September, 2007
Small Town Heroes
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Cricket has won the hearts and minds of an entire nation once again. Just a few months back after crashing out of the first round of the 50-over World Cup in West Indies, the Indian team could do nothing right. The coach was bad, Irfan Pathan had lost his swing, and Virender Sehwag could not face two balls before edging one to the slips. Cut to September 2007, Pathan bowls magnificently to help India win the TT World Cup ( 20-20 and not table tennis), Sehwaag doesn't play the final but does enough to show that the booming drives are back and we the fickle minded cricket lovers are smiling once again. The same advertisers, who were pulling down the billboards showcasing Dhoni and Yuvraj are back in business, TV channels who were still licking their wounds after suffering huge financial losses in the World....
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Bhupendra Chaubey has been a TV journalist for the past 12 years starting his career with NDTV. As a political journalist travelling across the length and breadth of the country, he has that unique ability to grasp things at a micro level and then present it on a macro level. A graduate in Mathematics and post graduate in films, Bhupendra has been among the finest political journalists of his generation having covered two general elections and assembly elections of all states. He is amongst those journalists who depend more on their ground political awareness supplementing it with academic awareness of issues that confront the nation. Bhupendra often hosts the very popular and award winning news show face the nation on CNN-IBN. He wants to be associated with the process of understanding the ever changing face of India. He lives in the national capital with his family.
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