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Virender Sehwag's retirement: The unofficial Google doodle
Sports Soumyadip ChoudhuryOctober 19, 2015 0

Virender Sehwag retirement: The unofficial Google doodle

Update 3: This has gone viral. The tweet has been retweeted and favourited hundreds of times and featured on Huffington Post and BuzzFeed. Update 2: This time it is official;.…Continue Reading →

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Download for free: 40 HarperCollins India ebooks on Google Play

Disclosure: I am an ebook evangelist. Update 2: As expected, Google and HarperCollins India seems to have been alerted of…

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Chamko – Fixes all spots

A topical in context of the ongoing IPL spot fixing brouhaha. This is from one of the most fondly remembered…

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Sachin Tendulkar’s 100th hundred unofficial Google doodle

Another big event that won’t find a Google doodle. For Sachin and cricket fans from around the world, here’s an unofficial edition of the Google doodle celebrating Sachin Tendulkar’s 100th…Continue Reading →

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Sunil Gavaskar’s health plan and mix-up as a newborn

Sunil Gavaskar was paid Rs 2,000 for the first advertisement he appeared in. Though CK Nayudu and Farokh Engineer were…

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How Maxim maidens bowl the men over

Maxim claims to be the sexiest men’s magazine around and occasionally comes with with sexy ads promoting itself. Here’s a…

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The day BSA SLR helped Kapil Dev fly high

In the 1980s, Kapil Dev was India’s hottest cricket sensation. Leading India to win the World Cup immediately gave the Haryana Hurricane a label of greatness in the hearts and…Continue Reading →

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From toddler to The Wall: A photographic tribute to Rahul Dravid

You may have seen the photos below elsewhere on the Internet, but it was on Cutting the Chai were they…

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Why I haven’t watched a single IPL match till date

I know I am in a minority, maybe even a namuna. I haven’t watched a single IPL match from the…

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A Big Dose of India Versus Pakistan Cricket Stats

Everybody and their mother-in-law is writing a blog post on the big cricket match on Wednesday. It does take a superhuman effort or an utter dislike or extreme disinterest in…Continue Reading →

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Sunil and Rohan Gavaskar’s Brush with Forhan’s

Abhishek Bachchan delivered a string of 17 flops before his first hit and then gradually rose up the ladder to…

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Printable Football World Cup 2010 Schedule in IST

The World Cup is only a few hours away and like all the previous editions (right from 1986, though I…

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