Author Archives: Uday

What’s Your Comeback Story?

The evening of April 18th 1986 would scar a generation of Indian cricket fans for more than two decades. Javed Miandad’s six over mid-wicket off Chethan Sharma’s last ball snuffed out a nation’s belief in comebacks. It was actually a great death over till that last ball. Wasim Akram gets run out in the firstContinue reading “What’s Your Comeback Story?”

A Saint, Three Men and a Bottle of Coke

In the beginning there was a saint. Tall, lean and genial – Saint Nicholas was the Greek Christian bishop from Myra. Adored by the poor women and children as the giver of goodies. Six hundred years after he died his resting place was vandalised by invaders. So the Merchants of Bari removed his major bonesContinue reading “A Saint, Three Men and a Bottle of Coke”

‘Where is Santa right now?’

U.S. Air Force Col Harry Shoup was listening to silence as he held the dreaded Red Phone to his ear. The ringing of the red telephone at the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) Operations Center in Colorado Springs, Colarado meant a crisis call from either the Pentagon or his Commander-In-Chief.   ‘This is Col Shoup. CanContinue reading “‘Where is Santa right now?’”

The Greatest Player who Never Played

You can fool all the people sometime. And some people all the time. But Carlos Henrique Raposo, a soccer player, more popularly known as Kaiser, had a unique talent: He could fool all the people all the time.   Kaiser grew up in 1960’s Brazil as a soccer fan and played soccer as an adoloscent and a youngContinue reading “The Greatest Player who Never Played”

The Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything Else

‘Forty-Two’ ‘What?’ ‘Forty-Two. It is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything else’ ‘But what is the question?’ ‘Err..I don’t know the question. I just have the answer’ The advance aliens in Douglas Adams epic sci-fi comedy: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, create a supercomputer named Deep Thought toContinue reading “The Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything Else”

Analysis of Paralysis

Senior doctors at Ontario College of Family Physicians were examining the medical record of a 67 yr old patient with chronic hip pain from arthritis. Drugs had been ineffective in curing his pain. The doctors had to make a decision: to refer hip-replacement surgery or try an untested medicine that had just been suggested byContinue reading “Analysis of Paralysis”