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The morning cuppa and newspaper are like the proverbial twins, just one of them on the table leaves you craving for the other. Old habits die hard, we grew up watching our fathers doing the same and we just sort of followed the tradition. I am speaking for our generation who were born in the […]
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NK just completed the Chicago Marathon, late Jogi Chandana ran all the way from Gateway of India to India Gate a couple of years ago, these guys are in their 50s when others like us have already decided that just ambling around for a leisurely stroll on the promenade is good enough for our daily
Navratri is the season for garba, Durga pooja and fasting. While garba and the pooja festivities are being enjoyed, I was contemplating as to why do people fast? Apparently they wish to wash away their sins, indulge in a little soul nourishing and generally feel good about being involved in a spiritual activity of sorts. I
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Why don’t you play Golf? My friends ask me often, now that Achille’s tendon injury has put paid to my forays on the Squash and Tennis Courts. Having spent almost half a century in uniform, sports and physical activities are as essential as the morning cuppa or the morning newspaper. A day without any activity
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Odisha is the land of Bhagwan Jagannath and Sun temple of Konark, we are also reminded of the famous battle of Kalinga which transformed Ashoka the Great. It is the state of Biju Patnaik who was a national hero of not only India but also Indonesia, Odishi dance form, the birthplace of rashogulla (contested by
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Cats have not taken it kindly and an offended cat is a dangerous one. Shakespeare wrote “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”, I am sure he was not a cat person, else he would have known that you can’t afford to get on the wrong side of the feline species. Republicans are treading
Games We Played as Kids: Where was Boredom! All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, an adage which the colonial masters not only believed in but also practiced it. This is amply illustrated by the sports facilities in small towns, which were princely states in the pre-independence era. The resident military officer
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RaGa is miffed, or at least his coterie are; how dare Barack Obama call him names. After all it is ok for Indians to refer to him as Pappu, but a rank foreigner, he has no business to refer to him in such a derogatory manner. Indian classical music is pretty rich with its
The Trump(ets) of the world have heaved a sigh of relief after four years of having been blown non-stop, no wonder all that they produced these days was ” Vivekamunandan…” When they were queried on their misery, they responded tongue in cheek that “They were ‘biden’ their time”. The other instruments in the repertoire of
It was such a deflating moment, 10000 Indians were being targeted by Chinese Data Mining Agency, it had the Who’s who of India, the politicians, entertainers (Cricketers are no longer sportsmen, they are simply entertainers, after all they have mingled with the Hindi Films and Advertising agencies in such a seamless manner that they have
