I found this very helpful, thank you!

Sharad Tilak Open team.

who won the tournament[vaze team championship]???

When we both were beginners. I was in 7th and he was in 3rd and we both went for coaching to Vivek Rane in school itself. I would defeat him occasionally but we both knew little chess then.

Have you played Sanjeev a lot of times before?

Joshi Academy No. 2 [We had 2 teams from our class]

And awesome name - Fire on Board.

What was your team's name?

Go and talk to him. Ask him if he is free, maybe during PT period or after school ends. 

Rh8+ easily found. It was a forced mate and nice. But I guess we really don't feel like 'sac, sac, sac, sac and win' in an OTB game. We do it the nice 'equal exchange, equal material' way, and in the process, lose our ability to find mates rather than saving up material.

Good game anyways. Qh5 was really putting yourself in trouble without giving a check. When you make a big leap in a chess game, leaving your pieces hanging and he king threatened, make sure you're aiming for your mate with a series of forced moves.

Otherwise, the game being all yours is no guarantee.

P.S. You think Sanjeev will play me if I ask him to?

(Oh crap, how will I play him anyways?)

@lollolbuddha: black's pawn is on g7, so 22. Qh5 + gxh5 is illegal. 

yes...it seems so simple if we smell a tactic... else just complex position!!

In practice, I have found it useful to follow-up a long tactics training session with a series of blitz games, with time controls from 5|2 and longer. The point is to put your brain in the "tactics mindset" and play some games while the ideas are still fresh, to practice applying the tactics knowledge.

but If 22. Qh5 + then  what about gxh5 

PATTERN RECOGNITION - fathom the concept. Start doing as many puzzles as possible: tactics trainer puzzles, the daily puzzle, etc. Books such as Fred Reinfeld's !000 Checkmates and 1000 Combinations are excellent for this. Work on puzzles taken from actual games or "game like" puzzles and don't waste time on composed "mates-in-2" etc. with positions that look totally unrealistic or are otherwise a waste of time ie the winning side has an extra 5 Queens and the losing side is down to its King.

Thanks CM Mago, hope that with time and experience of playing in more OTB events, I can see such tactics in real life too and not just in TT.

Of course, tactics is just one part of playing a chess game.

So if you can smell that there might be a tactical chance in the position, you start looking for a tactics much more than when you "know" the position feels like a normal position in which no particular tactical tricks are to be expected.

For example, an experienced OTB attacking player will love to see that black king open in the corner and start looking for a concrete tactical way to finish him off, probably coming up with ideas such as found by you and your analysis partners after the game.