tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60106762012-01-29T16:32:54.562-08:00The kalpataruBut Seriouslykalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.comBlogger1151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-34150668572506278242012-01-23T21:34:00.000-08:002012-01-23T22:00:28.211-08:00Finished reading Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. A novella inspired by the author's own struggles during the Great Depression, the story is about two men looking for work in California. George is ambitious, quick witted and friend-cum-mentor to Lennie, who is immensely strong but mentally challenged. After being forced to flee their previous workplace due to a misdemeanor by Lennie, they start work kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-63736564315139772872009-11-27T18:57:00.000-08:002009-11-27T19:12:50.784-08:00The thing which hits you first when you land in Seoul's Incheon airport is the size..the sheer vastness of it. I have seen other gargantuan's like Amsterdam's Schipol airport, Singapore's Changi airport, and Dubai's International Airport, but somehow Incheon seems to beat them.Sign of a civilization lies in it's toilets - as somebody (dunno who..has just stuck to my grey cells)..and if that iskalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-28130644505602412512009-11-27T18:24:00.000-08:002009-11-27T18:26:39.547-08:00Awesome Adkalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-66641462333262991242009-04-21T10:51:00.000-07:002009-04-21T10:57:02.180-07:00Idling at Jungle Bells @ Tydakalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-24480316603136895062009-04-21T10:20:00.000-07:002009-04-21T10:47:39.328-07:00Sunday evening, saw me at Taj Banjara participating in the Brand Equity Quiz 2009. This was the sixth time I was taking part, but unfortunately I maintained my alternate performance. We seem to do well in every other year, and this time we were eliminated in the written round, falling short by 2 marks.But, this year's round was very surprising. Derek was on his best behaviour, and chose a kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-28475071736468354772008-01-22T23:46:00.000-08:002008-01-22T23:50:20.577-08:00...and I am back. Had fallen off the blogging bandwagon since last one year. One of my resolutions for 2008 has been to be more consistent in the blog sphere. One of the impediments is that blogger is blocked in our office....so will be doing most of the blogging from home.Cheer!kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1160973217663567612006-10-15T21:27:00.000-07:002006-10-15T21:33:38.096-07:00The Departed.Watched Scorcese's The Departed at Planet Hollywood with Ritesh.I had seen the original version, "Infernal Affairs" sometime back, and feel that Scorcese has kept the pace of the original movie intact, though he does bow to sentimental concerns and bumps off the gangster in the end.Jack Nicholson's character has far more screen time compared to his predecessor, but I guess if you kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1160744505864907242006-10-13T06:00:00.000-07:002006-10-13T06:01:46.886-07:00Aah ..aaj Friday the Thirteenth hai..Jason bhai ka din hai.. am sure all the neckin couples in various states of undress across all the backwaters of Milwaukee, the shores of Ontario, the dank forests cabins of California are quaking in their boots or rather ..Hawaii chappals.Talking of superstitions, if you think Indians are superstitious, then wait till ya see the Indonesians. They are so kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1160743752247488962006-10-13T05:30:00.000-07:002006-10-13T05:49:12.530-07:00Faith RestoredThis city is full of traffic jams, absolutley choc-a-bloc. I took a Blue Bird, from Gatot Subroto to go to Menara Kadin, about 3 km away. At 1.00pm in the afternoon, when you would expect all the good denizens of this city to be taking a siesta, it took me full thirty-five minutes. But atleast there's no honking. Weird, in my four months here, have seen so many traffic jams, butkalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1160740900894148852006-10-13T04:48:00.000-07:002006-10-13T05:01:40.906-07:00Addicted to Starbucks.First time I became aware of Starbucks was while watching a Meg Ryan flick, in which she picks up a coffee on the way to office. While in US , I never tried it, coz I am not such a big coffee drinker.But after coming here, and being in the company of some hard core coffee drinkers, the caffeine has hit me. It has become a daily pilgrimage, going to Starbucks. Am not kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1158673707715892442006-09-19T06:38:00.000-07:002006-09-19T06:48:27.716-07:00More on K800iAajkal, my phone is all over the telly, with Hantuchova and Inanova leeping over building , smashing a tennis ball. It has "Girl on my mind" by Black Keys, playing on the background. Smashing ad for a Smashing Phone.kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1158672549556771742006-09-19T06:28:00.000-07:002006-09-19T06:36:32.046-07:00My New PhoneIt's been 1 month, since I bought the K800i. Have absolutely fallen in love with it. It has a great music player, and software which even plays Real Player files. There's a radio which as of now, I am not able to utilize, rather understand, coz all the local channels seem to be in Bahasa, with little tidbits of angrezi. Can't wait to try out Radio Mirchi on it. There's the super 3.2 kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1157732021999556502006-09-08T08:55:00.000-07:002006-09-08T09:13:42.033-07:00Movie Mania in JakartaHave been trying to keep up my with my movie passion in Jakarta. There's not much on the Bollywoodmenu, but with no blame to the theater's here. With so much crap being produced in Bollywood, one cant do much.With the itch to watch Hindi movies always omnipresent, we head off to the theatres, even to suffer through sugary stuff like Krissh and the regurtitant Aap Ki Khatirkalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1157637698519133062006-09-07T06:59:00.000-07:002006-09-07T07:01:38.540-07:00Long time since i posted somethng. Have it all on notepad, will be updating this weeknd Meanwhile added a link to my frnd and colleague, Jerzy's blog. BTW, it's in Bahasa, so best of luck deciphering it!kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1148848860059899192006-05-28T13:39:00.000-07:002006-05-28T13:41:00.076-07:00Gangster!The movie allegedly based on Abu Salem's life, is a avoidable flick. I generally avoid watching movies which have Hashmi in it, but due to paucity of movies , decided to go for it. The story line is about a girl drinking away her worries in South Korea, coz she can't get over her past traumas. Enter our knight in shining armour, Mr Hashmi, who fiegns friendship to the girl, when any kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1143390955753768002006-03-26T08:30:00.000-08:002006-03-26T08:35:55.763-08:00Kamal hi KamalAchantha Sharath Kamal, created history today, becoming the first Indian to win the Commonwealth TT gold Medal in the singles competition. the paddler hailing from Andhra Pradesh held his nerve to beat aussie William Henzell in front of his home crowd in a tense encounter which went the distance of 7 games. With India winning two gold medals in the mens competition and 1 bronze in kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1143356126450976812006-03-25T22:51:00.000-08:002006-03-25T22:55:26.460-08:00Exporting SoftwareAfter cars, electronics, textiles, it's Korean soap dramas which are making waves in the USA. Hmm..wonder how americans will take to Kyonki saas bhi Kabhi bahu thi.kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1143299919522751962006-03-25T06:48:00.000-08:002006-03-25T07:18:39.576-08:00Being CyrusThis made-for-multiplexes flick , by newbie Homi Adjania, is a welcome movie, not your regular run of the mill stuff. Its refreshing in its candor, and does not pussyfoot around in the storyline.Things move along crisply, and thankfully there are very few wasted, unwanted scenes. The acting performances are good, especially from Saif, Simone and Boman. I did feel Dimple overacts a bit.kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1142788095608250552006-03-19T08:54:00.000-08:002006-03-19T09:08:15.650-08:00Nevil Shute DebutHave been meaning to read a Nevil Shute book for a long time. Having heard about the author a lot from my cousins and other relatives, I had been keeping a eye out for Shute's work. The two big bookstores in Hyderabad, Odyssey and Walden's don't stalk Shute, and it was at Frankfurt, the second hand store, that I finally got hold of the author's work. The Chequer Board is a kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1141848309176818362006-03-08T11:56:00.000-08:002006-03-08T12:05:09.186-08:00Today participated in the Brand Equity Hyderabad Round. Teamed up with my colleague Aviroop Ghosh. Convergys sent in two more teams. Quiz was held in the Taj Krishna Hotel. The prelims started off with a guy from Derek O Brien's team shooting out the Q's. Was quite surprised to see Derek not conducting the prelims, Is he getting too mighty for his boots? His future conduct in the quiz was just kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1141723663998248902006-03-07T01:27:00.000-08:002006-03-07T01:27:44.010-08:00Train and Bus Journeys never lend themselves to "quality" readings for me, I always prefer some page-turner ,a guy saves the world, a guy and a gal save the world, a team of guys and gals save the world, type of reading. In this genre, one of my favorite authors is Jon Land(http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7015/). The first Jon Land book I read was the Lucifer Directive (http://kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1141358809669865962006-03-02T20:00:00.000-08:002006-03-02T20:06:49.670-08:00Hopefully when Bush and co visit Hyd, we wont get as many traffic snarls as we heard about in Delhi. Thankfully he would be taking the aerial route instead of the roads. Anyway the roads didn't warrant a freshening up , what with all the polishing done before Jan's AICC meet.The CM is finding it tough to meet one-to-one with Dubya, a definite notch in the belt for Naidu, who managed to have a kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1141358399915195792006-03-02T19:56:00.000-08:002006-03-02T19:59:59.926-08:00I think all failed relationships go through similar stages: hurt, then anger, then desperation, reconcilement, then neutrality and indifference.kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1140843530546032912006-02-24T20:51:00.000-08:002006-02-24T20:58:50.560-08:00Finished Reading "Q & A", by diplomat turned author Vikas Swarup. The book is a snappy, no-holds-barred , rollercoaster read, about a waiter named, Ram Mohommad Thomas, who is the winner of a billion buck prize in a Quiz show, a 'la KBC. The story is told in flashbacks, as Ram tells his story to a journalist, about how a happy and not-so-happy set of events in his life enabled him to answer kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1140809307568664992006-02-24T11:16:00.000-08:002006-02-24T11:28:27.600-08:00Saw a couple of movies over the week. "Paths of Glory" starring Kirk Douglas, baap of Michael D. A Stanley Kubrick classic, it depicts the duhumanisation caused by warfare. A very moving story. The effect is spoilt though by the tacky action scenes. I guess once you have seen "Saving Private Ryan", all other war picturisations seem pedestrian. Other one was "Sleeping Dictionary", starring the kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1132771900536018062005-11-23T10:50:00.000-08:002005-11-23T10:51:40.536-08:00A good link for all the spermetologistskalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1132771478293504332005-11-23T10:42:00.000-08:002005-11-23T10:44:38.310-08:00A article by Sanjay Subhramanyam on the paris riotskalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1132401950805277142005-11-19T04:00:00.000-08:002005-11-20T08:51:30.893-08:00Kanha Adventure IMonday, 7th NovIts 7 pm and I am still to make up mind , to attend office and rest my stiff neck, or head off to Kanha. DJ calls me up for a last try, and in a split second I make my choice. Screw the office. Kanha is a Go!At 10.30 pm, We gather near the AS1 compartment of the Sanghamitra Express (Secunderabad to Patna). with all our bag, bagagge and assorted gadgets. Soon the kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1126708000736126642005-09-14T07:25:00.000-07:002005-09-14T07:26:40.740-07:00New LinkAdded a link to my old buddy, Bhaskar's blog.kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1124441260780992772005-08-19T01:38:00.000-07:002005-08-19T01:47:40.786-07:00Sundry thoughtsFast bowlers ruled the roost over the last week or so of cricket action, while Bond was exercising his license against the hapless Rhodesians, Simon Jones was dishing it out to the Aussies. This Ashes series is definitely the best cricketing action since the Aussies 2001 tour of India. A five-pronged attack has ruthlessly exposed the aging Aussies lineup. For all their talk of kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1121263110975341962005-07-13T06:50:00.000-07:002005-07-13T06:58:30.980-07:00Adding New LinkFUNCricketWhen it comes to the big matches, nobody beats the Aussies. Like the last couple of tours this time also the Aussies have started off slowly..and i bet they are gonna finish on a rampaging note.Right now their main worry seems to be , whom to leave out..Gilly or Kaspers.., McGrath, Lee and Warne being shoo-ins.For England, Strauss and Trescothick have made merry against kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1117001191927501352005-05-24T22:45:00.000-07:002005-05-24T23:06:31.933-07:00New TidingsI am positive that Greg Chappell would bring about a change in the waning fortunes of the Indian team. He is poles apart from John Wright, for one he was a much better cricketer, hell he was among the top three batsman in his times, 70-85, (Gavaskar and Richards being the other two). Among the current Indian team only Sachin can boast of a better career record than Greg. I have been kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1115581284166426042005-05-08T11:19:00.000-07:002005-05-08T12:41:24.243-07:00Movie Time.A hectic work schedule inevitably means that I end up watching movies to unwind, on normal days I can hardly gather enough courage to venture out to the theatres.KaalWe arrive late and thankfully the Shah Rukh and Malaika romp is over, the first scene unfolds to a breakneck driver trying to commit harakiri in a SUV. The most important ingredient of a "horror" movie is the background kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1109667630170779562005-03-01T00:50:00.000-08:002005-03-01T01:00:30.170-08:00Hot Streak!!Media's darling, Sania is on a hot streak. She disposed of World No 34, Kostanic of Croatia to set up a second round encounter with US Open champ , Kuznetsova. Till now everything she touches, is turning to gold. After her Australian Open heroics, and a commendable victory in the Hyd WTA open, Sania is definitely on a roll. The catch is that since she is a unknown quantity, few top kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1109356437625647252005-02-25T10:16:00.000-08:002005-02-25T10:33:57.626-08:00MahasangramThe ads are out, Inzy in battle gear charging at a resplendent Saurav. Do I detect shades of Mohommad Ghori vs Prithviraj Chauhan? Sigh!! I dont think Ghori was Paki by any stretch of imagination. And these are not missiles!!The most awaited series of the year is about to begin. The goras may talk about the Ashes, and how England will beat the Aussies this time, or atleast stay kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1108017271413117652005-02-09T22:30:00.000-08:002005-02-09T22:34:31.413-08:00Errrrrarta.
In previous Blog, read "in this this genre, one of my favorite authors is Lucifer Directive"
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in this genre one of my favorite authors is Jon Land. I first came across this author in the Lucifer Directive
kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1107939661876672772005-02-09T01:56:00.000-08:002005-02-09T01:01:01.876-08:00Pageturners
Train and Bus Journeys never lend themselves to "quality" (hmm..one man's meat is another man's poison..) readings for me, I always prefer some page-turner ,a guy saves the world, a guy and a gal save the world, a team of guys and gals save the world, type of reading. In this genre, one of my favorite authors is Lucifer Directive . In my opinion its one of his best works and one of kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1107673230136053652005-02-05T22:31:00.000-08:002005-02-05T23:00:30.136-08:00BLACK
Black rocks!!. Its one of the best movies to have come out recently.
The Big B really went to town , screaming from every channel , every talk show, how this movie will take Indian cinema to a new level. Wether it does that or not, I dont know but the Big B and Rani do take acting to a new level. Just when I was thinking that the B had done and seen it all, he again raises the bar another kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1107322842150711472005-02-01T21:34:00.000-08:002005-02-01T21:40:42.150-08:00Red Devils Rule
Man U showed Arsenal their place yesterday. Dont get me wrong, Arsenal have some of my favorite players, Dennis "the Menace" Bergkampf, Henry, Viera and Ljungberg, but as a team they are not a patch on Man U. Their two titles over the last decade have been acheived because there was a lack of other good teams and the Red Devils were out of form. Anyway with a "Arse" in their kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1106818973333335372005-01-27T01:13:00.000-08:002005-01-27T01:42:53.333-08:00Met Anand after 3 years, at the Hyderabad airport. Have know him since the mid-90s, since the engineering days, our friendship fueled by some common passions (quizzing, tennis). Morever we were neighbours for quite some time (4 years I think), at Wanowrie Road, Pune Cantonment. Always nice to catch up with old mates, even if their speech pattern now resembles that of a Brazilian Soccer kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1103011775527000522004-12-14T01:00:00.000-08:002004-12-14T00:09:35.526-08:00 Couple of LinksRemo's tirade against the IFFI in Goa. My old mate Srikanth's reminiscences about Delhi ,spiced with a few Ghalib coupletskalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1102925580260347442004-12-13T01:05:00.000-08:002004-12-13T00:13:00.260-08:00The Traveller
For me the main fun about Sanjay Gupta movies is trying to spot the originals. Even a cursory glance at Aatish (For a Better Tommorrow), Khauff(Juror) or Kaante(Reservoir Dogs) reveals the original.S o here I am at Anand Theatre, with a "black" ticket in my hand, muttering to Ritesh , "the whole first half has gone and this Musafir seems to be a original" ( Except for the wild kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1101044189984085352004-11-21T05:26:00.000-08:002004-11-21T05:36:29.983-08:00Life of Piscine Molitor Patel
Finally got hold of the book. The book about the travails of a boy named after a swimming pool, is a gripping read. Well worth all the hype. Heard that Manoj Night is making his next movie on this book. With a ending like this, I guess the book's rights were gobbled up by Shyamalan.
Wyatt Earp
Saw the Lawrence Kasdan directed project on DVD. The visuals are good, kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1099292763319206602004-10-31T22:55:00.000-08:002004-10-31T23:13:45.720-08:00Reservations.
I think the day is not far when some places in the Indian team will be "reserved". With Laloo's son captaining the Delhi under 15 team, its not inconceivable.
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Hitchcock Mania
Saw some classic Hitchcick movies:
Topaz: a cold war thriller, with references to the Cuban missile crisis. Hitchcock kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1098959684655053672004-10-28T02:49:00.000-07:002004-10-28T03:34:44.656-07:00Final Frontier Fallllinnnggg..........
At tea on Day 3, India is staring down the barrel, as the Aussies consolidate ruthlessly, shutting the door completely, ensuring no cracks are left unsealed. There were no miraculous comebacks from Sachin ,Dravid or Laxman. If you compare the last two series, none of the batting stars have fired, Laxman, Sachin,Dravid among the Indians and Hayden amongst thekalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1098346562174514052004-10-21T01:10:00.000-07:002004-10-21T01:16:02.176-07:00Goa!! Goa!!
Off to Goa , today evening. Funny thing is its going to be my first trip there. Will reach Londa at 10ish, tommorrow morning, then to Calangute. Booked a bungalow on a the beach, friends turning up from Bangalore, Pune, Delhi, Bhopal. One huge bachelor bash, before two close mates head off to the altar.
kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1098261334304914852004-10-20T01:17:00.000-07:002004-10-20T01:35:34.303-07:00Marvellous Martyn
At 150 for 4 in the Aussies second innings, I thought India had the match sewn up. It required some dogged batting by Gillespie and Martyn's epic to turn around things for the Aussies. Though I knew Martyn had done this twice before in similar situations in SriLanka, I never thought that the man raised on the hard & fast Western Australian pitches could do it again , and that kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1098081535836720972004-10-17T23:20:00.000-07:002004-10-17T23:38:55.836-07:00New Dragon!!
Inveterate movie goer that I am, the menu this weekend leaves me non-plussed. Hatya, Dil Bechara..., Decoy seem too much to endure. Left with no choice I head to Skyline( which in my opinion is the worst theatre in Hyderabad) to watch "Enter the New Dragon", oh yeah New Dragon..hmmmm. Mentally prepared to endure two hours of meaningless fistcuffs and people flying all over the screenkalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1097753963389694542004-10-14T04:35:00.000-07:002004-10-14T04:39:23.390-07:00Keep The Faith
With the Indian team being hounded by one and all, Dileep Premchandran provides a voice of sanity in cricket.org. The players are not in form, but the team is definitely not as bad as it is made out to be. Lets keep the faith, things will turn around.
Whats with Yuvraj and spin?
Yeh woh desh hai jahan bacche maa ke peth se spin khelna seekh ke aate hain. I wont be surprised to seekalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1097580924510207702004-10-12T04:19:00.000-07:002004-10-12T04:35:24.510-07:00Bride & Prejudice
Armed with complementary tickets, courtesy of Tata Indicom, I whizzed down to Sangeet to catch the premier of the Gurinder Chadha flick. I have liked her previous movies; BILB, BOTB, and the TV series on Showtime(cant recollect the name..its about all these families living on the same street) . Expectations were high. 2 hours later, I exited with a throbbing headache and dashed kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1097474370990122772004-10-10T22:44:00.000-07:002004-10-10T22:59:31.013-07:00GAMEPLAN
The morning news brings with it the news, that Sachin maybe out of the whole series. I think the Indian team should take it for granted that Sachin wont play in any of the next three tests and save them, the job has to be done by the 11 players on the field. Is this Aussie team invincible? No of course not!! Here's my mantra for prevaling over the Aussies
1) Dont panic, dont change thekalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1097136113912861112004-10-07T01:50:00.000-07:002004-10-07T01:01:53.913-07:00Bangalor-ed!!
1. Langer must be the luckiest batsman in the world, i have seen nobody get so many favorable LBW decisions (except maybe Miandad in Pakistan). After he was reprieved on the first ball of the match, visions of his century against NZ (when he was similarly repreived off Cairns off the first ball) flashed before my eyes. Thankfully it was not to be.
2. Cant believe that Bucknor is kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1096966722497325802004-10-05T01:44:00.000-07:002004-10-05T01:58:42.496-07:00Dream come true!!
A boring party at B&C is suddenly transformed by the announcement:"Ladies & Gentlemen: SUPERSTAR Sridevi is in the house (with hubby Boney in tow)".
Aha my original dream girl !!, and she still looks delectable, I fight off dozens of ardent wooers , grab a handshake, get a autograph (on the table mat), and manage a few admiring quotes, before the beefy bodyguards brush me kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1096465978786456712004-09-29T06:36:00.000-07:002004-09-29T06:52:58.786-07:00Bangalore Trip
monday being a holiday, i traipsed down to blore, to meet old friends, attend the alumni meet , meet assorted relatives, and most importantly to have a jolly good time!!
after attending the alumni meet, we trooped off to F-Bar, which friends assured me, was decidedly one of the "best saturday night type places" in town, the babes were competing in showing skin, the liquor was kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1096007593309392152004-09-23T23:27:00.000-07:002004-09-23T23:33:13.310-07:00Fielding woes.
As usual Harsha hits it on the head, with this peice: http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=55723
excerpts:
" ..good teams play with six bowlers; five that turn their arms over and the fielders collectively acting like the sixth. More wickets are got in one-day cricket out of poor shot making than by great bowling. And therefore teams need to induce poor kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1095945551492178382004-09-23T06:06:00.000-07:002004-09-23T06:19:11.493-07:00Hyderabad Rocks
completed Three years in Hyderabad today. Looking back cant believe how much the city has changed in last 3 years. hmm..
the IMAX has come up, must be the cheapest in the world, 60 bucks for a theatre which is far superior to the imaxes in Pune, B'lore, Chennai u have speed boating, para sailing, kayaking in the Hussain Sagar at dirt cheap prices.. restaurants have been coming kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1095760767845053862004-09-21T02:49:00.000-07:002004-09-21T02:59:27.846-07:00Cricket
Its back to those bad old days, the performance has been so pathetic, that everybody's scurrying to find excuses. Methinks its just a ruse to lull the Kangaroos in to a false sense of security!! (can i get more fanatic than this.???) We have always done well when we have been totally written off. And this situation surely deserves to be in the "written-off" category, all batsmen failingkalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1095314120332150682004-09-15T22:54:00.000-07:002004-09-15T22:55:20.333-07:00Added a link to my old friend Ritesh's blog : http://living24x7.blogspot.com/
kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1095313924734997972004-09-15T22:44:00.000-07:002004-09-15T22:52:04.733-07:00Champion's Trophy
The slaughter is over, now its time for the real matches to begin, the Kiwis vs the Kangaroos match should be a humdinger, hope rain does not spoil the Indo-Pak encounter.
Pop Books
I coined this word "Pop Books", for no-brainer reads, something akin to watching David Dhawan movies, just leave your brain behind while reading it. Matthew Reilly is one of the more famous kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1094558095816889162004-09-07T04:36:00.000-07:002004-09-07T04:54:55.816-07:00Have been on a movie binge, last couple of weeks. English/Hindi/Tamil movies, have all fallen under my purview. My DVd player has insured, that I can view the tamil movies, though I dont understand even one word.
Pithamagan (Tamil) : Vikram surely deserves a national award for his splendid performance. Tale of a undertaker, who has lost all human feelings and how a petty conman (played kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1094556949819277912004-09-07T04:28:00.000-07:002004-09-07T04:35:49.820-07:00With the Champion's trophy about to start, the teams have already started jockeying for brownie points. On current form, the kangaroos seem unstoppable, the only thing that goes against them is their poor history in the Champions trophy. Srilanka & Pakistan seem to be the other favorites, NZ would have been; but I dont find them getting past the Aussies. India has lost to Pakistan in the last 2kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1093957553626560602004-08-31T06:02:00.000-07:002004-08-31T06:05:53.626-07:00commenting on Sachin's inclusion in Richie Benaud's dream team, Roebuck says:
Great players are remembered for their acheivements while ordinary players are known for their acheivements.
We remember Sachin's World cup final failures, his Chennai innings against Pakistan, while Agarkar is remembered for his Lord's hundred and his Adelaide bowling. Quite thoughtful of him...hmmm
kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1093519385961556612004-08-26T04:12:00.000-07:002004-08-26T04:23:05.960-07:00The English press is going gaga, over its team performances, victories over depleted sides like NZ & pathetic slides like WI have suddenly rekindled the English sportswriters waning pensmanship. Platitudes are flowing thick and fast and already the word is out , bring on the Aussies!! Theres still 9 months to go before the Kangaroos arrive and before that there is the small matter of negotiatingkalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1093518706608551802004-08-26T03:57:00.000-07:002004-08-26T04:11:46.610-07:00Theres a chink in the armour of our servers, somehow blogger managed to slip through its blockades. dunno when will i get the chance of another posting. Some thoughts on the Olympics.
Athens has seen emergence of the new guard, especially in the athletics. Wether its due to the drugs or its the simple process of change, one can only speculate. Justin Gatlin & Jeremy wariner herald the emergencekalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1089026491661144112004-07-05T04:12:00.000-07:002004-07-05T04:21:31.660-07:00Its turning out to be the season of underdogs, Myskina at the French Open, Shaporova at the Wimbledon Greens, and above all , Greece at Euro2004. Thankfully Federer, Woodbridge/Bjorkman, Indian hockey team(but methinks they overdid it a bit by losing so heavily!!) restore sanity.
First Federer: his awesome game , simply compels me to go out on a limb and declare that he is good enough to kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1087539478247879862004-06-17T23:16:00.000-07:002004-06-17T23:17:58.246-07:00This gem from the NZ coach, John Bracewell must qualify for the "Howler of the Season" title:
"Good luck to them. While we're not allowed to do it in New Zealand, they're obviously allowed to do it over here. Our policy is to produce the best cricket wickets possible, not ones that suit the home team."
----John Bracewell, New Zealand's coach, suggests that the recent Test wickets were tailored kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1085003637131907762004-05-19T14:49:00.000-07:002004-05-19T14:53:57.130-07:00ITs time to go back to home sweet home. I read that Manmohan Singh will be the next PM of India. I always suspected that, Sonia will back down at the last moment, managing a country is a whole different ball game at all. About my stay here, I am already counting what i missed out on..the indo-pak series, the elections (i have always followed each general election religiously since 1989), and thekalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1083795245666135822004-05-05T15:14:00.000-07:002004-05-05T15:18:31.466-07:00Saw Man on Fire, on Sat. The film is pretty well shot, with seedy shots of Mexico city, but the plot frankly, veers towards the ludicrous. Denzel plays a bodyguard to a little girl,daughter of a mexican tycoon. Predictably the girl is kidnapped, and Denzel badly wounded in the process. When he recovers, Denzel goes on a gory retribution spree, hacking, blasting his way through the villainous kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1083189533369233492004-04-28T14:58:00.000-07:002004-04-28T15:03:08.890-07:00The elections back home , are worrying me..the worst thing that could happen right now is a hung parliament..all the concentartion will be on survival, horse trading..next elections..and hardly any decisions will be taken at all. I would prefer any party, even Congress to come to power as long as they have an absolute majority. Atleast the govt will last 5 years.
Funnily some countries seem to kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1083189308621429262004-04-28T14:55:00.000-07:002004-04-28T14:59:24.186-07:00I finally got a GMAIL account. Looks pretty cool.kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-108275950644408862004-04-23T15:31:00.000-07:002004-04-26T08:44:08.936-07:00Reading..Ramanand's blog, he is collecting movies/art/comics..whatever, can be called as belonging to the "camp classics" genre . A CAPITAL IDEA!! I say.. some of the hindi movies I have seen and which can qualify for this "category" are
Dharam Veer...one of my all time favorite movies..i must have seen it atleast 30 times..(was it 32??..hmm..but its definitely less than the most viewed, kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1082754286486844582004-04-23T14:04:00.000-07:002004-04-23T14:08:55.826-07:00Bought a camera t'day..pentax optio 4S..was hooked mainly by the size...it's small enough to fit into a suta packet.
WAs reading this..quite a moving peice
Eulogykalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1082669380629613952004-04-22T14:29:00.000-07:002004-04-22T14:34:08.983-07:00Outsourcing to India seems to be the defacto "hot" topic in US Television, just behind Iraq. Yesterday , in the compelling prez drama, .West Wing, this topic made its debut. If a topic starts doing the rounds of the Prime time shows, you can be sure it's the "in" thing. The story goes like this , a s/w company is sending off 17000 coding jobs to India, the union members who have supported martin kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1082587847661088872004-04-21T15:50:00.000-07:002004-04-21T15:54:54.496-07:00In all the cricket hoopla , the Olympics have creeped up on us. I think this guy, Michael Phelps is gonna be the star of the show, mebbe 6 or ...gawd even 7 (seven ..spitz!!) gold medals is not out of the question for him. Look out Mr Thorpekalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1082587644285988402004-04-21T15:47:00.000-07:002004-04-21T15:56:24.123-07:00Regarding my list of eleven, on some players i missed out...
Cairns has lost much of his bowling prowess,
Lara shines more and more in lost causes (or mebbe his team his too pathetic),
and Gilly behind Andy, i feel andy is a better batsman, often at 7 gilly has had the license to hit away, or mebbe i just have a soft spot for Flowerkalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1082587360389823702004-04-21T15:42:00.000-07:002004-04-21T15:56:55.733-07:00Yeah, I remember, expressing disgust (more like bewilderment i feel) on inclusion of Friends trivia in a quiz. I had just seen glimpses of a couple of episodes then. It was after all these questions started popping up and Gaurav's & a couple of others enthu for it that i started following it regularly. Needless to say I got hooked and became a big time fan.
so gaurav, u shld be proud..u made kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1082496628469641452004-04-20T14:30:00.000-07:002004-04-20T14:34:33.356-07:00while meandering through K-mart, came across a magazine comemorating the Friend's 10th year..it has been my alltime fav sitcom..and the magazine was a steal at six dollars..its a treasure trove of friends trivia. kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1082495778819670222004-04-20T14:16:00.000-07:002004-04-20T14:28:32.700-07:00the great indian election jamboree has kicked off..who will win.?..its a punter's dream..in a complex country as ours...no poll pundit or psephologist as they prefer to call themselves can predict it..coz the deciding factors in choosing a candidate includes...caste/ sub caste/religion/religious sect/sex or no sex/family/money power ..and of course the amount of booze you can supply..I wunder howkalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1082493942879118412004-04-20T13:45:00.000-07:002004-04-20T14:29:31.186-07:00was recently reading gaurav's blog , where he proceeds to choose a world 11
hmm..my world 11 would be..the criteria being i would pick players from their form in the last 2 years:
1) hayden
2) michael vaughan (i pick him over sehwag & gibbs..simply coz choosing sehwag & gibbs is like a lottery, while vaughan is a more solid player..against both pace and spin...c'mon he scored 3 high class kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1082396069124614862004-04-19T10:34:00.000-07:002004-04-20T14:04:46.716-07:00Am halfway through Grisham's Brethren, the man seems to spend all his free time thinking up of ingenious scams and how to pull them off, hmm..i think america is the land of scams..everybody's out to scam somebody else out of their ill-gotten gains..what kind of country is it where lawyers openly advertise their services on prime time television. ?
Anoop has made a welcome entry into world of kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1082395792658290242004-04-19T10:29:00.000-07:002004-04-19T10:33:55.950-07:00Kill Bill2 rocks!! the movie is slower paced as compared to Vol1, as the time is spent developing each of the characters, the acting is A+, uma is the bride, darryl hannah is the one eyed elle, michael madsen is budd and david carradine is Bill, the object of the title. Uma thurman surely deserves a oscar for her muscular potrayal, while carradine's show stopping performance marks his comeback kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1082152871915994872004-04-16T15:01:00.000-07:002004-04-16T15:05:11.733-07:00yesterday caught glimpses of Pinjar. The story looked solid, and the actors have done a decent job. I hold the dir Chandrprakash Dwivedi in high regard (his Chankya was a landmark event in indian television), and he seems to have done a efficient job in bringing Amrita Pritams literary work into celluloid.
kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1082152712782703182004-04-16T14:58:00.000-07:002004-04-16T15:02:31.826-07:00turned 27 today..wow..how time passes ...kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1082152676069304102004-04-16T14:57:00.000-07:002004-04-16T15:01:55.106-07:00for Saurav it must have felt like mission accomplished. When he had landed in Pakistan, he had clearly laid down the gauntlet. "I have come here to acheive history", and achieve history he did. So lets forget the best batsman, best captain debates ...and simply enjoy the victory and the observe in wonder on what surely must be the slow but sure developing of India's finest test team ever.kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1082039940387928182004-04-15T07:39:00.000-07:002004-04-15T07:44:28.310-07:00Kill Bill vol 2 releasing tommorrow. Read the sneak peak here
kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1082039846633269752004-04-15T07:37:00.000-07:002004-04-15T07:41:24.153-07:00I agree with what Anoop says, its the patnerships that count, not the individual scores. The key to India's score of 600 was the patnerships Dravid stiched together with patel, laxman, ganguly, yuvraj & the tail. I cant just keep the smug look of my face thinking what miandad, zaheer abbas et al would have been thinking looking at the Indian score progress. this is what THEY used to do to the kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1081971685235949282004-04-14T12:41:00.000-07:002004-04-14T12:45:21.623-07:00Ok..so now everybody will say Dada is a genius, his ploy of opening with Parthiv worked spectacularly. But thats cricket, thats why captaincy is such a important job, you take risks..sometimes they come off , sometimes they dont. When they come off, you are god, when they dont you are pillioried by every armchair expert in India, and they number 500 million..leave or add a few.
On the topic of kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1081872380523731572004-04-13T09:06:00.000-07:002004-04-13T09:10:15.793-07:00I hope the 80 odd runs added by sami & co dont come back to haunt us, especially since we bat last. In low scoring encounters, the runs put together by tail enders often makes the diff between haar & jeet. In the in-famous barbados test in 1997, the windies last two wickets put together 80 runs, the indian last 2 pairs ->40 runs. The margin by which we fell short->40 runs
Aside : in India's kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1081814720865353452004-04-12T17:05:00.000-07:002004-04-12T17:09:15.246-07:00Why is Dada panned so much ?
1) He always looks like the weak link in the Indian batting. but wasn't it his century in the first test in the India-australia series which set the tone for the rest for the series..haa probably dravid, laxman, sachin, sehwag said..if our dada can score a century, surely batting here wont be such a big task
2) dada is weak against pace bowlers..but does anybody, kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1081810277332142532004-04-12T15:51:00.000-07:002004-04-12T15:55:54.403-07:00Check out this site :
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Gud musik.kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1081809459738858352004-04-12T15:37:00.000-07:002004-04-12T15:41:33.733-07:00Saw ALAMO, *ing Dennis Quaid (as Sam Houston), Billy Bob Thornton(as Davy Crockett), Jason Patric (as Jim Bowie). It tells the story of die hard Texas Rangers who refuse to give up a mud fort to the invading Mexican army and rather, prefer to fight to the last man. Ever since , the Rangers and other assorted US Regiments and battalions have gone into battle with the cry "Remember the Alamo!!" kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1081808211528153942004-04-12T15:16:00.000-07:002004-04-12T15:20:45.716-07:00REAL MADRID
Havent seen (tearing my hairs out) any decent football..so am totally out of date with football, read in harish's blog that Real Madrid suffered a "shocking" 3-0 defeat. If you have players of the caliber of Figo/Zidane/ronaldo/raul/becks..and so many others..any defeat would be shocking. I always think the current Real Madrid team was a outcome of some schoolboys fantasy, if you kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1081802016848765912004-04-12T13:33:00.000-07:002004-04-12T13:37:30.640-07:00Talking about other Sports, these damn Americans dont seem to be intersted in scoccer at all, in all the zillion channels available in cable, i hardly find any channel providing good soccer coverage.So the fortunes of Arsenal, Manchester United are lost on me.For me Manchester United was the best english club side in the last 20 years. though Arsenal probably had the more talented players, and kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1081801394693386802004-04-12T13:23:00.000-07:002004-04-12T13:27:08.610-07:00Well the Indian davis cup team (?), rather a one and half man army (half coz of bhupathi relegating himself to the doubles), failed to pull it off in Japan. what was amazing was that Leander , who was struggling against a life threatening disease just 6 months back, came back and won 2 of his 3 matches. Did it require a lot of the the other players to win 1 of the remaining ones. The tragedy of kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1081799926760352442004-04-12T12:58:00.000-07:002004-04-12T13:02:40.200-07:00Nice quote, something for the Indian cricket team to ponder over.
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat . : Henry Longfellow
Regarding the third test match, it will again be a pitch similar to the 2nd test, green top on first session , and then it will meander down to a batting paradise. So again , I kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1081375418801051652004-04-07T15:03:00.000-07:002004-04-07T15:07:26.233-07:00Overall there is nuthing much in this comparison, both players are matched evenly.
The debate then boils down to the fact that on what criteria is a batsman's greatness to be judged? If you say the criteria is the number of matches the batsman has won for his team, I say it is unfair. To make the debate fact based, lets take out sachin & dravid out of the picture to maintain objectivity on our kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1081372851304779502004-04-07T14:20:00.000-07:002004-04-07T14:24:38.466-07:00Rahul Dravid's performance in matches India has won
filtered 22 36 6 2066 233 200* 180 68.86 5 11 0
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Runs Pos Dismissal I *+ R Match
40 6 caught wk 2 W Only Test v Aus in Ind 1996/97 at Delhi [1335]
DNB - - 4
24 3 lbw 1 W 1st Test v SA in Ind 1996/97 at kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1081372772937224002004-04-07T14:19:00.000-07:002004-04-07T14:23:20.106-07:00Sachins performances in Test matches which India has won:
filtered 32 50 8 2792 194* 193 176 66.47 10 9 2
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Runs Pos Dismissal I *+ R Match
11 6 lbw 1 W Only Test v SL in Ind 1990/91 at Chandigarh [1156]
50 4 caught 1 W 1st Test v Eng in Ind 1992/93 at Kolkata [1211]kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1081291130031903102004-04-06T15:38:00.000-07:002004-04-06T15:42:35.780-07:00The Lahore match seems to be heading Pakistan's way, with them winning 5 of the 6 sessions so far. But i still have faith in the fighting spirits of this Indian team. Only Bucknor seems to be the fly in the soup. What can i say..never antagonise a umpire.
Have ya heard the famous story abt Miandad & Bucknor in 1992 world cup?
Before the final match between Eng & Pak, The teams and the umpires kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010676.post-1081290758178560642004-04-06T15:32:00.000-07:002004-04-06T15:36:24.000-07:00I think the parameter we judge for judging great innings is a cruel one, ie it should lead to a victory. Cricket is a funny game in the sense that it allows the individual max expression in a team sport, this char being a unique one among other team sports. So ofet batsmen have played gloriously , but have not been able to win matches, some of the one i have seen or read about:
1) sachins kalpataru45http://www.blogger.com/profile/07173869609850439081noreply@blogger.com0