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When numbers lie!

4-1 read the score line! India lost a test series in England, Again! It hurt even more because it was thought of India's best chance to win, with an enviable pace battery and star studded batting line up. 4-1 really does look bad on paper. And as in life ( so in Cricket) we are obsessed with results. That’s why we are missing something so significant here. This was not just any test series, 'it was a celebration of red ball cricket' to quote Harsha. These test matches actually resembled a boxing ring. Blows were exchanged, one by one. Both Teams fell down, got up and gave it back hard to the opponent! Bruised? Yes!! Finished? Never! For me the series was in fact a 'celebration of life'. It has given me clarity, busted a lot of myths and took me back to basics. First and foremost, life is unpredictable. Let's face it. Even if you put in all your efforts, you might still end up 4-1 down. Luck does exist. Otherwise what else explains Kohli losing the...

Rational unemotional !?!

(This is a story of a close friend. I have written it in first person to give it a feel) I met this hot mallu girl during my interview. She was perfect. Elegant, graceful. We just had a glimpse of each other and moved away. I was with a female friend, who also thought she was smoking hot. She insisted I talk to the girl and as usual I was uncomfortable to initiate the conversation. But as it turned out, it was my lucky day! The girl walked up to me and asked for a lighter. I was overjoyed, for two reasons. First, she came up to talk. Second, she was a smoker too! May be it’s just me but I really find girls who smoke attractive. Fuck the Norms! But this is not about me. Or the girl. It’s about the conversation we had . She was a psychology student. And having read Freud a little, I had a chance to brag. We spoke about diverse things…from Nair community in Kerala to Artificial intelligence. Basically I said AI is foolish because we are giving our USP i.e thinking, to someone else....