adversaries

‘Book-fixing’ hits inter-school book cricket competition (Satire)

MUMBAI—

The spectre of ‘book-fixing’ raised its ugly head at the annual inter-school ‘book cricket’ competition last Sunday, the 8th of May 2011.

The school championship , over the years, has been dominated by Shuddersharam English Medium School and Potter High School.

This year, it was no different.

The final saw familiar antagonists confronting each other.

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Roger Federer: Now A Fish Out Of Water

The writing is on the wall.

We’ve dismissed suggestions that Federer is fading and have hoped against hope to be rewarded with another Slam this year but we were destined to be disappointed.

Federer has lost his aura of invincibility. We just failed to recognise it for what it was.

We believed that it was only Nadal who stood in his way. How we have demonised that man from Mallorca!

But we forget that our Gods are human too. We forget that they age too.

That they succumb to their mistakes.

That their creaking bones may no longer withstand the rigors of a gruelling tour.

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