When a pet breathes its last...
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Tears welled up, a lump developed in my throat and I was almost choked. His body lay in front of me, like a discharged battery, lifeless. Memories of the past 12 years flashed before me, going back to the moment I brought a three-month-old Sufi home, cuddled up in my arms. There was joy from the moment he arrived. Everybody was after him, everybody noticing what he did. How he slurped milk, the sound his paws made, how he sat, how he lay down. If one person arranged his bed, the other decided on his eating bowl. All this while, our little bundle of joy, still nameless, looked on - head tilted, ears in front, eyes fixed on all of us. Twelve years on, my eyes were fixed on Sufi, every bit of life extracted out of him. The sound of his grave being dug had brought....
Meet Jose Mourinho, the Real moron
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Sports need characters, not character-less characters. Maybe that's why the most-loved sport has restricted Jose Mourinho to the bench and didn't allow its sacred pitch to get contaminated with his footprints. The tag 'The Special One' should perhaps be transformed to oxymoron 'The Bad Special One' who could never forge a meaningful career as a player; and when football allowed his managerial skills to make a contribution, he offended the game's spirit time and again - the latest of which was an eye-poke. Fisticuffs concluded last week's El Clasico in the Spanish Super Cup but the most shocking exchange of the skirmish was witnessed when Mourinho wedged his finger into the eye of Barcelona's assistant manager Tito Vilonova. Competition in sports sometimes brings out the inner animal in us. Is that the case with Mourinho as well, who couldn't drive Real Madrid to any meaningful success....
More about Jaspreet Sahni
After becoming an expert in the hook shot that ends in a six over the third-man boundary and scoring a few goals in hockey after all the hard work was done by the other 10 players, I confessed to myself that studying the two games from the ropes was a better option. Though I wish I had started that process earlier than 1996, around 15 years of watching, reading and sometimes still practising that 'hook shot' over has allowed me this space on Cricketnext and IBNLive to write and get read.Recent Posts
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