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The Death of Nehru 28 May 2013 | 01:34 pm
Yesterday, India survived (and done quite well for itself though things can always be better) 49 years of the post-Nehru era. At 2 p.m. local time today 460,000,000 people in this country that has bee...
Football vs Soccer – The Australian Debate 28 May 2013 | 10:34 am
Soccer. a word that summons up images of permatanned American sportscasters gabbering on about Sir Wayne Lineker’s famous goal in the 1984 World Cup final. (link) The Guardian’s football section on th...
On Gambling and Manipulation of Outcomes 24 May 2013 | 11:51 pm
For whatever reason, I have had very minimal consumption of IPL for last few seasons (perhaps after Sourav Ganguly got dropped by all the franchises). Of course it is difficult to avoid it completely....
On English football 14 May 2013 | 11:31 pm
In 2000, Diego Maradona published his autobiography El Diego. The English translation came out in 2004 and Martin Amis reviewed it in the Guardian. A lovely read (the review) which, not only gives a d...
The Fall and Rise of German Football – according to me 3 May 2013 | 01:59 am
As an 8 year old watching a football match live, late at night, with eyes drooping off to sleep every other minute, one can be excused to being short on one’s memory. The 1982 semi-final match stays i...
Football 25 Apr 2013 | 02:55 am
From The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup That’s what you learn, as soon as you start to play and watch football: that football is difficult and beautiful, and that the two are related. Players k...
Remembering & Re-watching Pyaasa, 1957 9 Mar 2013 | 11:29 pm
While roaming around Mutton Street in Nagpada area (popularly called Chor Bazaar), I entered one of those small shops which stock old cinema posters. As I was scanning through the displayed specimens ...
Sport is finished? 13 Feb 2013 | 09:27 pm
Football is f$%#ed. Cycling is damned. There is no wrestling at the Olympic Games. Badminton players deliberately serve into the net to avoid meeting their higher ranked countrymen in the next round. ...
The Motorcycle Diaries – Movies I Watched in 2013 28 Jan 2013 | 10:58 pm
Valparaiso, the Chilean port town, was for many years the home of Pablo Neruda. He called it a lunatic, crazy port like a man with disheveled hair in his Oda a Valpariaso. When Che Guevara and Alberto...
Diving Deep into Luis Suarez' Theatrics: Football and Marxism 24 Jan 2013 | 11:03 pm
Reblogged from A Pertinent Riot: I attended a Shakespeare lecture yesterday in which my lecturer gave a Marxist reading of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. According to Karl Marx, a German philosopher, i...
