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As three former
captains Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly near
the end of their careers, the time is just ripe for young
attacking batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni to take the reins of the
team in ODIs and shape the future of Indian cricket, says Abhijit
Chatterjee |
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With
Rahul Dravid giving up the
captaincy just before the announcement of the Indian team which will
take on Australia in a one-day series at home starting on September 29,
the selectors had very little choice in front of them. They obviously
could not give the job back to Sourav Ganguly (never mind if a
television channel had garnered the largest number of votes in
Ganguly’s favour as the next captain in a straw poll conducted the
moment Dravid had announced his decision to give up the job).
Films
favour the young
After the small screen and the ad world, it is Bollywood’s turn to
treat the kids, writes Priyanka Khanna
Kids
never had it so good. After
decades of neglect, the genre of children’s cinema is increasingly
finding favour with the dream merchants of Hindi filmdom.Chain Kulii
Ki Main Kulii, My Friend Ganesha, The Blue Umbrella and Nanhe Jaisalmer
have hit the marquee. Never before have so many films for children
competed simultaneously with big-budget potboilers for the attention of
producers, distributors, exhibitors and cinegoers.
Frozen
delights
The craving for desi khana in the lands beyond has given birth to a
thriving frozen food industry in the US, reports Pratik
Khatri
Joyita
Mukherjee is just back from
work and it is already time for dinner. It has been a long day and she
is left with little energy to cook. This, however, does not leave her
feeling hassled; she just opens her refrigerator and brings out the
saviour—-a packet of frozen naan, that she will serve with a helping
of heat-and-eat palak paneer. This investment specialist working with
Prudential Financial at Hartford does this often, flipping the dining
table into any foodie’s dream at the click of a finger. And her
freezer is nearly her virtual
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