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The New Opium of the Masses

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“World Cup provides Momentary Distraction to Indians” This was the headline of the New York Times on Sunday, 3rd April 2011- morning after India won the Cricket World Cup. No, no…wait…don’t exile me from my country just yet! I am happy, excited (?), glad, India won the World Cup. I watched the match, I cheered, [...]

Forlan In Kolkata: New Hopes For Indian Football?

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Watched Mohunbagan play the final match of a football reality show. Long time since I last watched a Calcutta club football match. But today’s special match had a special guest – the Golden Ball winner Uruguayan star Diego Forlan as the mentor of the other side! Mohunbagan won (2-0) as expected in the 70-minute match. [...]

World Cup Drama Continues in Spain-Paraguay Match

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Like the other quarterfinals of this World Cup, the Spain – Paraguay clash was in no way short of drama! With both teams unable to convert opportunities into goals, things turned interesting in the 57th minute when Cardozo was pulled down by Pique. What a relief it was for the Spanish when Casillas found Cardozo’s [...]

Who Will Stop This Germany!

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The Germans continued to triumph putting an end to the World Cup run of Maradona’s boys with a resounding victory of 4-0.

What Was Ghana Thinking?

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Ghana fails to make history by missing the penalty kick in the 120th minute of the most sensational match of the World Cup so far.

Germany vs England: Great Memories!

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I’ll remember the Germany England pre-quarter final match not just because it fell on my birthday and I, in a mood to celebrate with friends, got to watch the match on the LCD displays in Sartaj, one of the well-known eateries in Siliguri, but for the fact that it was truly an enjoyable action-packed match with the Germans dominating in every department and the Brits getting a well-deserved hammering.

IPL-Men in auction

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It’s time for the second season of Indian Premier League (IPL) to start and yesterday only we could see  players round the world getting auctioned like vintages. Well someone rightly said ‘Yeh India ki Cricket hai’. And why not, if  a month or two can fetch a million or two dollars along with future contracts [...]

EDEN GARDEN:THE DEBACLE

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Well The Kolkata Knight Riders may have really made it to the goal on Sunday evening, but speaking in SRK’s words its all Insha Allah ashirwad u may call… as though the exuberant crowd with all their support, along with SRK n Bollywood, packs of celebrities n last but not the least the sultry cheer [...]

BCCI SAYS NO TO RAWALPINDI EXPRESS

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Day after the PCB (Pakistan cricket Board) had put a ban on Shoaib Akhtar and his cricketing career almost came to a halt for next 5 years, the BCCI (Board of Cricket Control of India) put water on the last hope of the Rawalpindi Express of continuing cricket through the IPL starting this April. It [...]

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SANIA MIRZA in SPRITE AD

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Sania Mirza looking gorgeous in Sprite ad.