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What Dravid should have mentioned in that speech 17 Dec 2011 | 12:00 am
Former Indian captain Rahul Dravid delivered the Bradman memorial speech in Australia yesterday. For those coming in late, Bradman was an Aussie soldier who died in Gallipoli while fighting for Kemal ...
Steve Inskeep - Instant City 11 Nov 2011 | 07:35 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE ‘Instant City, Life and death in Karachi’ is a non-fiction work by Steve Inskeep, the host of NPR’s All Things Considered. It offers great insigh...
Fire in Babylon - a review 3 Nov 2011 | 10:57 am
I liked 'Fire in Babylon', the documentary on the great West Indian cricket team of the 1980s. It seems to have been made for an audience that comprises of cricket lovers from generations that did not...
Friday doggerel: For he is a very sad man 19 Sep 2009 | 05:58 am
Sing to the tune of "For he is an Englishman" - Gilbert and Sullivan, HMS Pinafore. The doggerel is based on the current Shashi Tharoor-Twitter brouhaha. For the humour impaired, this is supposed to b...
Origin of Nike's "Just Do It" 3 Sep 2009 | 09:08 am
Morbid quiz fact of the day: Nike's slogan "Just do it" comes from murderer Gary Gilmore's statement "Let's do it" to the firing squad that executed him. Wow. Here's the creator Dan Wieden talking abo...
Quiz question. Fill in the blanks (Yeats poem, famous film) 3 Feb 2009 | 07:18 pm
Fill in the 5 blanks. Film related hint below the poem Sailing to Byzantium - William Butler Yeats THAT is __ _____ ____ _____ ____. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying...
Interview with Danny Boyle 13 Dec 2008 | 06:08 pm
Interesting interview with Danny Boyle, the director of Slumdog Millionaire: AVC: Were there places it was difficult to get permission to film? DB: There's lots of things that can be solved with cas...
My ideal job - Women's beach volleyball referee 21 Aug 2008 | 12:18 pm
My wife and I have been having this ongoing argument about the Olympics. She considers beach volleyball sexist since the men get to wear shorts and tank tops, while the women wear almost nothing. [My ...
Quiz Question: Name the English equivalent 2 Jul 2008 | 04:35 am
Fill in the Blanks: (cut and pasted from Wikipedia) Fulano, Zutano y Mengano — in Spanish Hinz und Kunz — in German Jan en Alleman — in Dutch Tizio, Caio, Sempronio, Mevio, Filano e Calpurnio — in...
Nissim Ezekiel: Irani Restaurant Instructions 27 Oct 2007 | 05:22 am
Happy Friday folks! Here's a nice Nissim Ezekiel poem for your enjoyment: IRANI RESTAURANT INSTRUCTIONS* Please Do not spit Do not sit more Pay promptly, time is valuable Do not write letter without...
