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F is for Bobby (F)ischer the twisted genius of chess – #AtoZChallenge #BlogchatterAtoZ 2019

F is for Bobby (F)ischer the twisted genius of chess – #AtoZChallenge #BlogchatterAtoZ 2019 Image Courtesy: Wikipedia.org I started off the A to Z challenge by bringing you the story of the brilliant Indian chess grandmaster Viswanathan Anand. Today I will bring you the story of yet another genius who played the game of chess […]

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E is for Chris (E)vert the women’s tennis great of the seventies – #AtoZChallenge #BlogchatterAtoZ 2019

E is for Chris (E)vert the women’s tennis great of the seventies – #AtoZChallenge #BlogchatterAtoZ 2019 Image Courtesy: Wikipedia.org By the time I reached my late twenties, I had stopped taking interest in Tennis. It was during my school and college days that I used to watch the finals of the Australian, French, Wimbledon and […]

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D is for (D)ipa Karmakar, the young lass from Tripura who is scaling the heights – #AtoZChallenge #BlogchatterAtoZ 2019

D is for (D)ipa Karmakar, the young lass from Tripura who is scaling the heights – #AtoZChallenge #BlogchatterAtoZ 2019 Image Courtesy: Wikipedia.org India is a country that has never been known as a great sporting nation. Except for a few selected sports like Cricket and Hockey, our country has not produced many international stars. Our […]

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C is for Dhyan (C)hand – The Wizard of the Hockey field – #AtoZChallenge #BlogchatterAtoZ 2019

C is for Dhyan (C)hand – The Wizard of the Hockey field – #AtoZChallenge #BlogchatterAtoZ 2019   Image Courtesy: Wikipedia.org Yesterday I brought to you the story of Bjorn Borg of tennis fame. Today I will shift to India’s national sport Hockey and bring you the story of none other than India’s pride, the man […]

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B is for (B)jorn (B)org the ice-cool Swede – #AtoZChallenge #BlogchatterAtoZ 2019

B is for (B)jorn (B)org the ice-cool Swede – #AtoZChallenge #BlogchatterAtoZ 2019 Image Courtesy: Wikipedia.org Yesterday I presented my readers with the story of Vishy Anand the Chess grandmaster from India who made us proud in the international arena. From a sedentary sport like chess, today I will move over to a sport that requires […]

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A is for Viswanathan (A)nand the lad from Tamil Nadu who could check mate the best – #AtoZChallenge #BlogchatterAtoZ

A is for Viswanathan (A)nand the lad from Tamil Nadu who could checkmate the best – #AtoZChallenge #BlogchatterAtoZ 2019   Image Courtesy: Wikepedia.org As I mentioned in my theme reveal post for the A to Z 2019 challenge, I am planning to regale my readers with stories of great achievers in the field of sports. […]

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Twenty-Six People Who Made It Big As Renowned Sports Personalities – Theme Reveal For A to Z Challenge 2019

Twenty-Six People Who Made It Big As Renowned Sports Personalities – Theme Reveal For #AtoZChallenge 2019 #BlogchatterAtoZ 2019   Last year I wrote a suspense thriller of twenty-six chapters as part of the A to Z blogging challenge. I eventually published this story as an eBook on Amazon Kindle. The novella was titled ‘Eighty Hours […]

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The Number of Billionaires Has Decreased In 2019 But I Just Don’t Give A Damn – #CauseAChatter

The number of Billionaires Has Decreased In 2019 But I Just Don’t Give A Damn – #CauseAChatter   After I passed out of college in 1988 I took up a marketing job and was posted in Bengaluru. Those days I used to share a room with a colleague who was a devout Muslim. His name […]

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Kanyakumari: where India ends or perhaps where it begins

Kanyakumari: where India ends or perhaps where it begins This journey across India in the #XploreBharat blog train is getting more and more exciting as the days go by. Yesterday we visited Lucknow in UP. I am very happy to receive the baton from Vartika to take us further. Today I take pleasure in introducing my fellow travellers to Kanyakumari in […]

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Why I Began Blogging And Why My Blog Means So Much To Me – #SuperBloggerChallenge #Instacuppa

Why I Began Blogging And Why My Blog Means So Much To Me -#SuperBloggerChallenge #Instacuppa My love affair with reading began in my sixth grade when I was introduced to my first full-length Enid Blyton novel by a school friend. I read the book and simply loved every word of it. From Enid Blyton, I […]