I was there when it happened

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?

"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

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

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...

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...