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backwhen – coffee and biscuits were for a song

awmyth a. posted an article on - Sep 9, 2011, 2:32 pm
the song the british folk rock quartet, Magna Carta were touring India and they played unplugged to a full house at Kala Mandir in Kolkata. it was a longway back in the when, we were four fresh faced singers and guitar players, trying out our nascent skills in a band of ...
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for the crying and singing of a guitar

awmyth a. posted an article on - Aug 14, 2011, 11:55 am
  Backwhen in Calcutta during my college days, I happened to be in a band. We were a humble three guitars and a drummer ensemble and a singer; we went by the name of The Doc’Yard. We broke many college norms to delve into western music; when it was considered bad cul...
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in memory of Alex McIntyre

awmyth a. posted an article on - Nov 19, 2010, 6:21 pm
few days ago, I stumbled upon this webpage about Alex McIntyre I am shocked to hear he died in an accident on Annapurna in 1982. Long ago, with my friends, I was an avid walker – every holiday I saved up for, had to be spent in the Himalayas. In post monsoon 1982, we ...
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what happened to morality in sport?

awmyth a. posted an article on - Jun 29, 2010, 8:17 am
the goalkeeper here MUST have seen the ball bouncing way inside the goalline. it was not just a few inches this way or that it was in by almost half a yard! it was so obvious why could he not admit that he had been beaten? all he had to do was pick up the ball and plac...
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when free to fly back home

awmyth a. posted an article on - Jun 21, 2010, 11:46 am
it was about eleven at night on the last train from calcutta to shantipur, a rare weekend off from work, going to visit my ma a railway carriage not unlike like this. wind free tunneling into the compartment, increasing with speed through the windows and doors, the me...
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shakira – not just a pretty voice

awmyth a. posted an article on - Jun 20, 2010, 8:09 am
was never a fan so didn’t know much of Shakira till I came across the FIFA World Cup Song (and got pulled back to watching a fairly dull tournament so far). I read, she will be appearing in Glastonbury this year. ho hum, I said, thanks for the information. then...
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how patriotic is Sonia Gandhi?

awmyth a. posted an article on - Jun 16, 2010, 7:50 am
I read I am being unpatriotic. Those blaming Rajiv not patriotic: Cong Express news service: Posted: Wed Jun 16 2010, 23:39 hrs New Delhi: With the BJP alleging that Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson could not have left the country without the knowledge of the Rajiv ...
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and here is one of them …

awmyth a. posted an article on - Jun 14, 2010, 10:18 am
thank god for stupid arselickers*, these indians … No option, Anderson had to be freed: Pranab CNN-IBN – Posted on Jun 13, 2010 at 13:26 New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has defended senior Congress leader Arjun Singh for his decision as Madhya Pradesh Ch...
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thank god for stupid arselickers*, these indians …

awmyth a. posted an article on - Jun 12, 2010, 12:07 pm
the only thought that could have gone through the mind of, Warren Anderson, former chairman and chief executive officer of Union Carbide as he was being saluted up the steps of a private jet and flown out by the Indian authorities to jump bail and never to return to the s...
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where do you come from?

awmyth a. posted an article on - Jun 11, 2010, 7:40 am
I have spent days, and hours watching the moves, the passes, the dribbles, the shots, the goals, the misses, the joys and the agonies. every four years. I have been searching for a reason to put myself through it all again. and I have found it, just in time, in this a...
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dhoni – cautiously daredevil

awmyth a. posted an article on - Jun 9, 2010, 9:11 am
A blog by ©hinaman: Dhoni’s daredevilry for a bike ad Says this NDTV video Indian skipper MS Dhoni, whose love for bikes is no secret, had the Jaipur fans asking for more while shooting for a bike advertisement. … Link to the original videoclip He should be knowing better, one would thi...
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said the joker to the thief …

awmyth a. posted an article on - Jun 7, 2010, 6:41 am
A blog by ©hinaman: “…there is no fixing in IPL”. No match-fixing in IPL, I trust franchisees, players: Modi Indo-Asian News Service, London, June 03, 2010 Lalit Modi, suspended Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman and commissioner, insists there has been no match-fixing in the th...
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Mr Tendulkar, sir your halo just slipped

awmyth a. posted an article on - May 28, 2010, 3:04 pm
A blog by ©hinaman:
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set a thief to catch a thief ….. or two …..

awmyth a. posted an article on - May 26, 2010, 5:59 pm
A blog by ©hinaman: ….. or an entire cricket board. No holds barred: Modi attacks BCCI bosses Gaurav Choudhury, Hindustan Times: New Delhi, May 25, 2010 In a sensational twist to the whole Indian Premier League saga, Lalit Modi, the suspended IPL chairman, has accused BCCI president Shashank ...
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don’t worry, be happy

awmyth a. posted an article on - May 9, 2010, 4:21 pm
A blog by ©hinaman: Lost today, so what? Probably out of the tournament, so what? The weeks of the IPL turns out was not as good a preparation for the world cup, so what? Don’t worry, be happy and look on the bright side, Mr Dhoni You won the tournament that really matters. So, why
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delusions of grandeur?

awmyth a. posted an article on - May 8, 2010, 5:18 pm
A blog by ©hinaman:
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… lived by the sword, die by the sword … hah!

awmyth a. posted an article on - Apr 26, 2010, 10:35 am
A blog by ©hinaman: I cannot believe that there are people who still believe Modi is all innocence or because of the success of IPL is irreplacable and should be allowed to continue. Set aside his previous criminal activities – his journey into Indian cricket itself is tainted. He conned his ...
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IPL | turning a blind eye?

awmyth a. posted an article on - Apr 23, 2010, 10:11 am
A blog by ©hinaman: IPL governing council members: Did they know nothing? The Economic Times: 23 Apr 2010, 0000 hrs IST: The IPL’s governing council has 13 members apart from commissioner and chairman Lalit Modi. Almost all of them have now ganged up against Modi for his alleged wrongdoings. ...
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yoo hoo

awmyth a. posted an article on - Apr 19, 2010, 6:33 am
A blog by ©hinaman:
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… in peace for all mankind?!

awmyth a. posted an article on - Jul 19, 2009, 7:10 am
it will be 40 years tomorrow, two men went to the moon and returned safely back to earth I was a young boy in Calcutta then Calcutta had no TVs – no stations no broadcasting I was forbid from tuning in on the radio late at night but it could not keep me away from ...
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first ashes test: an aussies’ take

awmyth a. posted an article on - Jul 14, 2009, 7:23 am
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picking at the (heart) seams

awmyth a. posted an article on - Jul 13, 2009, 7:21 am
A blog by ©hinaman: Wow, what an end to a test match. A glorious draw to remember - no replays or bowl-outs or the toss of a coin necessary to settle who was better. It can only be in Test cricket. a heart torn in two It was difficult, even more as a neutral observer,
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An Ill Wind…

awmyth a. posted an article on - Jun 26, 2009, 1:00 pm
  They say an ill wind blows no one any good, so when I woke up to see this splashed across the headlines of just several major cricket websites, I could not help but sense more than just a draft of bad vibes coming from the general direction of the ICC towards its associates and
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For your eyes only

awmyth a. posted an article on - Jun 14, 2009, 10:30 am
With all the ICC’s talk about the sheer importance of the Intercontinental cup, the walk (as assen here) is something entirely different. With the tournament onec again being rejigged. A whole new division created for the associates ranked 8-12? in the recent World Cup qualifiers), space being...
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If Carlsberg did upsets

awmyth a. posted an article on - Jun 6, 2009, 5:46 am
A blog by Andruid Then certainly this is what they would look like. England, in the opening match of the T20 World Cup. At headquarters (Lords) going down to The Netherlands by 4 wickets in a last ball misfield. What more could the tournament, or the game format, or even the associates for whom this
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Adios Symonds?

awmyth a. posted an article on - Jun 4, 2009, 10:41 am
A blog by meg: Another “alcohol related incident” and Symonds is on his way back to Australia. With him not being selected for the Ashes as it is and now his contract being off the table, is it the last we have seen of him? As per cricinfo, he is keen to tell his side
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T20 World Cup, England 2009 – a preview

awmyth a. posted an article on - Jun 4, 2009, 9:14 am
A blog by Incredibleshoaib: written exclusively for The “Silly Points” Just like international cricket’s newest format, I too will attempt to keep my preview short and full of action. INDIA The defending champs start out the second edition of the T20 World Cup as overwhelming favourite...
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… to boldly go

awmyth a. posted an article on - Jun 1, 2009, 5:58 pm
where the heart takes me to question the unexplained wrongs beliefs blinded by aeons of superstitions prejudices and religions Faith of the Heart a song written by Diane Warren originally performed by Rod Stewart for the soundtrack of the 1998 film Patch Adams also ...
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the perfect delivery … like a birdsong

awmyth a. posted an article on - Jun 1, 2009, 7:46 am
A blog by ©hinaman: you take a long step, maybe a couple gradually increasing speed to the optimum momentum and then with a smooth overarm movement you release the ball your arm glides down in a graceful follow through if you ever hear a bird singing to you the ‘song’ of the smooth acti...
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Back In Business

awmyth a. posted an article on - May 31, 2009, 9:18 am
A blog by meg: So, the Great Battle of the IPL is over. To be honest, I wasn’t too keen on following the whole thing. The kind of phase 1 BRC had did not help matters at all. Couple of weeks into the league and I had almost stopped the occasional score check, it was
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like a Van Winkle

awmyth a. posted an article on - May 31, 2009, 9:11 am
A blog by ©hinaman: seems only yesterday I was throwing slippers at the television, watching the greatness of Ambrose, Walsh, Marshall and Bishop Greenidge, Haynes, Richardson, Richards beating the cricket out of our Vengsarkar led Devs, Shastris, Sidhus and Azhars but it was a cricket I loved, gre...
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there are no 'bodies': neither dead nor alive

awmyth a. posted an article on - Mar 4, 2009, 2:24 pm
the dust has settled, so has the shock, the anger, the grief – and the emotional voices let us go back to what did happen on a weekday morning at 08:40 at a busy roundabout in Lahore Pakistan 12/14 individual – fired automatic weapons – launched grenades and escap...
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british mp's mockery of freedom of speech

awmyth a. posted an article on - Feb 14, 2009, 9:53 am
first it was the Foreign Secretary David Milliband’s gutless statements on Kashmir. now it is Home Secretary Jacqui Smith as the nations economy worsens, and the evidence of their disastrous handling of the economy continues to surface the more they have to rely on th...
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in an islamic caliphate: what rights the ahmadiyyas?

awmyth a. posted an article on - Feb 14, 2009, 6:05 am
would you live in an Islamic Caliphate, the global state that will be ruled under the Sharia Law? the one Islamic Caliphate, that every muslims desires, yes, everyone of them, for it is dictated by their religion. Islam is a religion of peace, it is argued by the muslim...
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for the (true) flower children

awmyth a. posted an article on - Feb 8, 2009, 5:39 pm
i stumbled back on this song from the flower power days when some had the courage to stand up and say no more to violence when to bring change needed courage and sacrifice not the sanctimonious voices younger generation – john sebastian at woodstock why must every ...
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this is how, noseycows

awmyth a. posted an article on - Feb 7, 2009, 6:54 am
yes, I write against a religion that denies the equality and the fundamental rights of every human individual, denies the freedom to practise any religion other than its own my views on such religion on this blogs have been criticised it has also brought criticism of my...
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the curse on a serious blogger

awmyth a. posted an article on - Feb 5, 2009, 8:41 am
as a blogger, i often wonder which is the greatest of the scourges, the loudmouth ignorants, the opportunist but obvious propagandist or the manipulator deluded about their own knowledge or intelligence or perhaps both i have had the misfortune of being visited by one, ...
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british mp's support for islamic terrorism

awmyth a. posted an article on - Jan 18, 2009, 1:45 pm
and why not, Pakistan is far from home, if the Pakistanis are killing Indians in India, its no problem for the Brits. David Miliband comments on Kashmir welcomed by ‘terrorist’ group By Dean Nelson in New Delhi – Last Updated: 12:46PM GMT 18 Jan 2009 The radical ...
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