Saturday, 19 May 2012

Peri Lyons' Psychic Technique: Radical Empathy

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I hate fortune tellers. This feeling isn't mild, amused scepticism, but fierce antipathy, and comes from Indian upbringing. B...
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Friday, 4 May 2012

Why I’m glad Saurav Ganguly has come out of retirement

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Ganguly, when he was the God of the off-side “I don’t plan to retire. I will play for India as long as I am selected. If I’m dropped ...
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Saturday, 28 April 2012

Showing up: the ingredient that makes the game worth playing, and watching

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“80% of success is just showing up” - Woody Allen. Rafael Nadal steam-rolled Novak Djokovic 6-3 6-1 ...
Saturday, 14 April 2012

What Ross, Chandler and the F.R.I.E.N.D.S really lived through, by Joshua Ferris

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F.R.I.E.N.D.S was more than a successful TV serial, it was a cultural phenomenon. I think it had such a big impact, beyond what one wo...
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Sunday, 8 April 2012

The Mystery of the Pisa Airport Hippos

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Pisa's Galileo Galilei airport is the largest in Tuscany. Hundreds of thousands of tourists will pass through this summer, on their way...
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Thursday, 5 April 2012

Happy Easter from Anthony Gonsalves

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An old friend put me on the spot recently, and quizzed me on how I found the enthu to keep blogging. I wasn't expecting the ...
Monday, 26 March 2012

JRR Tolkien, the lousy teacher

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"At Oxford in the nineteen-forties, Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was generally considered the most boring lecturer around...