When a mobile number becomes your identity

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This happened to me at the fag end of 2006 when I was recollecting the best movies I saw in that very year. It's here where Leonardo DiCaprio's words in 'The Departed' came calling in, "I want my identity back!" Ever since then, I have had this peculiar connection between these words and the battle for Hutch taking on me. What rights do the boardroom mandarins, who are slugging day in and day out for Hutch India' buyout, have over my mobile no. if I happen to be a hitherto loyal Hutch Subscriber. Regardless of who wins this hyped yet mundane battle of buyouts, the problem lies with the fact that there would be many like me who just don't want to have the future of their mobile numbers with Hutch Suitor A or Hutch suitor B. Or should I set the record straight, say if Hutch India goes....

Why we can't swap IHF for PCB

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How long can we continue to bay for blood of the Indian hockey's pallbearer duo of Mr. K.P.S.Gill and Jyotikumaran? High time we grow up. The two have been actively contributing towards what even a sports minister can't do in full public glare. That of paving way for Cricket, our national obsession, to be officially conferred with the honor of being our National Sport. Even on a serious note, one can't help letting the chariots of imagination run wild and wild more so towards our northern frontiers. One thinks of unthinkable. Of perhaps the only compromises that would be amenable to all Indians across the board. Of swapping Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) with Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)? The wishful thinking doesn't take long to undo itself. It's a different matter as to why would Pakistan ever take IHF in exchange of PCB? Perhaps not even with the....