The Parsis were the earliest local community in India to take to cricket and have played the game since 1840! Soon, ‘Parsee Gymkhana’ (PG) was established in 1885 and came to be regarded as the world headquarters of Parsi Cricket. The first cricket team from India to have toured England in 1886, consisted of all […]
Parsee Gymkhana bagged three prestigious titles – Singles, Doubles and Teams at the TT event held on the 29th and 30th October, 2016, which saw an impressive turnout of nearly a hundred participants from Maharashtra and Gujarat, competing across six events. Chief Guests Farokh Khodaiji and Katy Khodaiji (both former National Singles and Mixed Doubles […]
CRICKET Mumbai Defeat Railways Ranji Clash: Batting first, Mumbai notched up 345 runs in their first innings due to contributions from Surya Kumar Yadav (110 runs), Akhil Herwadkar (96 runs) and Shreyas Iyer (70 runs). For the Railways, Karn Sharma grabbed 5/81. In reply, Railways were packed off within no time (160 all out) as […]
If the tagline of the film ‘One girl, two guys — the heat is on’ and promo posters of the film are to be taken as gospel, the filmmakers have attempted to rewrite a basic English idiom into ‘Two’s a crowd, three’s company’. Fortunately or unfortunately (depending on your preference), that’s not the case. In […]
Director Abrar and first-time producer PS Chhatwal’s ‘Dongri Ka Raja’ has no pretensions as to which genre it belongs. Anyone familiar with the topography of Dongri would know its relevance, with its birthplace of gangsters and hoodlums, and its proximity to the docks. Beginning with a deafening background score, the film shows snapshots of the […]
Taking off from the 2014 epic ‘Chaar Sahibzaade’ which delineated the teachings of Guru Gobind Singh — the last Sikh guru, and the martyrdom of his four sons, this sequel takes place in the 18th century, partly in Punjab and partly in Nanded (Maharashtra) with ascetic Madho Das transforming into warrior Banda Singh Bahadur — […]
Forget the much hyped and touted technology of (the faster) 120 frames per second in acclaimed director Ang Lee’s latest film. It’s not so much about the Iraqi War as it is about relationships — on and off the battlefield. It’s 2004. Private Billy Lynn (Debutant Joe Alwyn) seems unaffected by the adulation he’s received […]
www.Findo.com is your smart search assistant – across email, files and personal cloud. Our data storage has now permeated across multiple media. And very often, we know the name of the file, but do not remember where we had stored it – be it on GMail, Dropbox, Evernote or Google Drive. Sometimes, we may not […]
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During a recent short trip to Pattaya, we made it a point to visit ‘Khao Chee Chan’, a mountain about which we had heard so much but were not able to visit on our previous trips. This mountain has a massive Buddha carved on it in pure gold with laser which can be seen many […]
Bazaar Gate Street: or the area from Bori Bunder to Horniman Circle, is named after one of the three Fort gates. It was situated at the north end of the street, leading into the old Fort. This gate had two smaller gates, known to the natives as Teen Duwarza. The gate was pulled down in […]