An exit strategy is chugging into view, but the US will need to embrace its softer side before it can get on board Lenny Small, the physically imposing and mentally feeble character in John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men,” likes to play with soft, vulnerable things like bunny rabbits. When a young woman allows […]
Controversial Umpire Darrell Hair Returns to Cricket
Darrell Hair, the controversial Australian umpire, after a brief interregnum, returns back to the international umpiring. Darrell Hair’s controversial test umpiring during the famous Oval cricket test that took place between England and Pakistan, in the year 2006, led to the first ever ‘win by default’ by the England team. It was Darrell Hair who […]
Indian Hockey sinks to rock bottom
While Cricket in India has been steadily growing and getting popularised both in the shorter version and longer version of the game, Hockey, the India’s National game has been steadily declining, thanks to the step-motherly treatment meted out by our government to our own hockey players.In the recently concluded qualifying rounds held in the south American country, Chile, […]
Crusaders of Live Music
The Stone, one of New York’s newest avant-garde clubs, stands on an unmarked street corner in Alphabet City. Besides a finely printed name by the handle of the outside door, only the sounds of a vibrating bass string and brushes spinning across a drum head give the venue’s existence away to a passerby. No food […]
Tuning the National Theme
Last week I was reading the business magazine, Money Today; it had summed up the year 2007. The columnist Dipen Sheth said that in the year gone by, you would have made a lot of money if you had invested in the market in tune with the national theme. He went on to say that […]
“Marion Jones returned her haul of Olympic Medals !!”
Marion Jones was the golden girl of US athletics and five gold medals winner in 100 meters and in a number of other events in a Olympic games held at Sydney, Australia.She became famous overnight and of course had looks too to the envy of others.But behind it there were some rumours.The steroid-use scandal that […]