After a cliche fest consisting of boring biographies on Sachin, Rahul, Ganguly and Sehwag, which were no more…
Steve Waugh never said “You just dropped the World Cup”. He didn’t say it to Gibbs nor to…
“There are no atheists in the jungle” — writes Vijay Kumar, the police officer who eventually killed the dreaded sandalwood smuggler and forest brigand Veerappan. This is obviously a rip-off on the American phrase “there are no atheists in a foxhole” —…
Among the people who have over-thought about things, including the thing about…
Reading Shane Warne’s autobiography can sometimes be a very funny experience. I couldn’t stop visualizing an on-screen persona of Rajinikanth narrating Shane Warne’s life to me. Imagine Warne doing something with his right hand, a cigarette goes up. He would then take a…
I don’t know if the Japanese or Germans invented a word to describe the splendid after taste one has after reading such a delightful book. They should’ve. The feeling is so awesome that it should be honored by a dedicated word for it. I kept thinking to myself “I am truly enjoying this. This…
Baradwaj Rangan has written a very good book titled ‘Conversations With Maniratnam”. Rangan has a lot of strengths which he has used to good effect in this book. Some aspects of this book pleasantly surprised me and some aligned with my…
A lot of people are fascinated about Mathematician Ramanujan. This fascination fascinated me. Why? Why the rush to know more about him? Is the layman qualified enough to know him? What sort of pleasure would I get in reading something, that I know fully…