French Open Preview: Does Rafael Nadal Have His Mojo Back?
By JUSTIN BERGMAN It’s springtime in Europe and, as usual, Rafael Nadal is taking care of business on the dirt. With the exception of a slight hiccup on the controversial blue clay courts of Madrid (an experimental surface Nadal griped about incessantly), the Spaniard has been unstoppable—again—during the clay-court season, racking up victories in some of his favorite haunts: Monte Carlo, Barcelona and Rome. More importantly, he got two huge victories over his arch-nemesis, Novak … [Read More...]
The Lonely Dudhwalla: India’s Shame
By Sanjay Jha I had just entered my teenage years when I discovered the power of the idiot box. As we sat huddled before the eye-popping technology in a rectangular shape , my first memories are those of hearing a deep baritone voice, intellectually refined , possessing extraordinary depth and talking esoteric … [Read More]
Bombay Diary
By Anil Dharker Have we become a nation of cynics? This thought occurred to me while taking part in virtually the same discussion on two different national news channels. Someone on the panel questioned the involvement of Aamir Khan in the programme Satyamev Jayate. What were his motives? Weren’t they commercial? Was he not interested in high TRPs? Wasn’t the programme sponsored, so would future episodes not tread warily around sponsors’ sensitivities? In case you have missed all … [Read More...]
W H AT A S T A R T ? Match fixing takes guard.
By Sanjay Jha IT WAS A SULTRY HOT summer evening of April when we landed in Dhaka, the entire contingent of the new born cricket portal CricketNext.com. As the Indian Airlines fl ight descended in awkward jerks from a cloudless sky, I reminisced with a peculiar sense of disbelief that fateful afternoon at the Oberoi hotel in Mumbai just a few weeks ago. Pallavi (my wife) and I had gone all prepared, with a heavily worked out business plan capturing projected eyeballs, competitor analysis, … [Read More...]
Chen, China and America
Courtesy: www.economist.com The disputed story of a blind activist raises difficult questions for both superpowers AT RARE moments the future of a nation, even one teeming with 1.3 billion souls, can be bound up in the fate of a single person. Just possibly China is living through one of those moments and Chen Guangcheng is that person. A blind activist from Shandong province, Mr Chen emerged from poverty, fought for justice and paid the price with his own liberty. Last month he made a … [Read More...]
THE SUNDAY TEAR-LEADER
By Sanjay Jha ( The fact that we need an education from a Bollywood actor being paid an astronomical sum to understand our social woes is as much a commentary on the star as it is on ourselves). Finding a celebrity with a social orientation is as easy as finding a crowd disembarking from a local train in Mumbai. Bad boy Salman Khan after insouciantly driving over pavement dwellers in an inebriated condition and hunting down a black buck runs a charitable entity called Being Human. These … [Read More...]
Recommending Movie
 |
|
Photo of the week
March 1, 2011. A U.S. Army soldier with the 10th Special Forces Group and his military working dog jump off the ramp of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment during water training over the Gulf of Mexico as part of exercise Emerald Warrior 2011.
Courtesy: www.time.com
Sanjay Jha Sanjay Jha is the Executive Director of the world-famous Dale Carnegie Training operations in India, which has a global experience of having worked with over 400 of the Top Fortune 500 companies.[Read More...] |
Rajeev Gowda Two score and five years ago (=45), Rajeev was born into a family of freedom fighters. Patriotic songs were the lullabies that rocked him to sleep. The exploits of his uncle and father inspired him to action. [Read More...] |
Recent Comments