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The 100th Test

Last month, in dusty Moradabad, where narrow by-lanes mingle homogenously with crowded, open markets, I rediscovered a forgotten subject from almost a decade ago. In a tight T-shirt and black jeans, his hair thinner than I remembered, thicker than I imagined, Mohammad Azharuddin sat in a roomfu ....Read more

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The lost BijliBy: Kamran Rehmat | Thursday , 21 May '09 14:28:54 PM Reply | Forward I remember watching this India-Pakistan ODI on television in Muscat with a room full of Indian and Pakistani fans. India were chasing and lost three odds wickets for 50-odd. And then Azhar simply appeared to guide a catch in the slips as if on purpose. I remember saying that I could bet Azhar had sold the game. The CBI inquiry later revealed this indeed to be the case!Azharududin has had a lot of time to reflect on what he did. But sometimes I wonder was it all (the coup de grace)in the divine scheme of things for the cruel blow he dealt his wife and kids when he had stars in his eye (in more ways than one) for Sangeeta Bijlani?He divorced his loving wife and left his kids to their devices in the makebelief razzle-dazzle that I'm sure he must have come to realize was just a blinding fury of the storm.Alas, he now has a lifetime of lull to cope with, claims of finding his feet for the missing 100 notwithstanding.

True Blue SattebaazBy: Manish Kumar | Thursday , 21 May '09 12:17:40 PM Reply | Forward Granted he was a great player and he did serve the nation but he is the same person who took the refuge of being a minority when hauled for sattebaaji (Betting), which you would find true if you see the onedayers he played and how he used to get runout or ran his partners out or silly shots he played or the way he played after being removed from captaincy. Azhar is no messiah, he only got the ticket because muslims vote en-masse and moradabad has a large muslim population.

A change of HeartBy: Devendra Patel | Thursday , 21 May '09 9:29:29 AM Reply | Forward Now suddenly a chor is becoming an icon of secularism!!! Really this election has seen many changes of heart.

Muslim superstar whose heritage wasn’t masked By: rajeev | Thursday , 21 May '09 5:59:43 AM Reply | Forward This is non-sense that Azhar is the first muslim not to mask his identity since Yousuf khan became Dilip KUmar.What About Nargis, Mohamed Rafi, Feroz Khan, Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi who never masked their identity. Dilip Kumar and Madhubala were insecure in their own identity and changed their name. Countless others beleived in Indian tolerance and never changed their name even then.

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