During the early part of my career, an era when the wheel was just about starting to gain popularity, I came across a horror story of how ruthlessly companies behaved with their staff. Many a gutter water has flown through Mithi since then and the I have witnessed many more horror stories of various other kinds. But the story always comes back to ...

I have yet to get HD on my cable due to pure lethargy which stems from the perception that it doesn't really matter much in terms of viewing experience. Many readers may disagree with this perception but being a huge fan of Didi, I find their attitude 'petty' and have stood by my irrational beliefs firmly. Also as I am not going to ...

India has seen various forms of justice or injustice, depending on the way one wants to look at it, served in March. On one hand was the ban imposed on the Lankan players from their IPL team games played in Chennai. The reason given is on the one hand simple and on the other simply ridiculous. It seems the TN folk can't bear to watch the ...

The last time the Oz cricket team looked and behaved extremely pathetically was when Kim Hughes cried in front of a lot of journalists. The tactical masterstroke from Michael Clarke eclipses that feat. He has put the gauntlet down to the Indian team by one sweeping decision to make the score line of the series 4-0. If India doesn't win 4-0 ...

The ICC Women's World Cup starts today in Mumbai at 14:30 local time. A lot of promos are being done on the bradcasting channels and the event is touted as being equally important as the Men's World Cup or atleast the ICC would like us to believe that. I don't want to go into a deep analysis of various factors like prize money, the ...

Just the last weekend we played this cricket match against a client. And I was the de facto captain because I happen to be the senior most person around. Every one else ran around trying to make the game happen. They battled for the ground, got the nets arranged and practiced hard. But the final XI was chosen by me. It somehow felt that I was the ...

Today I decided to take a look at the dictionary meaning of the word 'cheat' on a dictionary website. Do believe me that it was not because my normally dormant conscience suddenly woke up to spur me into action to figure out if I am a 'cheater' or not. That kind of thing supposedly happened to Lance Armstrong a few years back in a ...

The first time I watched him in action was on the new year's day in 1989 playing for Mumbai against Baroda at the Dadoji Konddev Stadium in Thane. It was his first season of first class cricket but he was already famous for his world record partnership with Vinod Kambli. Most of the crowd at the stadium was there to catch a glimpse of the one ...

One of the few links that one can find between cricket and chess is that both words start with the letter C. Another one is that coaches use a lot of computer analysis to find the opponents' weaknesses. How much does it help in cricket is as open to debate as much as how much impact do acting abilities play on Katrina Kaif's success in ...

Spoiler alert - Don't read if you are planning to watch the movie  One was desperately looking for Sachin Tendulkar's name in the credit list of the latest Bond movie 'Skyfall'. The rationale was simple. The first half of the movie rotates entirely around Tendulkar's life story over the past 5-7 years. It narrates in ...