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Ayaz Memon
I was there. I love sports and I love writing about it. That's what I been doing for the past 30 years, having a ball of time. Getting paid for practicing my passion and witnessing moments that go down in the pages of history... |
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Monday, March 9, 2009
Pleas for help from the international cricket community made by Inzamam-ul-Haq and current captain Younis Khan, are not misplaced. This represents genuine anguish by people who know the ground realities better than most. Whether cricket alone is capable of warding off the rising threat of fundamentalism in Pakistan is a moot question, but even as a long shot, it is worth the attempt.
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Objections to the film, and especially from many renowned denizens of Bollywood perhaps stems from the fact that this was a quintessential Indian story that anybody from B-Town could have done. Nobody did. Now many might, but it may just be a tad late. Of such stuff, perhaps, is history made. Read the entire post »
Thursday, December 18, 2008
I will run the risk of being called a hopelessly miscast peacenik in these volatile times and give my kudos to both the government and the opposition for tackling the post-terror scenario with sensitivity, tact and aggressive diplomacy. At this time, our best ally is favourable international opinion, because there is no conquest of terror in isolation. Read the entire post »
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Fulmination is too abstract, and therefore short-lived. In a functioning democracy, the onus must eventually come back on the individual, and unless that is accepted, everything else will become only so much hot air. Read the entire post »
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Over the past few days, to my utter dismay, some friends have suddenly popped up in the list of dead put out by hospitals or the police. There are several others who were known to people I know: the chain of tragedy seems unending. The most painful was confirmation on Saturday that Sabina Saikia-Sehgal had indeed died in the Taj hold-up. Read the entire post »
Friday, November 28, 2008
Having lived through the 1993 blasts more closely than most since I was trapped in my car when the bomb at Plaza cinema had gone off, I thought that life’s worst nightmare was over. But even that horrific event does not compare with what has transpired over the past two days. This really is hellish.
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Saturday, November 22, 2008
Two Test victories over world champions Australia, followed by three one-day triumphs on the trot against England, and everybody is now calling Mahendra Singh Dhoni the messiah of Indian cricket. Read the entire post »
Friday, November 21, 2008
When asked to start this blog, I was gripped with trepidation. I am a tech-palsy, if you get what I mean, and had not been particularly enamoured of new media. Moreover, this seemed like a leap into the unknown, with an undefined audience -- if indeed, there was going to be one. In any case, what does one say that is not already being said through my newspaper writings? Read the entire post »
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