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Shane Warne: The Pied Piper of Cricket – Pratik Deshpande

Fourth march will go down as one of my darkest days as a cricket aficionado. My mind is still not able to digest the fact that the world’s greatest leg-spinner is no more. “It is Shane Warne, he is supposed to be invincible. How can he disappear in a whisker?”, the heart-wrenched mind kept talking […]

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Leisure Sports

Thirst for Gold – India in Tokyo Olympics 2020 – Gautam Gogoi

Reflectionist Gautam Gogoi (MBA ITBM Batch 2021-2023) “The road to the Olympics leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or Nazi Germany. The road to the Olympics leads – in the end – to the best within us.” -Jesse Owens This expresses the truest essence of […]

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Events/ Activities Sports

Independence Cup 2019 by Akash Sagar

The Independence Cup is a sports tournament that is held every year in SCIT spanning approximately 12 days, in the first week of August and culminates on 15th August. A wide array of sports are played every year; in fact, you will be hard-pressed to find a sport that is not included in the line-up. […]

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Sports

MS Dhoni: The Magician Who Pulls Out Magnanimous Houdini Acts At Will – By Akash Goel

  “He is the best captain I have played under.” – Sachin Tendulkar    “I would go to war with him by my side.” – Gary Kirsten   “When I die, the last thing I want to see is the six that he hit in the 2011 World Cup final.” – Sunil Gavaskar   You […]

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Food & Travel Leisure Miscellaneous Sports

The Beast – By Aksha Mondal

Edited by- Adya Mishra     Yes the name itself says it all. Yes the Beast that revs everyone’s heart. The beast that growls. The beast that is ready to rule the Indian roads. Yes I am taking about the Beast that Yamaha has launched in India the“FZ25”.  FZ25 is the new addition to the Yamaha […]

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Leisure Sports

Will the Kangaroos hop in joy?

Written By- Pratik Deshpande, MBA-TBM (2014-2016), SCIT (Image source:- Google) There is a distinct similarity between Leonardo-Di-Caprio and Australia. Till February 2016, Di Caprio was the only king who had not earned the right to sit on the Hollywood throne but finally he has broken the hoodoo after bagging the coveted prize (Oscars). Australia on […]

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England’s test to make a contest!!

Written By- Pratik Deshpande, MBA-TBM (2014-2016), SCIT (Image Courtesy:-https://www.google.co.in/search?q=England%27s+T-20+squad&biw=1138&bih=548&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwixtITuiK7LAhURBY4KHTtgAEsQ_AUICCgD#imgrc=PE-w_5f8EAgKRM%3A) Last year around the same time, England had become the inverse of ‘Be like Bill’. They were way behind the race in the shorter format and had a lot of ground to catch up. Now, the attritional duckling in terms of England‘s shorter format brand has […]

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Predict the Unpredictable!!

Written By- Pratik Deshpande, MBA-TBM (2014-2016), SCIT Image source :- https://www.google.co.in/search?biw=1138&bih=548&tbm=isch&sa=1&btnG=Search&q=Pakistan+team+world+t20#imgrc=x5Yv3jbeme5GeM%3A When you watch a match comprising of Pakistan, you almost feel as if you have entered a casino, Land of unpredictability. You can decipher a Christopher Nolan movie better than a Pakistan team. Even Stephen Hawking would require nine lives to analyze this Pakistan […]

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A chance for a feather in their Black Cap!!

Written By- Pratik Deshpande, MBA-TBM (2014-2016), SCIT ‘Baz ki Nazar pe kabhi sandeh nahi karte’ (You can never question the vision of a hawk). It’s been that sort of impact that Mccullum has brought in this New Zealand set-up as we bid adios to this gentle tiger. The current flavor of New Zealand is Mr. […]

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Once Kings (now Paupers) of the Caribbean!!

Written By- Pratik Deshpande, MBA-TBM (2014-2016), SCIT Team Portfolio-West Indies Image Source- https://www.google.co.in/search?q=West+Indies+team&biw=1138&bih=548&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJyc70zeXKAhWKPo4KHbOHBhsQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=8GHRLntoEcxK6M%3A They say ‘Don’t judge the book by its cover’. This idiom goes hand-in-hand with the current West Indies team. Their Test and One-day script won’t inspire much confidence in you but the T-20 team provides a completely different picture. The characters in […]

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