“The volume of tournaments may mean that the cycle of winning and losing can become routine and the emotions felt after each campaign could be dulled, but South Africa and World Cups, until the day South Africa win a World Cup, will always have a special allure. The story continues.” – Firdose Moonda, ESPNcricinfo correspondent…
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The Oscars Ode
* Italicized are nominees * Bold are winners King Elvis was The Whale. Often packed in a bottle is the Aftersun, Perhaps The Banshees of Inisherin are indeed real and Living. Pinocchio was Turning Red, The Sea Beast smiled, Puss in Boots had The Last Wish, Off went Marcel The Shell with Shoes On. Oh…
T20 World Cup Diaries
India vs Pakistan | Oct 23, 2022 | Melbourne I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket. Virat Kohli Mr. Virat Kohli, take a bow. One such dream indeed came true today. By winning the most important game at the world’s biggest stage,…
#Writetober 2022
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou 1Train 2Smoke 3Ethereal 4Flutter 5Guard 6Shiver 7Elm 8Liturgy 9Crane 10Sight 11Starlit 12Dwell 13Trail 14Dream 15Betray 16Crown 17 Twisted 18 Costly 19 Poem 20 Ivy 21 Moth 22 Treasure 23 Between 24Elder 25 Book 26 Creeping 27 Twirl 28 Rediscover 29 Fortnight…
Adios, Maestro
When you do something best in life, you don’t really want to give that up – and for me it’s tennis. Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you. Roger Federer Oh..London it was, yet again! I reckon this loss at the Laver Cup was rather bittersweet. It…
The Queen
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements. – The Queen, 1989 It was seven years ago, I chanced upon an opportunity to engage in an interesting conversation with my grandmother over a game of Dayakattai – a variation of dice game…
Force3
But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically. Rene Descartes Every year, the weekend after Labor Dayas The Sun sets behindthe soaring Manhattan skyline,a champion is celebrated.A name is…etched on the coveted trophy,endeared to fans’ hearts,and inked into record books. This year was no different.A sea of aficionadossporting colorful 21 in ’21 tees,driven…
Mystery
Mysteries are aplenty around us,often persistent and rarely tedious.They trigger our curiosity in the material world,They present us questionsin the metaphysical sphere. While just reading as a fact,there is a Crooked Forest in Poland,presents a canvas for limitless imagination. Seeing it in person or pixels,pushes us to think differently. Nature did wear an artist’s hat,in…
Simple.
The world was simple,our reach was simplerand life was simplest…all in a relative sense. We miss them, don’t we? Stories that beganwith “long long ago”,pranks that endedwith plucking a mango.Walking the aislesat local video store,no wiki or googleto give a review score. A happy home with a solo TV screen,in front of whichthe family would…
Hey Life(!)
A composite poetic form of: (a) Three rhyming couplets, (b) Seven stanzas of a subtly modified version of Rannaigecht, a native Irish poetic form (A four-line stanza with three syllables in first line; 7-8 syllables in lines second, third and fourth.) Hey Diary! don’t you be a strangerwhat’s on the agenda, I wonder A black…