It is unlikely that Biranchi Maharana, a fine gent of Orriyese persuasion, has heard of the song in the title made famous by Prodigy.
Biranchi Maharana, in one fell swoop, endeared himself to such Indians as Mohinder Amarnath, Yashpal Sharma, Sourav-dadagiri-Ganguly and our dear friend Ugly. With the ‘thapad ki goonj’ reverberating around the world, I wonder how many of the present lot of Indian cricketers would queue up to shake Biranchi’s hand.
For all those still wondering, Biranchi Maharana of the Kalinga Sena, a local political outfit in Bhubaneswar bumped into Greg Chappel at the airport and allegedly slapped him in account of no Orriyese in the desi cricket team. Someone should have reminded him of a certain Shiv Sundar Das!
Oriyans are in the news twice every year. Once for drought and then again for flood relief.
Shiv Sundar Das was so inconsequential to the Indian team, the Oriyans can’t remember him
January 23rd, 2007 | #
Riggs - I may, for inexplicable reasons, have strong-to-unreasonable opinions on Mr Chappel but I assure you, I absolutely denounce such violent behavior.
I suggest we invite this bloke to come write for us. In fact I suggest we host all the nut jobs on Jigsaw - it will do the Senas of this country good to post on irreverent blogs instead of providing free content to Aaj Tak’s Aaj Ki Sansani Khabar.
January 23rd, 2007 | #
Wasn’t there a Meester Deb As Is Mohanty too?
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January 24th, 2007 | #