Tongue-tied n Twisted

Former Pakistani Wicketkeeper Moin Khan was awarded the prestigious Cricket Analyst of the year award at a glittering ceremony held here at Faisalabad today. The award that had been instituted in 2003 by Mandira Bedi's Noodle Strap Association of Cricket Lovers carries a citation and a Book Prize - 'Understanding Cricket - C'mon Man' by the legendary Krish Shrikkanth. The award was presented to him by the erudite Javed Miandad, who had won this award in its inaugral year for having found an Irfan Pathan in every bylane of Pakistan. Fellow students of the game like Rashid Latif, Ranjit Fernando, Navjot Siddhu and Mandira Bedi watched anxiously as the results were announced. Experts say that it was Moin Khan's vision that clinched it for him. His prophetic vision of the start of the decline of the the lowly Sachin Tendulkar is believed to be the clincher. This, because the novice Tendulkar walked after thinking he was out to some quality fast bowling on the leg side b...

In a bizzarre turn of events, and directions too, the Sun on Monday, for reasons inexplicable at the outset, rose in the west and set in the east, leaving most people across the world stunned. The reason for this apparent and sudden change in mood on the part of the Sun was unclear in the beginning. However, as the day progressed the pieces of the jigsaw began to fall in place. The reason, as is learnt from highly reliable sources, was that some miserable soul called Pranav, in a corner of the world, called Pune had made it to office as early as 0845 hrs. And as if that wasnt enough he also happened to beat everyone to the chequered flag - in being the first person to arrive at office. Eye witness sources say they heard a cacophonous sound of an apparently badly maintained motorbike disturb the calm in the air only to see Pranav enter the premises of his office. The watchman, a meek god fearing man himself, was intially too stunned and appeared motionless. "It was like the Owl had...

Ever dreamt of owning a superbike ? Ever dreamt of being a Baazigar ( haarke jeetne wala) ? No guys i am no movie freak but the other day i just happened to witness, from close quarters, the saga of brother-sister love and the stuff that hindi movies and fairytales are made of. Or so i thought. Well the protagonist of our family drama is the ever affable and unassuming Mr. Nitesh Naidu. Before giving you the rather surreal details of this drama may i take some time out to throw some light on this creature of god, christened Nitesh Naidu. Adroit, as this task is, coupled with my feeble powers of narrative, i hope Naidu will forgive me for any mistakes made in the following narrative. To begin with, the biggest calamity to befall Naidu is that more than three quarters of this world addresses him as Naidu (yours truly included). According to recent reports though, there has been a sudden rise in the usage of the word 'Nitesh', although only in certain parts of the densest tropical...