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Heh. Tomorrow: Charu Sharma’s sex tape.
One of the first websites I visit when I begin surfing every day is Rediff. And without fail, they…
This is surely the invention of the year: A solar powered bra that can charge a phone So if…
This is a fun test. I got 9/10, and was told at the end of it: “You’d spot Hannibal…
This is an interesting piece of reportage: Mithun would never speak out openly against Amitabh and fear incurring his…
08 May, 2008
The IPL reveals India’s Bench Strength
I begin a fortnightly column on cricket today for NDTV Convergence called Over the Wicket. Here’s the first installment: The IPL reveals India’s bench strength.
Related pieces:
Celebrating Twenty20 Cricket (April 20, 2008)
Opportunity, choice and the IPL (March 13, 2008)
There’s Nothing Wrong In Being ‘Commercial’ (Feb 24, 2008)
The Twenty20 Age Begins (Aug 8, 2007)
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Ayman al-Zawahiri Answers Your Questions
Andy Borowitz is in top form. (Via Joby Joseph.)
By Amit Varma in Miscellaneous
Do not play a customer’s CD
You run the risk of a bow chica bow bow.
One Chai and a Wills Navy Cut
Pablo Bartholomew's latest exhibition offers intimate recall of the 70s and 80s
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Brown is the New Black
Loins of Punjab Presents is a declaration of independence by the desi diaspora
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#106 - Generalissimo 76
Sample clues
9 across: Van Morrison classic from Moondance (7)
6 down: Order beginning with ‘A’ (12)
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Question by Amit Varma
In 1981, Jimmy Page, Chris Squire and Alan White got together to form a band, and tried to recruit Robert Plant into it. Plant attended one rehearsal…
