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59Flirtations With The Worlds Of Music And Theater
In an all-boys boarding school, you were considered a sissy if you had anything to do, even remotely, with institutions like the school choir. As a result, the music teacher was perpetually trying to rope in new talent, even if the talent was...
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57What Is It About Cricket
Chances are you think the title will conclude with the words “that turns me on?” But pray don’t be misled. I am not one of the million - err billion Indians for whom cricket is a religion. To me, cricket is a bane. Actually in a cricket-mad...
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77Capturing and Selling Ideas
Have you ever thought of the many world-beating ideas that floated through your head , only to get lost downstream somewhere? Ideas that may have turned you into a billionaire? They are here and then gone. In an instant. And most of them come at...
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72A Football Match Ticket
(This was written about a year ago) A newspaper article caught my eye the other day. The Bayern Munich football team was visiting Calcutta to play a match against Mohun Bagan. This reminded me of an incident...
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73What I Have Learnt From Birds
Time was when this article would have been on birds of the unfeathered kind. But time does move on and so must we. So this one really is about birds and what they have taught me. . Much as being...
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67On Bird Videography
Two qualities crucial to developing bird videographing skills are patience and a cool head. I learned this while on a birding trip to Sultanpur jheel near Gurgaon last winter. Considering I have been...
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65Google Yourself
The next time you are at a loose end, try googling yourself. I did and brother, was the result interesting! Wish I could take a patent on it and make a few millions. Google has at least six persons with my name, of whom two are particularly...
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69The Peshawari at Nagpur
In the course of a forty-year worklife, I must have, I would like to believe, had positive influences on some of the people who worked with me. They are the ones who are still in touch, inspite of the...
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70The Aftermath Of An Abandoned Cricket Match
It was a Sunday in May 1975. Gathered together in the sweltering heat were two cricket teams – that of a multinational Tyre giant, and the other comprising its dealers. A whole bunch of middle-aged, balding,...
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