I am sure there is nobody on the planet that does not have reservations.
Having participated in competitive sports till the age of 40, some cricket and a great deal of hockey, I carry broken fingers and damaged cartilages and ligaments as my old age baggage, and I have serious reservations about the state of these sports in my country.
More than 33 percent I can assure you. (more…)
I just celebrated my 80th birthday a few months ago, regrettably in a hospital bed.
It took me 80 long years to really experience being operated upon. I have been inside a hospital lots of times. As a Management consultant, to conduct training progammes , to donate blood which is no different from Management consultancy with a little difference. In the case of Blood donation you know or hope some one will benefit. (more…)
Television offers us a lot of choices. News, movies, sports, cartoons, history, geography, and a plethora of dance and music competitions, you name it. You can also have the language of your choice.
I therefore have no rational explanation for almost rarely watching television. I prefer good old reading, walking at the Joggers Park conveniently located near my residence, swimming or actually fooling around the pool watching mothers of different shapes and sizes teaching their kids to swim. I am not so sure which.
The old girl watches the IPL matches and thinks I am mad not to join her.
I have been a professional cricketer and hate the way cricket has been desecrated, commercialized and milked dry of every joy it had to offer.
A strange thing is happening to me these days. Standing outside myself, I seem to be watching the last days of my life passing by like a large landscape banging at the windows of a slow train to nowhere. And I have no explanation for it. (more…)
