Is it just a silly cricket match?

I am an Indian cricket fan too, like the rest of the one billion plus Indians in this country and the numerous others around the world. There was a time when I used to keep a ball-by-ball account of every match India played anywhere in the world; copiously reading up on cricket statistics; pouring over [...]

The world is full of idiots…

The world is full of idiots, but the commercial is only partially true. The idiots are not on two legs, but also behind a steering wheel of a car. And the Mumbai-Pune Expressway is the one place where you can see them in abundance. The dangerous thing is that these idiots could endanger your life [...]

The ‘myriad hues’ of Holi

I was reading a Facebook status update by Ramesh Menon and it brought back memories of my days in college way back in the last 1970s. Let me ‘assure’ Mr Menon that even in those days there were hooligans who molested girls and misbehaved on the streets. I remember one Holi when we were having [...]

CSR redefined…

I’ve been called a cynic and a pessimist so very often that I’ve started to take it as a compliment. Maybe, the 24 years I spent in the hotel and media industries, respectively, made me realise how people could so easily fake friendliness. It feels good when a well-known film star puts his arm around [...]