Anand Vardhan

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Anand Vardhan -March 8, 2018

CRICKETING TALES FROM THE FIELD

CRICKETING TALES FROM THE FIELD

Sanjay Manjrekar directs a retrospective gaze on his own life, offering insights into relationships, influences and moments that form part of his observations as a person, cricketer and commentator There was a type of melancholic and underachieving Indian in the late 1980s and 90s who watched cricket with an empathy for the struggling career of […]

Anand Vardhan -March 3, 2018

The star is gone, but lives on

The star is gone, but lives on

She glittered in an age of VCPs and roadside video parlours, dimmed with the advent of cable TV and faded away as the internet spread In mid-September of 1989, a popular video cassette player (VCP) renting outlet in the sleepy district town of Khagaria in north Bihar had put up a small board at the […]