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Cyrus Broacha
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An award for me? Why?

August 15 was a great day for India, but a far greater day for me. That day I was honoured with a special award from the Rotract Club of Central Mumbai.
August 21, 2007

Tiger truths

Victory in sport is a special feeling. The Incas, in fact, said that such a victorious feeling was second only to the rush they get during circumcision.
August 15, 2007

Happy b’day Cyrus!

Today is the 3rd most important day of the year, after Saturday and Sunday. That’s because today is my birthday. This year I am a little more than 30.
August 6, 2007

As large as The Leela

My room was a little larger than the suburb of Goregaon. I begged the four ladies to stay with me. But they, misunderstood my motives, and instead called up my wife!
July 31, 2007

Federer vs Nadal

What a final last Sunday! 2 champions dancing toe to toe for the Wimbledon crown.It took me back, when I lost a tennis match of my own to my wife’s mother.
July 10, 2007

A wet weekend

So, the grand ol’ man has finally started emptying buckets on our heads. It’s what we sexually inactive members of the Crustacean family call a wet weekend.
July 3, 2007

Tales from the Locker room: Rugby woes

I’m crying, thanks to Anil Singh and Vivek Singh of Procam Sports. I weep like Paris Hilton in a confessional, every year they kick off the Indian Rugby match.
June 26, 2007

Tales from the Locker room: Bike champs

A group of us from MTV with holes all over (let alone the head), spent the weekend in Indore and it wasn’t because we didn’t pay the full fare for our air tickets
June 19, 2007

The nice monster

Just, when I was totally convinced he was going to eat my son up, Glenn McGrath smiled his winsome smile and settled for a picture.
May 29, 2007

Raising a toast to Mayawati!

Let’s study the meaning of Mayawati. Well, Mayawati means ‘one who was born to defeat Mulayam Singh Yadav, chide Amar Singh and irritate Raju’!
May 15, 2007

Diving with dad

I have to take my four-year-old, who now weighs more like a 14-year-old and sulks more often than a married man, into the swimming pool.
April 23, 2007

Xerox everything in sight!

As a rule from childhood we Broachas are taught three things— ‘Don’t talk to strangers, be polite to elders and xerox everything in sight.’
April 17, 2007

Travails of travelling

Every time, I’m forced to travel, it unleashes a new pain. And brother I’ve seen pain — from my mother at the college prom, to marriage, haemorrhoids: Cyrus Broacha.
April 10, 2007
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