Since my childhood days, I kept on hearing the name of Arjun Singh thru media. Mostly for some wrong reasons. Earlier it was related to the surrender of dacoits from chambal then churhat lottery scandal then second most powerful person of Congress(I) after Rajeev Gandhi then something called Congress (T) for some small period of time and now for reservations in IIT/IIM. If you closely study his career you will find he was/is an ambitious person who always tried to be at top and hence so in news. Fortunately (for nation) or unfortunately (for him) he could never get the position he thought he deserves and thus at this stage of his life all of his "creative" skills have started converting in destructive skills. This is result of sheer frustration of being an unsuccessfull politician. After Rajeev's assasination, Narsimha Rao took the oppertunity and became PM and poor Arjun Singh missed the chance. Then he started creating problem for Pamulaparthi Venkat Narsimha Rao. In 2004, after Sonia denied taking the post of PM, he again had a golden oppertunity to take over as PM but no one proposed his name and Mr Manmohan Singh became PM. He is in ministry of Human Resources since then and keeps on coming in news sometime when camera catches him sleeping in some important meeting or in some function or for his change in syllabus initiatives or for waking up the reservation monster again and again. News reports has been always circulating in media that he is trying his best to create problems for Mr. Manmohan Singh and the government.
I always believed that PM should assign him some serious work so that he will be busy. Looks like he has ample amount of time because there is a saying in hindi "Khali Dimag Shaitan ka Ghar".
Friday, March 30, 2007
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Let's not boycott them..
So somehow Indian team made it possible to come out of WC 2007 even being in a group which had Bermuda and Bangladesh type teams. The Indian team lost to Bangladesh and made them feel like they have really built a world class team. Bangladesh cricket team is feeling full of confidence. Anyway this feeling will soon go away when matches of super 8 will start.
As soon as India was out of WC, print and electronic media started doing "detailed" analysis. These news channels are now behind everyone related with Indian cricket team. They are the guys who first made the players feel like crowned king by reporting every single movements and activities done by any player. I remember once in prime time news hour, one of the news channels happily reported that there are some gossips going around for Dhoni's marriage. They reached Dhoni's house with camera and microphone to interview his parents to get every small details about Dhoni's marriage. Now Dhoni is villain for all of the news channels. Similarly for Greg. When he took over coaching job, they called him Guru Greg and started reporting each steps taken by Greg as something innovative. Now the poor chap is target of almost everyone including Kapil Dev who once coached India to australia tour (in 1999) and secured 3-0 white wash for India team in tests and 4-1 humiliating defeat in One Dayers. Yesterday I read a column http://in.rediff.com/wc2007/2007/mar/26guest.htm on rediff.com and somewhat I do agree with the author. People like Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar never did anything right for Indian cricket after retirement. They just kept on cribbing on everything from management to players to performances. I do remember Kapil's "splendid" performances for almost 6 years during 1988-1993. I do agree everyone in Indian team performed really very bad in WC and this is a fact. No one can escape. Not even Saurav, because everyone knows that he was the person who was in form. He scored few runs in group matches but this is also true that he slowed down the pace of scoring rate and set the rythm for team to score with an average of 4 runs per over. We can say same things for Zaheer, Munaf. They performed reasonably well but their performances were never threatning to opposition. In cricket even a single bowler can change the direction of match. For team like Bangladesh, score of 192 was defendable, if fast bowlers had taken 4-5 wickets in first 20 overs or so. Thus not only batsmen but bowlers too failed. So what should we do to show our anger to Indian Cricket Team. Should we pelt stones on them? Should we raise some slogans on streets? No. Not at all. We should not boycott them but we should boycott the products they endorse. Like if someone from Indian cricket team endorses one soft drink, we should start using another brand. Anyway there is not much difference in taste of different soft drinks. Similarly for all other products. Let’s boycott all the products endorsed by any one of Indian cricket team. Let’s boycott all the fashion shows (even on TVs) where they walk on ramp. Let’s boycott all the movies where they go for muhurat and all. I thought that will be the best way to express our anger. I was shocked to hear on a TV news channel that representatives of these companies influence the selectors to select the player who endorses their products. So we need to boycott the products than the players. Don’t boycott Indian cricket. Don’t boycott Indian cricket team. Boycott the products they endorse.......
As soon as India was out of WC, print and electronic media started doing "detailed" analysis. These news channels are now behind everyone related with Indian cricket team. They are the guys who first made the players feel like crowned king by reporting every single movements and activities done by any player. I remember once in prime time news hour, one of the news channels happily reported that there are some gossips going around for Dhoni's marriage. They reached Dhoni's house with camera and microphone to interview his parents to get every small details about Dhoni's marriage. Now Dhoni is villain for all of the news channels. Similarly for Greg. When he took over coaching job, they called him Guru Greg and started reporting each steps taken by Greg as something innovative. Now the poor chap is target of almost everyone including Kapil Dev who once coached India to australia tour (in 1999) and secured 3-0 white wash for India team in tests and 4-1 humiliating defeat in One Dayers. Yesterday I read a column http://in.rediff.com/wc2007/2007/mar/26guest.htm on rediff.com and somewhat I do agree with the author. People like Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar never did anything right for Indian cricket after retirement. They just kept on cribbing on everything from management to players to performances. I do remember Kapil's "splendid" performances for almost 6 years during 1988-1993. I do agree everyone in Indian team performed really very bad in WC and this is a fact. No one can escape. Not even Saurav, because everyone knows that he was the person who was in form. He scored few runs in group matches but this is also true that he slowed down the pace of scoring rate and set the rythm for team to score with an average of 4 runs per over. We can say same things for Zaheer, Munaf. They performed reasonably well but their performances were never threatning to opposition. In cricket even a single bowler can change the direction of match. For team like Bangladesh, score of 192 was defendable, if fast bowlers had taken 4-5 wickets in first 20 overs or so. Thus not only batsmen but bowlers too failed. So what should we do to show our anger to Indian Cricket Team. Should we pelt stones on them? Should we raise some slogans on streets? No. Not at all. We should not boycott them but we should boycott the products they endorse. Like if someone from Indian cricket team endorses one soft drink, we should start using another brand. Anyway there is not much difference in taste of different soft drinks. Similarly for all other products. Let’s boycott all the products endorsed by any one of Indian cricket team. Let’s boycott all the fashion shows (even on TVs) where they walk on ramp. Let’s boycott all the movies where they go for muhurat and all. I thought that will be the best way to express our anger. I was shocked to hear on a TV news channel that representatives of these companies influence the selectors to select the player who endorses their products. So we need to boycott the products than the players. Don’t boycott Indian cricket. Don’t boycott Indian cricket team. Boycott the products they endorse.......
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Positive Imaging
Recently my wife has developed some interest in reading and started reading a book "Positive Imaging" by Norman Pincent Peale. The author is a western writer. I just asked my wife what is Imaging and whatever she explained me that looked pretty similar to the our old Indian theory about "Buri Najar Lagna", "aah lagna" (in negative sense) and similar old existing sayings in positive sense too like "aapaki dua". Basically its about seriously wishing some one with good wishes or with bad wishes. The author claims that if you start imaging something to happen and if you do that very seriously then that will happen. For example if you start imaging that you will successfully complete some work on time and will get promoted in near future and will do that imaging very seriously then that will happen. Talking about negative imaging, I do remember when I was a kid I have heard my mother, grand mother talking sometime that "koi aankh na laga de". Here the term "aankh laga dena" indicates that someone is jealous with something of yours and so he/she will start imaging some thing negative about you and that will happen. Most common observations were with the babies. They look cute and mothers think that there should not be any evil eye on her baby. One good point is that our culture has a self claimed solution also for this negative imaging and that is putting black kajal on head of the baby :) .
I always thought these concepts useless in this modern scientific days but seems I need to think about these things a bit seriously. These kind of theories are difficult tobe proved or denied scientifically. I can write lot more about this.... mainly in our culture but this blog will get stretched to appear a boring blog :)
I always thought these concepts useless in this modern scientific days but seems I need to think about these things a bit seriously. These kind of theories are difficult tobe proved or denied scientifically. I can write lot more about this.... mainly in our culture but this blog will get stretched to appear a boring blog :)
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
controversy related to Woolmer's death
Yesterday late evening I was watching India TV (a news channel in India) and was shocked to know the allegations from former Pakistan pacer Sarfaraz Nawaz that the caoch Bob Woolmer was murdered by the match fixing mafia. He accused almost everyone (from ICC to PCB to Pakistan's players) to be involved in this match fixing scandals. Sarfaraz Nawaz is famous for his big mouth but on the same news channel, Abdul Kadir was also indirectly supporting his allegations. Lets assume everything he said is not correct but then suspicion arises because of unexpected loss of Pakistan to Ireland and India to Bangladesh. As we know that Dravid's decision to bat first on that Port-of-Spain pitch was surprising for almost everyone who knows even A-B-C of cricket. One thing is sure that the cricket governing bodies are not serious about tackling match fixing scandals in world cricket. The indian players who got accused for match fixing in past are now again getting feliciated by BCCI and even Indian Media is inviting them for "expert" comments and analysis during the several ongoing cricket match. I guess we all cricket fans should bycott them.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
India in WC 2007
India won its 2nd match against low ranked Bermuda. After the Bangladesh defeat, fans like me were bit nervous to watch this match too. But it was a cool win with loads of sixes all over the ground.
After India lost first match against Bangladesh, there were lots of discussions and columns in media. My opinion was bit different for the blames the experts of cricket were putting on individuals. I always felt that the over cautious and slow batting of sachin and Ganguly for 3rd wicket took away the match from India. They were not rotating strike and so the confidence of bangladesh bowlers and fielders were getting boosted ball by ball. See the stat. Sachin played 26 balls for his 7 runs and that also with a boundary. That means he socred only 3 runs in ones and twos in 25 balls.
After India lost first match against Bangladesh, there were lots of discussions and columns in media. My opinion was bit different for the blames the experts of cricket were putting on individuals. I always felt that the over cautious and slow batting of sachin and Ganguly for 3rd wicket took away the match from India. They were not rotating strike and so the confidence of bangladesh bowlers and fielders were getting boosted ball by ball. See the stat. Sachin played 26 balls for his 7 runs and that also with a boundary. That means he socred only 3 runs in ones and twos in 25 balls.
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