It’s a drama of the absurd. Kolkata clubs pay astronomical sums to recruit players and coaches for the football teams, yet all they achieve is peanuts. This is a new development, and it seems despite all fanfare in the beginning of the season, there is a competition as who among the 3 would touch the […]
Budhia, the child marathoner
Budhia Singh – feasting on a child ‘prodigy’! [Image source] Remember Budhia Singh, the small boy just 4 years old last year, whose long-distance running, egged on by full-bodied airhead CRPF jawans, created furor in the media? Well, he is going to run again, sorry walk, and this time it’s all of 500 km. He’ll […]
On way to regain no.1
Let it be a quiz. Name a personality who is a great-great grandson of legendary poet Michael Madhusudan Datta, a recipient of Padma Sri in 2001, have married ex-wife of Sunjay Dutt, and born in Goa but brought up in Kolkata. [Left image courtesy] Well the answer is Leander Paes. Leander has brought many glories […]
An able administrator
Satyabrata Ganguly perhaps hasn’t ever thought that his rise to fame would be through his kidnapping. Before that fateful event, he was more recognized as an able administrator in Kolkata’s corporate circle, which of course he is else he won’t be the only choice to head the trouble-prone Indian Football Association (IFA). On Good Friday, […]
Bunch of jokers
Upon the widely expected dismissal from cricket carnival at the Caribbean and subsequent crushing of bloated images of cricketers as national heroes, one would have expected some genuine cleanup in the way the game is played and promoted in our country. Instead, the great Maratha, the BCCI president and the team of cahoots that he […]
Story of football bosses
Let’s have a fascinating account of 2 football bosses. Both are presidents of football bodies, one from 1988, the other from 1998. Both are well-known public faces in their own rights. But perhaps the similarities end here, because there are just too many dissimilarities between the two of them. [Picture source: left; right] PR Das […]
Whither India’s cricket!
Team India – hasty retreat! [Picture source] One feels sorry for the cricket-only millions of India. True, a good number of participating teams never play cricket (Ireland, Holland, Bermuda, Scotland, for example), and are only there to fill the ‘quota’. Also true is that the actual game at any time is played by only 13 […]
Get well soon
She is young, beautiful, hardworking, stylish and sporty. She epitomizes what average Indians are not. She excels in sports. For all of 20 years that she is, she has fought all the odds that were stacked against her. She represents that rare girl power that has dared to dream big in international arena. [Image source] […]
EB beats MB yet again
East Bengal – Mohun Bagan tie no longer has that hair-raising thrill it used to have eons ago. In those times, the whole city and the suburbs would be immersed in hot discussions at every nook and corner, and the football fever would take long time to ebb. Not so these days. One reason may […]
Water and Eklavya
Lisa Ray in Oscar-nominated ‘Water’ – quality speaks! [Picture source]True, Water did not win the Best Foreign Language Film award at last night’s glittering 79th Oscars ceremony in Hollywood, US (it went to the German film, The Lives of Others), but the fact Deepa Mehta’s film was chosen as one of the 5 nominees speaks […]