India win fourth Test by 157 runs and lead the series 2-1

6th Sep 2021, International Test Match series Day 5 of 5 England Vs India at Kia Oval, London India  First Innings 191 ao  off 61.3ov.  Thakur 57 off 36, 7 fours, 3 sixes,, Kohli 50 off  96 balls,  8 fours, Rahane 14 off 47 balls, 1 four, Woakes 4-55, Robinson 3-38, Anderson 1-41, C Overston…

Respect

The Unvarnished Truth and Music to our Ears – “Respect” – the life story of Aretha Franklin. As the trend to cover the lives of celebrated music stars continues, “Respect” covering the domestic as well as the star studded professional story of “Ri Ri” tells us all about Aretha Franklin.  Beginning from a very young…

Collective style of play

Baraca is simply one of the most influential organisations on the planet  which is also the world’s most popular sports club, with over 250 million followers on social media and 4 million visitors to the Camp Nou Stadium each year, it is more than a club. In the past three decades, Barcelona has transformed from…

England needs another 291 runs on fifth day to win

5th Sep 2021, International Test Match series Day 4 of 5 England Vs India at Kia Oval, London India  First Innings 191 ao  off 61.3ov.  Thakur 57 off 36, 7 fours, 3 sixes,, Kohli 50 off  96 balls,  8 fours, Rahane 14 off 47 balls, 1 four, Woakes 4-55, Robinson 3-38, Anderson 1-41, C Overston…

Who is taming the tech companies

Investment banker and professor Jonathan Knee argues the truth, about the secrets to the success of the biggest tech companies: Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google, and illustrates the nuances and complexities posed by their emergence, and explains a disparate portfolio of structural advantages buttressed by shrewd acquisitions, strong management, tax regulation and often encouraging…

Wing walker and pilot escape with minor injuries after plane crash

https://youtu.be/PRtSGb-17O4 A wing walker and a pilot screamed for help as they were rescued from a plane that crashed into the sea during Bournemouth Air Festival. The young female acrobat was still strapped onto the top of the plane when it crash-landed into harbour and flipped upside down.  In about a minute the pair managed…

Raducanu in last 16

US Open British teenager, Emma Raducanu has reached the last 16 in back to back Grand Slams by beating Spain’s Sarah Sorribes Tormo in a one-sided US Open encounter  and will face American Shelby Rogers next. Raducani, 18-year-old, won 6-0, 6-1 against world number 41 stunned Australian top seed Ashleigh Barty. Raducanu, world number 150,…

Finding London

Michael Bracewell, novelist and critic, gives an elliptical, wildly atmospheric remembrance, a poetic evocation, and a vivid eulogy for London of the late 1970s and early 1980s – the last years prior to the rise of the digital city, neglected in between times between 1979 and 1986, with the music of a golden era. His…

Rohit’s 127 helps India to lead by 171 runs

4th Sep 2021, International Test Match series Day 3 of 5 England Vs India at Kia Oval, London India  First Innings 191 ao  off 61.3ov.  Thakur 57 off 36, 7 fours, 3 sixes,, Kohli 50 off  96 balls,  8 fours, Rahane 14 off 47 balls, 1 four, Woakes 4-55, Robinson 3-38, Anderson 1-41, C Overston…

Parsee lawyer- a stranger in the English village

  The village of Great Wyrley near Birmingham, someone is mutilating horses, and also sending threatening letters to the vicarage, where the vicar of Great Wyrley, a man born in Bombay of Parsi descent, Shahpur Edalj,  a convert to Christianity and the first Indian to have a parish in England. A mother who was the…