Jhakas

Of Dinosaurs and Eternal Sunshine

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:02:25 +0530

Sunil Gavaskar , our perennial headlines grabbing discovery, finds it difficult to keep his mouth shut. It has been a chronic problem, usually self-inflicted with an orchestrated objective. Sunny bhai

President Natwarlal of India

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:47:41 +0530

If Mr Natwarlal (alias Mr Amitabh Bachchan , Bollywood legend) becomes the President of India , the following is inevitable: 1 Amar Singh will be ushered into Madame Tussaud's,

Saddam: 21 days later

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:10:34 +0530

Even as TV channels went expectedly berserk with repeated clips of dusky Indian Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty's racial trauma on TV reality show Celebrity Big Brother, the media cacophony even

Kaun banega conpati

editor@ibnlive.com — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 04:13:13 +0530

He is a true-blue superstar, a national rage and an international celebrity, intellectually vibrant, and usually a paragon of classic perfection. He said that politics least interested him. He

And justice for none

editor@ibnlive.com — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 07:08:42 +0530

"There are three reasons why lawyers are being used more and more in scientific experiments. First, every year there are more and more of them around. Second, lab assistants don't

The Dawn of SRK

editor@ibnlive.com — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 05:44:39 +0530

As the sinister laugh of the sadistic Don hit the surround sound at Inox multiplex theatre in Bombay last Friday night, at the end of 17 reels of high octane

The Ghost Who Walks

editor@ibnlive.com — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:02:56 +0530

The murky, mysterious days of furtive speculation on match-fixing in cricket, like the perennial Phantom on a white horse, is back. It took two totally unrelated events as segregated as

Hesh and Lee can mesh

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 04:30:54 +0530

At the end of a super-week of outstanding tennis at the Kingfisher Open, as we braved exasperating rain interventions, and a strangely listless Bombay crowd, it was India’s Davis Cupper

Lalu ban gaya gentleman

editor@ibnlive.com — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:54:39 +0530

For a lot of us Indians, Lalu Prasad Yadav has been a Cartoon Network Channel unto himself, without any Walt Disney contribution. But yesterday, as with his characteristic gusto, back-of-the-dhoti

Of Vande Mataram, Arjun Singh and Munnabhai

editor@ibnlive.com — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:12:33 +0530

Every year, I religiously visit Mohammed Ali Road's celebrated confectionery-cum-sweet stall, Sulaiman Mithaiwala in Bombay at the time of Ramzaan, sometimes more than just one single time. Their "mawa -

Death of a Professor

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:17:30 +0530

The brutally slaughtered Professor Harbhajan Singh Sabharwal never gave me classroom lectures. Neither did he solicitously provide me career advice. In fact, outside the academic fraternity of Ujjain, he was

Impotent cricket council? Or plain stupid!

editor@ibnlive.com — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:08:51 +0530

At least currently the most famous Darrell in the universe can boast of hair, but the game's so-called highest governing body , the ICC, has at best revealed it's shining

8/20 -- Cricket's equivalent of 9/11

editor@ibnlive.com — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:22:47 +0530

It was a catastrophe of cataclysmic proportions at the Oval stadium last evening; an out-of-the-blue-accusation of ball tampering, penalty imposed, protest staged, drama hanging temporarily in animated suspension, and then

How India can win the World Cup: John Wright

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:23:37 +0530

So erstwhile coach John Wright got so exasperated with Virender Sehwag's natural instincts, he almost thrashed the stout, brawny, beefy Nawab of Najafgarh in the dressing room in England in

Being John is my right!

editor@ibnlive.com — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:25:10 +0530

Philip Kotler, the great marketing guru, was in town recently lecturing Indian marketing professionals and brand managers on concepts, positioning and strategy. I have a sneaking suspicion that the former

Was Sourav tricked into a trap by his tennis elbow?

editor@ibnlive.com — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:26:00 +0530

Ever since Sourav Ganguly's leaked e-mail about Jagmohan Dalmiya has found wide circulation thanks to the classical crack in the sewage linings, all hell has broken loose. And the

Sorry Sachin, but Sanjay is right!

editor@ibnlive.com — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:26:50 +0530

Just a few days ago I bumped against the affable, ever-smiling and ubiquitous Sanjay Manjrekar, who looked as if he could have been auditioning for a role in a TV

Finding Netherland or Neverland? An ICC story

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:29:12 +0530

Until Louis Figo, the dapper Portugese captain beguiled the Netherland's football team by getting them a red card from an over-enthusiastic match referee, the Orange men looked fairly threatening in