VIJAY

'Coffee Times' In the leisure of a summer noon alone With a cup of piping hot coffee along Takes me to the times bygone, The bitterness mixes with the memories, And the taste lingers on. Vijay

@niketan_r Yes definitely.

@drippingashes Michael Ferrera, Geet Sethi too even though i hardly understood how billiards was played. Just their international wins were enough.

Yes I did plus Prakash Padukone ,Amita Singh and Gopichand, PT Usha , Geeta Zutshi ,Shiny Wilson and Ashwin Nachappa.... Names I still remember

@Koushik_laribee @nimishdubey Lendl vs Edberg had some amazing encounters if I remember correctly

“For 3 hours Ivan Lendl has been like a man hacking through undergrowth”. Not only do I miss the artistry in tennis, I also miss the brilliant commentary. The inimitable Bud Collins. ⁦@nimishdubey⁩

@BombayBasanti Of all of them Trimurti was a traumatic experience... though not directed by him

Kalicharan, Vishwanath, Karz, Krodhi, Vidhaata, Hero, Meri Jung, Karma, Ram Lakhan, Saudagar, Khalnayak, Trimurti, Pardes, Taal.... Your favourtie #SuhbhashGhai movie?

Hook or crook...is their motto.

@mssakshinarula 😨😱

I don't think you've seen it all until you have seen this gem.

....Though Gopichand belongs to 90s decade .

@starfish_72 How to make your husband work, finally.. Nora knew it . 😀

Nora would occasionally remind Bob about the pistachio shells he left on the table. Today, she didn't #waver, just kissed his head. The gesture landed. Bob started feeling guilty and got up to tidy what he'd left behind. Nora knew what she was doing. #vss365

EID MUBARAK TO ALL

@starfish_72 Catty lines. 😀

I grabbed a sock of striped design To make my cat friend look divine I used my shears to #divide the knit To make sure each paw would fit But as I pulled them on her feet The transformation wasn't sweet The woolly tubes began to sag I ended up with useless rags #vss365

@Koushik_laribee Wasn't it called Return of the Dragon?

Top class action sequence. I know the sequence blow by blow. Top tier choreography .

@Koushik_laribee @nimishdubey @ProsaicView @yoursvivek @joybhattacharj Never read his work, just came to know about him, definitely will try to get his books of short stories.

Tonight. @nimishdubey @ProsaicView @yoursvivek @drippingashes @joybhattacharj

@_____sekhmet 2014 to 2026 and till....

2026 version of india is embarrassing

@FarziLogic @Prithvi10_ First I thought both of you were referring to some film's dialogues. ☹️

@Prithvi10_ Yeh Janta hotel wale 250 rupye mein full tandoori chicken kaise dete hai jab ek normal chicken bhi usse mehenga aata hai?

तुम्हारा शहर जिधर है उसी तरफ़ इक रेल जा रही थी कि तुम याद आ गए

@nimishdubey Not many are...many are in hallucination mode.

“Dhurandhar: The Revenge’ is a Masterstroke in Pandering to a Nation that Wants to be Misled…” That is a deep and very telling sentence for those who wish to listen.

@rosie_mann1 🤣🤣

But it’s not about jalebi.🥨

@FarziLogic @AMP86793444 Maybe for millennials and next generations.

@AMP86793444 Difficult toh nahi lekin kathin zaroor keh sakte hai

Tell us who this is without telling us who this is.

@patralekha2011 Surprised to see so much toxicity on social media on trivial matters. It seems many people have no civility or tolerance .

Will not engage but reporting every post and DM from every one hurling filthy, casteist and communal abuses at me because I said many parts of Kolkata look nicer than before and cleaner than what I see in Delhi and Mumbai, two other mega cities. Quite revealing. Extremely sad. If only this toxic energy could be channeled more fruitfully. I have work to do. So off.

@_____sekhmet He is such a fine 'actor' , na?

oh so our PM has finally gotten a movie offer after auditioning for all these years?

@nimishdubey What an absorbing account of the series. I might have seen it on tv but memories are now too faded to recollect them.

For those of us in India who followed cricket in the 1980s, the defeat against England at home in 1984-85 was particularly traumatising. This was because it was, well, it was simply not SUPPOSED to happen. How could it? England had lost three series in a row, the last being a 5-0 "Blackwash" against West Indies, and had been pushed even by Sri Lanka in a one-off Test. Its best player, Ian Botham, was skipping the tour, and among the rest of its line up, only Gower and Lamb were considered dangerous. The bowling was paper thin, with the likes of Cowans, Foster, Allot, Agnew, Ellison and Chris Cowdrey. Phil Edmonds and Pat Pocock were good spinners, but were supposed to be well past their best. Bob Willis had retired and Graham Gooch, Peter Willey, John Lever, John Emburey and Wayne Larkins were serving bans for touring South Africa. India on the other hand had arguably the best batsman in the world, Sunil Gavaskar, and one of the best bowlers and all rounders in Kapil Dev. Mohinder Amarnath was back in form, Dilip Vengsakar was looking good and so was Sandeep Patil. Add to that one of the best young all rounders in the world (Ravi Shastri) and the best wicket keeper in the world (Syed Kirmani), home conditions and England's legendary inability to handle spin, and it seemed India would coast to an easy win. I mean, India had beaten a much stronger, full strength England team 1-0 three years ago. And for a while, it seemed to go to script. England struggled against the spin of Laxman Sivaramakrishnan (and the umpiring, they claimed) and lost the first Test. David Gower would later wrote that they came across a bowler they had never seen before and an umpire they never wanted to see again. England seemed set for another hammering. So much so that some spectators were seen carrying banners saying "Brownwash" as the first Test was coming to an end. And then it all went horribly wrong. A single session of careless batting, highlighted by loose shots by Kapil Dev and Sandeep Patil, cost India the second Test. And things got worse when both Patil and Kapil Dev were dropped for disciplinary reasons. The deicison generated a lot of controversy and we saw the crowd at Kolkota booing and abusing their own captain so badly that Gavaskar swore he would never play in the city again (he actually refused to play against Pakistan in 1986-87 for that reason, although he changed his mind for the World Cup). Mohinder Amarnath and Shastri continued to bat well for India, although Shastri's insistence on batting at a snail's pace led to the first chants of "Shastri, hai, hai" at Kolkota. This was the match in which Phil Edmonds pretended to be so bored that he stood and read a newspaper while fielding. Azharuddin emerged as a new batting star. But as a team, there was absolutely nothing going for India. Sivramakrishnan took six wickets in each of the first three innings of the series, but got only five more in the next six innings as England seemed to have woked him out. Most shockingly, this was perhaps the first (and only) seiries in which both Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev failed. Kapil got 10 wickets in four Tests at 43.60 while Gavaskar got 140 runs in five Tests at 17.50. What's worse, for most of the series, the two seemed barely on talking terms, although some sort of patch up did occur before the series ended. India hardly ever had a good batting or bowling start in the series, and the English batsmen made merry. Oddly enough, the two English batsmen we had feared the most, Lamb and Gower, had mediocre series. Gatting, Robinson, Fowler, however, scored by the sackful. Their bowlers too struggled most of the time, but had the advantage of playing with big scores behind them - a key factor in their winning at Chennai. It was not a narrow win - India never had a chance after losing the first Test and seemed miles behing an English team that seemed to be enjoying itself under David Gower. Interestingly, many of the English players who did so well, would be out of the team barely a few years later. For India too, many careers came to an end - Anshuman Gaekwad, Ashok Malhotra and Sandeep Patil never played for India again, and Yashpal Sharma was never even considered after a poor ODI series. In the end, India lost a series it was supposed to have won easily against arguably the weakest English ever to tour the country. Many of us still cannot figure out how on earth it happened. It shouldn't have. It couldn't have. It did. #Cricket #80scricket #Gavaskar #KapilDev #Gower #IndianCricket #EnglandCricket #Nostalgia (@Raja_Sw, @SanjayK27310177, @alawyerwrites, @WG_RumblePants, @VatsMusings, @anandkumarn)