South Africa thrash England by 10 wickets

I am very happy to see the South Africans decimating the English team for the last four days and winning the 2nd test at Headingley by 10 wickets. I hope England lose the test series 3-0 and Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff, Kevin Peitersen and Michael Vaughan are dropped forever.

Hats-off to SC

Amid all the political backstabbing and betrayal that is currently going on, there is one person who has remained true to his post till date. Yes, I am talking about the speaker of the lower house, Mr. Somnath Chatterjee. He has defied his party's orders to resign from the post and vote against the government in the trust vote that is scheduled for some time tonight. He resigns before the trust vote or not, for what he has done till now, he deserves lot of credits.

Vote of absurdity

What is going to happen tonight is utter non-sense. Although most(read all) of the MPs are corrupted one way or the other, the most disgusting thing happening is with the Left. The Left parties are like an average Indian. Like to take part in all the goody goody things; when the poll time comes, they come out and cry foul taking absolutely no responsibility for anything that happened during when they were supporting the government. These rats are the most irritating thing in our politics right now. I hope these guys are defeated and finished once it for all tonight. But I fear that latter won't happen any time soon. Raja says dealing with US has sovereign issues but dealing with China is totally acceptable. Total bulls**t. Leftist comrades, please run away to China or Russia.

Dream Come True

I have been waiting for 3 weeks for this to happen and finally, I can breathe a sigh of relief. I have successfully got hold of DVD Rips of all the 21 official Bond movies. I have been trying to get hold of the complete Bond collection for the past 5 years without any success. Thanks to a person called "Donatello", I found the first 20 Bond movies, all at one place, as "The Ultimate Bond Collection". In addition to the movies, it had all the DVD extras for each and every movie with an additional extras disc. It totaled to 27.7 GB and took almost 20 days to download. But hey, no complaints at all. All that remains is enjoying the content time and time again now. Thanks Donatello.

Please drive safely

My cousin brother, Arunkumar Narayanan, met with an accident yesterday and lost his life. Condolences to his parents.

Times of India report

Looking for the title of a spy novel

I am looking for the title of a book that I read couple of years ago. My memory about the book is very vague. I’ll list out few things that I remember about the book,

> It’s a spy novel set around 70s & 80s (which was when the book got published)
> Majority(90%) of the story takes place in England
> Its about Communists in Soviet hatching a plan to bring a communist favoring rule in England by creating unrest in England via nuclear blast
> The protagonist is a middle aged - divorced – guy who is a biggie in one of the MIs(Definitely not MI6)
> The Soviet General Secretary will be a very old man nearing his death and he’ll be a paralyzed person who moves around in a wheel chair
> The nuclear bomb will be brought into London by about dozen different people and will be later assembled in London
> The author was definitely a well known one

Update: Found the title, thanks to one of my close friends. "The fourth potocol" by Frederick Forsyth

Rohit Sharma & Pragyan Ojha in the test squad

Wow.. The 16-man squad for the Sri Lankan tour has Rohit Sharma & Pragyan Ojha. Hope it is not too early to draft in Rohit. He seems to be a very good player. Lets not waste him. Btw, yours truly felt even Kaif seemed a good player for the initial two years.

Test squad for Sri Lanka

Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman, Rohit Sharma, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Parthiv Patel (wk), Anil Kumble (capt), Harbhajan Singh, Ishant Sharma, Zaheer Khan, RP Singh, Munaf Patel, Pragyan Ojha.

Black Day..

A very sad way to start the day. The first thing I saw in the news this morning is the suicide bombing of the Indian embassy in Afghanistan. Its a shame to the rebuilding process there post-Taliban destruction. If the reports are to be believed, Pakistan's ISI have a major hand behind this. Condolences to all the family members and friends of those who lost their lives.

Super Sunday becomes Super Disappointment

With the Wimbledon Men's Singles finals, British GP & Star Cricket Asia Cup finals, it was all set to be a real Super Sunday. But it ended as a day of disappointment. First, no podium finish for the Ferrari, thanks to some superb driving from Lewis Hamilton and ill-timed British rain. Then, the Asia Cup finals. During the change of innings, I was very confident of an Indian win. Even though Gambhir departed early, Sehwag was showing who was the boss. But it all came crashing down in the 10th over. And by the time the powerplays ended, Sri Lankan win was just a matter of when and not if. Finally, back to England to the centre court of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. By the time Ajantha Mendis ran through the top and middle order of the Indian team, Nadal had already taken a 2 set lead over Federer. When all seems lost, the rain came and broke Nadal's momentum. When the match restarted, Sri Lanka had already become the Asian Champions, Federer came back very strongly taking the match to the final set for the second successive year. Just when I thought the master is back in his stride, Nadal broke the FedExpress and went on to claim the prestigious Wimbledon Men's title. All in all, it was a disappointing day considering the results. But results are not all that is important, all the three events were simply awesome to watch. Superb racing followed by a mesmerising spell by a new spinner and finishing off with the best singles tennis match I've seen since Sampras retired. It was a great day for the sport lovers.