Cricket. Who gives a toss?
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. George Bernard Shaw.
I don’t write much about cricket these days. This is a one-off....
Testing times at hospitals
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. Groucho Marx.
Hospitals have become nicer places these days. An assertion that will be hotly...
Deconstructing the Applause
I have just returned from Chennai, having partaken heartily of the food of love, namely music; in common parlance, the December music season. Not...
Like, So and the Double Negative
I am not quite sure when people started opening their sentences with the words ‘like’ or ‘so.’ I rather suspect this unfortunate habit is...
Books in the running brooks
I was at the Bangalore Lit Fest last week. Ever since I moved from Calcutta to Bangalore some years ago, I have been meaning...