"Learn Tamil in Thirty Days"

"One Hundred and One ways of Getting Married"

"The Book of Indian Cookery"

Who would submit bills of these titles against a grant meant for big, fat, jargon-filled books on Software Technology?

But, then, Vikram Gupta is no run of the mill Software Professional.

Fresh out of college, highly qualified, in great shape and intelligent, he is employed by ACS, the biggest name in the Indian Software World. He is the archetypical image of a young man with a glorious future ahead of him.

Yet, he has his problems.

He loathes his job, abhors everything...

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The Oval, 1882.
WG Grace, the great champion of England cricket, and Fred 'The Demon' Spofforth, that diabolical Australian bowler, are locked in a titanic tussle as England and Australia play out a thriller of a match.
That was the day when giants clashed, sparks flew and it resulted in the lore of The Ashes.
We know all about that.
But, it has seldom been revealed that in the pavilion on that famous August day sat Sherlock Holmes, his services recruited by Charles W Alcock, Secretary of the Surrey County Cricket Club. After a century and a third thereof, the facts of the...