Thomas Cup Champions! Indian shuttlers have created history, whitewashing the fourteen times Champion Indonesia 3-0 in a thrilling final. Is this the 1983 Cricket World Cup moment for Badminton? Badminton has unfortunately been the poor cousin of Tennis, a sport, which has a much larger following and with that comes the moolah. In India, we […]
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What makes 50 pluses behave like 15 year olds wannabe, travel miles ? Well; just a call from their course mates… to be with their brothers in arms, arm in arm, just like the good old days, reliving them, guffawing without any perceptible reason, pulling each other’s legs over their appearances, balding pates, expanding girths and generally
The world rejoices when a child is born and mourns when a person dies, in both the cases the person concerned is oblivious to the happenings. In the case of marriages, people celebrate, so do the bride and groom, once again oblivious of the consequences. Most normal people decide to tie the knot at least
100 years is a long time in the history of our young republic, but just a speck in the annals of our ancient civilisation. Human beings rarely live that long, so for almost all of us this was once in a lifetime opportunity to be a part of the grand celebrations. Rashtriya Indian Military College
Cheer Up Will Smith! you have joined legends such as Dileep Kumar and Marlon Brando, the Don Corleone, by virtue of that slap, yes the same which will echo in the Academy Awards for generations. I wonder if Will Smith had watched Dileep Kumar, the Indian thespian slap Dr Dang the character played by Anupam Kher
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“No Woman No Cry”, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, when we are celebrating womanhood in all its forms, why this allusion to Bob Marley’s very popular chartbuster ? Well, he obviously meant it ….if there were no women, there would be no tears! Most married men recall their bachelor days with that nostalgic
Indians and Pakistanis are normally on friendly terms when they are not in their respective countries. After all they have shared a common heritage, although our neighbours have been living in denial since independence. The relationship is not easy though, we speak the same language which does help forge a bond. While in the UN
Hijab is the latest storm in the tea cup, a couple of years earlier most of us would have concluded it to be a typo with “K” being omitted, i.e. mistaking it with “khijab“. Khijab in Urdu, the language of love and poetry as they say, means hair colour or Hair Dye as it was
Mention of the word ‘Reservation’, is akin to showing a red flag to a bull, before you can complete your sentence that it was train reservation that you were referring to and not reservations for the supposedly downtrodden and oppressed, the youngsters will be up in arms. We have reservations about the concept of reservation
“Toxicity” was a 2001 chartbuster from the band “System of a Down”, while it is supposed to have focused on the other forms of toxicity prevalent in the society then, drugs, religion, corruption and so on. Today the additional form of toxicity which is way more pernicious and has effected all and sundry is the
