There was a time when Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) stood for unreal fan loyalty and equally unreal disappointment. Season after season, the jerseys sold out, the chants grew louder, and the trophy cabinet… stayed stubbornly empty. And yet, somehow, RCB never lost relevance. If anything, it became bigger than its...
In the noisy world of modern cricket—where opinions change faster than the scoreboard—some relationships quietly stand the test of time. One such understated bond in Indian cricket is between Sanju Samson and Harsha Bhogle. It is not a partnership built on statistics, interviews, or headlines. It is something rarer: respect,...
Some cricket stories are written in a straight line — talent appears, success follows, and fame arrives quickly. But the story of Sanju Samson is different. It is a story of patience, silence, resilience, and a belief that talent eventually finds its moment. Yesterday’s T20 triumph for India was not...
Cricket has a strange way of settling scores. Not through arguments. Not through press conferences. But through 22 yards of truth. A few days ago, when asked why Sanju Samson was warming the bench, the Indian captain smiled. The question was about balance. About combinations. About whether someone like Abhishek...
India doesn’t lack talent. India lacks patience, planning, and the ability to spend money like adults. Every few months, we wake up to headlines that sound impressive but achieve nothing: “Global icon invited” “Historic moment” “India on the world map” Translation: taxpayer money spent on a selfie. Now comes the...
Indian cricket has survived bad pitches, bad selections, match-fixing storms and ego clashes before. But what’s happening now feels different. This isn’t about form or fitness. This is about power, politics, control – and silence. And silence, as we all know, screams the loudest. The Gambhir era: From firebrand captain...
Every year, lakhs of employees in India negotiate for salary hikes, bonuses, and variable pay as if that is the only way to increase take-home income. Meanwhile, there is one quiet, legal, HR-approved trick that increases your salary without your boss ever touching your payslip. A company-leased car. Most employees...
Kerala has produced many businessmen, but only one has turned himself into a phenomenon so loud, so unpredictable, and so endlessly talked about that even his critics secretly admire the sheer madness of it all. That man is Boby Chemmanur, a figure wrapped in gold, mystery, spectacle, politics, philanthropy, allegations,...
Fast fashion sold us a lie: “If you want performance, you must wear plastic.” We swallowed that lie for years — polyester leggings that suffocate the skin, nylon sports bras that stink after one workout, synthetic underwear that feels like wearing cling-film all day. And every wash releases thousands of...
They pull up at the signal, rev the engine like it’s a gunshot, and stare at you through a cracked Ray-Ban knockoff — the new breed of pseudo-gangsters. Their rides? Ten-to-fifteen-year-old luxury cars bought for the price of a second-hand Maruti, mostly imported from flood-hit states or sold off by...
