Deep Adhya, PhD

The birthplace of Aryabhatta to Ramanujan, India has shown that it is crazy about numbers. And, for a country crazy about numbers, cricket has been the best sporting phenomenon to have hit its shores. Not only are Indians crazy about stats, they become berserk when the stats are all in their favour, and that is where Sachin Tendulkar quietly made an entrance. I have no recollection of watching Gavaskar play, though I was born two year before he hung his boots. My baptism therefore, and subsequent induction into cricket started by watching Sachin on the telly. There have been so many tournaments that Sachin has played in, that I have lost count of how many I have watched, and played shadow cricket in the living room during it. I clearly remember Hero Cup though, watching on those flickering cathode ray tube TVs of yonder years. I remember the tension of watching that tournament with my family, hoping with clenched fists that India will win, and that if nobody can, Sa...

In science, nothing also means something. It can be something that has been missed, or something that has appeared at a different point than expected. How can then one write about nothing and get away with filling up a page with words? _ The sweat poured down the back on a winter’s day with slow impatience. Obnoxious odours emanated from the indefatigable obese, giving goose bumps. The underwear stuck in discomfort inside the trousers of the tourist in the dilapidated building while he debated whether the house was haunted or he was having a dehydration-induced hallucination. The legs cramped up and the heart was in tachycardia. The long hair stood on its end, as the hands touched something, sending out a spray of sweat which was slowly running down his hair. The man in the mauve suit had the sniffles. In a sudden epiphany, he discovered that his suit was made of linen which was not at all suited to his physique. A train passed by and the headlamps shone through two o...