Two weeks ago, Esteban Cambiasso was the toast of the world, finishing the most perfect goal to be scored in this World Cup finals. Today, the Argentinian walks back, a lone man, holding his head in his hands, hating himself for missing a penalty.
What a great change two weeks can bring!
P.S.: And think of Roberto […]
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Brazil have beaten Ghana 3-0 to progress to the quarter-finals of the World Cup. It could have been much worse for the Africans, though, truth be told, they played rather well for the most part. The one thing that didn’t work for Ghana was their offside trap; all three goals stolen by Brazil were due […]
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The World Cup broadcasts come with their own share of advertisements — a small set which gets repeated over and over again. Minus the longer Airtel ad, nothing is worth a mention…
… except for the HDFC Standard Life Insurance advertisement, which should rank as among the most insensitive ever to appear on Indian television. You […]
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Tagged by Vinayak. Here are 6 weird things about me:
1. I listen to one song at a time, in the repeat mode. If I like it, I’ll listen to it all day long, for weeks. I consider Johann Pachelbel’s Canon to be among the finest pieces of music ever composed. I should have listened to […]
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Sportolysis hardly needs an introduction. One of India’s best sports blogs, it covers a wide spectrum of sports and sport-related issues. For a single-person effort, it is surprisingly regular and consistently good.
As part of the Visitors series, Pratyush has invited me to write for Sportolysis — a piece on the state of Indian football. Please […]
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[This is a long post, I warn you. It is a faithful reproduction of an essay by J.B. Priestley. If you are a feminist or a women’s lib type, you may stop reading right here.]
A large number of men, for the most part elderly men, are secretly terrified by the new type of woman, the […]
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Yesterday, Slashdot linked to an interesting article about a teenager and her mother suing MySpace.com, a social networking site for $30 million.The complaint: that the website had failed to protect her (the teenager) from a sexual predator who molested her on their first date.
More than the article itself, the comments which follow it provide an […]
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Last week, one of my cousins (so close, that he is more a brother than a cousin) got married. This is probably the first marriage in the family which I have observed from close quarters. There are many who say that cinema and sport best reflect the culture of a people. I pity them, for […]
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Alan has listed the French equivalents of some common footballing terms. The one term he seems to have missed is le problème - the problem with French football.
World Cup winners in 1998. European Champions in 2000. Knocked out of the first round in the 2002 World Cup! Toothless in Euro 2004. And a tame draw […]
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Headlines Today should immediately be conferred with India’s silliest news channel award. While every other news channel is analysing Argentina’s rout of Serbia & Montenegro, and van Persie’s wonderstrike against Ivory Coast, HT sent one of its reporters to spend time with a tarot expert.The tarot woman was so much fun.
Reporter: “What does the World […]
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Take a look at this wonderful goal. Esteban Cambiasso scores at the end of a 24-pass move. Truly a treat for any football fan.
Brazil, here we come!
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I have nothing against fat men. I belong to that tribe anyway. But Ronaldo… what was he doing on the pitch that night? A sordid display that had disinterest written all over it. Carlos Alberto Parreira might be committing a grave mistake playing him in front of top-draw playmakers like Ronaldinho and Kaka. He simply […]
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Last week, I was speaking to a neighbour who had come home for vacation from the USA. The conversation beat upon the normal lines, and moved (predictably) to the battle for Washington 2008.
From whatever little gyan we get from our local media, we might be led to believe that Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton would be […]
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What’s wrong with the BJP, I wonder. Why are they wasting their energies on such arbit issues? First it was the ban on Fanaa in Gujarat. Now, the Madhya Pradesh Government has decided that nursery children won’t learn “Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star”, “Ba ba Black Sheep” and “Johnny Johnny, Yes Papa” from now on.
The reason […]
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Stop reading for a moment, and click here to sign up for a trial of Google Spreadsheet.
An online spreadsheeting program that will let you do spreadsheets from anywhere, upload existing sheets, collaborate and allow others to edit your sheets online! You know what these guys are targeting, right?
Check out this online tour of Google Spreadsheet.
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The Petroleum Minister has finally increased fuel prices - petrol will be dearer by 4 rupees and diesel by 2. That is in fact lesser than what was expected, and therefore is heartening.
You can predict what the Communist parties will now do. They have called for a strike on June 13. They will protest for […]
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Wasim Jaffer has just battled his way to his maiden double hundred, against the West Indies in Antigua. In doing so, he has joined a select band of Indian test cricketers - the 200-club is indeed elite.
What he has also done is to walk into the media’s glare as another hero who will now be […]
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Practitioners of the medical profession are supposed to take an oath - the Hippocratic Oath - so named because it is believed to have been written by Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine according to the Greeks. It begins thus:
I swear by Apollo the physician, by Æsculapius, Hygeia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all […]
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Marketing guru Seth Godin has compiled a huge list of ways to get more traffic for your blog. Many of the tips are obvious:
#8 Announce news
#15 Be sycophantic. Share linklove and expect some back.
#38 Write about blogging.
#39 Digest the good ideas of other people, all day, every day.
#46 Edit yourself. Ruthlessly.
#48 Be patient.
#50 […]
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This week, a movie festival was organised at my company. Originally, 2 Tamil movies, 2 Hindi movies and an English movie were planned to be screened. Because of some unforeseen circumstances, one of the promised Tamil movies could not be screened. And this happened to Chandramukhi - the Rajnikanth starrer, the most successful Tamil movie […]
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