Vijay Narayanan on October 31st, 2005

In the beginning, there was God. But God chased a wide delivery, And ended up back in the pavilion. In came Dhoni… the rest is history! Showing no mercy… When Mahendra Singh Dhoni, our man from Jharkhand, walked in, the mood of the Sri Lankans was nothing but jubilant, because they had just removed Sachin [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on October 28th, 2005

Is this Chennai? A city which rejoices if there is cloud cover for 40 minutes was lashed, battered (and at places, bruised) by 40 hours of non-stop torrential downpour. Yes, 40 hours! Of those I know, only Soumyadip should have experienced such rainfall.Now that the rains have stopped for almost a day, Chennai starts limping [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on October 27th, 2005

Prior to India’s independence, Kolkata (Calcutta) should have been India’s most forward-looking city. Intellectual affluence, and abundance of literary and artistic talent at the turn of the century in “the second city of the Empire” is evidenced by the saying “What Calcutta does today, the rest of India follows tomorrow.”Perhaps, looking at the negative publicity [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on October 27th, 2005

If there is any better news than Chennai being lashed by cyclones Rakkayi, Kamatchi and Valliammai (those are the names – equivalent to Rita, Katrina and Wilma – doing the rounds in the SMS circles), then this should be it… Charlton knock Chelsea out of League Cup Reuters reports: Chelsea’s season suffered its first serious [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on October 25th, 2005

After the maha mega giga hit of Chandramukhi, comes Rajnikanth’s next movie… Sivaji… the boss Rumour has it that the story is about Rajnikanth travelling around the world, in search of his (six other) look-alikes. Seems like he has found a couple of them here. The Boss, with Shreya (she looks quite skinny, eh?)

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