At last after all the futile attempts, somehow I managed to push my friends into the theaters with this one. I got the tickets in INOX, and in fact we reached there way to early. The initial SALT trailer made my friends say ‘WOW’ but neither did it set the tone nor did it dampen [...]
Pakistani cricket star Shoaib Malik and India’s top female tennis player Sania Mirza plan to wed in a unique union bridging the two nations’ bitter sporting and political divide.
“My wedding is going to be the biggest day of my life,” Mirza said in a statement from her home town of Hyderabad, where she is recovering [...]
Sourav Ganguly led from the front with a blazing 54-ball 88 as a resurgent Kolkata Knight Riders bulldozed a hapless Deccan Chargers by 24 runs in their return-leg Indian Premier League match here today.
Ganguly blasted nine fours and five sixes and added 78 runs for the fourth wicket with David Hussey to take the Kolkata [...]
MS Dhoni perhaps can’t blame his bowlers for almost losing the match they had in their pockets. He trimmed down the attack to its bare minimum strength — he went into the match with just three regular bowlers and without a specialist spinner — but the bowlers just about held their own to script a [...]
Rather surprisingly, perhaps, it isn’t: England lost 11 successive one-day internationals to various opponents in 2000 and 2001. It’s not even England’s worst run against Australia - between February 1999 and March 2003 Australia won 11 successive ODIs against England. That finished a sequence of 15 matches between the two, of which Australia won 14 [...]
It’s not unlike those fighters v boxers debates that have divided readers of The Ring for decades. This is the era of the batsman as street fighter, as personified by Sehwag and MS Dhoni. The stakes dictate it. Garry Sobers was Muhammad Ali and Viv Richards was Sugar Ray Leonard: violence as dance. In the [...]
When I was granted ‘free time’ by the heavens recently, I started exploring many things. In the process, I got addicted to the mahjong game in the Vista OS (Yes! I know boring, but who’s talking to you?). I know this is a temporary addiction, but the reason why it happened is not because mahjong [...]
“Ghost in the shell” (GITS) is a popular anime, and is said to have inspired many movies like The Matrix. GITS first came out as comics (manga). Then came out the popular movie, which had a very different, and a more sobre, serious flavour to it than the comics. It was very different from the [...]
Biggest cat loves retailing. So he is taking time to share knowledge about a concept in retailing called Off-price merchandise and off-price retailing.
OFF-PRICE MERCHANDISE:
At retail, goods, often carrying status or premium labels, offered at lower than “regular” prices. This merchandise, which is often the manufacturer’s surplus in the form of end-of-season liquidations, is in perfect [...]
Raja Ravi Varma (1848 - 1906) was a great artist who brought Indian painting to the attention of the world. His magnificent paintings shine still in their undying glory. There is no doubt that they will continue to do so in the coming centuries, triumphing over the rigorous test of time. Ravi Varma added a [...]
