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| The oldest athlete and the most successf... | |
| As I start to grow grey behind my ears, the story that warmed my heart at the Olympics was not Superfish Michael Phelps quest for Olympic immortality, but th story of this man who 44 years after his debut at the 1964 Olympics is back again as the games’ oldest athlete - Hiroshi Hoketsu. Read more on this athlete here: But they probably wouldn’t be...
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| 11:10 | 21/Aug/2008 |
| Gold, simply Gold! | |
| Finally, finally the wait ends. India win a Gold medal in an individual sport at the Olympics. Abhinav Bindra ends India’s drought with a superb come from behind finish to ensure his place in India’s sporting history. Most of the times our sportspersons have not been able to hold their nerve, Bindra held his and shot his best when it really mattere...
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| 08:54 | 18/Aug/2008 |
| The game Jesus loved - Cricket! | |
| The Age, reports today on the results of a study conducted recently, which suggests that the origins of the game we love - Cricket, might be older than we thought and even the fact that Jesus Christ might have played an ancient version of the sport. Quoting The Age, Long before the English launched cricket some 300 years ago, similar games were be...
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| 06:03 | 13/Aug/2008 |
| 4 coaches for no team at the Olympics | |
| That the Indian men’s Hockey Team did not make it to the Olympics is old hat, this news item in Rediff, nearly brought tears to my eyes - the frustrated, you gotta be kidding me kind. We will send not 1, but 4 hockey coaches to ‘study’ the techniques of other teams at the Olympics and one of these ‘under-studies’ will be tipped to become the coach ...
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| 08:29 | 29/Jul/2008 |
| Trivia for the week | |
| As the countdown to 08.08.08 begins, and a neighbour braces itself for both brickbats and accolades on hosting its maiden Olympic Games and we send our quota of dreamy eyed athletes and officials who would be placed just above Eritrea and below Slovenia in the medals tally and we do the usual jamboree of announcing harebrained schemes to win gold m...
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| 08:25 | 29/Jul/2008 |
| Of National Interest | |
| You would think that with the advent of so many news channels and so much scrutiny every politician would atleast be scared of appearing to be available for a price, but the events of the past week have been ludicruous to say the least. If you have an MP in the Lok Sabha(what an irony to call it that), the sky is the limit to what you can ask and i...
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| 14:08 | 18/Jul/2008 |
| Come to the Games, Stay in tents | |
| A typical piece in The Australian, informs us what most of us suspected, but hoped would have changed - India does not have the wherewithal to host a major sporting event. Visitors travelling to the Delhi Commonwealth Games, would be forced into tents, given that Delhi is short of hotel rooms. A shortage of hotel rooms and excessively expensive acc...
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| 13:40 | 3/Jun/2008 |
| Club or country | |
| Till about 6 months back, this question would have been irrelevant to cricket, however with the advent of the monied leagues in India, this is being asked of it - as it has been for many years of other competitive sport. While the tournament meanders to an end this weekend, the casualties of war are already being counted and from the initial estima...
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| 13:38 | 3/Jun/2008 |
| Daylight at last! | |
| Over the past couple of months, the sports headlines have been dominated by the IPL, for a number of reasons, good and bad, but the national sport, that I follow with equal interest, made an appearance thanks to the infamous sting and the aftermath. After appointing the 5 wise men, the results have changed immediately and thankfully, this time for ...
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| 13:38 | 19/May/2008 |
| Moolah Run Rate & Scrap Rate | |
| The Economic Times, has come out with this interesting statistic, mid way through the IPL tournament, on the Return on Investment of the millions of dollars spent on the players against the runs and wickets they have scored. While this does not include intrinsic value of the players, like the hundreds who throng Eden gardens just to see Saurav Gang...
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| Saakshee I | 17:43 | 5/Aug/2008 |
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| Guys its been some time now and my life it seems is the most boring one on the planet I meet guys I lose guys, I lose interest they hate my guts. Well that’s about it all now the same charade continues maybe I can shock myself into a new me. I realize that my perfect guy would be as lethargic as me, would love swinging... Hey hey hey lemme put the ...
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| Uday Sodhi | 13:29 | 23/Jun/2008 |
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| Lonely on an island.... |
| Once upon a time, a man decided to vacation on a cruise shipin the Caribbean. It was wonderful--the experience of his life! He was waited upon hand and foot. But, alas, it didnot last. A hurricane came up suddenly and the ship wentdown. The man found himself, he knew not how, swept up on the shore of an island. There was nothing else anywhere...
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| Dhiman Bose | 22:32 | 8/Jul/2008 |
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| RE: MY LAST POST |
| Hi friendz...this post is in reply with ur valuable comments for "My last post". There is no exact reason behind leaving iland. I'm just tired and extremely weird nowadays. Most probably these days r the most critical in my life till date. I'm just trying to keep a balance between the good and the dark side of mine n it seems that the later will wi...
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| Dinesh Nambisan | 03:02 | 9/May/2007 |
| Friends: (25)
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| Muck raking |
| It had to happen sooner or later, with "stings" being in vogue in Indian media it was just a matter of time before one of them focused on cricket (Come to think of it, if memory serves me right, it all started with cricket: The first widely-known "sting" operation conducted by the media was by Aniruddha Bahal (then Tehelka) with the help of Manoj P...
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| Manish Varma | 11:25 | 25/May/2007 |
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| Since its 'that time' of the year/two-year phase....when we hunt for a coach...and obviously tv channels would have a field day making news for us throughout the hour..
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| Sandil Srini... | 11:24 | 30/Apr/2007 |
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| Finito |
| F inally, done, isn't it? Got so much to write about, curses to be flushed, the horrible ICC that's murdered my sweet little game. But then, why bother, when Sambit Bal and Sir Richard Hadlee took the words outa my mouth and pasted them all over the internet?
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| Sandil Srini... | 13:12 | 30/Jul/2007 |
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| This Blog ends here |
| It's been nice blogging here folks, and it's time to bid adieu. I loved the exposure here at rediff iLAND but it's time to shut down this blog for good -- I will be blogging more often at Mutiny.inand hope to see you there sometime.... and I am retaining Showbizia :-)The prime reason to have suspended blogging is because I want to focus on completi...
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| Sandil Srini... | 21:50 | 25/Aug/2007 |
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| Voting abuse |
| C ouldn't find any other word to describe it. How can Chang possibly be voted out, ahead of Prashant and Ankita? Whoever voted for those two is fucking deaf. Here is the dentist's blog again, Buddha Soliloques . Atleast, that's a consolation - he'll be back to dentistry and blogging soon. Here's a video about him A star anyway, no?
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| Sathya Sathya | 15:03 | 27/Sep/2008 |
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| How to Promote Humanity? |
| One essential step towards promoting humanity.......One should treat men withdignity, allow them to express their gentle side or just allow themto be very good instead of expecting them to be compulsorily very badand blaming them for being bad later; this will not only help men butwill help women also to a greater extent and thus would result in a...
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| richa bhagwat | 12:56 | 19/Jun/2007 |
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| m coming home |
| I wana go back homeTo d place I belongLong lasting memoriesThat I always carry with meI have moved too farFrom my home, d place I belongMy aims where big& my dreams where biggerFor me, then, my home seemed smallerSo I left my home, all aloneIt’s been a lonely journeyIn search of pleasures And lots of moneyMy hunger alas my greedHas bought me here...
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| Mohan jadeja | 20:51 | 7/Nov/2007 |
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| Wish you all the Best Laxmi |
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| In everyday news of politics and terrorism there was pleasant surprise to see a little multi limbed girl from Bihar being brought to Banglore for very complicated operation.As for now operation is succes. Lets wish her a very healthy and warm recovery. Also hatsoff to medical staff who has operated her free of charge, A total Dr Munnabhai style tre...
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| nishant shah | 12:05 | 20/Aug/2008 |
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| RaceThere in his dreams someone uttered,"Blacks are charred and Whites are insane"Abruptly he raised his brows.And his garrison was circumvented.He knew the color of his origin,and lurched outside,with some grim. With only blanket that enshrouded their faces,They watched their same color slain.Everything receded with time,And the ashes of parched l...
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| shailesh S | 17:12 | 8/Jun/2007 |
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| Why are they called stairs inside but steps outside?Why, any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner? If love is blind, how can we believe in love at first sight? Why 'abbreviated' is such a long word?How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered? Why, when you change...
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| Prem Panicker | 10:49 | 7/Jun/2007 |
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| Transition |
| While Ruchir maintains the daily updates, am working on migrating him, and other colleagues on this blog, to the new site. Will take a week, tops. In the meantime, Ruchir, Manish and others will be found here; I meanwhile have as of today begun posting, on cricket and all else, here .
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| crazy dollarman | 17:21 | 23/Oct/2007 |
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| crazy goes crazy!!!!!! |
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| Can Bald people have Hairline fractures? Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle? If you pamper a cow, do you get spoiled milk? Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet? What happens if you get a paper cut from a Get Well card? Crazy welcomes more friends ..........
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| aravind das | 19:29 | 23/Sep/2008 |
| Friends: (731)
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| ORISSA FLOOD |
| Orissa is once again passing through a tough time . Heavy flood has ravaged the state.Millions are affected .People are without food & water, they are under the sky in the mercy of god.Till now nobody from center has visited the state .Central govt promptly have sent team to Bihar to satisfy LALU .No powerful leader is there to take up the matter w...
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| Shankar V | 12:30 | 9/May/2007 |
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| Revisiting: Sachin Tendulkar is V/C? |
| I had posted this before the announcement of the team to the world cup - Sachin Tendulkar is Vice-Captain?I was questioning the sinister move by Vengsarkar to name Tendulkar as the V/C and I wondered whether it was to place a check on Dravid as the captain. I now feel that it was probably also to assuage the captaincy ambitions of our one-time capt...
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| Krishna Prasad | 13:42 | 27/Jul/2008 |
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| FOOD SHORTAGE Preface: I heard in BBC Radio one day morning that Somalia is suffering with acute food shortage. There was an interview with an unknown woman of Somalia village that she used to take maize powder and some times she used to take Animal Feed in order to subside the hunger. This is a horrific situation. Also, she told that when she e...
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