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My broadband has been down for the last two days, which explains why there hasn’t been much blogging in that time. My dial-up is as slow on Venkatesh Prasad on sedatives, and it takes me five minutes to open an email on Gmail, and 20 minutes to make a post like this. So the mails pile up, my readers leave me for Amitabh Bachchan, and I’m out of touch with what’s happening in the world. <\/p>\n

But I’ll hang in here, and so must you.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, somewhere in Bangalore, Venky Prasad contemplates a comeback. I’ll keep on running after bowling the ball<\/i>, he thinks, and reach the batsman before the ball does. If that don’t psyche them out…<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My broadband has been down for the last two days, which explains why there hasn’t been much blogging in that time. My dial-up is as slow on Venkatesh Prasad on sedatives, and it takes me five minutes to open an email on Gmail, and 20 minutes to make a post like this. So the mails pile up, my readers leave me for Amitabh Bachchan, and I’m out of touch with what’s happening in the world. <\/p>\n

But I’ll hang in here, and so must you.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, somewhere in Bangalore, Venky Prasad contemplates a comeback. I’ll keep on running after bowling the ball<\/i>, he thinks and reach the batsman before the ball does. If that don’t psyche them out…<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nVenky\u2019s In The Way - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/venkys-in-the-way\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Venky\u2019s In The Way - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My broadband has been down for the last two days, which explains why there hasn’t been much blogging in that time. 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