India and Cricket-As I see them

A night to remember...

2011-04-11T00:33:00.018+05:30

2nd of April,2011-The greatest moment for an indian cricket fan,the moment every fan yearned from the day he understood the meaning of runs and wickets,a moment profused with ecstacy,pride and self-gratification.the moment of culmination of the journey from "A bunch of 10 little Indians and a star" to "A cricket team with an inspiring champion and a great leader ".Cricket for a fan in an inexplicable way is linked with the natonal identity ,though it does not play any miunuscul part in potraying the true image of a nation.Cricketing victories gives the fan a sense of pride,a feeling of joy and a infinitesimal moment of running away from the materialistic world.This victory is the consummation of the little unsaid dream in every cricket fan's heart, the apogee of Mt.Everest,nothing more and nothing less.

There was this 8 year old kid witnessing India vanquising Pakistan in the 1996 world cup and then being agonisingly kicked out of it inspite of Sachin's heroics throughout the tournament.It was the birth of the kid into yet another indian cricket fanatic.The Indian team was then a bunch of people with two or three individual big-guns trying to maintain its reputation of being the ambitious hosts and the disgraceful tourists.Alas the kid was blessed enough to be a beholder of the making of the greatest batsman of his generation.Sachin was the superman both the kid deserved and needed.The kid even never minded his hero's failure to rescue the team as a leader,as the kid knew that his hero was destined only to be the batting God and nobody else.Roger Federer cannot hit home runs,can he ?

The indian cricket team saw the arrival of two promising and intriguing young men,one left-handed with the greatest of timings and the other right-handed with the purest of techniques.The team started earning respect outside the country ,but still a test victory seemed a far fetched dream.The 1999 world cup came and went with flashes of brilliance from the team but the dearth of talent,energy,focus,consistency was clearly evident.During the course of the tournament ,the kid had become a holistic cricket lover and enjoyed watching one of the greatest one day innings from an Australian who also incidentally was the architect and inspiration for the world cup triumph.This australian captain(widely known as Stephen Rodger Waugh) who was an epitome of hardwork and perseverence was given a special place in the kid's heart.

Then there was the change of throne and the prince was made the Maharaja of Indian cricket.The attitude changed,Balls were chased till they reached the boundary,Men started diving in the field and teenagers started getting a place in the Indian dressing room . Even the master was asked to sacrifice his opening position for the team.There was a vision,a plan and a path.More importantly,the path was steadfastly pursued through victories and defeats.Two youngmen fashioned a historic run chase in the mecca of cricket.The kid had grown into a boy and knew the nitty-gritty of the game now(thanks to Harsha Bhogle and the bunked classes at school).The Indian team put a proud display of grit and tenacity at the 2003 world cup and ended as the second best team of the tournament.A billion hearts crashed(including the boy's) when the punter produced the innings of his lifetime to bat India out of the world cup final.But the boy knew he could walk with his head held high without shame.All these years ,there were two great statesmen decades,one be-spectacled engineer who also bowled mesmerising leg spin and one stylish Hyderabadi artist who also hit those boundaries English batman would never play even in their dreams.

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villian.The Maharaja seemed to be at the helm more than his time.The ODI format never needed the impregnability of the wall anymore .The boy had gone to college and was denied the chance to see the 2007 world cup in his hostel.What did he do?He started standing infront of tea-stalls,hotels and even spent a night in a barber shop, only to see his beloved team going toothless and bowing out in the first round .It was one of the darkest moment in Indian cricket history and the team was desperately in need a saviour.Indian cricket was due for an overhaul and needed fresh legs to carry it farward.The prince decided to move on .Wait,what has he done to indian cricket ?He just built an indian team that will conquer the world one day.(In the names of Shewag,Gambhir,Yuvraj,Zaheer,Harbhajan,Nehra and Dhoni).Meanwhile the test team grew from strength to strength,the batting order became the best ever in indian history.The disgraceful tourists became the most feared.

The master made the masterstroke again,this time off the pitch though ,by choosing the next leader of the Inidan team.The 2007 T20 world cup broadcasted the arrival of something positively suprising to Indian cricket,a leader whose demeanour was calm and confident and a team that had the courage to take bold decisions without the fear of losing.A hardworking veteran was made the coach.Throughout all these changes in the Indian cricket,the boy's hero remained a constant.There was this aura about the leader and his team-a blend of aggression,street-smartness,youth,experience and they finallly started playing for each other.There were ebbs and flows,so were patience and perseverence.Here came the 2011 world cup,the man from Ranchi showed the world what differentiates a leader from a captain..Finally the hour of joy arrived,the moment belonged to the master,the cup belonged to the captain and the rest to the ordinary cricket fan.It is truely a night to remember.....

A sport called Life

2010-05-09T20:33:00.001+05:30

Life can neither be defined nor does it be understood with time or energy but can be felt and experienced by our titanic pursuits of realizing its glorious uncertainties. Sport like life has its own share of victories and defeats, fame and misfortune,moments that take us to the apogee of ecstasy and agony. Both Sport and Life have an inexplicable aura and charm associated with them that it becomes easier to contemplate the similarities that one possesses with the other. It will be an interesting and fascinating journey as this article tries to explore what some of the most enchanting aspects, principles of sport if applied in life can make it more exciting and pompous.

The most intriguing persona about sport is its unique way of handling failure. How sport gracefully accepts failure as a part of it and moves on is by far the most enviable aspect of it. Tendulkar with all his might and genius could never be a great captain while Ganguly with all his vulnerability to hostile bowling attacks could become the most successful captain the

country ever had. Failures taught him to think better and gave him the ability to empathize and thereby get the best of his men. Failure, besides making success sweeter gives a whole new perception and dimension to Life. After all it comes down to one single question. Will a smooth sea with its pleasant voyage make a good sailor?

Another dramatic insight is from how sport effortlessly handles the eternal dilemma “Which is more important? The process or the Result.?” Sport emphasizes in making the process of achievement supreme and the result irrelevant. A sprinter has absolutely no control over his opponent in the adjacent lane and the best he can do is to concentrate on his performance

and let go of things out of his control. Sport enunciates how sometimes ambition can turn into anxiety and affect one’s performance and foments on the principle that giving 100% every time is more important than being on the winning side It is an interesting thought that matches are won or lost just because one team does not play to its potential. Sport edifies us to chase

our performance or professional goals relentlessly and letting the result take care of itself. Ian Thorpe, one of the world’s greatest swimmers, once said “for me losing is not coming second. It’s coming out of water knowing you could have done better.”

What makes a man play, toil and give his heart out for victory even if he holds all the records of his sport? Why does a Federer still fight hard in every match he plays even though he has the most number of grand slams than any other man in the planet ever had? It is the appetite to conquer greater heights that have never been explored by fellow men that drives these men. It is about challenging oneself and coming out on top. The joy, curiosity, energy and the child like passion towards the game with which a Tendulkar,a Federer,a Schumacher confront new challenges coming their way is what every man has to emulate in every endeavor of life.

So, next time when you see a sportsman perspiring in pursuit of giving his best, spare a thought for him and spare two for what you can take from him.

Roger does it ....in vintage style

2009-06-08T18:16:00.004+05:30

"The higher you soar,the smaller you appear to those who cannot fly"

Words that Nirmal Shekar quoted nine years ago when Sampras won his 14 th Grand slam when people around him said he was "a step and a half slower" and had lost his firepower .He battled all odds and did it when it mattered the most.

Things similar to what were said of Federer before the French Open. Roger ,like Sampras ,has proved his critics wrong and shown the world why many consider him the best ever in history.

The killer forehand was missing, the first serve percentages were having a negative slope,the unforced errors were suprisingly on the higher side than his opponent.Roger could have easily given in to a persevering Hass or a mercurial Del Porto or even a nameless Tom who stretched him to five sets ,but he found his own way to manufacture winners that came from nowhere.The shots had the necessary friction,speed,spin,momentum,direction,swing when it needed the most.

When Roger lost his Wimbledon crown to Rafa last year ,it took a while for us to sink the result into our minds.He plays with his heart.That was why he wept when he won his first Grand slam, wept after losing the Australian Open and wept after crossing the final frontier.When the going is tough,when people start thinking he is done and dusted ,when people doubt his supremacy on court,he comes with his genius and asserts he is still the best craftsman on the court.That's what make champions and Legends.That's what make Roger Federer.

When Roger could not cross the final hurdle at Roland Garros,.someone asked "Is Federer destined not to win the French open ?".And only with time we came to realise "Federer is destined to win the French Open as his 14 th Grand Slam,making it the greatest victory of his career".....How beautiful is sport...!

"God, It's killing me "

2009-02-12T23:54:00.003+05:30

Greatness can seldom be defined,nor does it come with time or victories but from the titanic pursuits of attaining it.It is marked by an unparalled skill and mastery of an art,but this man was not an artist,he was the one who created the art itself.His raquet spoke to the tennis ball giving it instructions of speed,movement and direction, with clinical precision.The art was so fascinating and awestruck that Wordsworth would have declared his sight at Wimbledon more beautiful than the one upon Westminster bridge.

Comparing Pete and Roger is like trying to find out which one is better,the discovery of fire or the invention of the internet.Both the most gigantic feats of their time,so are these two champions.The technical and aesthetic brilliance in Federer's game is unparalled and is only overcome and outsmarted by the brute force and tenacity of a man called Rafa , the only man on the planet who could make look an ordinary player on court.

Heros and Supermen dont cry,but artists do.There has always been this conflict between the art and the artist,one trying to be greater than the other.Most times,as in Roger's case, the art has the last laugh proving the artist that there can be only one masterpiece and it is for which the artist was born and not the vice versa.Roger cried because he realised he can no longer produce that killer forehands which made the coup de grace of his battles in the centre court in the All England Lawn Club,he cried for the art that was in jeopardy and not for his career.

The "The year that was" post

2009-01-03T23:14:00.003+05:30

I would remember 2008 as the year that witnessed a lot happening around my life.Apart from the fuzz that would normally be there with your transition from a student to an employee,there was everything i could ask for

January to 6th May :The first four months have been the most enjoyable amidst the last few days of my college with nothing to study and everything to have fun.A lot of friends,movies,chatting,sleeplessness(I dont remember a day sleeping before 2.00 am).It would surely be remembered as the best days of my life.How our final year project(There wasn't one actually) turned to be a disaster and how we surrendered ourselves into our project guide during the final month was hilarious even then.Those where days when I would ve said "So what?" even if the sky was falling upon me....

19th May to July 22 nd:The days of so called "Training" at the job.I was determined to give my best and do whatever I could to perform well.The days when i enjoyed studying ,learning new concepts and ideas everyday.those were days that i rediscovered my passion for working hard and realized the fruit of hardwork and dedication.

July 23 rd to Sept 12th : Call it fate or anything ,I was asked to be in bench for these days.the days that reminded me of the final semester in colege life.Again I did nothing,not doing justice to what I learnt in the earlier days.Nothing much happened during these days except for the one-of visit to the college to my certificates and seeing my old friends again and got a glimpse of the old times.

Sept 13 th to December 31:Was finally allocated to a project which was a really good team.I began to understand slowly what it meant to be sucessfull in this software life.I was getting a picture how actually the software industry works and was trying to find the missing part of the puzzle to be passionate about it.It was really painful to miss the old careless college life and movies

This year would be there in my heart as the one in which i got my first salary and the one in which i was able to see a cricket match with my childhood heros in it at the chinnasamy stadium.

'The Sicillian' -Book Review

2008-12-25T19:09:00.001+05:30

For someone who has just got into books and reading a book every ten days,it was too much to swallow.As I began to study the last hundred pages of the novel 'The Sicillian' by the famous Mario Puzo again ,at midnight,I knew I was falling into an ocean of unbelievable storytelling.Finishing the book at 2.00 a.m,i could not sleep for the next hour or so.Turi Guilliano, undoubtedly the greatest character that i have ever read about is just too unthinkable and great to forget with time.Puzo with his indimidating style and vocabulary takes you in to a different world where living by your heart is more important than living by the law.

The book starts as if it is a sequel to the' Godfather',but never really wants to be the sequel.While Godfather lighted the underworld,this book shows you love,unimaginable bravery,gratitude,friendship,courage,cunning cleverness,a mixture of kindness and cruelty all present in one man Turi Guilliano who with his friend Aspanu becomes a bandit to help the poor.Though I have never read anything about Robinhood and his heroics,I can be dead sure that Turi will be beter than him in every attribute.The book ,unlike the Godfather ,has fewer characters,with each of them beautifully sculptured by Puzo's brilliance.

It is quiet amazing how I got the same aura after completing the book,that once got after reading the Godfather.I wonder why this book isn't famous as the Godfather.It made sense afterwards that it was the true reflection of mood of the two novels.The pace of the novel that remains the same throughout the plot,the typical phrases that makes you read it over and over again,the pride of those fearless men in killing and running for life,the glory with they accept death and more than anything else, when you are about to think the book has already been worth read ing before the climax,the climax happens to be the actual thing why you should read the book

May be because Godfather was one of the first few books I read ,I like the 'Sicillian' more than I do the former.But I am happy for that.The book is a piece of art ,an epitome of characterisation and storytelling.It is more than a novel about the life of Guilliano,it is a recording of how a story of a man becomes a myth,a legend for the generations to come.The greatness of Puzo lies not in telling you such a wonderful story but in making us think this is the life we would have wanted to live in the wildest of our dreams.Whatever it might be,I honestly beleive 'The Sicillian' is far more heart-breaking than 'The Godfather'( both the books and the men wrapped in their names).

Out of My Comfort Zone:The Steve Waugh Story

2008-11-26T17:13:00.000+05:30

If you are a cricket fan,go and grab this book now or else you are not exposed completely to what cricket is all about.The book that reveals the heart of a man who was one of the architechts of the Australian success in Cricket.Stephen Rodger Waugh is one of those very few cricketers whose life is a lesson itself...
He is a genius,not by birth ,but acuqired it through sheer grit,perseverence and hardwork.The book is foreworded by our very own Rahul Dravid who sums up everything in his last few words
"When I hit the winning runs in Adelaide,Steve found the ball and handed it to me.I still have it and it is signed by him."
His entire career can be divided into three periods, his early days where his place was insecure and as he fought against his mind and talent to fit into the Australian eleven,the days he shone with the bat and ball and went on to become the Australian captain,the days when he became the helm of Australian cricket,which reveals the true person in him.
Honesty is one thing that any true fan of him expects from him and he does not disappoint his fans.The match fixing incident,the controversial catch in WestIndies,the indifferences with ACB and every other things that an ordinary cricket fan wants to know about the life on the field, is beautifully presented.The facts like one of his 'backyard pitches' near his home produced enormous turn that actually made mark waugh to make that mid-wicket shot his very own,Steve Waugh's description of his character of wanting to be the best but not wanting to get the attension,how Shane Warne predicted the Gibbs dropped catch at the 1999 world cup are just amazing.
It is sure for sure that the book elevates our stand as a true cricket fan one step higher and help us understand how onw has to out of his comfort zone to acheive greatness...

A part of me would go with the Fab-Five...

2008-11-12T20:30:00.002+05:30

This is the most agonising period for those of us in their early twenties and whose journey with cricket started with the arrival of Sourav to the cricket scene.The everlasting debate of Lara Vs Sachin began to occupy our Lunch hours at school.The two potential youngsters Sourav and Dravid had just begun to change Indian cricket from what it was as a one man show.The purity of Dravid and the unconventionality of Sourav stole our hearts.We were taken to a different world by the wrist work of Azhar and moved to tears seeing the painful exit of India at Eden Gardens in 1996 world cup.

It was even more painful when the one we had trusted betrayed us by involving in the match fixing scandal.We were comforted only by the centuries with which our genius named Sachin conquered the world.The two knocks at Sharjah with Tony grieg at the background...We would remember those straight sixes even in our death bed.Then came our saviour in the name of Sourav with the job of the cleaning the soul of the game and taking Indian cricket forward after our batting genius failed to be a better captain.

Then came a term called 'professionalism' in to Indian cricket.Dravid started to keep wickets.Balls were chased till they reach the boundary.We saw the entry of Yuvraj,Kaif,Harbhajan,Sodhi,Zaheer.we started beating Australia in one -off matches.Yuvraj's maiden fifty against Australia and Zaheer cracking the stumps of Steve Waugh at that Nairobi match made us hope that Indian cricket was in safe hands.We saw Kaif struggle for runs and going out of the team in agony.Over all those years one man did his job in silence and extraordinay precision and accuracy as we would often fail to give credit to one of the remarkable sportsmen of all time ,Anil Kumble.

The VVS Laxman story of the innings that changed the history of Indian Cricket and 'The wall' that made us comquer every country we tour.We were treated by the greatness and class of those amazing batsmen.Yet we would never give away that special place in our heart to anyone other than our master.Alas we had one for everyone of them!The epic innings of Sourav at Brisbane that started the remarkable Steve Waugh Farewell tour.the 271 that Dravid made at the Adelaide Oval,Laxman producing shots against australian leg spinners that English batsmen would never play in their dreams,SCG being renamed 'Sachin Cricket Ground',Sourav removing his shirt at Lords....Oh it goes and goes on and on.....

No other team would have had these glorious batsmen coming in at No2,3,4 and 5.Then we witnessed a masterstroke from the prince ,of sending a batsman to open who had never opened in any of his first class games,the move that changed Indian Cricket in the ages to come.Then there was that 'so near yet so far story' of 2003 world cup final.Chappell and co converted our team into a youth brigade.We saw Dhoni marshalling his boys and give us that elusive victory in a final after we had witnessed each and every final given away with ease.But we knew we would have been more happier if our four extraordinaty gentleman had been part of that triumph.

Sachin was a genius,Dravid was an epitome of batsmanship,Laxman was a Magician,Kumble was a veteran,Sourav was an artist.More than everything they were gentlemen whom every children can have as his idol.They demonstrated every quality that someone have to suceed.We learnt to enjoy our game and let the better team win a match.We were never really angry at them as they made us realise that it was all part of the game.

The days wont come back.The days when I used to sit back and lose myself into the grace of Sourav and elegance of Sachin at either end.The ruthless opening partnerships between them just refuse to go out of my memory.The happiness when I see a full match and predict the next day's headliness in 'The Hindu' .The desperate prayers that I made in my childhood to see an Indian win.The fake illness that I often came in the day of a cricket match and the punishment I used to get after my guilt exposed.I was happy to give anything to see a match.After all these years of being obsessed with cricket and with the feeling that some time when India is going to be at 5-1 and 15-2,there wont be a Dravid or Sachin walking in,I knew I would quit watching cricket.As for me,with Sourav and Kumble quitting and when Sachin,Laxman and Dravid would bid goodbye,a part of my life, with it, a part of me would be gone forever...

Life is not that beautiful...Sometimes

2008-11-12T20:13:00.003+05:30

Exactly Five months and 23 days have passed since i started working as a Software Engineer.It started off well with a very good training and a lot of intensity , interest levels etc(Even I managed to be perform as the best)But now looking again what i am into and what sort of life i would have to lead if i continue to work in this celebrated profession,it is like i am given a Einstein's puzzle and trying to solve it forever though i know the solution.
The tragic part has been an absolute wall that has been built between me and the outside world.My interest seems to go away from any news other than cricket.No newspapers for the last three months,no awareness of what is going on.Sometimes it makes me think "Do I really need this ?"But the facts that most of my friends are still waiting for their call to the job and I am lucky or good enough to get one keeps me going.Only time has to say if this is what really what i want to do with my life...
Five months and 14 days ago,I was still at the college just coming out of my last university exam and a trip to Ooty as a boy wondering the intricacies of life ahead.It is awfully wonderful and interesting to be into the corporate world and thinking about the careless hours spent in college.It was a great journey those four years and i am sure that those days would be best days that i would have in my life again...

So after spending my first Diwali away from my family,I am not angry but disappointed seeing the people celeberating it greatly,I am slowly realising what it takes to be sucessful in professional life,a pure dedication to your profession and to nothing else.....
P.S:Needless to say that this post is a result of reading the college slam book at 11.45 p.m in solitude....

A thrilling batlle on the cards in Mohali...

2008-10-16T13:50:00.001+05:30

Test cricket is revived. We have not had a classic test match but a hardly fought test match between two tough competitors. A true champion can be determined by the span he remains in that exclusive zone. Legends need five days to happen. Patience and Perseverance are harder to acquire than power and skill. That is why they call this game played over five days as Test cricket.
The match is special for me as I was in the chinnasamy stadium watching the fourth day’s play in close quarters and I tell you what, it was a privilege to see the game which had the greatest players of our time from sachin to pointing, from Kumble to Brett Lee. The match was played with a higher level of intensity which was what professional sport was all about. The contests unveiled and the match proved to be the best prologue to the series ahead.

From the Aussies perspective:
They came into the game with nothing to lose, with a shaky middle order that did not contain Gilchrist and Symonds in a long time and with a bowling attack that had bowled 000 balls in tests in India. They had shown the world how tough they are when it really mattered. Pointing responded to his critics and did what Sourav did 4 years ago in that first test at Brisbane when India was the underdogs. Mr.Cricket showed the reason behind his name. The only worrying thing for them would be the form of Hayden and lack of a quality spinner to exploit the fifth day surface.

From the Indian Perspective

To be honest, it is a disappointment not to go for the kill against a depleted Australian side right from the first day. Probably for the first time, Kumble’s tactics were questioned and his lack of aggression and pro activeness were clearly visible. May be his lack of form with the ball is reflecting on his captaincy Harbhajan was still not at his best. All the members of the fab four had a decent match and spent time in the middle which was a good sign.
So it is going to be one hell of a contest in Mohali with the wicket supporting the faster bowlers we can expect a thrilling battle of bat and ball on the cards and what else can a true cricket fan expect…

The Prince departs as 'The Emperor'...

2008-10-09T09:18:00.002+05:30

It is such a remarkable day in the History of Indian Cricket as India's sucessful captain bids Goodbye to his career.Whatever may be the circumstances that are behind his decision,it is not wise to analyse those things but rather sit back and celebrate a glorious career and savour the memories that he is going to leave,

He has been such a great character as I would say he is the one responsible for where India ncricket is now.He persisted with Yuvraj Singh,Kaif,Harbhajan Singh,Zaheer Khan and backed them whatever happened.And the youngsters just proved they are worth their place.Who else would be more happy if Yuvraj,the man he groomed ,can fit into his place of No:5 once he retires...Some Little known facts that I have read about him over the last decade and here is why rate along with the callber of Sachin,Sunny,Kapil,Vengsarkar.

Harbhajan Singh was about to quit his career in cricket and go to Dubai to earn his living as a truck driver when he was questioned for his legality of his bowling.It was Sourav who backed him and persistede with him in those tough phase of his life and made him to bowl again.

Yuvraj who was consistantly backed by Sourav irrespective of his scores that made Yuvraj once say"I will die for my captain".

He was the one who asked Shewag to open,who then had never opened even in a first class match..What a masterstroke that changed the face of Indian Cricket....

Now the big one...Some years ago when he was the captain,he was watching a ranji trophy match and suddenly somrthing striked him in the match.He called a media friend and said "See the batsman playing in DD sports now,He is going to be the future of Indian Cricket".Guess who it is ..He is none othen than the new wonder kid M.S.Dhoni....

He trusted his instincts and and my previous post on him justifies his greatness...

So..It is a great feeling to bid you goodbye,may God be with you for the rest of your life and bring sucess and happiness
as you had in you cricketing career.I dream to see you with Harsha in the espnstar commentary box.....

Border -Gavaskar Trophy Comprehensive Preview - Part -II

2008-10-09T09:11:00.001+05:30

The middle Order

Sachin,Sourav,Laxman,Dhoni -It is very suprising and ridiculous that the media has been consistently criticizing Laxman because he has bee n our sucessful test batsman in the last year.He averages 52 in his last 12 test matches.With Sourav announcing his retirement we can expect him to go as a hero fighting.And now it comes to our master,how many times I have to say this ,he was the difference between the two sides when they met last time.Hope he shows his champion stuffs once again.Much attension will be on Dhoni as he has not produced any significant innings with the bat in test matches for the past one year.How can we expect him to take the test team forward.His performance is crucial for India's future in test cricket....

Clarke,Hussey,Watson,Haddin -Clarke has proved that he can take the Australian side forward in the years to come and his refusal to play in the IPL send strong signals and shows the passion he shows to play in his national colours.He is a great player of spin and the visitors depend on him to deleiver.Mr.Cricket has always been at his best and his commitment levels are unbeleivable.Now the interesting part ..Can Haddin and Watson do or excell the roles of Gilchrist and Symonds respectively.I beleive the latter is going to be the deciding factor of the test series.If he can play well and provide that crucial 60+ runs needed in the middle order and bowl his heart out as he always does,he is going to win the match for Australia.Well for Haddin,only time can answer the question

The Pace Attack

Zaheer khan is the spearhead of the host and his craft in bringing the ball in against the right handers is crucial.Then the man who made a mockery of Ricky pointing seven months ago,if he can do it this time again,the series is in the host's pocket.

Brett Lee is in the tranistion phase of superb and great.It is fitting that his evolution from an Akthar to Mcgrath has come good and is influending their side's sucess.Clarke has his lethal inswingers that can break into the defence of Dravid and Sachin.He comes in and bowls that '2 inches outside off stump' balls time and time and again.Johnson has been the trump cars for the Aussies breaking into the side at a young age and showing a lot of temperamant

The Spin attack

It is a pity that the mighty Aussies cannot produce a replacement for Warne and it describes the class of the champion bowler.It will be entralling to see how Harbhajan bowls to pointing and Hayden.Kumble as humble and hardworking as ever will like to add to his tally of wickets and would like to surpass warne when he retires.Cameroon white has to lead the spin attack for the visitors and never underestimate him,alas he is another australian.

Wars within the battle

Brett Lee Vs Sachin
Pointing Vs Harbhajan
Poinitng Vs Ishant
S.Clarke Vs Dravid

Border -Gavaskar Trophy Comprehensive Preview - Part -I

2008-10-09T09:08:00.000+05:30

Border -Gavaskar Trophy Comprehensive Preview - Part -I

As the start of the first test comes nearer,the intensity and the excitement to see the contest is ramping up.Let us get a complete picture of the competition and the rivalry that every cricket fan is thrilled to witness.As the start of play is just two more days ahead,let us put together a head to head comparison of the two teams and see what we can expect...

The Opening Pair

Shewag,Gambhir Vs Hayden,Jaques

Never before in an India-Australia series has been these reliable opening partnerships in both the teams.How can anyone forget the runs scored by the sweep shots of Hayden 7 years ago broadcasting his arrival to the big scene.It continuously makes us wonder how one Australian player coming straight away into the team can fill in the shoes of a Veteran.Gilchrist did it for Healy,Hussey did it for Martin or S.Waugh for that matter,Clarke for M.Waugh(including his bowling contribution) and now Jacques is doing it for Langer.That is the strength and character of the Australian team.The Australiam team's batting success depends hugely on the contribution of Hayden same as the host depends on the performance of Shewag.Gambhir has evolved into such a wonderful ODI and T20 player and it is a huge challenge for him to prove his worth in the test matches.The opening partnerships in both the teams are going to be a vital factor in the course of the series.

The Crucial No:3 - The Wall Vs The Punter

Test Matches are won and lost by your No:3.It is such a crucial position that after Dravid became our No:3 we started wining matches outside India.Pointing has also played a huge role in Australia's dominance in the past decade.It is a huge coincidence that both of them is having their ability questioned at this moment.Pointing being doubted his ability to face spin in subcontinent wickets and Dravid being doubted for a chink in his armour of Defence.But the fact remains that the series is highy dependent on the way that these two men are going to reply to their critics.

Can we taste the Kangaroo curry this time atleast...

2008-10-06T09:50:00.000+05:30

Here we go...The clash what they call the 'Fight of their lives',the clash that have seen many enthralling episodes in its earlier versions.Here is why I call this the 'series to watch ..'

Apart from the one-off ashes series in 2005,no other team other than india has been consistent in competing against the Aussies in the last decade.Taking the Sydney match away from the last series,it was virtually drawn.And the last time tthey were here,that final day's rain at Chennai ruined our chances of squaring the series.So,in terms of competition and results ,it is very difficult to pick the better of the two teams.

The breath taking duels that this clash has witnessed like the warne-sachin,bhajji-pointing and dont forget the Ishant-Pointing spell in Perth,the best I have ever seen,no wonder the world is waiting to see another such duel .The Indian bowlers made a mockery of Pointing in their last series andit will be interesting to see how he combat spin this time.If India goes for the kill to get Pointing out cheaply and suceeds in it ,the trophy is on our bag at no time.

Time has come to check the new Australian era whether Clarke can become the next Steve waugh or Pointing,Haddin the next gilly.Threy are going to miss Warne and Mcgrath dearly,but dont underestimate the likes of Stuart Clark and Johnson because these are the guys who once rattled the Indian middle order some time back.Dont underestimate this Australian team,as they play hard and winning is every thing for them.

Can the fab five deliver again?Well this is the million dollar question at present.I honestly beleive they can and thinking the contribution they have done to Indian cricket in the last fifteen years it is fitting that they add this Aussie series victory under their belt before they retire and hence can say they made their team the best in the world.
P.S: As I am in bangalore now,I am going to witness the match live at the Chinnasamy stadium.Thrilled to see my heros live ,hope they deliver this time...Somewhere inside my heart it strikes hardly that i am not going to see Gilly collecting the balls anymore...

Sourav,Go like a champion,the way you played..

2008-09-21T15:55:00.003+05:30

It was yet another day when i woke up and started doing my routine works and heard the news of Sourav Ganguly being dropped from the squad of Irani Trophy and the news was not a suprise as it had been only a question of when rather than why.Looking back the memory lane it had been a tremendous journey with him taking Indian cricket along numerous famous victories and incidents.Some of the most remarkable deeds of him that comes to my mind ......

*The aura he brought into the team and the courage with which he took the captaincy when the future of the indian team was at stake after azharudhin's match fixing episode and from that point becoming the most suceesful test captain of the country.

*The famous chase in Dhaka against Pakistan which came to be known as the Kanetkar match after his four that sealed victory for india in tha last over...that was the begiinning of the Sourav era

*That remarkable 183 against Srilanka in the 99 world cup in a do-or-die match producing the first ever 300 run partnership in ODI history..Oh the roars on that afternoon still echoes somewhere

*The Lords episode where he removed his shirt and waived it in style paying back what Flintoff did to us in the Natwest final victory thanks to the gem of a partnership between Yuvraj-Kaif.

*The comeback after him being dropped from the squad after the chappel controversy proving thousands of critics wrong(not me,of course)..

Every innings he played were marked by his trademark shots of the cut,the big hit over mid on,the lofted cover drive which he hits coming down the track..He was a treat to watch at the top of his game.Now the time has come to bed good bye to one of the greatest cricketers the game has ever seen.Sourav,believe me the bottom of your heart what is good for Indian cricket,who other than you knows better..may be it is the time for you move gracefully like the way you played....

Some records that speaks for Sourav's greatness Courtesy:Wikipedia

Tests

Captained India in a record 49 Test matches[58]
Led India to a record 21 Test wins[59]
His test average has never been less than 40.[60]

ODIs

Hold the record of most 200+ ODI partnerships (6 times) along with Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting.
Holds the record, shared with Sachin Tendulkar, for most 1st wicket ODI partnerships of 175+ runs (7 times).
Holds the record, shared with Mahendra Singh Dhoni, for the second highest score by an Indian cricketer in an ODI — 183, against Sri Lanka in 1999.
Held the record, shared with Sachin Tendulkar, for the highest first wicket partnership for India in an ODI match, 258, against Kenya in 2001. This record was bettered by Sri Lankan opening pair of Jayasuriya and Tharanga in 2006 at Headingley.
Was involved in the first 300 run ODI partnership with Rahul Dravid.
Sixth on the all time list with 31 man of the match awards.
He is also the only player to win 4 consecutive man of the match awards in ODIs.
India's most successful ODI captain.
First Indian to score an ODI century against Australia in Australia.
Highest ODI runs scorer in the world (in a calendar year) in 1997,1999,2000.
Third in the list of hitting maximum number of sixes in ODIs.
Second in the list of highest number of centuries in a single calendar year ever. 7 centuries in 2000.

Vintage Federer becomes Alien Again

2008-09-09T19:35:00.002+05:30

It was as if Roger Federer sprinting and Andy Murray crawling in a 100 meter race.For that brief period in the first set ,he looked the man we knew about,the Federer we had heard of as a man from another planet.The impecccable forehand ,the ground coverage,the surgical precision in the mixing of defence and offence,the unplayable return of second serve,the dunk that reminded of elusive pete....Oh it looked as if Ernest Hemingway writing his old man and the sea,an artist finishing his masterpiece.This US open is special in every sense for the champion as he competed not only with other players but also his self doubts,the criticisms,the questions on the end of his supremacy......
Nadal on the other night looked far lesser than his greatness against a resurgent Andy Murray,who by his armour of ruthless defence and baseline play made the best player of the year look pretty ordinary.It is quite unbeleivable how Federer managed to do the same to Murray himself.Federer came with a purpose to demonstrate the world he is still in that untouchable zone...
And here he is...Just four months away from attaining that greatest of all records ,that magical number fourteen at Melbourne...

Is Dhoni ready to be at the helm

2008-09-04T18:33:00.002+05:30

One bad series for the super stars and there are talks of giving the test captaincy for the wonder kid.How cruel are we to forget the entertainment and memories that these giants have given us for the last decade or so.Whenever we win,the media yells 'The Fab Four','The Holy Trinity',' Captain Jumbo' and the fantacy goes on... And when they start losing a match or two ,we suddenly feel the lack of youth in the team and ask for the axe of these great legends..It is true that these people have past their prime and and it is also true that a Tendulkar at 50% is far better than a yuvraj at 110% in test matches..The temperament of a Dravid or a Laxman can bat the overs the entire ODI team can face...

Statiscally speaking ,it is not Sachin,Dravid,laxman ,not even Sourav who should be dropped but our very own Dhoni who averages 24 in his last 10 innigns ,which includes four innings at home and he has not even faced the Mendis jinx..Taking nothing away from his leadership qualities and his peseverene and skill to become the best batsman in the world (I show the greatest respect and salute Dhoni,the ODI batsman and skipper).It is a very bitter truth that Dhoni has not yet established himself as a test batsman and he should concentrate on cementing his place in the side and then think about taking the team farward(To his credit,he has not told anytime he is interested in it)...See for yourself the scores of the last ten innings of our fab four

sachin 14, 6, 5, 31, 27, 12, 0, 153, 13, 71 Ave: 33.2
sourav 35, 18, 16, 0, 23, 4, 13*, 87, 0, 87 Ave: 31.4
Rahul 10, 68, 44, 2, 14, 10, 18*, 29, 3, 17 Ave:23.8
laxman 25, 61*, 13, 39, 21, 56, 50, 35, 3, 39 Ave:34.2
dhoni 32, 52, 14, 16, 20, 16, 19, 38, 2, 35 Ave:24.4

Stop the non-sense of dropping the seniors as a whole,it is now time to move farward as Indian cricket is in the process of a generation change.Groom the youngsters ,break the fab four and give an extended run to one of the promising ODI players and results will come under the guidance of the seniors.These five pillars that have carried the Indian cricket for the last fifteen years have to be replaced but not to be demolished as they deserve a gracious exit.It is pay back time for us.Let us give them a farewell that can better the one ,SCG gave to Steve Waugh 4 years ago...

August 15-Just Another Day

2008-08-14T23:50:00.002+05:30

This post comes amidst the dawn of the 61st independence day of India,a nation that survives corrupt politicians,baseless violences,ruthless indifferences between the rich and poor,hypocritical citizens and whatever possible problems that any nation can have, on theory.This week would ve seen many articles featuring our glorious past and our acheivements on various fields and many 'proud to be an indian' stuff.All these bluffs can hit high TRPs and generate that peculiar feeling of being an Indian ,but nothing can be of any tangble nature that can do anything good for the nation.

Though pessimistic i may sound,I am not a patriot who is ready to die for the country and I have a huge and enormous amount of respect and good will for those who risk their lives for saving our country and for those who are selflessly in the work of rebuilding various lives that ve fallen into rotten paths.I love the way i lead my life because this is the way i was told to live in my childhood and i am happy about it.I have not done anything to this country that i can be proud of,but i am not ashamed of it,after all it doesnt need anything from me.The country goes on amidst its political,financial and environmental crisis...

A boy from a lower middle class family studies hard ,puts everything into his studies but just could not clear the cut off of his community for that elite university to see the seat which he deserves go to the son of a rich politician who would ve hardly put one-hundreth of a work that our boy had put.I also see a rich athlete with full of passion and commitment for the game backed by his rigorous and world class trainig ,which was made possible by his financial background, getting the gold medal for the country followed by a very large Euphoria for making his country proud and a poor old girl from one of the villages getting nothing for becoming the world carrom champion...Aren't we hypocrites ?...wanting to live in the moment that is best suited for us to live easily...

Today,the 15th of August is going to witness yet another optimistic speech by yet another prime minister,which is going to change nothing and that patriotic feeling will rush through our heart for atleast a second or two, towards some part of the day and believe me it is not going to make much of a difference and if you want to fight with me against this ,listen to your heart before you proceed...

The Aftermath of IPL

2008-08-07T17:23:00.002+05:30

It seems ridiculous to even think of it,but the painful truth is that a cricketer is restrained from representing his country because he played cricket with players who were once world class and in a place where he thought there is greater recogonition for his talent and skill.If the intension to earn money at the expense of playing for the country is a sin ,then go and stop the srilankans who wanted to play ipl rather than the england tour ,from playing cricket for their country.The biggest comedy lies in not allowing the county teams with the players in ICL to participate in the champions league and not allowing laxman,karthick to play for those teams.Even Sunny Gavaskar played with Barry Richards in the World series when SA was banned for apartheid .It is a shame that the game has to face that some of the all time greats to ve played for India like Kapil Dev,Sandeep Patil were neglected.It is fine to that India has now become the power house of the cricketing fraternity and is embarrassing that it has nothing to do with India 's performance in international matches but completely with a fanatic cricket lover who is ready to sacrifice everything to see an Indian win..

The people running the BCCI are happy to increase their bank balances,satisfied with making themselves the bosses of the cricketing world but are not ready to improve the standard of domestic matches played in India or the development of ground facilities.It is disgraceful that being the richest board in the world we have some of the poorest pitches (if not dust bowls) and poorest toilet facilities in cricket stadium around the world.But one has to accept the fact that these sports administrators are absolutely necessary for the success of a sport and the worrying thing is the game itself is in an endangered state in their hands.Though the IPL may be considered as a huge success,we should sit back and analyze what we ve got from it ....

1)A huge amount of money being added to the bank balances of the cricketers ,administrators and the franchise owners .

2)Cricket is about to lose one of its child as no one seems to like it after seeing the virtual charm and drama of its younger child .

3)Cricket 's original format(test match cricket ) is under threat (Purists like me believe that it is the true and highest level of competency for a cricketer)

4)Declining standard of telecasting of matches as more and more money comes to broadcasting as sony achieved new heights in telecasting as it broke its own record from showing 5 ball overs to 4 ball overs...

What the hell is happening to my very own great,old lovely cricket ...Decide for yourself,what do u want to see....

Players who take immense pride to play at the highest level representing his country or the ones who chose cricket as a easier way to earn money at quick time...

You can decide the future how our beloved game goes...

Case 1:A Dale steyn bowling his heart out at the final session of the fifth day of a decider match against Australia at 250/6 needing 295 to win with mike hussey at the crease ,to get that elusive test series vistory for South Africa.....

Case 2:A Dimitry Mascharanes playing for Chennai Super Kings amidst Sivamani and actor Vijay( Dont forget the Cheer girls!) hitting a six against Ashish nehra of Mumbai Indians with the crowd going mad courtesy the giant speakers in M.A.Chidambaram stadium to win the highest winning prize on the planet ,for his franchsie owners with Arun Lal yelling "DLF Maximum" and the sony max team showing us the ads before the replay of the shot...

Only one of the above two cases can be possibe...As a cricket fan who was brought up admiring the passion and pride shown at the highest level playing the game,it strikes at the heart with a very strong blow when the game is shown as the way for money....

Let someone do something to bring it back to life

Subramaniyapuram -Review

2008-07-31T19:06:00.002+05:30

For the fraternity which feels that there are not enough quality films made in Tamilnadu this season has been a relief with two good films releasing in two months.Subramaniyapuram and Dasavatharam are great in their own genre.One proves the skill of a masterly actor and the other touches the heart and make us appreciate the work of a director who drives us into disbelief that it is his debut film.

The idea that the film happens in 1980 lightens up our attension and eagerness and one has to accept that the director has suceeded in satisfying us.The idea that the story is given importance and the characterisation of every actor present has to be given credit.Though the climax is not new to someone who had read books like Godfather ,it is new to tamil films and the fact that the girl in the movie betrays her love for the sake of family gives the depth of the director's analysis into human relations...

Well done Sasi Kumar...You have made a movie like which very few have been made before in the industry you are...Go on ,this is just the beginning...

Bangalored....

2008-06-06T19:09:00.002+05:30

Three Weeks in to the silicon valley of India,Buses that move at 10Km/hr during peak hours,a city that wakes up at 5.00 a.m and goes to sleep at 10.00 pm,the polluted air that makes us cough everytime we step out,a place where we never hear human voices that yell and shout with joy,instead sights of people rushing to office not minding who is there and who is not,Men who always seem 5 years older than they actually are,Tired eyes,expressionless faces,workaholic scheule,meaningless parties and fun,Earphones and mobiles replacing friends and relatives,No cricket matches,No newspapers,....And some old experienced voice inside the IT world rhetorically says"Welcome to the corporate World...."

So,here goes an inside battle from stopping the software worls from consuming me...

The Day has come Finally...

2008-05-17T14:00:00.000+05:30

After just two weeks from the last examination of the college,surprisingly,My date of Joining has come and it is this Monday(19-05-2008) in Bangalore.It is nearly no time to change mentally from the state at college to a working environment.Hopefully the days ahead will be better and teach me more about life in a candid manner.Puzzled and exited about entering the software world and wondering how my life is changing direction,this post begins my journey as a software professional in a reputed firm...

Match Review: The Lions Vs the Old Warhorse

2008-05-14T23:35:00.002+05:30

The Lions were shown the bravery,skill,tenacity and passion to fight in a war by an old warhorse that many believed has lost its agility,Yet the cut,the flick,the lofted cover drive had the same venom as it was used to have.The Chennai super kings had no answer to the maul by the bat of Sanath.It was one of those nights that the batsman can tear any attack in the world over and the only thing any opposing captain could do is watch and applaud.Sanath Jayasuriya demonstrated his style of batting and proved why is acclaimed as one of the predecessors of the big hitting game.It was as if seeing him murdering the bowlers in the 96 world cup.

Another important player that is responsible for the win is another veteran and one of my heroes as well ,Shaun Pollock,often he doesnt get the same praise as Mcgrath and he is no less a cricketer than him to me.Add his batting skills,he is a complete 20-20 package.Well,it was a complete disappointment for Sachin fans ,he looked completely out of touch and was looking to give the strike to sanath everytime.Hope we can see him unleash sooner or later.

For the Mumbai Indians

They have still a long way to go before reaching the semifinals
Positives
* Have started well under a new captain hopefully can carry the momentum forward.
* Pollock and Sanath are in their best form as both are the one the team is depending the most in the respective departments.

Negatives
*Apart from Pollock ,the bowling department lacks experience (after loosing Harbhajan) and looks less likely to hold their nerve in crunch situations.
*Sachin looked far from his usual stature as he would always be during his comebacks.

For the Chennai Super Kings

Positives

*Badrinath and Dhoni made a terrific comeback,had there been a better start,the match would ve been a high scoring thriller.
*They can console themselves that no other team could ve done anything better against such a terrific display of sheer skill.

Nagatives
*The unsettled opening pair cannot replace Hayden and Hussey.
*No international class bowlers as they bowled a lot of wides under pressure.

Nano gets its first rival-the ULC

2008-05-13T16:17:00.003+05:30

It was the Tata's nano some days ago and now it is the Ultra Low Cost (ULC),a $2500 wholesale starting price car manufactured by a Joint venture between Bajaj,Nissan and Renault.This is will Bajaj's first passenger vehicle and interestingly attempting to build a rivalry against the Nano.

Targeting the growing Indian new vehicle market, the ULC will be made at an all-new plant to be constructed in Chakan (Maharashtra state) in India. Initial planned capacity will be 400,000 units per year. Sales will start in early 2011 in India, as a primary market, with growth potential in other emerging markets around the world.

The Joint venture will aim to produce and market small cars - but priced higher than Tata Nano.So we can get ready to see all new small cars specially made for intra city rides in to our cities in the future...

The Nano and the poor old India

2008-05-10T20:46:00.004+05:30

As we praise the acheivements of Mr.Ratan Tata & Co in accomplishing one of the greatest manufacturing miracles of our times,only few people care about the impact that it is going to create on the environment and traffic congestion.We dont actually look at a broader perspective on the advent of this cheapest car.We look into the price of the car and say it is affordable even to the family. which can afford a two-wheeler but we forget the fact that it is going to need the same maintainance cost as a 20-lakh Benz.

Nano and India

I happened to read the interview of Sunita Narain,the famous environmentalist and she emphasises the need to improve our public transport system and reduce the number of cars immediately before the situation gets out of our control...Read full interview here.

Some key issues...

As already metioned in one of my previous posts, a large number of people depend on public transport and the fact that less than 10 percent of the pople use cars but the reality that it consumes 70 percent of the road space really haunts us.Add to it, that a car is two times more polluting than the bus and a person who goes in a bus has to pay more tax than the one going in his car!

Another loophole is the exploitation of the government money in the form of diesel cars.Look how a person who can afford a 22 lakh Mercedes Benz is happy to use the diesel that the government provides subsidy, for the benefit of poor . Diesel is the most polluting fuel and everyone is eagerly expecting the Diesel Nano and the worst part is that the quality of the fuel we are using in India is seven times worse than the standards.

The solution to the problems of congestion and pollution lies in encouraging the usage of public transport and improve it drastically investing a huge amount of money and planning into it and make the rich people to use public transport.The question remains that why should we marvel at something that has nothing to do with the common man,create more health problems and bring higher altitude between the rich and the poor....Mr.Tata,our country would ve been prouder and more greatful if u would ve created a one-lakh bus rather than the nano...

The Dawn of the Second Innings of this Blog

2008-05-10T10:55:00.002+05:30

It is now 15 months since I started blogging.The blog which started as something highly amusing to me has shown me how the web has transformed the real world.It had contained posts about things that appeared important to me as a student waiting to enter the free world and sometimes they would have been childish.I take this oppurtuity to thank everyone who have visited this page and I owe a lot to you people.The blog was also used as a tool to express my passion for cricket and sports.This blog has been like a stream running in its own direction without any restrictions on its flow...

With the exams and the farewell stuffs keeping me busy for the last month,the blog was not updated regularly.Here I am,on a vacation of nearly two months till I get my date of joning,hopefully this blog can keep me engaged throughout this period.I beleive this blog had made a decent first innings score and enters into the second innings beleiving it can outperdorm its previous innings...

The blog is going to be around India its best and worst efforts towards devolopment,the diversified people both in its culture and economic status and its journey filled with obstacles towards poverty elimination.Then comes cricket,which has now become a completely business material(if not already in 1985),no wonder the purists hate IPL(even me sometimes...).But this is how it is going to be ,you cant resist the change ,one has to learn to live with it before it consumes oneself.

So,Here we go,I am making my debut in to the blogging world as a man!

Exam time..Once again..but probably for the last time

2008-04-22T14:48:00.002+05:30

It is that part of my life where I had nothing to do but could not do anything useful .Three more exams are there to taken care of .With the last enjoyments making sure that the internals are poor than i had envisaged it is going to be a tough ten days ahead.
So,this can very well be the last post of me as a college student!

Goodbye College Life...I am nowhere now

2008-04-09T15:53:00.005+05:30

One of the most romantic and emotional moments of my life has just passed me in the blink of an eye.My last day in the classroom became such a special day.Friends bidding goodbye and as we started realizing that this would be the final moments we could be together in the college and the fact that we are going to miss one another dearly ,we knew we are speechless.

These four years have been dramatic,rich in content and had that inexplicable charm attached to it.The studious and fearsome first year,the birthday celebrations,the nightshows,the trips,the talks which continued the entire night,the never ending arguments,the fights and reunion,the mess food,the cricket matches played in the hostel and the ground,the nicknames,the fake girlfriends,the desperation to see the cricket world cup,the walk we had for about 5km at 3.00 am after every match of the T20 world cup,the cricket analysis(we beleive we were better than those at SET MAX!),the placement preparation,the ecstacy after getting the first placement,the food stolen and replaced by empty covers from the friend's bags,the last semester enjoyments,the novels read in the class ,the rockets that flew in the class,hundreds of movies and discussions,the sports quiz....Oh I am going to miss all these stuffs.I cant imagine a life without all these things.

Still,I am going to spend some 25 days in the college attending the final project review and the university exams.But the days meant for enjoyment are over and it is going to be really difficult to get over it.The days that changed my perspective on life and taught me what life is all about in the most beautiful way...It is very hard to bid u Goodbye....But somewhere inside my heart,a voice tells me,"Common,It's time to move on....."

No One questions this Great Old Saint of TN

2008-03-27T18:07:00.005+05:30

A computer engineer who was about to marry in a few days and had plans of going abroad with his new wife was burnt to death along with his two colleages.This did not happen in any of the interior parts of the country,but in the office of Dinakaran,witnessed by hundreds of people including policemen.A large sequence of incidents happened diverting the public from fighting for justice and misdirecting them to other issues.The events described below forms an Oscar winning script for a political drama..

May 9,2007:Three persons were killed when supporters of M.K. Azhagiri, son of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, set ablaze the offices of Tamil daily Dinakaran and Sun TV Network.Mr.Karananidhi said "This is an attack on democracy and press freedom.There is no place for dynastic succession in the DMK."

May 10,2007:He added "CBI, instead of the Tamil Nadu police, would investigate the case in a situation where my family is also sought to be implicated."The Dinakaran news editor said "Had the police deployed for security at the Dinakaran office acted on time, the lives of three innocent persons would have been saved".The police registered a case of murder, attempt to murder and criminal conspiracy among others against the accused. However, the name of Mr. Azhagiri finds no mention in the FIR.

May 11,2007:A grand function was celebrated marking the veteran's 50 years in the assembly which was also attended by Mammohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi, Sharad Pawar, Lalu Yadav, Prakash Karat, and the son M.K.Azhagiri

May 13,2007:Dhayanithi Maran resigns following a internal party decision.

May 15,2007:The main accused in the Dinakaran newspaper office attack case 'Attack Pandi' surrendered before the police in Madurai

Nov 17,2007:Five persons accused in the ‘Dinakaran’ newspaper attack case, including ‘Attack’ Pandi, were granted conditional bail by the Principal District and Sessions court

And nothing has happened ever since regarding the case and people within the party had requested the two brothers Mr.Stalin and Mr.Azhagiri to remain united for the welfare of the party.But the unanswered question is "Has Justice been done to that innocent lives taken for the cause of personal gains?"
No one is dare enough to question our great old saint of Tamil Nadu...

May be Taslima Nasreen is not the Angel we perceive

2008-03-25T20:24:00.004+05:30

After being tired of hearing the injustice shown to Taslima Nasreen by making her
move out of India,a digging of the backround of her being sent out of the country is necessary.Some hard facts about her has to be dicussed...

1)She was not the Medha Patkar of Bangaldesh, she had consistenly attacked the sentiments of the muslims by making derogatory comments againsts Prophet Muhammed and the Kuran.(Even Mr.Karunanithi was criticised severely for his comments against Ram).She was issued an arrest warrent and even a death sentence.

2)Why would a woman who wants to fight for freedom against women has to do it by revealing personal sexual history in an intimate narrative.

3)She had made several versions of her autobiography describing her contacts with various poets and their relationship with other women.Is this the way of fighting injustice and being a feminist.

4)She continued to hurt the sentiments of Islamic people even in India through her ruthless portrayal of Islamic laws and rules creating a lot of trouble for the government which has given her asylm.

They are various ways to fight against religious fundamentalist ,writing is one way,but there has to be some moral code which every writer may follow,not disturbing the normal life of hundreds of people.She,proclaiming herself as a writer for the betterment of the society ,has not lived to it.Instead she has led a life seeking fame through her autobiographical Kamasutras...

Illavazhagi gets some reward- finally

2008-03-24T15:14:00.003+05:30

Finally ,Our world carrom women's champion gets some recogonition after some silent protests against the government for not showing interests in sports other than cricket.Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi announced a cash award of Rs 10 lakh to Chennai-based Ilavazhagi whose father is a cart puller.
It is also fitting that a private engineering college in the city, encouraging sports, had given a job to Ilavazhagi as sports officer.
And it's a pity that such news dont get the necessary attension that it deserves and hopefully she stays in her sport with our support and bring more glory to the nation even though it shows a large indifference to her sport...

Indian Hockey-Dead and Buried

2008-03-10T14:39:00.004+05:30

The inevitable has happened ,today is the gloomiest day in Indian sporting history.After all,this was on the cards for a long time now.It is only a matter of time that our national sport becomes an endangered game.India is now out of the Beijing Olympics for the first time in 80 years ever since it first played in Olympic.We have only ourselves to blame to let our national sport down...

Let us take this blow right into our chests and accept defeat with grace and responsibility that we failed to preserve one of our long standing traditions and did not do our duty of honouring the greats of the game.We allowed cricket to take the centre stage giving in to marketing giants who saw business in cricket and promoted it.We wanted our sons to become a Suni Gavaskar rather than a Baskaran.We began to see hockey as a sport of the past and crcket as our country's pride.The 1983 cricket world cup triump changed cricket into an industry and Hockey into a game played by strangers.

We started giving more importance to cricket in schools,colleges and each of the Indian cricket team's triumph was rewarded more than it deserved andeach victory was hyped as if we had won a world war each time.The Hockey governing body also failed to promote hockey during its vital stages nor did it take steps to find raw talent in the interior parts of the country.A Dhanraj pillai was diminished for no reason,a famous Asia cup win was not shown the attension it deserved.A chak de India was a hit,but it never made a new Indian Hockey fan,a PHL was born -the best attempt was made to make it famous but only in vain-Alas everything is in our heart,our reluctance to accept Hockey as our primary sport and show the respect it truely deserves...
The Path Ahead...?
* This has happened for the good,atleast we now know where our Hockey really stands among the other nations
*The Indian Hockey Federation should accept its inability to improve the standards of our Hockey and the Top officials should be shown the door.
*Good,Effective sports administrators around the world should be invited to revive the game and do what has to be done
*We ,the people must learn to respect players of other sports and allow ourselves to think that Cricket is not a greater game than any other sport in the world.
*We must realize Cricketers are not heros(Only the men who fight for us in the borders really are),and understand it is all business going out there to win our attension....

Let us hope for the best and beleive that our Hockey team, backed by our resolve in promoting the game, can do well in the future....

Take this - Women's Day Freaks

2008-03-08T16:56:00.005+05:30

They celebrate Women's day as if they are paying tribute to the glorious feminine.They bring in stars and famous personalities and make them talk about women who changed their lives.They sensationalise trivial incidents and neglect some great women who have struggled to glory.Here is such a typical story

Ever heard of the name "Illavazhagi"....
She won her maiden women's title in the World Carom Championship in France last month.She is the sachin Tendulkar of her sport,the world carrom champion.And when she returned to India ,she did not expect crowds to welcome her at the airport.All she wanted was to live a better life than she had done before.
She said
'If the government promotes and encourages carom players, they would even bag gold in the Olympics and bring laurels to the country,''
She has won two SAARC championship title,a world cup,and also bagged the national crown.But the pity is very few people in Tamil Nadu know her name even today.No TV channel is brave enough to broadcast an interview of her even in an Women's day.
The only good news is she was given an meagre amount of Rs.1 lakh some days ago while her equivalent male counterparts in cricket are dealing with crores.

The politicians who seek publicity by addressing the reservations for Women in the elections can atleast mention the names these kind of sportswomen who live a life that very few people are aware of ....

Shah rukh Khan who revived his stardom through his Chak de girls can give atleast a 1% of his earnings from his investment in IPL to these poor female athlethes .But the truth is they are Good Men just at Screen...

Thanks for the Memories -Master

2008-03-03T13:09:00.008+05:30

It is a decade now since we started to admire the beauty and excitement that sachin gives us when he bats.Whenever pedestrians shout at him that he no longer belongs there,he comes out stronger with that exclusive authority of his.He is unparalled and too good a champion to write off.He knows about the game more than anybody else in the planet and of course sometimes make us wonder "Is he human or what?".He is definitely human but what differenciated him is his enormous passion to be the best and his incredible intensity to remain at the top.

The joy, entertainment,pleasure,ecstacy he gives us during his stay in the field is priceless.It was not like ,when he was born,the nurse came and gave him."Here it is ,your 80 odd centuries", he earned every bit of it.He did not take the giant step,instead he starved,worked hard,put his life into cricket at the age when we would have been obsessed with cartoons .At 14,his usual day included getting up,going for practice,have lunch at the ground,go back to practice and return for dinner and sleep in the dining table.As my favourite sports writer Nirmal Shekar beautifully points out
"Long before India nF1 teams,Vishwanathan Anand,Indian Stock market boom,Lakshmi Mittal,Sachin was the one who we were proud of...."

I still remember the his first century that i saw on TV as a kid and i got the same feeling this sunday.I have had my transformation from a kid to a man(like millions of his fans)and ironically we expect him to be the same forever for all these years.Still he manages to provide us the same excitement and joy that he gave us a decade ago.Chidren who were born ,when we started appreciating his genius are old enough to get their driving licenses today.

And his greatness lies in the fact that when my grandmother who can't differenciate Cricket and Tennis asked me after seeing Tendulkar's speech "Is he still Playing?"
Being a cricket lover for all these years when I analyse the glorious Indian victory and not as a sachin fan, ,the difference between the teams is the presence of the master.Let us have it here

Of the 5 times we met Australia this series ,we won 3

1)In the 160 run chase ,Schin gave a crucial opening stand making 40,negotiating the initial burst of Brett Lee and Co

2)In the first final,we all know we won because of Sachin alone as he batted all the 50 overs

3)In the second final,he held the innings together for a major part and once he was out,the usual thing happened as if it was 10 years ago...

So,watch it out guys,India have not won a triseries final since Natwest Series just because Sachin has not scored in any of those finals and now we have beaten the world champions just because the master have come to the party this time around....

Wake up Cricket lovers,we still depend on Sachin to deliver at critical times....
And I can say it is a real previlage to remember the sweet memories that he has given me over all these years for nearly one third of my life...Thanks for the memories ,Master

The Indian Premier League-The boon or Curse for the sport

2008-02-21T20:36:00.006+05:30

Do you know the biggest joke of 2008 till now...It is Shah Rukh khan saying
"Let me make it clear. None of the franchise owners think of the business aspect. We want to instill a sports culture in the country and nothing better than involving in cricket. I have a passion for sports from my childhood. I don't know whether I will be successful in doing this but I wanted to try out new things,"

IPL is not about devoloping sport or cricket,it is about money,about exploiting a cricket crazy nation to the maximum extent and deriving money out of it.Incidentally the ICL has been a blessing in disguise for the BCCI.As Harsha famously says
"The BCCI wants to be the leader in Finance and Australian Board in their cricket.You get what u want to get. "

If the BCCI has been loyal to the former cricketers and showed greater importance towards talent and quality rather than money and fame,the ICL wouldnot have started.
Sandip Patil ,who took Kenya to the 2003 World cup semis was treated very badly.
What do these guys who in their AC rooms chat about business all the time know about the passion and spirit needed to play a sport.

If the dollars involved are mere numbers to us,here are some

"Overall prize money is US$5million, with the winners getting $2m. The remaining money will be given in the form of awards like ‘man-of-the-match’ etc.\
The BCCI has earned $723.59m from the ‘sale’ of the eight teams. On top of that, the Board will get around $1billion from the sale of TV rights."

It's a ugly feeling for any cricket lover when a player of lesser talent is compared with a legend.A Shane Warne being considered lesser than Yousuf Pathan,A Glenn Mcgrath being neglected,A shivnarine chanderpaul being considered a underdog,A Mike Hussey getting the same money as a Parthiv patel.
When the venture started ,i had that ecstacy of the chance to enjoy the epic duels of Sachin-Warne,Sachin-Mcgrath once again in my life.

And to that expectations and the fuzz that i thought this IPL would bring to cricket is begginning to fade...Alas the old warhorses are still in it to redeem me...!

And coming to the team i support...

I started watching because of two persons
one is Sachin Tendulkar
and the other is Harsha Bhogle(responsible for the second stage of becoming an ardent fan)
So,i can't imagine myself supporting a team that does not contain sachin or the one that plays against a team that contains him.So Sachin has always been my hero ..So it should be obvious that i ve become a Mumbai fan already...

Shame on us

2008-02-18T20:25:00.009+05:30

Can anyone answer
who scored the highest number of runs in the 2003 cricket world cup?
Sounds rubbish,doesnt it.
Try to answer this..
Who was the last person to be awarded the Param Vir Chakra (PVC), India's highest military decoration awarded for the highest degree of valour or self-sacrifice in the presence of the enemy?

Tough one ,isnt it ...
It is Captain Vikram Batra ,who was awarded posthumus.

It is a shame we remember the names of famed sportsmen and give attension to celebrities who do us nothing ,And care little and hardly remember about people, who die for us leaving their families behind and neglecting all human comforts.We talk about injustice happening to the cricket team and have neglected one of the most shameful events that has happened to us ...

Naib Subedar Bana Singh was awarded the Param Vir Chakra, the highest wartime gallantry medal in India in 1988, for conspicuous bravery and leadership under most adverse conditions. The peak which he captured was renamed Bana Top in his honour. At the time of the Kargil War, he was the only PVC awardee who was still serving in the Army.

The following is a news about him two months ago from the tribuneindia.com website....
some excerpts

"The Tribune had carried a report on October 8 mentioning the plight of Bana Singh who was being paid a petty allowance of Rs 166 per month by the state government in recognition of his bravery, while his fellow soldiers in Punjab were getting Rs 12,500 per month."

"Bana Singh told The Tribune that for the past 20 years he had only got assurances and nothing else. About six months ago he met Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to present his case. The J&K Ex-Servicemen League also took up his case with the government. A four-member committee was also constituted for the purpose. But what happened to the committee report nobody knows, laments the PVC winner.

Jammu and Kashmir has been embarrassingly indifferent to gallantry award-winners like Bana Singh.

He said it was Capt Amarinder Singh who had announced Rs 10 lakh cash award for him in October,2006. The cheque of this amount was presented to him by his (Amarinder's) successor, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in March this year.

"You can make out as how our government treats servicemen who have risked their life for the unity and integrity of the country", he regretted.

Here are the full details..(copy and paste the links)

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20061029/j&k.htm#4

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20071202/j&k.htm

Is this how we treat the "Bravest of the Brave",who risked his life for the sake of his motherland

We can imagine how much money our cricketers and politicians are earning and we fail to recogonise if not praise the greatest deed a man can do for the country...Shame on us ...I am not proud to be an Indian now

Livewire-08

2008-02-08T17:45:00.000+05:30

A typical college Symposium,a once in a lifetime experience of organising a grand function with a budget of more than 3,00,000 in a college where academics are considered secondary and costlier decorations,lunch are looked to be the real victory,a class of 66 students working together to make the function a grand success,yeah,it is coming shortly ,LIVEWIRE-08,a National(at least ,we got a paper from Bangalore!)Level Technical Symposium.....just keeping me from blogging useful stuffs for almost 20 days now..

Many questions will arise regarding the very existence of these functions spending this large sum almost for nothing ,but i am slowly realising the completeness a college student gets in understanding the complexities of the real world problems after organising such a function ,this is really an awesome experience.

My second part of this post is about the one hourspeech made by Harsha Bhogle in IIM-A about excellence,What a speech!An amazing insight into what a man can learn from sports.I bet this would be the best ever speech u would ve heard in ur life...Here is the link..
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=harsha+bhogle+iim+a+speech&sitesearch=

Before that..read this brief profile of this hugely respected and talented gentleman's profile
http://espnstar.com/cricket/harshaup/hu_bio.jsp

A Tribute to a legend-Mangai Sir

2008-01-21T23:05:00.001+05:30

This is the time in my life, when my school time memories are beginning to fade and a new corporate life is beckoning, I felt like I owe something to my teachers , who, made me into what I am or had an influence in shaping my life to a great extent. So, this post is for a teacher who is still at his best shaping better people than me and is doing this world the greatest service anyone could do…This is a tribute to the world’s greatest profession…
Mr.Mangaimanalan:
The word that makes every student in tirunelveli to admire and to derive inspiration from it. We can call him Mr.Teaching, if not Teaching can be called Mangaimanalaning. So great are his teaching methods that you can ask any student of him, I bet anyone giving him a mark less than 9.9999 out of 10 for his teaching. He is the face of chemistry for almost all Engineers and Doctors coming out of Tirunelveli. I have heard even the great Rajinikanth has invited him to work in his institute, but he had refused. After all, we don’t love him just for his teaching, but for the person he is, the clear Idol that anyone in the world can follow. The Indian railways can check the IST with him and the clock within his brain can defeat the most accurate clock in the planet.
Some of his traits that this post is fortunate enough to record...

Even the Orkut that revolutionized Indian Social Networking has a fan club for him.

He never accepts fees from students whom he knew had a slightly poor financial background

His encouragement for students is priceless and the inspirations he gives to the student who does well in his classes are sure to make his life a brilliant one.

He values his job more than anything else; I have heard him say he won’t sleep properly if he is not completing portions as per schedule. I have seen him coming to take classes in his worst health conditions just for the sake of not disappointing his students.

He holds so much of moral responsibilities to himself and he never touches the fees we provide him (get it directly) nor does he ask for it..!

He does this profession for the sake of building individuals and not for anything else as he has a lot more career options other than teaching that can give him many times of the money he is earning now…

And there are so many things that we continue to admire and wonder at the greatness of a man like him the world has never seen before and his journey continues in brightening up or shaping up the lives of so many people. Just words are not enough to describe his professionalism, dedication, kindness, talent, teaching methods etc…

I have been (at least trying to) blogging for almost a year now and no other post have given me more satisfaction than this recording of a legend…

P.S: As I hear now, his health is not that good as it is used to be, May the Lord give him the strength to continue his glorious works (in fact his works are as glorious as His works) forever...

Hats-off India--U have battered the Lion in its own Den

2008-01-19T16:04:00.000+05:30

Will all due respect to the australian team,the Indian have thrashed the Aussies in this Perth Test.They have showed the cricketing fraternity that they have, what it takes to be a champion side.It happens to be a team effort and everyone chipped in with their contribution.They were on top on all the four days and full credit to the boys.They have come with their mind full of temperament and toughness to beat the best in the business.

Full marks to Anil Kumble,who at the helm, has been the role model and lead by example how a test match player should be,full of perseverence and intensity.What a comback for two of our very own players Pathan and Shewag,they have made the world realize how much hard work can bring the difference to the performance in a player.

And there is a young man,who was 2 years old,when Kumble played his first test match.Now he threatens the best batsman in the world with his hostile inswingers and got his wicket in both the innings of the testmatch..Ishant ,you made Sunil Gavaskar a bad critic..!

Then our very own duo who have held Indian cricket for almost a decade and a half now.Sachin and Rahul ,once again proved why they are considered to be the best middle order batting pair of our time.

I have never believed history repeats itself..But I was wrong ,It was number 17 again ,proven elusive ,the same man again looking invincible..a truly incredible gentleman standing as the difference between the two sides once again for almost 8 years..the great Laxman..He was unconqueranle once again...

Overall,its a team effort and that is more important in a team game..Let us this live this moment a little longer and cherish this one of the most famous victories of our lives...Hats off India-You have battred the lion in its own Den

A Real Problem awaits Attension

2008-01-17T20:59:00.000+05:30

As we praise the efforts of Tata's nano and believe that
It is a great boon for the middle class and almost all of us can have a car now and
it will not remain a dream anymore. But the Indian scenario is far more complicated and the advent of one car cannot change it. The nano's success lies not only in its technology and the methods used, but also in making people like me to analyze how common people travel from one place to another in India..From the analysis

India has 12 million cars,
50 million two-wheelers and
6 million trucks and buses
We have a population of 1000 million..!

India has a whooping 55% of its population in the working age (didn’t get the stats for actual working population), Assuming these are the people who has to travel much and often, so a total of at least 400 to 500 million people comes in these catagory...

If the calculations are done sensibly

100 million people travel by their self owned vehicles and the remaining 400 million people has to use public transport daily, no wonder the town buses and trains in the metros are filled with people and not having space to get air for breathing ..

This violent surge in the use of public transport, huge crowds in buses has been a real problem threatening for a number years now..Having used public transport till now, I myself know how difficult it is to travel in peak hours to our destination amidst all the tensions and Crowd…

So, We Indians can be proud of the nano,but taking nothing away from its technical brilliance and the efforts of Mr.Ratan Tata and his team ,the bitter truth is, it cannot be and was never created for being a part of the solution..It is high time that the government put this public transportation system into a serious thinking process and come with a solution so that it satisfies the people who cant afford to own even a bike…(How can they think of Nano?)
A fact:
A 6 million people use the trains in Mumbai alone daily (largest number in the world)..

The Nano-Taking India to the World

2008-01-12T10:46:00.000+05:30

Amidst the hype of 'nano,the 1-lakh car or as they say the car of the common man,"how big an achievement this is ?" is the biggest question before us

No wonder that this is a giant step forward and one of the greatest,if not 'the greatest' in Indian automobile industry...

It was like looking every step of the process making a car and finding out,"How can we do it cheaper?". Mr.Ratan Tata and Tata has made the cheapest car on the planet and has given hopes to millions of people who had dreamed of owning a car, that their dream would come true..
Some features of the car that highlights how big is the achievement ...

* It is 8 per cent shorter than the smallest car in the market.

*It is two and a half per cent lower than that car.

*Cheapest car in China is the double the price of our nano
And for the environmentalists and TV pundits who argue that the advent of these cars would increase CO2 levels,the reply is

"Who are you, you work in glass-fronted offices & drive four-wheelers and say that others cannot/should not upgrade because its bad for the environment. Clearly, there have to be other ways of solving the looming green crisis."-cnnibn

Let us admire the great work of the 500 engineers behind this car and hope that such inventions can move our country forward making the life of every indian HAPPIER...

The cricketing Debacle

2008-01-06T15:59:00.000+05:30

As I was typing the previous post thinking India would draw the test match,as three wickets were in hand with two overs remaining,cricket once again proved me somthing that it has been doing ever since I started watching it "Dont under estimate me..."

Let me not put the blame on the senior batsmen as others do because all are human and everyone can fail anytime.I am questioning the duties that are left with BCCI in lifting up the cricket (generically sports )talent in the country,in which children grow thinking cricketers as their national heros.There shouldnt be a problem in making them interested towards cricket but the problem is with the facilities they are provided to know about the game.

Watch the difference between the domestic games played in Australia and that of India,Even the team in the bottom of the league in Australia can defeat our top team.See the coaches they have ,the manner they adopt young talented children and give them facilities so that making their life secure and make them concentrate on their game.

Can the officials answer the flowing questions

1)What the hell is BCCI doing with the money it is getting?
2)Why is the expenditure of the BCCI not transparent?
3)What the hell are the politicians doing inside the AC rooms thinking they know cricket better than those
who have played 100 test matches for India?
4)Why did they chose to come to BCCI?to serve the country because of their patriotism..try helping the poor or other games
5)Why do the test match pitches still remain to be poorer than the poorest pitches in Australia?

If u dont know how rich is our BCCI,here are somthing u need to know

*BCCI's annual income for 2006/07 :Rs.650crores

To add to this huge sum in the next 4 years

*Global media rights for international cricket to be held in India between
March 2006 and March 2010 :US$612 Million.

*Official kit sponsorship rights for
5 years from 2006 to 2010 :US$43 Million.

*official Indian cricket team sponsor
for a period of 4 years :US$70 Million.

*The media rights for 25 neutral venue one-day
matches to be played over the next 5 years :US$19.15 Million

*For ground rights,travel sponseers :Rs 2000 crore

Amazed?Now u understand why politicians and businessmen want to serve the BCCI with their skills...GOD save Indian Cricket

Tare Zameen Par-Once in a lifetime movie

2008-01-06T14:08:00.000+05:30

One of the most beautiful movies you will ever see in your lifetime.The life of a eight year old boy who is used to be the one we had thought strange and 'poor boy with little sense' in our school days ,emphasises the idea "Everyone is ignorant-but in different fields".The story that moves as if we are looking from the eyes of the boy and the first hour is awesome.It underlines the concept,just like everyone having different faces ,they have different abilities,different thoughts,different ideas,different skills,different interests and each one of them is precious and none of them is less important.

Our childhood is being spent around the pressures and the onus of becoming a doctor,engineer,lawyer,manager and no one really cares for the true interest of the heart of the child and the interests subsequently yields to the demands of the society.

Back to the film...As we proceed into the climax wondering the impact it has made into our hearts ,the film responds with even more emossions with actors giving their best performance in the last half an hour or so.The music is just wonderful and touches our inner mind as we are left in a state of oblivion.Suddenly at the end of the movie we realize that it is the directorial debut of Mr.Aamir Khan..Hats off to u Mr.Aamir Khan,,U have given those little children who are not 'The genius' a hope of becoming a 'Einstein'...

An Emphatic surge of 'The Rich' over 'The Poorest'

2008-01-03T13:21:00.000+05:30

Tired of Global Warming Facts and wondering what actually the reality is .Here is a clear picture regarding India.
The per capita emission of an Indian citizen is lower than that of other countries and dont be suprised it is the rich people who contribute less than 1% of the total population ,are emitting CO2 that can be comparable with the emissionsof the world.

We can neglect the middle class for sometime ,now.

So ,the remaining 800 million people and considerable percentage of whom would have never heard of anything regarding global warming,have become victims to the ruthless activities of the rich.The rich live in those airconditioned rooms with their houses built on favourable ares.It is the poor who live in slums and have houses built out of weaker things,are left homeless and lose their loved ones ,of course not because of their faults.

With the floods coming almost every year,and the government unable to do anything to say these poor people,the onus is on the rich people to cut their emissions at least,if not volunteer in helping the poor to come out of this trouble caused by them..

Four Things that Happened since my last post

2007-12-05T21:09:00.000+05:30

Life is interesting ,doesnt it, especially when u look back and see the differnece it had made in you, over a period of time .The month of december has been an evenful one in my life .I think a lot had happened'.
Four things are really worth mentioning

1)The semester exams ,though the questions were not really tough ,were really a difficult one to crack than i had imagined.Especialy after getting placed and the long days that were in between each exams,I was not able get the motivation going.Finally,with the grace of God and putting in some considerable amount of work,I have wriiten all the exams to my satisfaction and results should be positive ,hopefully .

2)A great man named Abraham george,whom I have mentioned in my first blog and who is almost my inspiration to write a blog,whom I got acquainted through a google search and from whom I got so many new real informations about India through his blog .The special thing is that ,I found the famous Thomas friedman praising or really making him an idol ,in his world famous book on Globalisation ,'The World is Flat'.
It is a great feeling to read something really big and finding in it a about a person whom u already know...

3)Minutes after the last exam ,We decided to start to Ooty(80 Km from Coimbatore) through bikes and we started exacty two hours after the exams and it was really the best trip I ever has in my life.Standing in Dotapetta ,the highest point in South India and being in a state where you could see only the distance having radius of only 2 meters around you... absolutely awesome experiences.

4)Realised how big and important the Blogs are ,and deciding it is not some place to just fil in some crap,I have decided to put in something really useful and clear so that my blog doesnot become that 'yet another blog' type.Hopefully ,with some hardwork and patience,I think I can make it.
Time and Hope should have the answers...

Back to Blogging ..Finally

2007-12-05T20:42:00.000+05:30

It is nearly a month and four days from the day since I typed in my last post.I was in the middle of my study holidays then and decided not to blog till the exams are over since I thought i was wasting much time in the internet.I was desperate to blog at certain times like when
1)Martina Hingis quit tennis
2)Sampras Vs Federer matches (Effect of "Men who made me"...)
3)The thiings related to 'The World is Flat'.
Somehow I controlled myself and had to back my decision ,Alas who else would respect my decisions if I dont!

So ,this first six months into the world of Blogosphere has been a learning curve for me and has given me many things(new friends,new informations, to say a few).I had been a novice and I have realised that the world of Blogging is really a wonderful thing that has happened to the Internet making it a 'read and write' one.
What next?
*I deduced that some of my posts were not upto the standards and I have to improve on it.

* I have decided to concentrate more on my perspectives of all the recent happenings on the planet sensibily and contribute my best to the internet.

Exams are coming.... Once again

2007-10-30T21:37:00.000+05:30

This is the usual in my college life,four months of being idle followed by one month of serios studying.The days to follow in the coming month must be very tough as this is going to be my last big series of exams and I certainly want to prove a point here.So as for as my blogging is conerned ,I think I have to give a temperory break!

See u again after my exams are over,Fresh...

They are Our Real Heros ,,not our cricketers and Actors

2007-10-29T18:11:00.000+05:30

The article here was the one in 'The Hindu ' ,Open page and I certainly beleive that every Indian has to read this one at this point of our bllooming economy.
Not enough to draw youth into armed forces

To say we honour our soldiers and to practise it are two different things

Sonika Uppal

A second generation army wife married to a fourth generation army officer, it is not just a way of life for me, it is my entire life....and that is by no means an understatement. I grew up in this cocooned world, never doubting even once that there was something lacking in it, and there wasn’t!

It was a wonderful way of life, comfortable and secure, drifty, voyaging, invigorating and always peppy. A certain glamour and romance attached to the austere sober side.

Nowadays, I sometimes sit and wonder where that old way of life has gone. Somewhere it got lost or probably left behind in this new world where mind-boggling salaries and unheard of amounts are paid to young boys and girls, who have yet to learn the value and worth of hard earned money.

The old age saying of “simple living and high thinking” has literally flown out of the window. Everybody seems to nurse a wholesome passion for all the “good” things in life ...a monthly six figure salary, a luxurious apartment, latest cars and gizmos and of course vacations abroad. No altruistic desires to change the world, just pursuing one’s own dreams. Frankly, I don’t see anything wrong with it; it is a new changed world with new changed needs. Money is no longer a dirty word.
All pains and no gains?

So why should an army officer feel differently? Or is it that simply by virtue of being in this profession, his dreams should be limited to sacrificing his whole life for the country, all pains and no gains? No wonder our country has a shortage of 13,000 officers at present, a shame considering our burgeoning population. We need to wake up to reality.

To expect a young man to join this profession and stick to it, you have to make it attractive and worthwhile. We all know there is no dearth of talent and brains in our country. But the top lot never opt for the defence services and even if they do, it turns out to be a very dissatisfying vocation for them. It might seem that I am flogging a dead horse here, but the truth is out there for all to see.

Many army officers I know, some of them close friends, have either put up their papers or are in the process of doing so. And let me tell you, among them are mostly the toppers of their respective courses, highly intelligent, self-motivated, and hardworking individuals. And why not? In spite of putting in their best, working undefined ungodly hours, in the worst of living conditions, separated from their families for half the year if not more, no guarantee of promotions and putting their life at risk, these are still among the low paid class A gazetted officers in this country.

Their frustration is inevitable and understandable. To say we honour our soldiers and to practise it are two different things. When our cricketers run around the stadium with our country’s flag after winning a single match, they are treated like god and are gifted crores from the taxpayers’ kitty, and yet what most of us do not know is that the amount paid to a soldier for being awarded a Sena Medal for gallantry is Rs. 250 a month, with lower awards getting no monetary compensation.

A commercial pilot gets paid a few lakhs a month for transporting people safely, and a soldier posted at Siachen gets a few thousands for keeping the tricolour safe. Why would anyone want to do this? The so called “josh,” the thrill of serving your country, does not last long when these frustrations set in and when you know that you have it in you to be the best, and if out there with the corporates, you could be earning your present salary manifold.

We as a nation need to dwell on these issues in detail, to refocus on the criticalities ailing the armed forces, and make becoming an officer an attractive ideal to the youth of today, a youth faced with alternative attractive options as well. For starters, it would serve well to let a good remuneration package and the armed forces be synonymous.

What do u call this?

2007-10-24T17:04:00.000+05:30

I was there in the busstand in tirunelveli,waiting for my bus to start to coimbatore.It was around 10.00 pm,it was the scene that would move evryone who sees it to stop for a moment or two and make them pay attension.
A man was packing or i should write closing his so called shop,that he owns in the open area in the platform of the busstand.He was alone,he had a whole lot of materials ranging from biscuit packets to cosmetics.The shop was nothing but a stand,a big piece of synthetic cloth and some ropes.He was putting all the materials in the stand,covering it with his cloth and tieing it neatly as if he was tieing a rollsroyce in a lorry,all alone.It took him nearly one and half hour to complete 75% of his work(my bus came then).His rope fell every now and then on to the ground,none tried to help him.The thing that was so special about the man was he did not have a leg.

Same Place,Same Time:A well built man coming in a taxi directly from his hotel taking with him his waiter from the hotel with his two suitcases that even my grandmother would carry .He asks the waiter to take them to his bus and gives him a fifty rupee note,which i think is what our shopkeeper earn for a day .....

The book called 'Doors'

2007-10-03T16:38:00.000+05:30

A novel called "Doors".Can U predict what the novel would be about.It's an account of a burglar's life over a period of time.It records incidents that affects the softer side of the burglar when he comes in contact with a square(a normal lady).He decides to quit burglary and start living with his girl Jessica but only after completing one of the biggest burglaries of his life.But once he compltes it successfully,his mind takes a drastic 'U' turn and he tries ignoring the poor girl.

The story seems simple,but the syle in which the authour handles the plot is really interesting.The minute details covered regarding all burglaries and the way Alex uses an ordinary telephone to get all the information he needs for his looting, is simply amazing.The language,the people,the accent makes the reader feel himself inthe middle of burglars....

The part played by the whores and the characterization of Alex is what the book is all aboout.The character almost becomes an epitome of a cold hearted thief when thinks frustrated by Jessica,whom he loved and deciding to ignore her inthe climax.This novel is not action packed but it takes into a diferent world that u cant neglect wherever u go...

Good book,never miss it if u come to see it...

I was there when it happened

2007-09-27T19:34:00.000+05:30

I heard Harsha Bhogle say."We were there when it happened."I could feel the profound intensity of those words right through my heart.What a fitting finale to the game's youngest child.
Watching cricket right from the age of eight,I have sat for hours infront of that 'idiot box',hoping against hopes for an Indian Victory in a major tournament.After nearly a decade and a half of waiting,finally,the Indian Cricket teamhas given me something that I can say
"I am proud of being a cricket fan and experience that exclusive rush in my heart on that glorious minute of Indian victory."

I was there when it happened,I was there witnessing how the victory was scripted,manufactured in the dressing room right fron the day Dhoni was made the captain.

Nearly a minute after Sreesanth held to that catch of his lifetime,I could not stop those wonderful liquid drops coming out of my eyes,for the very first time of my life,I wept seeing a sports incident(in real life).

For those of you who are not so passionate about Cricket,Please understand that there is something in here that you couldnot get anywhere else...

Are we Devoloping?

2007-09-11T12:34:00.001+05:30

"WE were sitting in the tent,they tore it down.We kept sitting",the old old Freedon Fighter told us."They threw water on the groung and at us.They tried making the ground wet and difficult to sit on.We remained seated.Then when I went to drink aome water and bent down near the tap,they smashed me on the head fracturing my skull.I had to be rushed to hospital."
Baji Mohammed is one of India'a last living freedom fighters -just one of four or five nationally recogonised ones.He is not talking about british brutality in 1942.

He is describing the vivious attack on him during the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992.
This is what the reality is..
We say that we are devoloping and cheat ourselves and give ourselves into externl forces.We dont want to beleive that we are behind and we dont accept the fact that there are a lot of mistakes on our side....

The greatest Book I have ever read

2007-09-11T12:28:00.000+05:30

In my Tewnty one years of life,probably 10 years spent as I wished (to a certain extent atleast),and in all these years I have never been moved by a movie or a book.It was this one ,the very famous "The Godfather" by Mario Puzo,that touched my heart with such profound brutality,that I never really came out of it for almost a day.

I feel it as a great previlege to come across such a masterpiece and chose it to read(In fact I saw it the very first month of my College life and thought of reading it someday) in my final year.The greatness of the truth shown in their words,the strategic brilliance,the coolness of those hearts,the way they saw death,the way they lived seeing death every minute they lived,were just too much to bear for an ordinary heart like ours.

At the end of a very long sequence of days(around 15),the life of a man who lived the life of a century just moved me into oblivion after those long hours,I could hear Don Corleone saying"Let your friends underestimate your virtues and your enemies overestimate your faults".The will with which Micheal accepts his fathers legacy even though he never wanted to be like his father,just tells you the respect that a Coleone has for his family.

And it had a fitting climax,with Tessio betraying Micheal,and saying in his death
"Tell Micheal ,it is all business,I have always liked him."

And the very famous R.K.Rowling says in her Harry Potter "It is like the Wand choosing the master".I think the same is true for books after reading this...

Sachin-the Maestro

2007-09-11T12:18:00.000+05:30

he Greatest Sportsman I have ever witnessed in my life.I grew as his empire expanded.I was once (still sometimes) mad of the batsman in him.His amazing genius in taking Control of the game,his Demonstration of batting to all the men in the field,were just mind boggling.
But I was not just moved by the Tendulkar on the field,but the man away from the field,the way he speaks to the media.He has always made his bat do the talking when someone doubts his ability or whenever some cynism is built around him.
After 15000 ODI runs,11000 Test runs,with 77 international centuries behind him,Conquering almost every frontier that has eluded him,his answer to the question
"What are you proud of?
from NDTV

The answer from the mastero was,"My Discipline".

What a Night...

2007-09-06T17:12:00.000+05:30

A Sachin-Sourav opening stand of 150,a Tendulkar 94 of 81 balls,an Indian batsman coming in at number 7,at his first match at tour, scripting an Indian Victory from nowhere under pressure,a sensational cricket match entertained along with Harsha Bhogle and co....
What else a man requires,who has been in love with cricket ever since he had known himself,when he goes to his friend's house to see that cricket match after much hesitation...
It was a beautiful night with a heart filled with ecstacy and satisfaction ,winessing a tantalisingly close battle fought with all mighty powers.Here it is ,a night that can be compared with the Natwest Final at the same city five years ago...

Why India is still India

2007-08-26T15:49:00.000+05:30

We are more concerned about the arrest of Sanjay Dutt than in the pitiful plight of our retires armymen and those innocent men and women those who are affected by the brutal acts of the terrorists and the government.

We show greater importance to a celebrity who fakes charity for fame than to a man who helps the poor to the neighbourhood.

We dont honour our real heros neither do we recogonise them as the one who truly deserve praise and adulation.

We throw garbage into the street,spit in the open places ,try to cheat the government for our benefits,bribe for our comfort but expect the politicians to be honest!

We dicuss the things that can change India but wont come forward to do it ourselves.

We write blogs of what we know and hoping that someday some miracle change this poor old country hesitating to create that miracle...

The Men who made me-II

2007-08-16T20:17:00.000+05:30

I can still remember that cover drive as it is happening right infront of my eyes although it might have happened some nine years back on a typical weeknight.That great Innings in the super six match against South Africa at the 99 world cup ,which altered a nightmare of a situation in to a glorious win.Coming from Nowhere,he produced one of the greatest one day innings of all time.And I dont have to say he is,Stephen Rodger Waugh.

The way,he fought against bouncers ,how he mastered his team during tough times is just amazing.And when they lost some important test matches in a row,a message came out of the man and was stuck on the bathroom on one fine morning,

"Today is the first day of our journey to the Invincible"

They made that 15 wins in a row -record right from that day....

He brought it me something that always keeps me going

"Perseverence".

The Men who made Me

2007-08-06T17:37:00.001+05:30

At times when you look back at your life and think how would it be if some incident had not been happened or if you hadn't met someone and you realize that very moment had been the defining moment of your life.Believe me everyone has to have something like this in their life.And what this post is about an incident that have influenced my life than anything else...

Pete
sampras...

When I look back now, 8 years ago,when I was studying my ninth or tenth standard ,I could still remember the day ,when I bought that 'Sport star' magazine ,trying to buy the one which had some cricket news ,the shopkeeper gave me the next edition(I bought it thinking it as the previous edition),It had some thing like "The Lion roars back" with the great Pete Sampras behind...

I started reading that amazing piece of work, by Nirmal Shekar, which started with
" The higher You fly ,the smaller you appear to those who cannot fly".

When I was wondering what life is,Sampras gave me a picture of what life is all about beyond money,pride,glory-the urge to challenge oneself and come out on top .Sampras did it winning the U.S. open beating Andre Agassi on paper and practically all his age,time and all the cynicism built around him.

still I could remember

"Sampras at 80% can beat Agassi at 100%"

And I thought -What made a man who had 13 grandslam titles(world record) and staying Six year ends at No:1(World record),Staying record number of weeks at no:1,still wanted that elusive U.S open not to prove to the world but to himself that he is still a fighter.

And that gave me the most beautiful character that I pursue have it me

"Challenge Myself"

Science Vs Religion

2007-07-15T14:18:00.000+05:30

Although I dont want to publish this blog, as this would raise a lot of questions to your theories of God, my instinct tells me to publish this piece. Almost all ideas of this blog are taken from Angels and Demons, I think this is worth reading.

I am blogging after a very long time and I am sure that this is worth waiting.

Let me start FROM SCRATCH .Why is the question Does God exists? arises. It is because there are two kinds of people who believe evolution to be happened in two different ways.
1) As per the Big Bang theory and the theories of Darwin (Science)
2) God is the creator.
And what all of us dont understand is the fact

SCIENCE AND RELIGION ARE NOT AT ODDS
SCIENCE IS SIMPLY TOO YOUNG TO UNDERSTAND.

Although the big bang theory may be scientifically proven, the fact remains that, at time zero, everything vanishes and cannot be explained and there is no proof for matter coming out of nothing, which definitely brings the concept of God into the picture.

I just want to bring science to a higher level where science supports the concept of God.

The following are the quotes from 'Angels and Demons 'These texts describes an experiment done by a renowned scientist

"He set out to do something no scientist had ever thought to do. Something that no one has ever had the technology to do .He designed an experiment to prove Genesis was possible."
Genesis is nothing but matter from nothing.

"He created a universe . . . from nothing at all. Better said, he recreated the Big Bang
It was done on a much smaller scale, of course, the process was remarkably simple. He accelerated two ultrathin particle beams in opposite directions around the accelerator tube. The two beams collided head-on at enormous speeds, driving into one another and compressing all their energy into a single pinpoint. He achieved extreme energy densities He was simulating the compressed point of energy from which the universe supposedly sprang .The results shake the very foundation of modern physics. Without warning, inside the accelerator tube, at the highly focused energy, particles of matter began appearing out of nowhere."

"Matter-Blossoming out of nothing. An incredible display of subatomic fireworks, A miniature universe springing to life. He proved not only that matter can be created from nothing, but that the Big Bang and Genesis can be explained simply by accepting the presence of an enormous source of energy."

"God, Buddha, The Force, Yahweh, the singularity, the unicity point-call it whatever you like"

That single enormous source of energy is what we call GOD
Science and religion support the same truth-pure energy is the father of creation.

Can those sophisticated, amazing complex chemical reactions that led to the evolution of the universe be happened without the intervention of a superior power? See the universe and its breath-taking expanse; can that greatness be achieved without the help of another greater source of energy?
Where is GOD?

He is there, where the question came from.........

He is the reasoning, the power, the ability to grow, the mastermind behind every move of the nature and the force which is controlling the universe.
The difference between various individuals is their ability to understand that God and Religion are two different things and they dont have any relationship. One is a source of power and the other is a path laid by the common men towards reaching that power.

The Biggest Question

2007-06-10T12:21:00.000+05:30

As I mentioned in my previous blog,there are so many big oppurtunities being created by the so called IT boom.But the question that remain yet to be answered is ,Is this boom helping India or the 'Aam Aadmi' really.I recently studied that nearly 90 lakh houses in Tamil Nadu dont have the basic sanitary facilities.The boom,the bubble ,the oppurtunities are all for the one who could afford to study a well respected Under graduate course....

But ,What is in there for those who study in Government schools and come from villages .They may belong to any of the backward classes and they may be the ones who really need the quotas ,But those seats are being plundered by the rich people in the city.....

Even I find scholarships in the college given to people who dont need them and the really needed people are cheated or misled into an illusion..

The happiest moment of my Life

2007-06-05T13:41:00.000+05:30

Though I feel that this blog is not meant to describe what is happening in my personal life, I would like to share how my life looks to be changed and relaxed in Four days .

The first day was 1-06-07 ,I got placed in Cts affter some huge hardwork like which I have never done that before.I thought ,I have done somthing I can be proud of...

The fourth day 4-06-07 ,I got placed in Accenture ,one among 40 students from our college.

I thought that people who read my blog should know this details about me.....

Humans Vs Humanity

2007-05-15T00:56:00.000+05:30

Sometimes, during the late night hours, as my thoughts go beyond the horizon, I used to wonder what man has done ever since he evolved. May be he can think he is proud of the scientific and technological accomplishments he has made right from the day he has invented the fire, wheel etc. Today, Technology has developed in such a way that the whole world can be destroyed by a single click .Has man proved himself to be the most civilized and cleverest of all creatures in these million years.

The recent album by A.R.Rehman just provoked some thoughts in me regarding poverty alleviation in the world and the very fact that more than 3 million People (half the world’s population) live below poverty line. What has man achieved ever since the day of his evolution? He might have reached the pinnacle of technological advancements and the zenith of scientific developments .But, hasn’t he failed in the very basic thing of showing love to his fellow beings. I always wonder, has man done all those things that he is made to do without showing the following qualities to his fellow beings….

Compassion

Solace

Devotion

Respect

Truth

Understanding

Peace

Tolerance

Kindness

Justice

Harmony

And if you think accomplishment is achieving something that other mortals can’t, then do it with all of the above qualities. The happiest thing that you would ever do in your life is doing something that makes others happy…

Celebrate Humanity, Love Others, Love Yourselves….

Long Live Compassion…..

Indian media doing what it should't be

2007-04-17T14:36:00.000+05:30

The people from the media constantly say that the media is exaggurationg and dramatising trivial issues, but the media is continuing to offend us by showing pictures or incidents that we dont want to see.We dont want to see Aish-Abhisek wedding or any other bollywood news for 5 minutes every hour.

Take this news:Subedar Major Bana Singh of the Eighth Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry was the only serving personnel of the Indian defence establishment with a Param Vir Chakra till the Kargil operations.

Do u know what he is doing now?He is denied a loan for a petrol bunk and a liquor shop.He is doing agriculture to manage his family.And is this the credit that the nation give to a man who has got the greatest medal for patriotism in the country.

And Is this not the important news that the media has to bring to notice.We dont want to kisses in news channels.We need you to improve India's status not the opposite.

Life goes on...

2007-04-05T19:55:00.000+05:30

Today is the last day in college for our seniors...I saw them getting autographs and other stuffs.It just made me wonder the various mysteries and intricavies that life has for us .Life is such a big thing that we are nearly puppets in its ropes.We all have different aims and goals and the point that one has to go away from others to acheive that goal comes regularly from time to time.

May be these things are taken with maturity and profound mentalaity ,but the truth is we are somehow made to accept what life is about to give us .We all are driven by something that keeps us living even if we face the difficulties.

Why I can't live without Cricket

2007-03-28T17:25:00.000+05:30

I woke up on the morning of the days after watching the first innings of the two matches ,standing on the road ,standing in a barber shop for three hours(DD and SET MAX are not available in our college!!!),only to hear that India lost those matches .I was unable to beleive that the rest of the worls cup did not feature our beloved players.

I would never say ,Watching Cricket 9is about patriotism ,passion for sports etc.It is a part of my life ,my day to day activities ,just like brushing ,bathing etc.I could remember every part of my life right from my childhooddays to the tense moments of our board exams with reference to the corresponding cricket matches.The games are one of those things that moulded me into myself.

It is just amazing to think of certain things in life that happens without our knowledge and knowing those things after their happenings.Harsha Bhogle and Ravi Shastri taught me how to talk on stage,Steve Waugh emphasised perseverence in life,Sachin showed how aggression is an integral part of life,Dravid instilled patience in me ,Imran Khan showed how to show empathy over others.

The two knocks of Sachin in Sharjah told me how one man with his will can conquer the world.The Natwest final in Lords authoured by Yuvraj and Kaif showed the powewr of youth.Naseer Hussain and Steve Waugh showed how to be a fighter at tough situations.

Whatever may be the causes of failure of Indian cricketers, it is the failure of the entire cricketing system,the enter nation ,the entire fraternity of fans .The players are the best 11 of one billion people.The best can't deliver when it matters.This is a humiliation ,embarrassment and disgrace to our system and our deficiencies are brought into the spotlight.

After all......
Cricket is not my passion,
It is embedded in my life and nothibg can take it away even by India's early exit from the quadrennial carnival and only these glorious uncertainities in sports keep its spirits alive...

The Eternal Mask...

2007-03-16T19:50:00.000+05:30

Sometimes ,when You are alone ,when there is no other thing to disturb you ,your mind begins a search,the search for yourself.We are not ourselves ,almost all of the time.We do things ,because those things are essential or necessary for our success,or to please individuals .We all wear a mask .It is the undescribable ,the most sophisticated ,the eternal ,the most ugly piece of our soul .

We lose ourselves to the worldly happenings ,sometimes we hide love ,sometimes we dont help others though we want to help them .We dont control ourselves most of the time ,and allow the situations to decide to what has to be done.We are burying ourselves to the so called 'Society'.

In the process,we lose our selfhood.'Professionalism','Work Ethics ',whatever you may call it ,it swallows you into its awkward dimensions.The mask is so permanent,that sometimes it makes you believe yourself that you arent.The mask is undoubtedly the biggest curse to mankind.

The Outburst

2007-03-15T20:32:00.000+05:30

I was in a Village near Coimbatore some days ago.I was nearly shocked and stunned by the plight of the poor children out there.There was no future for those small kids.It had a school ,just for the sake of having one.I was able to see hopelessness ,fear ,anger ,inability ,disappoinment in the eyes of those pitiable small kids.Is 'Being Child to a poor man 'is a very big crime.
We just boast ourselves to be among the devoloping countries and talk of GDPs and other stuffs.The poor and the villagers dont want these stuff .All they need is a life where there is hope,where there is security,where they can see their children grow with knowledge of the world.I cant see any of these things happening in the near future ,making their lives the biggest Question mark to be answered.

My Inagural Blog

2007-03-15T20:24:00.001+05:30

I was just reading the blogs of Mr.Abraham George ,who is working on Poverty alleviation in India.Suddenly ,the thought of creating a blog myself ,where I could express my concern and profound anger over the social unevenness and injustices of the society, came to me.Here it is,the blog of 'The Common Man'......