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Obituary - Asok (19** - 2007)

By Anantha ⋅ December 7, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments

Looks like you are new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Asok (age unknown), the world’s most famous desi intern and telekinetic IIT alum, died today. Details of the sad death are yet to be known. Sources say that the presence of a curious Grim Reaper as his [...]

Spirit of Halloween - desi ishtyle

By Anantha ⋅ October 31, 2007 ⋅ 9 comments

One Halloween, a few summers ago, on an unusually balmy night, one decided to adopt the best spirit of Halloween that one could and dress up as a M.i.D (Man in Dhoti, if you are asking!) for the best Halloween street party in the world.
Sadly, no one understood! *sigh*
But surely a lot of you feel [...]

Virtual Reality Travel - Desi ishtyle!

By Anantha ⋅ October 2, 2007 ⋅ 4 comments

In the last couple of years, a slew of budget airlines have cropped up in India. But not every Indian can experience the joys of air travel. It never has been the case. For example, I lost my air travel virginity (for the record, I am not a member of the “Mile High Club” yet) [...]

Indian GP venue decision soon?

By Anantha ⋅ September 9, 2007 ⋅ 3 comments

It is official. Alonso and Hamilton have just completed a McLaren 1,2 at Monza. But the talking point in the Indian context is that the decision on the venue for the Indian GP is expected in a week.
This piece of news is probably a week old, but sadly slipped under the UD radar. But [...]

Bollywood gets Hitched….

By Anantha ⋅ August 9, 2007 ⋅ 5 comments

… and may be slapped with a $30 million law suit!
Prem is a Love Guru who solves out love problems of everyone. He meets Bhaskar Diwakar Chaudhary who comes to Prem for help in his love life. Bhaskar loves his Boss Priya Jaisingh but unable to express his love to her as she [...]

Spent bullets in a new gun?

By Anantha ⋅ July 26, 2007 ⋅ One comment

A few months ago, I had posted about the breakaway Indian Cricket League, proposed by Zee TV head honcho Subash Chandra and the ramifications it would have on cricket as we know it. At that point, it was just that, an announcement.
Is Subhash Chandra trying to do a Packer? Is this independent cricket league [...]

TOW the SAJA convention ‘07

By Anantha ⋅ July 22, 2007 ⋅ 5 comments

It is almost August. Summer is approaching its home stretch. People are having parties celebrating their favorite boy wizard and India’s cricket team is playing in England. As for me, I am spending most of my waking hours, thinking about my day job in one way or the other. But I do manage to have [...]

The final countdown…

By Anantha ⋅ April 28, 2007 ⋅ 11 comments

47 days later, it all comes down to one game. Two teams, one that has steamrolled every single barrier in front of them and the other that while not being as spectacular as the other, has come out with a professional performance every single time. Australia has been the behemoth that everybody loves to [...]

New Zealand vs Sri Lanka - A Preview

By Anantha ⋅ April 24, 2007 ⋅ 4 comments

Have I ever told you that this World Cup is the most evenly matched tournament in its 30 year history? Oh I did? Let me tell you again. This World Cup is the most evenly matched tournament in the 30 year history of the tournament. And this first semi final match is no exception. Man [...]

I told you so!

By Anantha ⋅ April 23, 2007 ⋅ One comment

It has been so long since I posted here that I almost forgot why I had a login and password here on Uber Desi. These past couple of weeks, every day I used the login and stared blankly, not knowing what I was doing there. But this morning, it all changed. Well, it was when [...]

A breakaway Indian domestic cricket league from Zee?

By Anantha ⋅ April 3, 2007 ⋅ 7 comments

Is Subhash Chandra trying to do a Packer? Is this independent cricket league what India needs?
Earlier today a Cricinfo piece by Sambit Bal called for something similar - A revolution, if you please. And once this news broke, Cricinfo’s executive editor, Jayaditya Gupta weighed in with his thoughts on the scenario and tells us [...]

Looking at the Super 8s and beyond…

By Anantha ⋅ March 31, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments

The cricket world cup has been on for two weeks now and it has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. The death of Bob Woolmer has caused a cloud to hang over this tournament. Fan (and commercial) favourites India have crashed out of the tournament and even the home team has not [...]

TOW The Idiot Fan

By Anantha ⋅ March 30, 2007 ⋅ One comment

I hope the Trinis keep you too, you idiot! And the same wish goes out vis-a-vis that other idiot who held up that banner that read “Last warning to Team India. Reach Barbados or stay forever in Trinidad.” during the match against Bermuda.
Note to readers: Someone find the picture of the second idiot for [...]

India vs Srilanka and the group of death…

By Anantha ⋅ March 22, 2007 ⋅ 7 comments

It has been a tumultuous week at the World Cup. Whatever euphoria that the non partisan cricket fan felt after the twin upsets of last Saturday soon vanished the next day as news of Bob Woolmer’s death filtered in.
Since then it has been a week full of intrigue mostly. Everybody and their pet dog have [...]

Cricket’s most momentous day - The St. Patrick’s Day massacres

By Anantha ⋅ March 17, 2007 ⋅ 15 comments

It has been perhaps the most momentous day in cricket history. Never in the history of cricket has so much been done by the someone so unheralded and on the same day. Two former World champions have been emphatically beaten on the same day by teams that were written off by many (including this blogger) [...]

The carnival begins - part deux

By Anantha ⋅ March 13, 2007 ⋅ 4 comments

Yesterday we looked at the league phase and the Super Eights. Based on the obvious shortcomings that most of these teams have, we eliminated everyone except the five best teams. Four of these five will play in the semi finals. The beauty of this particular World Cup is that each of these five teams can [...]

The carnival begins…

By Anantha ⋅ March 13, 2007 ⋅ 8 comments

So the big day dawns tomorrow – start of a the longest World Cup so far - 54 games, 16 teams and perhaps the closest tournament in the 30 year history of the game. All of which makes it difficult for someone as lazy as yours truly to do any justice to the tournament while [...]

Confessional first post….

By Anantha ⋅ March 9, 2007 ⋅ 9 comments

Thanks for the killer intro, guys! But I have a confession to make. I have never played organized cricket. Though I trained for it, I could never make my school team and even if I had tried, I would have never made my college team either. And when we formed a team to play in [...]

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