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Gayle Storm Hits Bangalore

26 Friday Apr 2013

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Chris Gayle, IPL, RCB, Twenty 20 cricket

I had the privilege recently of seeing history being made in front of my eyes. In an Indian Premier League ( IPL) cricket match, playing for the Royal Challengers Bangalore, the 33-year-old Jamaican, Christopher Henry Gayle  scored a century in just 30 balls. This was only one of the many records that he broke that evening. Continue reading →

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The Perils of Misinformation

20 Saturday Apr 2013

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Boston Bombings, Boston Marathon, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Sunil Tripathi, Twitter

In today’s fast moving world, a phenomenon which can and does overtake us from time to time is misinformation. We had a classic case recently when Sunil Tripathi, a student of Brown University (who by co-incidence has been missing for the last month) was named on the net to be one of the most wanted ” Boston Bombers” who had set off bombs at the end of the famous Boston Marathon earlier this week. This horrible incident had left three dead and over 180 injured.

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1984

12 Friday Apr 2013

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1984 Anti-Sikh Riots, genocide, H S Phoolka, Jagdish Tytler, Sikh massacre

No, I am not talking of George Orwell’s book of that name but of that fateful year in Indian history which saw the carnage the likes of which had never been since the partition of India in 1947.  Recent developments have aroused new interest in the gruesome events of ’84. I was surprised to find that many people in their 30s didn’t have a clue as to what happened then. Some thought it was about Sikh vs Hindu communal riots in the Punjab. It then struck me that an entire generation has grown up not knowing what transpired in Delhi, the capital of India, resulting in the massacre of 3000 or more Sikhs by mobs of thugs. Continue reading →

The Controversial IPL, Welcome back!

05 Friday Apr 2013

Posted by Prem Rao in Cricket, Sports

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IPL, IPL6

The IPL is back again. As they say on TV these days, “Welcome back!” The Indian Premier League (IPL) comes with its attendant share of controversies. What is dubbed as being amongst the richest, if not THE richest cricket tournament of its kind in the world, has just begun its sixth season. I was crazy about the IPL in the initial years and a huge fan of the Royal Challengers Bangalore. Continue reading →

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