Mumbai Lessons - 7
Scene: Delivery boy from Paramesh Suresh Stores (of this post fame) arrives to give me the groceries I ordered a few minutes backMe: Kitna ho gaya?DB: Do sau ikyaasiMe: (poor ginti skills, looking at bill) Acha, 281DB: HaanjiMe: (taking out money to pay) Do sau ekyaasi... VVS Laxman... Yaad hai?DB: (eyes light up) Haan sir! Calcutta mein, na? Australia...Me: Haan! Do hazaar ek mein... Kya innings tha, kya match tha...* DB and me both look into the air wistful

MY SACHIN TENDULKARS
“Oh what a shot, all the way for six! What – a –player! Sachin Ten-dulkar!”- Tony Greig, commentating for Star Sports, India v Australia, 22 April 1998, SharjahIt was May, Bahrain. I had just finished Math tuition, when Appa picked me up and said we were going to see a cricket match. I tried to act a little interested. You see, for almost 15 years, I shunned cricket like most people would shun bread with fungus. However, a chance viewing of Navjot Sidhu's double century and one of a whirlwind Saurav Ganguly innings, an arti

When Tendulkar and Sidhu decided to start programming
After a fairly successful career revolving around destroying bowlers' careers, particularly that of Michael Kasprowicz (remember this?), Sachin Tendulkar (an iconic Indian cricket player, for the benefit of the Norwegian audience this blog has, according to Google Analytics) decided to take up a less homicidal vocation - computer programming (yes, somewhere, deep down within every Indian...).And who would assist him in this new career path, but someone who was prematurely evicted from his post-cricket vocation - the walking dictionary-cum-book of idioms-cum-book of insults-cum-Darwin

MOHANLAL'S IPL TEAM
Okay, so sue me. I succumbed to my favourite activity these days - compiling the best of trending topics on Twitter.This time, it was amidst rumours that Malayalam superstar Mohanlal was buying an IPL team from Kerala. Well, this was one of the longest-trending topics from our little group. Sample the following from the #mohanlalsIPLteam topic which sadly never became a trending topic despite our best

The best of Obama's Nobel Prize Victory
It shouldn't come as a surprise that the last three posts I wrote were 'best of' series based on some gems I saw on Twitter.Well, the latest uproar was when American President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. Surely, you didn't expect the Twitterati to keep quiet about that one, did you?Apart from the 'he won the award because he got rid of George Bush' jokes which eventually resulted in 'George Bush' becoming a trending topic on Twitter (!), my own timeline had some brilliant, brilliant entries.Sample the following, and follow them! :-D@mojorojo: Obama crushed at news of winning Nobel Peace Prize. He thought they'd called to give him a