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Leg 4 of Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm concludes at Jaisalmer

Posted on February 4, 2017February 10, 2017

The 15th edition of #MSDesertStorm concluded its leg 4 at Jaisalmer with CS Santosh extending his lead by around 10 minutes ahead of R Nataraj. The participants completed a total distance of around 300 KM along the city’s golden Sam dunes crossing Turkon ki Basti, Siambar and Mangaliyawas. Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm is now entering…

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Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm gets Underway

Posted on February 1, 2017February 2, 2017

Motorsport has always challenged the imagination and competitive spirit of mankind since its inception. It pushes the limits of both, the man and the machine, by traversing them through a series of mental and physical barriers. Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm personifies these traits. In India, following its belief of making motorsport accessible to its enthusiasts,…

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A Friendly Football Game

Posted on February 23, 2015April 12, 2021

Yesterday I took my camera to the park as I wanted to click flowers in the bloom. However, a friendly football game started taking shape in front of my eyes. I call it the Kids vs. the Giant. Kids were represented by Chhavi and her friends and the giant is my nephew Sunil. As it…

Manchester United Stadium- My Experiences of the Guided Tour

Posted on August 23, 2009

I was reading about the loss and win of Manchester United in the EPL, and I decided it is about time I wrote about my experience of taking a guided tour of the Manchester United Stadium on May 13, 2009. I wish to record the date so that when I read this 10 years later…

Manchester United Club, They Catch them Young!

Posted on July 7, 2009

ManU Baby Wear for Sale at the Manchester United Club, Manchester, UK They Try to Catch them Young!

This is Not Cricket!

Posted on March 3, 2009

Gunmen attacked the Sri Lanka Cricket Team bus in Pakistan says BBC. At least five members of the Sri Lankan cricket team have been injured in a shooting incident in the Pakistani city of Lahore, a Sri Lankan minister says.The incident happened when unidentified gunmen fired on a convoy carrying Sri Lankan and Pakistani cricketers….

It Felt Like Flying

Posted on February 13, 2009

As promised yesterday, I played TT today and it felt wonderful (as if I had got wings) . In reality I was actually not able to move much (let alone fly). And in a doubles game (that is what we play mostly) not being able to move well is a huge liability. I have said…

Sea Shells and Pizza

Posted on February 12, 2009

Pizza and Sea Shells, is there a link? Very minor, they were part of my extremely hectic and tiring day today. I had a long class, one where students interact a lot on their own in the seminar (with me as the mediator) and they went on for half an hour more than the scheduled…

Fog on the Road, Cobwebs in the Mind

Posted on January 31, 2009May 3, 2016

Photo Credit- Fog on the Road, Shutterstock Last week, I got quite thick fog twice in the morning when I was driving to work. I used to be quite terrified of driving through it when I was new with my car. Now I somehow manage without my face turning chalk white. It just turns white…

Two Yellow Cards

Posted on December 29, 2008

I was talking to my younger nephew yesterday (Brat 2) and I could hear the excitment in his voice so clearly even across many thousand miles on the phone. Along with many friends, they had organized a local football tournament for under 16 and under 12 age group and they had over 100 people participating…

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