Vijay Narayanan on April 10th, 2007

What went through his mind before this happened: It was pitch dark and very oppressive under his hood. He heard the rustle and murmur of the people round him, and then the voice of McGinty sounded dull and distant through the covering of his ears. “John McMurdo,” said the voice, are you already a member [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on April 4th, 2007

Over here, Vatsan argues that BCCI should break away from the ICC and fix major tournaments to ensure an Indian victory. Whereas you can treat that as a comment made in a lighter vein, it is hard to separate BCCI’s rise to dominance of world over the past decade from India’s own economic growth. For [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on April 4th, 2007

Somewhere in London last evening, Andriy Shevchenko would have been watching with disbelief as the side he left behind last season failed to convert a stellar performance into a telling victory. And AC Milan will, at the end of this season, rue the fact that they didn’t use the money they made on the Sheva [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on April 3rd, 2007

You realise how futile, base and even desperate the print and TV media has become when they consider that Mark Shields* going home for Easter vacation as news worth reporting. * Mark Shields is the Deputy Commissioner of the Jamaican Police, and Chief Investigator in the Bob Woolmer murder case.

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Vijay Narayanan on April 2nd, 2007

The shortest music review for the AVM-Shankar-Rahman-Rajni starrer Sivaji reads thus: “the worst soundtrack for a Rajnikanth movie since Arunachalam“.

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