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CHURUMURI POLL: Should India bid for Olympics?
Quick to parse and even quicker to praise, the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Delhi has seen the media do a 180-degree turn. Months of corruption, inefficiency and …
Citizen-Journalist quiz on Commonwealth Games
Citizen-Journalist E.R. RAMACHANDRAN is pleased to present the Commonwealth Games quiz. Please fill in and send us your entries before the due date mentioned below. If you miss the deadline, …
Just one question I’m dying to ask sadda M.S. Gill
When Abhinav Bindra became the first Indian to win an Olympic gold, he stood up and said: “I congratulate myself and every Indian.” When Saina Nehwal called on him, he …
Where there’s a Gill, there’s no way for our sport
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: I spotted the Ace Sports Specialist (ASS) at Gangothri Glades, answering questions from enthusiastic kids about the Davanagere lad, R. Vinay Kumar, who has just made it …
Will Shera roar when Kat plays her usual games?*
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: The Commonwealth Games (CWG) is scheduled to be held in New Delhi this year from October 3. If the bullock cart track dished out by Delhi district …
‘J’ Virus is just biological warfare to weaken BJP’
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: I met the Ace Political Expert (APE) after a long time. He was taking his morning walk in Cheluvamba Park. When we settled on one of the …
Dharwad Peda ain’t a peformance enhancing drug
In the wake of the row over whether Indian cricketers should allow their urine to be checked by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for Performance-Enhancing Drugs (PEDs), E.R. RAMACHANDRAN compiles …
Where were you when Fedex was serving an ace?
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Roger Federer and Andy Roddick played perhaps one of the greatest Wimbledon finals ever on Sunday. Federer, who had never broken Roddick’s service during the four-hour, five- …
Graduates of Indian Universities need not apply*
The new council of ministers of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has drawn attention for the number of alumni from St Stephen‘s College in it, the number of women …
CHURUMURI POLL: Should India tour Pakistan?
The Indian cricket team is scheduled to tour Pakistan from 6 January to 19 February, 2009, for five one-day internationals and three Test matches. But Union sports minister Manohar Singh …
Hopefully, he doesn’t forget which house to go to
Union sports minister M.S. Gill, 72, couldn’t remember the name of the guy who was standing next to Saina Nehwal, the young badminton Olympian who came to see him. But …
With sports ministers like this, god tussi great ho
PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: If the decision of the Congress party to field former chief election commissioner Manohar Singh Gill as a candidate for the Rajya Sabha in …
CHURUMURI POLL: Bigger than World Cup 1983?
If Singh is King, Abhinav Singh Bindra unquestionably is. In becoming the first Indian ever to win an individual gold medal at the Olympics in the 10 metre air rifle …