Ritwik Bhattacharya and India No. 2 Harinderpal Singh Sandhu will be the star attractions in the prestigious Otters Devotie Squash Open 2010 that will be organized and hosted by Otters Club in Mumbai from June 26 to July 3.
'When they took my name, I went numb.' 'Before I went on stage, my dress got caught in my shoe!' 'I said, stay calm.' 'Then I started walking and was like, okay, now think of what you're going to say, quickly!'
Saurav Ghosal and Siddharth Suchde were the only Indians left in the men's singles event after two of their compatriots, including former national champion Ritwik Bhattacharya, crashed out in the second round of the Asian Squash Championships in Kuwait.
Second seed Ritwik Bhattacharya of India shocked top seed and world No 11 Mohd. Azlan Iskandar of Malaysia 12-10, 11-9, 11-1 to clinch the men's Open title in the 33rd Bombay Gymkhana-HSBC Maharashtra State Open Squash Championships, at the Bombay Gymkhana on Friday. Women's top seed and India No 1 Joshna Chinappa overcame second seed Dipika Pallikal 12-10, 11-9, 11-9 to snatch the women's crown.
Ritwik Bhattacharya failed to continue the momentum and went down against sixth seed Matthew Giuffre at the Atlanta Open squash championship.
It is for the first time that two Indians have qualified into the main draw of the Super-Series Squash Championship.
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Ritwik, who is ranked 91 at present is likely to break into the top 70 with this win.
The Indian aces scored easy victories in the pre-quarter-finals of the one-star ICL PSA World Professional Squash championship.
The top two Indian players may meet again during the national squash championships.
Ritwik Bhattacharya and reigning national champion Saurav Ghosal stand just one win away from making the main draw of US $200,000 Kuwait Open squash tournament, after advancing to the qualifying finals of the event in Kuwait City. While Ritwik upset Australia's Aaron Frankcomb 11-4, 11-9, 11-6 in 53-minutes, Ghosal breezed past local favourite Mohd Al-Tuwary 11-5, 11-0, 11-3 in just 29 minutes.
Joshna Chinappa, the world number two junior trounced Tanya Ananda (Mayo) 9-0, 9-0, 9-1 on Saturday.
The Indian pair beat the American duo of Jaime Crombie and Preston Quick in the semi-finals of the Chennai Open.
The country's leading players will be in action in the CCI-Western India Open squash tournament, in Mumbai from November 21 to 27.
Second seed Saurav Ghosal upset top seed Ritwik Bhattacharya to win the PSA Squash tournament at the Otters Club in Mumbai on Sunday.
'I chose to give priority to my personal life.' 'It's not like I didn't want to act but I guess with certain times in your life, you have to handle certain things.' 'I've had a couple of ups and downs, so I kept taking breaks.'
Corren will play second seed Mark Heather of England in the final of the Chennai Open 2003 PSA Championship.
The national squash champion will play tournaments in Spain and Qatar in a bid to break into the top 64 and qualify.
Mohammed Shami rarely operated at his best and it had a cascading effect on Bengal as they went down by 41 runs against Baroda in the quarterfinals of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
The Indian ace crushed qualifier Sachin Jadhav 9-2, 9-1, 9-1 to enter the quarter-finals at the Western India Open Squash Championship.
'I am fascinated by the lurking presence of the tiger.'
The two players registered contrasting semi-final victories at the PSA Otters Open Squash tournament.
He entered the last eight of the Atlanta Open Squash tournament after getting past qualifier Robbie Lingashi of Zambia.
Riwtik Bhattacharya will meet Saurav Ghosal in the semi-final of the ICL Chennai Open squash.
Ritwik Bhattacharya beat fourth seed Egyptian Mohammed Essam A Hafiz in the Kolkata International Squash Championship.
Ritwik outclassed Supreet Singh in the second round of the qualifiers at the Kolkata International Squash tournament.
The other semi-final in the National squash championship will be between Siddarth Suchde and Sourav Ghosal.
Ritwik Bhattacharya and Saurav Ghosal were knocked out of the Malaysian Open in the first round.
Top seed Joshna Chinappa and Deepali Anwekar-Parikh will contest the women's final in the \nSenior National and Maharashtra State Open Squash Championships.
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The Indian pair went down 1-3 to defending champions Australia in the men's final of the World Doubles Squash Championship at Chennai.
The former Indian national champion beat Mohd. Essam Hafiz of Egypt in straight games to reach the quarter-finals of the Atlanta Open Squash championship.
National Champion Saurav Ghosal and Ritwik Bhattacharya advanced to the final of the inaugural India Cements Indian Challenger Series Championship with emphatic wins over their respective opponents.
As the controversy continues to reverberate nationwide, various quarters are demanding steps to safeguard the sanctity of Hindu temples and their 'prasadam'.
Come December, the top 32 squash players from across the world will travel to Mumbai to play in the inaugural Punj Lloyd PSA Masters 2009.
The many episodes in which the characters quarrel, sulk and rehearse would have been boring were it not for the music, observes Deepa Gahlot.
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All We Imagine as Light has been on several critics' best of the year lists, including Sight and Sound (Payal Kapadia appeared on the magazine's cover, perhaps a first for an Indian filmmaker), to The New York Times, Time and it is the number one film recommended by Barack Obama. The future certainly belongs to Payal Kapadia, asserts Aseem Chhabra.
'In Mumbai, isolation is a very different isolation.' 'It's not about actual physical loneliness.' 'It's the loneliness in the company of others, and I felt that that is a very Mumbai thing.' 'You can be travelling in the ladies compartment squashed against everybody's armpits and still be really, really sad and alone.'
