"Richard Sherratt" > wrote in
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> I've just dropped in to the group after a long journey elsewhere. The
> first thing that struck me was "where the devil is Shankar?" He used
> to be so regular and I loved his beautiful use of English. He was also
> very good at explaining cricket to heathens.

Sadly, Sharkar just gave up as the group went more and more off topic and
bcame cluttered with nonsense. He always have good explanations of why
things are the way they are and how they undergo change.