Hindustan Times
Like millions of others, I too watched on television, the IPL final played at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on Sunday. I was, however, pained to see that a player of Sachin Tendulkar’s stature did not walk when he had snicked a catch to Mahendra Singh Dhoni behind the stumps and stayed put in his position.
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Posted by Pankaj Vohra on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at 8:25 pm
Filed under Capital Closeup · Tagged Adam Gilchrist, DY Patil Stadium, Garfield Sobers, IPL final, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Navi Mumbai, Sachin Tendulkar, Umpire
The other day, I bought some new CDs featuring my favourite music composers—Shankar Jaikishen to listen to their immortal melodies, which continue to dominate most Radio programmes featuring vintage Hindi film songs. Read more
Posted by Pankaj Vohra on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Filed under Cinema · Tagged Beatles, C.Ramachandran, favourite music, Hansraj Behl, Hemant Kumar, Hindi film songs, immortal melodies, Kalyanji Anandji, Khayyam, Laxmikant Pyarelal, Madan Mohan, N Dutta, Naushad, O.P.Nayyar, Ravi, Roshan, S.D.Burman, Sajjad, Salil Chaudhury, Sardar Malik, Shankar Jaikishen, SN Tripathi, Vasant Desai, Western music
I can vividly recall my first day on the crime beat. I was a young reporter in the National Herald (where I worked for five and a half months) and was suddenly informed by my chief reporter, D.K. Issar on April 13th evening in 1980 that I had been assigned the crime beat. Read more
Posted by Pankaj Vohra on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 7:29 pm
Filed under Media · Tagged Crime Beat, Issar, National Herald, Padma Rao, Parliament Street, Police Headquarters, police station, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Thana
The Shoaib Malik-Ayesha Siddiqui controversy appears to have eclipsed the proposed marriage of Indian Tennis Star Sania Mirza to the former Pakistan Cricket Captain on April 15. Read more
Posted by Pankaj Vohra on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 8:45 pm
Filed under india · Tagged Hyderabad, india, Indian Tennis Star Sania Mirza, Pakistan, Pakistan Cricket Captain, Shoaib - Sania, Shoaib Malik, Shoaib Malik-Ayesha Siddiqui
