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Should M.S. Dhoni be endorsing liquor products?
Long years ago, shortly after India had won the World Cup for the first time, Kapil Dev promoted soft drinks. “Lucky consumers” who landed the right kind of bottle crowns …
CHURUMURI POLL: BDA sites for Dhoni & Co?
Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa‘s alacrity in announcing the allotment of 50’x80’ house sites to each member of the World Cup winning cricket team is not surprising—nor is the tepid …
Yesterday once again, so you know how it felt
BELLUR RAMAKRISHNA forwards a collage of today’s newspaper from heralding India’s magnificent triumph in the 2011 World Cup (click on the image for a larger view). You can see an …
‘The weight of 1.2 billion expectations, yeah?’
The Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara is one of the more studious cricketers going around. The “well-heeled son of a lawyer” lists Salman Rushdie‘s Midnight’s Children as his favourite book …
15 lessons Mahendra Singh can give Manmohan
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Manmohan Singh are leaders in their chosen areas of work. While one is just a captain of the cricket team and the other …
CHURUMURI POLL: Semifinal bigger than final?
It is just the semi-finals of the cricket World Cup, but India’s response to its last-four meeting with Pakistan at Mohali on March 30 shows a supposed superpower’s silly Pakistan …
Is India the worst behaved team of World Cup?
ARVIND SWAMINATHAN writes from Madras: India’s loss to South Africa in Nagpur on Saturday didn’t bug me one bit. The hosts’ implosion after a great start, and the Proteas’ last-over …
CHURUMURI POLL: South Indians in World Cup?
The Indian team for the 2011 cricket World Cup has exactly one South Indian in it, offspinner Ravichandran Ashwin from Madras. Cut to 2009. The team for the Twenty20 World …
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 …