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Chapter 5: Getting in to Adolescence

Chapter 5: Getting in to Adolescence

A new school and a new life all over again. My mother changed her school, so I too was forced to change. Prince Matriculation Hr. Sec. School in Nanganallur, one of the most renowned schools around Nanganallur and Madipakkam. From a school with few rooms and less competitive people, all of a sudden I was [...]

March 30, 2010 | 3 Comments More
Chapter 4: Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid

Chapter 4: Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid

The school in which I studied was closed before the year completed, the Principal of that school using his influence pulled in a bigger school to start a new school and to take up all the students. Thus a new school was opened in Nanganallur by the name of Besant L.V.R. This period is very [...]

March 4, 2010 | 2 Comments More
Chapter 3: “All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever.”

Chapter 3: “All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever.”

Like the title says.. the bad things continued and I don’t want to dwell too much about those bad things. We moved to a new location in Chennai (Nanganallur). This move helped me a bit, as my parents will not say ‘no’ if I go to a temple and Nanganallur had quite a few Shiva [...]

February 28, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Chapter 2: Age of Darkness

Chapter 2: Age of Darkness

I was brought to Chennai, and my mother did the trick again, this time she gave birth to a baby girl and left her in her mothers place when she was 4 months old. Meanwhile, my father’s career nosedived and he went from bad to worse. After completing an MA with good grades, he ended [...]

December 8, 2009 | 2 Comments More
Chapter 1: Birth of a Cursed Soul

Chapter 1: Birth of a Cursed Soul

There are no modules in life for beginners: right away we will always be asked to deal with what is most difficult. Over a period of time, we get accustomed to the vagaries of life and over a period of time, learn to live with it (might be with a grudge). I never had any [...]

December 5, 2009 | 6 Comments More
Sachin Tendulkar – A Genius in Perennial Agony

Sachin Tendulkar – A Genius in Perennial Agony

“This little prick’s gonna get more runs than you, AB” said Merv Hughes to Allan Border. This happened when Border was only few runs short of 10,000 and sachin was in his teens. You can dissect this statement in two different ways. 1) Merv Hughes is an extraordinary visionary 2) The genius of Sachin was [...]

November 7, 2009 | 3 Comments More

175 from 141 of Sachin – when solitude met Immortality.

What a knock? 175 from 141 balls, while chasing a mammoth total of 351. People have short term memory loss; this year sachin has scored 3 centuries (the highest by anyone this year) at a very good average better than most others. Yet people say he has grown old, and he should hang up his [...]

November 6, 2009 | 0 Comments More

Sachin – The God who wrote his own script

There is a dialogue in a Japanese movie titled ‘Initial D’. If translated it means “God is also Human, but he can do things which ordinary people can’t do”. What ordinary people cannot do in a cricket field is to write their own script. There may be great players, but they are bound to go [...]

October 20, 2009 | 1 Comment More

Sachin – The Phenomenon

Unlike many others, life had very few happiness in store for me during my childhood days, my grand mother’s affection, dreams of my fantasy land while being awake and finally Sachin (not just his batting). For the past 16 years he has been a part of my life. There is a psychological concept called as [...]

October 9, 2009 | 6 Comments More