He has just drawn his game with Peter Leko which means he is now crowned world champion. It was a quick game where Leko played the Marshall attack and Anand, as usual, responded with a non-standard variation, thus creating a sharp and complicated situation with chances for either side. A few clever moves (from both [...]
Driving to the gym yesterday evening, I happened to switch on the radio. Radio city 91.1. A song had just ended and I was cursing myself that I’d have to listen to their woresht ads. And then Welcome to colloquial claaass brought to you by Miss Lingo Leela. SSLC poss currently unemplaayed. Ever since it [...]
A few hours after India had beaten Pakistan in a thriller to win the ICC World Twenty20, another thriller happened at the Sheraton Centro Hist?rico Hotel in Mexico City. It was again played out in a little more than two hours, though at a much more relaxed pace (from the spectator’s point of view). There [...]
Returning to my grandmother’s place after a quiz yesterday evening, I was greeted with loud sound of fireworks. This was odd, since Diwali is still a couple of months away, and India’s cricket match was to come much later in the night. Then, I switch on the TV and realize what had happened. Pakistan had [...]
The unnecessary controversy over the very existence of Lord Rama has put a major question mark on the Sethusamudram project. The statements of the ASI and Karunanidhi has turned an earlier neutral Hindu public against the project, and it is going to be next to impossible for it to go ahead. In this regard, there [...]
Ok here is the equation. Before the last group E game between India and South Africa, New Zealand are at a net run rate of +0.05. And having played all their matches, that is going to be their final NRR. South Africa are at 0.77 and India are at 0.2. Remember that the last two [...]
I’m writing this at the innings break of the India – England game. Quick analysis tells me that if India restricts England to less than 204 today, we’ll only need to win tomorrow’s game. No run rate worries. Sounds good right?
For the uninitiated, the world chess championship is going on at Mexico. And I wouldn’t be surprised if a number of you don’t know about it, given the ineptitude of our mainstream media (as I had lamented here). The tournament is being played on a double round robin format, and after five of the fourteen [...]
For an out and out business daily, the Business Standard shows that their competence extends to writing about sport as well – something that a lot of mainstream white papers struggle to do. Check out this editorial about Dravid’s resignation. The key issue in deciding who will be captain is to be able to distinguish [...]
Yesterday, in a bid to understand why exactly I didn’t like my investment banking job at JP Morgan and subsequently rejected their full time offer, I started going through my blog archives of april-june 2005. I knew I had written extensively about my frustration at the job, and thought going through these archives might provide [...]
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