Every Indian cricket fan is over the moon as India handed down two successive defeats to four times and current world champions Australia in first two (of three) final matches of the Commonwealth Bank Series which saw the third team Sri Lanka make a flamboyant exit by defeating Australia in their last match of the series and the last one before the finals. Pankaj at Cricket Fever [1] writes that this record maker win for India has come after a period of 24 years as the Indian tigers beat Aussie kangaroos right in the Aussies’ backyard, kinda way off the track for a team which has crushed just about every international team on the planet and has maintained its hold on the World Cup for last 12 years.
Pankaj mentions how the complacent Aussie skipper Ricky ‘Punter’ Ponting had said before the first final match that the third final won't be played, clearly giving the message in hidden words that his team will wrap off the series in first two matches. Little did Ponting know that his words will come true word for word but not in a way he wanted or that he'd end up on the badly beaten side, a side on which many believe would've ended up in the test match series earlier had it not been for poor (many say ‘biased’) umpiring against the Indian team!
Pankaj mentions that this one day match series was very successful as far as the Indian team is concerned as it found many young talented players, a captain with a ‘never say die’ attitude who wouldn't give in. According to him, if the young gun fast bowler Ishant Sharma was the find of the series, it was also the series which showed that there's no alternative to the master blaster Sachin Tendulkar [2] who gunned India's thrust towards victory with his unparalleled stroke play.
Dipanshu at Musafir [3] narrates his foodie exploration experiences of old Delhi, the Chandni Chowk [4] area where he goes on to eat the mouth-watering and yummy paranthas [5] at Paranthe wali Gali [6] which used to be full of shops selling only paranthas many years back but now has only a few shops which sell freshly made paranthas of different types and tastes (I'm already feelin hungry, eh!).
Then he moves on to tell about the famous chaat [7] shop thats on the other end of the Paranthe wali Gali which sells absolutely yummy “aloo tikki” and “dahi bhalle”. And just a bit ahead from there is, he says, the famous sweet shop of Ghantewala which got its name from a big bell (called “ghanta” in hindi) which used to hang outside the shop in the Mughal [8] times.
He further notes that he came across another great “chaat” shop near Fatehpuri Mosque further up and if one is fond of non-vegetarian food then they should try out the famous Karim's [9], near Jama Masjid [10], for Mughlai delicacies at this almost a century old restaurant which is said to be opened in 1913 by a descendant of a royal cook of last Mughal King Bahadur Shah Zafar [11].
Abhishek at Shabdarth [12] remembers the old days when the first ever television serial [13](made by Ramanand Sagar [14]) on the hindu epic Ramayana [15] used to air on Doordarshan [16], a remake of the epic serial (made by Ramanand Sagar's son Prem Sagar) currently airs on NDTV Imagine [17] which has caught Abhishek's fancy as did the earlier version years back as he recalls his old memories when a huge crowd used to assemble in the outer room of his house in his village during the showtime as only they had a TV in the whole village.
Links courtesy: Narad [18]