I joined Grindlays Bank (which in Delhi our hard-core Punjabi security guard would pronounce as Grand-Lay Baank with patriotic fervor on the telephone ) as a Management Trainee in the mid-1980s. We were put up at The President hotel, Mumbai for a comprehensive course in banking operations (a three-week paid holiday). Some of my studious… [Read more…]
May 19, 2010
WHAT A START? MATCH-FIXING TAKES GUARD. It was a sultry hot summer evening of April when we landed in Dhaka, the entire contingent of the new born cricket portal CricketNext.com. As the Indian Airlines flight descended in awkward jerks from a cloudless sky, I reminisced with a peculiar sense of disbelief that fateful afternoon at… [Read more…]
May 8, 2010
Year: 2004 Place: Nagpur Occasion: Third Test match between Australia and India Series Status: ( 4 Test series) : India trailing 0 – 1 It was a hugely controversial Test match that several believe was to change erstwhile skipper Sourav Ganguly’s professional career forever. Give him a tag of a whimpering loser, a spoilt brat… [Read more…]
May 6, 2010
(As Published in The Sunday Pioneer on Sunday, May 2nd 2010) The IPL scam is symbolic of a larger, deeper, terminal enervation of India, feels Sanjay Jha as he pitches for a drastic overhaul to rejuvenate the tarnished brand We are a maverick freakish nation, forever skating on thin ice, circumspectly maneuvring Maoism one day,… [Read more…]
May 6, 2010
The new IPL Commissioner Chirayu Amin has so far at least been a pleasant surprise to me .For two reasons. Firstly , because I had never heard of him before and better still because he does not seem to try hard to get heard. Its what we perhaps needed after the I Me Myself Me-Only… [Read more…]
April 20, 2010
It may be hugely difficult but we must take a momentary pause from the interminable madness of the repugnant IPL-Lalit Modi mess and its vicious ugly confrontation with Congressman Shashi Tharoor to briefly reflect on an event simultaneously playing out, which we may be cursorily overlooking; just why is the franchise owners of Kings XI… [Read more…]
April 15, 2010
It was bound to happen, the inevitable repercussion of mounting superciliousness and power-obsession combined in a toxic tonic. The IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi has, as is his customary practise, indulged in another provocative transgression this time dragging down the equally controversial and high profile Congressman MOS for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor. The murky money-making machinery… [Read more…]
February 23, 2010
MS Dhoni it seems perpetrated the most horrendous, barbaric and grizzly crime since August 15 1947 against his own beloved country when India mercilessly thumped South Africa in Eden Gardens, Kolkata to joyfully avenge it’s equally mortifying defeat in Nagpur in the first Test just a few days earlier. At the time of writing though,… [Read more…]
November 17, 2009
1999. It was a decade since his debut in international cricket. He had already become a global phenomenon. India had begun worshipping their national idol with spectacular unanimity — a rare feat by itself. The World Cup tournament was underway, the biggest cricket show on earth. There was mounting euphoria and breathless anticipation all around… [Read more…]
October 12, 2009
Before we hang the Men in Blue by their cropped locks (long curls and pony-tails seem passé for India’s young brigade) first, the fundamental flaw. And second, how TV ratings and the Big Boss attitude of BCCI and it’s incestuous sponsors ensured India’s abbreviated presence in the ICC Champions Trophy 2009. The ICC Champions Trophy… [Read more…]
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