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March 8, 2021 I am a 70s kid, or like to at least believe I am one. The 70s were India and Indira Gandhi’s decade of socialism and the emergency, which meant that we had to learn to live with both state power and economic scarcity. We didn’t have 24 x7 breaking news thankfully: it was the age of black and white tv and Doordarshan, of Chaya Geet on Thursdays, Phool Khile Hai Gulshan Gulshan with the ever smiling Tabassum on Fridays and a much awaited old Hindi movie on Sundays. It was a period when we were content if our parents bought us a packet of Chiclets and the occasional bar of chocolate. Our urban middle class needs were markedly fewer and so were our ambitions. We played hand cricket, chupa chupi or hide and seek, seven tiles and just seemed to be happy to be taken on a ride in an old second hand Fiat car. We used red and black coloured HB pencils and sharpeners in school, read Enid Blyton books and Archie comics, booked trunk calls to connect ....
How Jaisimha almost helped India pull-off its first ever win abroad By News Desk| Updated: 28th January 2021 11:06 am IST By A. Joseph Antony Hyderabad: Until recently, the Covid-19 clouds of uncertainty had hung heavy over the last cricket test match at Brisbane (Australia), now okayed to start on Friday. Over half a century ago, a flamboyant Hyderabadi’s (cricketer) inclusion in the national team was a certainty for the tour Down Under. His exclusion however left him so disillusioned that he gave away his cricket kit, even penning a poignant note on his bat before handing it over. Summoned shortly before the third test from January 19 to 24, 1968 (rest day included), his determination displaced despair that the denial had driven him into. Hopping several flights, crossing continents, warding-off jet lag, fighting fatigue and shaking off shortage of sleep, a 28-year-old M.L. Jaisimha with knocks of 74 and 101 brought India 39 runs short of what would have ....