Comments on: It’s On !!! http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/06/09/its_on/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sohail http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/06/09/its_on/comment-page-2/#comment-240186 Sohail Sat, 23 May 2009 12:28:38 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3458#comment-240186 <p>Hi...</p> <p>I live in habsiguda, hyderabad, AP, India. I was always made to believe by grandmother, that the area got its name from the inhabitants of habshi's who served the nizam of hyderabad as his bodyguards.</p> <p>Can you please share with me any more info you have about habsi and hyderabad.</p> <p>Regards</p> Hi…

I live in habsiguda, hyderabad, AP, India. I was always made to believe by grandmother, that the area got its name from the inhabitants of habshi’s who served the nizam of hyderabad as his bodyguards.

Can you please share with me any more info you have about habsi and hyderabad.

Regards

]]> By: Manish Vij http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/06/09/its_on/comment-page-2/#comment-67852 Manish Vij Thu, 15 Jun 2006 05:36:01 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3458#comment-67852 <blockquote>Is it possible to watch the World Cup online?</blockquote> <p><a href="http://paulboutin.weblogger.com/2006/06/14#a1505">Yes, here are instructions</a>.</p> Is it possible to watch the World Cup online?

Yes, here are instructions.

]]> By: SP http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/06/09/its_on/comment-page-2/#comment-67570 SP Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:19:00 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3458#comment-67570 <p>Watching the World Cup is bad for global capitalism. http://www.indianexpress.com/story/6381.html</p> Watching the World Cup is bad for global capitalism. http://www.indianexpress.com/story/6381.html

]]> By: Al Mujahid for debauchery http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/06/09/its_on/comment-page-2/#comment-67564 Al Mujahid for debauchery Tue, 13 Jun 2006 21:50:46 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3458#comment-67564 <p>Is it possible to watch the World Cup online?</p> Is it possible to watch the World Cup online?

]]> By: SP http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/06/09/its_on/comment-page-1/#comment-67555 SP Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:57:22 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3458#comment-67555 <p>Check out this story about Kerala's lefty love of football turning to a pragmatic capitalist acceptance of cricket in perfect harmony with historical shifts in Indian politics...haha.</p> <p>http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/cricinfomagazine/content/current/story/248429.html</p> Check out this story about Kerala’s lefty love of football turning to a pragmatic capitalist acceptance of cricket in perfect harmony with historical shifts in Indian politics…haha.

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/cricinfomagazine/content/current/story/248429.html

]]> By: flygirl http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/06/09/its_on/comment-page-1/#comment-67306 flygirl Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:29:19 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3458#comment-67306 <p>lucky blighters in the western hemisphere... i'm going have to experiment with inverted days...i want the cup played in asia again, dammit!</p> lucky blighters in the western hemisphere… i’m going have to experiment with inverted days…i want the cup played in asia again, dammit!

]]> By: salsette http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/06/09/its_on/comment-page-1/#comment-67253 salsette Sun, 11 Jun 2006 12:11:11 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3458#comment-67253 <blockquote>In Calcutta, LCD and plasma television sales have doubled</blockquote> <p>A friend tells me that the 'Hindi Samna'(Shivsena Pravada, Hindi edition) ran a headline a couple of days ago making a play on the urdu idiom "Begaani Shaadi mein Abdullah deewana". It ran "Begaani Shaadi mein Hindustan deewana" with commentary on how cricket crazy India suddenly seems football crazy inspite of our team being nowhere close... Hindutva, of course, mandated the substitution of Abdullah by Hindustan.</p> In Calcutta, LCD and plasma television sales have doubled

A friend tells me that the ‘Hindi Samna’(Shivsena Pravada, Hindi edition) ran a headline a couple of days ago making a play on the urdu idiom “Begaani Shaadi mein Abdullah deewana”. It ran “Begaani Shaadi mein Hindustan deewana” with commentary on how cricket crazy India suddenly seems football crazy inspite of our team being nowhere close… Hindutva, of course, mandated the substitution of Abdullah by Hindustan.

]]> By: DesiDudeInGotham http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/06/09/its_on/comment-page-1/#comment-67242 DesiDudeInGotham Sun, 11 Jun 2006 08:14:18 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3458#comment-67242 <p>No idea bytewords. It is an interesting hypothesis though.</p> <p>I always saw cricket as being 'promoted' more, in terms of funding etc. But this is a Calcutta boy's perspective. I suppose the rest of the state is still football crazy.</p> <p>In other news, <a href="http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=294527&sid=F06&ssid=242">someone</a> from Zeenews gets the Mohun Bagan/E. Bengal equation completely wrong by making it a classist thing. To wit -</p> <blockquote>Football is a religion in the communist West Bengal, and several major sporting clubs have come up in the past like -- Mohun Bagan, East Bengal and Mohammedan Sporting - representing the Bhadralok (upper class), the plebeian East Bengali (now Bangladesh) settlers and the Muslim populace respectively. </blockquote> <p>Plebian my ass. You mean <a href="http://www.wordreference.com/definition/prole">prole</a>, right?</p> No idea bytewords. It is an interesting hypothesis though.

I always saw cricket as being ‘promoted’ more, in terms of funding etc. But this is a Calcutta boy’s perspective. I suppose the rest of the state is still football crazy.

In other news, someone from Zeenews gets the Mohun Bagan/E. Bengal equation completely wrong by making it a classist thing. To wit -

Football is a religion in the communist West Bengal, and several major sporting clubs have come up in the past like — Mohun Bagan, East Bengal and Mohammedan Sporting – representing the Bhadralok (upper class), the plebeian East Bengali (now Bangladesh) settlers and the Muslim populace respectively.

Plebian my ass. You mean prole, right?

]]> By: bytewords http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/06/09/its_on/comment-page-1/#comment-67238 bytewords Sun, 11 Jun 2006 05:05:53 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3458#comment-67238 <blockquote>...was it ever promoted by the CPI/CPI(M) as the Game of the Masses?</blockquote> <p>well, dd-in-gotham, what say you?</p> …was it ever promoted by the CPI/CPI(M) as the Game of the Masses?

well, dd-in-gotham, what say you?

]]> By: DesiDudeInGotham http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/06/09/its_on/comment-page-1/#comment-67232 DesiDudeInGotham Sun, 11 Jun 2006 02:24:07 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3458#comment-67232 <blockquote>How dare you. I resemble that comment.</blockquote> <p>Well ok. Fine. Not <em>that</em> crazy. On a related note how the bong football craziness crosses the border (to my formerly East Bengal compadres) is well documented by the Economist <a href="http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_SDVDTTP">here</a>. Money quote:</p> <blockquote>When Diego Maradona, a charismatic player from Argentina, was banned from the 1994 World Cup because of a drugs offence, riots broke out in Bangladesh in protest. </blockquote> How dare you. I resemble that comment.

Well ok. Fine. Not that crazy. On a related note how the bong football craziness crosses the border (to my formerly East Bengal compadres) is well documented by the Economist here. Money quote:

When Diego Maradona, a charismatic player from Argentina, was banned from the 1994 World Cup because of a drugs offence, riots broke out in Bangladesh in protest.
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