The ancient Vikings used to play this game, in between sailing and skullduggery. Now you can too. Hnefatafl online
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On sporting injuries: HT
Posted on March 28, 2006 by Samit Basu
As soon as the news of Sachin Tendulkar’s shoulder injury hit the airwaves, I got a phone call from a friend, an ardent cricket fan and conspiracy theorist. ‘It’s all a conspiracy,’ he declared, predictably. ‘It’s because they booed him in Bombay. There’s no injury. This is some image consultant’s doing. He needs to lie [...]
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Quoth the Griffin
Posted on March 24, 2006 by Samit Basu
PG: Gah. Me: Do not gah. PG: When you’ve got to gah, you’ve got to gah.
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Chaos Theory: Hindustan Times
Posted on March 20, 2006 by Samit Basu
Last week, Neil Clark, curator of paleontology at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, put forward a startling theory to the British press – that the Loch Ness monster, best loved and most merchandised of all the world’s mysterious monsters, was actually a submerged, bathing Indian circus elephant, a performer from Bertram Mills’ travelling circus, which [...]
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I still is
Posted on March 20, 2006 by Samit Basu
Thanks everyone who asked – yes, I am alive, well, still at large in Delhi. Trying very hard to meet a suddenly staggering workload, which is very difficult if you’ve done no work in the last three months. But the HT column should be back soon, have short stories to write for about five anthologies, [...]
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