads - Supreme Court Proposes Sunil Gavaskar...

  

  India play Bangladesh tomorrow and with a win is assured of a Semis berth in T20 WC ~ back home, there is turmoil – for BCCI, its President, IPL and Cricket... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2014 SOCIETY

• Dr Conrad Murray Found Guilty in MJ Death but May Not Be Imprisoned ?

  In US the rate of incarceration is very high as compared to other Nations. Logically, one’s punishment is proportion to the crime and an accused is likely to... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2014 SOCIETY