Priya Balasubramanian The BCBA Annual Tournament kicked off yesterday. An impressive total of 116 pairs / trios participated in yesterday’s game which was meant to draw out 50 pairs to compete for the Murli Deora and Girdharilal Agrawal Trophies. At the head of the field were Pranab Bardhan and Badal Das along with Ramesh Kumar. […]
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Sukrit Vijayakar Let me start off by wishing all those who celebrate the festival, a very happy Dusshera (Vijayadashmi / Bijoya), a festival that celebrates the victory of good over evil. May all good forces conquer the pandemic and its side effects and may we return to live events sooner rather than later. Tomorrow, the
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Priya Balasubramanian The Land of Bridge: Exploring the Economy We have been receiving a flurry of requests from potential immigrants on more details about the Land of Bridge. In response, in this article, we further explore the Land of Bridge focusing on their economy. For people who have been living under a chessboard- the
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Priyanka Gulati I work with business leaders in India advising and helping them think, strategize and execute on various areas. Recently I have started learning bridge and realised that the game is a great lesson on leadership. Here are a few of my learnings. Who is a good bridge player? As my coach explained
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Sukrit Vijayakar This post is primarily a thank you to all you players who gave the event such a phenomenal response especially as it was coming on the back of the biggest online event in Bridge. We had 61 teams participating in the teams event. Our host, Mr. Puneet Gangal, agreed to increase the number
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Sukrit Vijayakar This post is being made due to three reasons all of which are equally important. First of all, we have a host of excellent women players in the country. One of them, Hema Deora, just one a reasonably big tournament yesterday fighting off a determined challenge from over 60 teams. Another, of
Priya Balasubramanian Recently, when I grudgingly attended a mandatory workshop at my son’s school, I had a moment of realization. They showed us a video where a diehard cyclist is given the challenge of riding a cycle whose handles had been engineered to move in the reverse direction as compared to a regular cycle. So,
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V N Ramamoorthy It has been scientifically established that playing bridge keeps your brain active and healthy. But the side effect seems to be a lot of heartburn! 🙃 Because you don’t know how to deal with the deals you lost. You are happy to brag about that one deal out of one score when
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Priya Balasubramanian If you are a regular subscriber to either the Standard Times, or the Journalist Times, you need no introduction to the Land of Bridge. A thriving kingdom ruled by a benevolent Queen – it’s become a go to place in recent years. The Queen has successfully warded off threats from the Kingdom of
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Priya Balasubramanian She eagerly opened the Journalist Times. Her subscription to the Journalist Times on Sundays was one of the few luxuries she allowed herself. Her flat reeked of her relative poverty in masterpoints. The extra supplement in the Journalist Times promised an even heavier main section. The headline screamed, “Terrorist Trumped,” effectively drowning out
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