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#CWC15 – QF 2: IND vs BAN

March 20, 2015 November 20, 2023

A memorable match for Bangladesh, for many reasons, such as their first knockout game at the World Cup (ever) and the robbery under the lights that put their lights out. The second reason will be big news in Bangladesh for a while yet. (If you drive down to Buffalo, NY,…Continue reading→

#CWC15 QF 1: SAF vs SL

March 19, 2015 December 30, 2022

This is the World Cup that started with a bang, with plenty of excitement, some strong showings, and surprises. It then tapered off into a sludge of matches of little or no import. About the only thing left was to see whether Ireland could pip the West Indies and Pakistan…Continue reading→

Memory Indexed

March 17, 2015 March 17, 2015

Well, you thought maybe you’ve seen the last of The SloWord, that I’d given up writing and inflicting my confusing thoughts on to you, that I’d gone off and got another job and therefore become too busy. You wronged me, for what I’ve been doing is designing a way to…Continue reading→

The Mars Club Member’s Daughter

March 5, 2015 December 30, 2022

This must be shared…..

Blogging news

March 4, 2015 March 4, 2015

This is a quick post, just an update really. You know, the kind of post that doesn’t actually say anything. The kind that starts of like this, in fact, and goes steadily downhill from there. Ah, that got you reading this far! You either love this blog more than anything…Continue reading→

#CWC15 – Cliches

March 4, 2015 December 30, 2022

This is a World Cup that I have watched after a long time. Watched, as opposed to, followed via ESPNCricinfo.com typed out commentary. I miss my old commentators. On radio, I grew up with Anand Setalvad, Dicky Rutnagur and the like. Setalvad’s voice changed as he built up the excitement. “Bedi…Continue reading→

#CWC15 – Week 2

March 2, 2015 December 25, 2022

What a week! We saw teams trying hard to lose, it seems but failing to do so, we saw a humdinger of a match between the hosts. First let’s the world cup record out of the way. Yes , Chris Gayle got 215. Yes, he got it against Zimbabwe in…Continue reading→

Punjabi in Paris – Normandy Notes 2

March 2, 2015 February 25, 2024

The Story so far This is where we left off at the end of the first part of the Normandy Notes 1: We’d missed the morning’s parachute drop re-enactment after an exciting and exhausting drive in. I was thinking wistfully about the stained glass windows of the church in Ste…Continue reading→

#Oscars

February 23, 2015 December 30, 2022

So we had the annual, actually, the 87th Annual, dress-up-and-make-political-speeches-thank-god-my-family-the-cast-and-crew-for-an-amazing-film extravanganza. It was hosted by Neil Patrick Harris and featured a confusing opening song-and-dance. Well produced it may have been, but it was confusing. To me, at least, and my opinion is all that matters to me. Two reasons I…Continue reading→

#CWC15 – Ind v SA

February 23, 2015 December 25, 2022

Any dry throats and thumping hearbeats at the start of the game became dryer and thumpier as Rohit left early. With that, the game was afoot, as Holmes used to say, or so we are told by Conan Doyle. This was the other marquee matchup in Pool B, ranking in importance…Continue reading→

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