28 Feb
A month or two back, outlook carried this cover story that Bangalore is dying, unable to take the weight of the sudden influx in population due to IT. that it is losing it’s culture. and all such. it was a fairly controversial story and created a lot of “group discussion”. I support the story. I [...]
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27 Feb
first it was Dhoni. And then Yuvraj. And now Deepika Padukone is being linked to Ranbir Kapoor. And why do I have a problem with this? Because all of them are North Indian guys, with two of them being Punjabi. How can we allow beautiful Kannadiga women to go off with North Indian guys like [...]
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24 Feb
Chennai have the same problem as Delhi – way too many foreigners, who, because of the rule, will have to warm the bench. Clearly, the four best foreigners are Hayden, Hussey, Oram and Murali, so they’ll start. And L Balaji’s lack of fitness, and Sreesanth going to Mohali, and Ntini’s likely benching means that Chennai [...]
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24 Feb
Check out this list of Kannda slang words used to describe women. Instructive. However, I protest the fact that he’s classified “petromax” as a rarely used word. Maybe a few buses need to be burnt. Or we should cut off the power supply to this guy’s house, and force him to use a petromax. //
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24 Feb
After a disastrous time trying to predict Bangalore, I seem to have done better in terms of Delhi. I seem to have got that mostly right. The article also talks of TM Srivastava, but I’d considered him and then left him out in favour of Shikhar Dhawan after I found Delhi has the requisite quota [...]
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23 Feb
I seem to have gotten the Bangalore analysis completely wrong. I’m told the following things, by various people Gaurav Dhiman seems to have lost it since the last last youth world cup, when he opened the bowling with R P Singh A reliable source tells me that Praveen Kumar has been signed for Bangalore. An [...]
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22 Feb
Dear ________ (once again I don’t know your name) I know I need to improve my social skills. It’s been almost two years since I saw someone who I thought I should put blade on. It had been ages since I saw a woman who I couldn’t take my eyes off. And I just let [...]
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22 Feb
Ok here’s my take for the starting eleven of Bangalore Royal Challengers (eeks – what a seedy name) Gaurav Dhiman K B Pawan Jacques KallisShiv Chanderpaul Rahul DravidMark BoucherManish PandeyAnil KumbleZaheer KhanNathan BrackenN C Aiyappa The bench will have Cameron White,? Wasim Jaffer,? Dale Steyn, K P Appanna and one more batsman (need not be [...]
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21 Feb
In a post yesterday, I’d predicted that the teams would’ve met up beforehand in order to “cut the IPL melon” among themselves and not indulge in cut-throat competition at the bidding. Given what happened yesterday, it seems like somone broke this agreement and then everyone went mad. One thing you’ll quickly observe when you team [...]
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20 Feb
United Bangalore would have been so much better. Just a little context here. Some ten-twelve years back, when the National Football League was started, FC Kochi became the first professional football team in India. Following it’s decent performance in the first couple of editions of the League, a similar team called Bangalore United was proposed. [...]
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