Atish Jadhav

What a match! It was IPL #5’ 49th match on Wankhede with Sachin on ground made me write this time. The kick start of Murali Vijay and his every knock flattening every bowler gave an initial edge to Chennai team.   I bite my tongue when Murali hit Munaf for 24 runs a over with 3 smashing sixes round the ground and a four. Bravo and Raina put no doubts with the intentions their team entered on Wankhede. Their partnership proved remarkable to put a target of 173 with an extra edge given by Dhoni's quick rally of 25 off 15.   Chasing massive RR of 9 per over, Franklin's dismissal much earlier of the game was proved to be a good draw which got Rohit Sharma in. All went well till a brilliant century partnership stand for Sachin and Rohit. Sachin's fifty with boundaries and sixes were a treat to eyes. Rohit too proved a good mentee for Sachin with a mature discussion on the pitch amongst boundaries and sixes around by both the Mumbai Indians. All looked goo

Two story lines going in parallel - One story is based on Chanakya’s cruel and cunning political strategies. It revolves around Chanakya’s vengeance for his beloved father, his patriotic vision for akhand Bharat with the help of his trusted protégé Chandragupta Maurya. While flipping through each page, I wondered how come one can have so much of patience and determination throughout his life which continued till the incarnation of greatest king of that time. I was fascinated and thrilled with few of the quotes by Oscar Wilde, Benjamin Franklin and some other legends. The story does not stop your ecstasy with only this story line. After 2300 years, another modern era Chanakya – a history teacher, Pandit Gangasagar Mishra from a small village in Uttar Pradesh grabs you with his freezing strategies and tactics for half of the book going in parallel with Chanakya’s war of politics. This history teacher inspired from Chanakya Niti, has only one aim in life – to take his pupil Chandini Gup

Just completed Chetan Bhagat’s Revolution 2020. “At last completed!” These were the words popped out of my mind when I put the book rather a movie script down after picking up that from nearby Crossword 4 months back. The story in Varanasi, roamed around three friends among which Gopal’s character was center of the stage who falls in love with Aarti in early teen age. Aarti being not ready for Gopal’s love, for that reason, not ready for LOVE, I would say, refuses to his proposal. Raghav who is Gopal’s childhood friend, has a promising career ahead being the IIT-JEE scorer and brightest in the town. Gopal being the failure one time in IIT-JEE, goes to Kota, Rajasthan (holy Kashi of wisdom for IIT-JEE aspirants) keeping his father’s last savings, borrowed loans at the stake, ends nowhere but at his father’s death ceremony on returning back to Varanasi. During this journey back to Varanasi, Gopal had already lost his only love of life in agony to Raghav as Aarti falls in love with Ragha