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All rise to the King 22 Jun 2013 | 04:41 pm
With 35:20 seconds to go and the score 90-88 in the riveting Game 7 of the NBA finals between San Antonio Spurs and Miami Heat, Spurs’ power forward Tim Duncan had a chance to tie the game. It was an ...
More than a manager 10 May 2013 | 05:57 pm
It hasn’t sunk in yet and I don’t think it will till the next season of Premier League begins. The thought of Manchester United without Sir Alex Ferguson is scary, daunting and gut-wrenching for fans ...
The original Boy Wonder 20 Mar 2013 | 11:10 am
The English media are notorious to hype their football players – especially teenage prodigies. Anyone with a fair amount of talent scores a wonder goal in his teens is often hyped up as the “next big ...
2013-14 Budget in black and white 7 Feb 2013 | 11:23 am
Any government presenting last budget before going into elections is expected to make it a populist one. The current UPA government at the centre, however, is indicating that it will not do so. The ne...
The Mourinho-Madrid story 4 Feb 2013 | 06:04 pm
Sometime last week when Real Madrid announced that their president Fiorentino Perez will hold a press conference – football fans on Twitter, message boards and forums were abuzz that Jose Mourinho was...
Why I don’t care about Rushdie not going to Calcutta 1 Feb 2013 | 05:13 pm
Unlike Ruchir Joshi, who wrote a fascinating open letter in The Telegraph, I really don’t care that West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee didn’t let author Salman Rushdie into Kolkata — or Calcut...
The Parivartan of club culture in Bengal 31 Jan 2013 | 04:02 pm
While owning a car can be in the wishlist of most middle-class individuals, traveling in public transport comes with some sops too, especially if you are one of those loquacious creatures, who find ob...
Don’t call us, call customer care 29 Jan 2013 | 11:35 am
Can you call this a moment of truth? The moment I realized my bag had slipped out of my hand and that it was too far for me to catch it, however hard I tried? I could see the bikers speed away into th...
Zero Dark Thirty 28 Jan 2013 | 06:05 pm
After her Oscar-winning PTSD saga The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow went extremely low-key with her follow-up effort Zero Dark Thirty (Army parlance for half past midnight). The movie is a blow-by-blow...
We are what we speak 27 Jan 2013 | 04:18 pm
Some weeks ago, while getting a flat tyre fixed at a petrol pump, I saw a middle-aged, and a rather distinguished-looking, gentleman walk up to a mechanic. It was a cold winter morning and he was wear...
