Raju Hiremath

               The current IPL edition has started and I am sure you are glued to your TV as soon as you freshn up after a completing another mundane day at office. The day when IPL was started as an answer to the rebellious Chandra Group's T-20 game format, no body expected it to attract us apart from the big players from our Indian Team. As usual the glamour world of Bollywood followed cricket players here too. Bollywood beauties and cricket players are really un seperable since the days of Gary Sobers to Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi to  Viv Richards to Ravi Shastri to Imran Khan, bollywood stars have followed cricket players everywhere. even if they dont follow cricket. You may not know half of these old flings now. The only difference in the current scenario is even Shah Rukh Khan is in the group of bollywood girls.  LAWS OF ATTRACTION, YOU CAN SAY!!  :)                When IPL was launched on the lines of English Premier League (football), we hardly understood the tournament forma

Another holi passed by day before yesterday. Nothing much to say abt it. On Holi I received this SMS from Shivu reading: Videshdali iddare, desha maribeda Deshadali iddare rajya marayabeda Rajyadali iddare, jille marayabeda Jilleyali iddare, taluka marayabeda Taluka nalli iddare, Bagalkot Holi marey beda. HAPPY HOLI  This msg from him took me in flashback, like how we play holi in north karnatka. Starting from childhood till I passed out my graduation from Bagalkot in 2002, I have wonderful memories of playing holi. In childhood, holi was restricted to our own street then as we grew - it went upto freinds house and then streets. On these days, only once in a year I had the priviledge of having breakfast without having taking bath, as my dad is particular about not having any food without bath. After breakfast we would be out  of house as early as 7.00 AM and go on playing till noon until we felt hungry. The moment we went home to fill stomach, we would be pulled away to bat