Archive for: August, 2009

Catching Up With Maharaj in London

Catching Up With Maharaj in London

By Boria Majumdar
It has been a very interesting month and a half for Sourav Ganguly. Getting initiated into doing commentary at the recently concluded T-20 world cup, honored with an honorary fellowship at the University of Central Lancashire for his contribution to world/Indian cricket and then speaking at the ICC Centenary Conference at Oxford while [...]

Clive Lloyd Chats Up To THE INDIAN

Clive Lloyd Chats Up To THE INDIAN

By Boria Majumdar
‘I Admire Gilchrist And Lara For Walking If They Nick The Ball’

Clive Lloyd, cricket legend, Chairman of the ICC Cricket Committee and a participant at the ICC Centenary Conference at Oxford speaks to BORIA MAJUMDAR about his amazing cricketing journey

Can you think back through your career and tell us about [...]

Deepavali at the Parliament House of NSW

Deepavali at the Parliament House of NSW

Deepavali, is the most widely celebrated festival of the people of the Indian sub-continental heritage. Deepavali means rows of lights. It is the festival symbolising dispelling of darkness, myths and perceptions with knowledge represented by light. Darkness represents ignorance and light is a metaphor for knowledge. Therefore, lighting a lamp represents the destruction [...]

Munna Bhai Turns Fifty

Munna Bhai Turns Fifty

Sharmistha Gooptu
Recently Sanjay Dutt, the big bad boy of Bollywood turned fifty. The last year or so was eventful for him, when he tried to make a foray into politics, failed but finally got rid of the tag of ‘terrorist’, and when he became irreconcilably estranged from his family, mainly over his marriage to girlfriend [...]

Celebrating Independence: A Different Perspective

Celebrating Independence: A Different Perspective

By Aditi Simlai Tiwari
It has been 10 years since Operation Vijay. The Kargil conflict that literally brought war to the living rooms of India is long over, and for most of the people of the country long forgotten.
But today the guns are silent on the beautiful slopes of Kargil. The calmness though is superficial. The [...]

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