India are chasing 499 for victory. We have two days to get there, to rewrite Test history. But one man can write a script totally unexpected - Rahul Dravid.
At stumps on day 3, Dravid was batting on 3 off 30 deliveries, a scoring rate well above that in the previous inning, where he managed to […]
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Comment from the Metro’s Philadelphia edition last week:
The Philadelphia International Airport has been voted as the nation’s Best Airport to meet someone: Yes, of course. If you are delayed habitually for 6 hours, then it is surely the best place to meet someone!
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… look the best team currently, most likely to win the League this year. Of course, Manchester United will win it nevertheless.
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That the movie Malaikkottai be renamed “Kaadhile Poo”.
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Barack Obama came up with probably the best comeback line of the 2008 Elections so far in last night’s Democratic debate. In doing so, he gave Hillary Clinton a superb nose cut. Here is what happened:
Moderator: Senator Obama, you have Bill Clinton’s former national security adviser, State Department policy director and Navy Secretary, among others, […]
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1. Vel: Above-average masala flick, evidently designed to please as many sections of the audience as possible in over 2 hours. Excellent performance by Surya, in his first (?) double role, that puts to shame Vijay’s ATM. No doubt Vel is rocking the BO this Deepavali. Despite the music being a let-down, the movie is […]
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நீ பார்த்த பார்வைகள் கனவோடு போகும்
நீ சொன்ன வார்த்தைகள் காற்றோடு போகும்
ஊர் பார்த்த உண்மைகள் உனக்காக வாழும்
உணராமல் போவோர்க்கு உதவாமல் போகும்.
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It is very clear - Surya currently leads the race to become the next superstar of Tamil cinema. One can arrive at no other conclusion after watching Vel.
Surya’s introduction scene in the movie is cliched - and he uses even more cliches when he talks about how to hold the aruvaal. But once the dust […]
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Watching the Boro v/s Arsenal game. Half-time now, and Boro have been pretty impressive. In fact, for a while, their combination play has looked like Arsenal’s. Tuncay and Downing have been excellent. And the Gunners have been uncharacteristically poor.
Update: Boro hold off for a win. Deservedly so.
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… especially, simple South Indian vegetarian cooking has to be among the easiest things to do; so algorithm-like, that there simply can be no excuse whatsoever for someone to be a bad cook.
P.S.: I must confess though that the spinach curry didn’t taste very good.
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CNN IBN reports that the Supreme Court of India has allowed women to ply the bartending profession. Shocking!
The “discerning reader” would be quick to label this writer as a male-chauvinist and someone mired in old, stupid ideas that stereotype the role of men and women in society. Welcome to the club!
As someone who looks down […]
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Roger Cohen writes an excellent article in the IHT, drawing eight rules of modern, global politics drawn from the supposed problems between Venezuela and the United States. I have tried to compare the rules and their applicability in the Indian, mostly Tamilian context.
Trade trumps politics. Wrong! Well, mostly. In India, politics trumps everything. Only inaction […]
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Today I chanced to watch the movie Azhagiya Thamizhmagan. I was surprised that I found myself liking it, when everyone who had spoken to me about this movie had trashed it. Even more surprising because I didn’t like the songs very much, yet basically everyone trashed my music review.
The movie reminds me of MGR’s Ninaithadhai […]
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The first snow shower of this winter in the Northeast.
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