GAME, SET, CATCH

These happy gentlemen are a part of the Goa Sports Journalists Association. The GSJA like most of our sports associations appear as top heavy as Mallika Sherawat. Now look at this photograph and the story which accompanies it. The story obviously a press note lists out who all are a part of this organisation.
Here’s how we see it. For a flock of five members, you have a managing committee of seven office bearers and three grey haired advisors.
Just for the heck of it, we’ll try and give you a descriptive paragraph each on some of the guys posing in this picture. We are doing it for the pure fun of it, guys don’t read motives here please.
Starting from bottom left:
Dinesh Sakhalkar: Dinesh is one of the many happy-go-lucky jacks in our media circuit. Oh and does he love to talk… provided he doesn’t have gutka stuffed in his mouth. His smile is a photographer’s delight… Too bad he is a photographer himself.
Sharadchandra Naik: (third from left bottom row) The only way you can visualise Sharad in a sports related affair is with a cricket bat in one hand and a crutch in the other. Poor chap gasps while walking a few metres with his boss Balamuralikrishna, but he is always at the forefront of every GSJA meet.
Kishor Petkar: (fifth from left bottom row) The most excitable thing that happened to Petkar bab over the last few years was the loss of his moustache. Started with the Goa Times before switching to Gomantak, where he is supposed to have lost his mooch and got his belly.
Sandeep Redkar: (fecond from left top row) Tarun Bharat’s Sandeep Redkar… Dayanand Narvekar’s man in the fraternity. Was in the eye of controversy following the fake ticket scandal. A lot of feathers were ruffled in the Tarun Bharat, when a peon was fired for selling fake tickets, while top journos in the sports section who had also sold fake tickets were not punished. Sandeep by the way also works as a clerk in a government aided school. Looks like juggling, is one game Sandeep will be pretty good at.
Francis Ribiero: (third from left, top row) Francis or Choppy has stepped out into the world in several avatars. The one you see in this photograph is the fattened pigeon incarnation. Choppy is the chief sports editor at the Herald. (Someone know how he got this nickname? Please write to us…) Folks at office often say that Choppy is a real hard worker… provided he comes to office.
Nandesh Kambli: (fifth from left, top row) Nandesh Kambli is in one hell of a organisation starting spree. He is one of the founding forces of the recently started Goa Press Photographers Association. Did you guys know he is related to former Goa Ranji player Narayan Kambli. More on Nandesh… hmm he appears to be a good photographer with an urge to think out of the box… the only problem being he is boxed in hard between two of the most dumb-ass senior sub editors in the history of Goan vernacular media Suhas Belekar and Sudesh Arlekar.
Suraj Nandrekar: (seventh from the left, top row) Formerly with us, Suraj has now joined the Gomantak Times. He was so disillusioned with the Herald and Choppy’s tantrums that he even took some time off to start a chicken business. He sure had an easy choice. Chopp’y’ing chicken is sure better than Choppy nagging you.