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August 04, 2003

Hinglish

[Society] @ 04:12 PM

A couple of years ago, during the match-fixing scandal that mesmerised the cricketing world, one newspaper described Kapil Dev, the former Indian captain, as 'hooking Prabakhar on the front foot', while another had him 'ducking a googly'. As even the duffest cricketer would know, had the great man done the former he would very possibly have lost part of his head, while the latter would have had him flat on his belly. Any form of setback is routinely referred to by Indians as 'tantamounting' to 'being on the back foot'.

A funny article on Hinglish.

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Freelance projects

[Misc.] @ 03:17 PM

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On a genius

[Quotes] @ 09:56 AM

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
-- Jonathan Swift

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