22nd September 2022, Rajiv Gandhi Stadium, Dehradun It had already been 9 years since he had retired but the stadiums had not forgotten. In ...

13th January 2008, Kalyani For certain places, there will always remain a special regard. These are not once-in-a-lifetime bucket list desti...

Before heading out to South Korea , I had made cursory attempts to familiarize myself with the Korean wave of pop-culture, Hallyu . I had be...

  Jolyon Wagg - A frequently encountered side-character in the Tintin Series by Herge Of all the professions in the world, the enthusiasm of...

  This is interesting.  I swear I don't know who Kriti Arora is and what her Orkut profile looks like but the Blogger team seems to hav...

Sunday, 8 th August 2021 Dear Ma, I write this to you in mild disbelief. I half expect to walk into you tidying up the next room. That ...

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" Luna mein hain no tension -trumpety music- Chalane mein hain no tension -trumpety music- Maintenance mein no more tension ...

By the time I was old enough to follow West Indies cricket, it had already passed its golden age. At that stage, though seriously comp...

You won't find me singing praises of the "simple" days of childhood anytime soon. I remember, in far too much detail, that...

It was only a month into our first semester of engineering, at the peak of the collective ‘Seniors must be obeyed at all costs’ spell ...

My trip to the Olpadwala Community Hall on Chowringhee today was to learn more about one particular Indian community which has long in...

For we lived for the rains. Not that cricket on the terrace was not fun any other time of the year but the monsoon twist was its ultimat...

***This is an accidental repeat post :P. Since a 100 odd people have re-read it, I'll let it be*** - [Not a Republic Day post th...

Sometime in the late 1990s, in a narrow lane near Silver Sea Chinese restaurant, Bharuch, Gujarat - Music Sir (as we called Nitin ...