Peter Cechs Barca – Champions League Semi Final (29/04/09) – Chelsea vs Barcelona

29Apr09

The drawn draw in no way reflects the true nature of the game last night. That Chelsea managed a draw despite being rode on by a pumped up Barca inspired by a flamboyant though erratic Messi, is a miracle. The first half was a comedy of sorts with Barca toying with the Chelsea lineup. All [...]

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Tags: Barca, Barcelona, Chelsea, Dani Alves, FCB, Football, Guus Hiddink, Messi, Nou Camp, Peter Cech, Samuel Eto'o, Sports

Prisoner of Conscience

28Apr09

There’s an article in today’s edition of The Times of India, page 10, by Anand Patwardhan, titled Prisoner of Conscience (online article here), that tells the sad story of Dr. Binayak Sen who has been languishing in a Chhattisgarh jail since the last two years. All he did was to try and better the lives [...]

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Tags: Anand Patwardhan, Articles, Callous media, Chhattisgarh, Dr. Binayak Sen, Human Rights Violation, Indian Politics, Naxals, Newspaper, Political Prisoner, Shameful, State Atrocity, The Times of India, Tragic tale

Kari – Amruta Patil

24Apr09

Sometime last week, I took up Kari, the first Indian graphic novel that I’d come across. I wouldn’t count The Jataka Tales and the Tenali Rama editions read during childhood as graphic novels. Though some of them were really long, they were more of collections of novellas and wouldn’t qualify as novels.
The day I started [...]

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Tags: Amruta Patil, Artwork, Graphic Novel, Harper Collins, Kari, Psychedelia

Gulzar’s Kitaab

20Apr09

Gulzar’s Kitaab, had it been made in a different land or by a non-Indian, would have swept the major awards at each function. Sadly, it being made in India by an Indian, was a box-office and otherwise debacle. People who wish to see Holden Caulfield in a movie, might find consolation in Kitaab, though it [...]

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Tags: Gulzar, Kitaab, Master Raju, Uttam Kumar, Vidya Sinha, Om Shivpuri, Keshto Mukherjee, R. D. Burman, Children movies, Bildungsroman, Dina Pathak, Dr. Shriram Lagoo

Of now and then

17Apr09

Somehow, elections this time are promising a suspense never witnessed before. There have been twists and upsets and abrupt developments before, but suspense, nah. When we witnessed the famous ‘The Congress will step in through the back door’, statement by a certain TDP MP in 1996 or the unmatched Vajpayee’s poetic, ‘… ki prasansha to [...]

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Tags: Aloo Bharta, Being critical, Dalma, Holidays, Indian Politics, Lata Mangeshkar, Parliament, Poilitics, Politicians, POTA, Question Hour, Summer Noons, TV, Vajpayee

Swearing

07Apr09

The Dude doesn’t swear. ‘The only problem I face at times is while quoting someone’, he says.

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Tags: Admiration, Habits, Quoting, Swear words, Swearing, The Dude, Virtues

Growing old

03Apr09

I find it increasingly difficult to run up the stairs these days. I might’ve gained weight. My tummy has grown bigger. No longer do I give the impression of being athletic. What was effortless sometime back, is much of an effort now. Recent research has revealed one starts growing old at 27. With 3 more [...]

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Tags: Athletism, Discoveries, Effort, Fitness, Getting up, Growing old, Health, Running