Black day for Indian cricket

Yesterday (27.12.09) will have to be labelled as a Black day for Indian cricket, as claimed by reputed newspapers, news channels etc, in other words the Media. This time the dig on media continues because the way they projected this was really humorous.

Well, the exact reason was that one odd ball from an Indian pace bowler bounced way above usual height and the pitch was deemed to be useless and declared as unfit for play due to non preparation adequately.

This happened at the time when Indian's were removing the shit out of the Lankan's who were reeling at 83 for the loss of 5 wickets. One of the wicket included a really spectacular one handed throw at the stumps to get rid of a Lankan without the aid of the replay.

Suddenly, the spectators were bedazzled when players left the field after discussion by the umpires and then began this funny conversation between a news correspondent and an expert Saba Karim (former Indian player)



Correspondent (C): Saba ji, aapka swagat hai, yeh bataiye ki hua kya hai, aakhir kyon match ko radh kar diya gaya hai

Saba (S): Well aaa, match ke shuru mein yeh andaaza nahi laga paye the ki pitch mein kitna uchal hai, aurrrrra captains ko bhi iski ummeed nahi thi.

C: Toh is baat ke liye kise doshi maana jaye, BCCI (Board of Cricket control India) ya phir DDCA (Delhi district cricket association)

S: Dekhiye, ye toh kehna muskil hoga, BCCI ki alag committeee banayi gayi hai jo sirf pitch ko dekhti hai aur pass ya fail karti hai. etc etc fart fart...........
Par yeh kehna muskil hai ki dosh kiska hai

Not satisfied , the correspondent frames the question differently

C: DDCA pitch tayyar karne ke zimmedar hain, kya inhe doshi theraya jasakta hai

S: Dekhiye, DDCA ne apni taraf se pitch tayyar ki hai par BCCI ke jo adhikari hain jinhe "pitch committee" kaha jaata hai, unki zimmedari hoti hai ke pitch ka jayasa le aur sahi report pesh karen.

At this point, S is not aware of C's intentions to find the culprit and blame him solely. S is merrily being the expert and offering grey solutions to the problem. C is now wild at this point of time and will try once before giving up.

C: Kya action lena chaiye aapke anusar?

S: Dekhiye, abhi toh yeh kehna mushkil hai, aaaa, mere khayal se BCCI ko apni committee par dhyann dena chaiye aur system checks rakhne chaiye ke aisi galti phir na ho. Unko apna system fit karna padega. Jahan tak DDCA ka sawal hai, toh unko bhi khel ke niyamon ke anusar apna kaam karna padegaa.......blah, blah, fart...etc.

Now, I got really pissed and switched off the Television to look for better avenues like walking on a half moonlit street and enjoying the winter!!
Just chill, chill just chillllllllllllllll...........

Rejuvenation

Had a blast last week and watched "Avatar" at our very own multiplex in Gandhidham. But before that, had a nice massage and heartache while travelling from Mundra to Gandhidham. The experience was like never before, a raging bus carrying 20 passengers, one driver, one conductor, 6 tyres, one engine, one rear axle, one front axle, 50 ltrs of diesel in a shoddy container, around 1000 nuts and bolts, sheet metal moulded for seats and a grill which prevents passengers from reaching the driver.
Hell, wonder if the grill would not have been there, nobody would have spared the driver for the bumpy roller coaster ride.
Eventually, curses galore just could not prevent the experience. An amazing two hour ride for just Rs 30/-, wonderful isnt it?
Coming to avatar, I wish it would have been a true story, it is true in a sense but non nature lovers would make no sense of it. May be, James Cameroon should have included scenes from the cartoon "Captain planet" or the movie "the Matrix" to incorporate the dangers of losing precious natural resources. But, a commendable effort by him. Not everyone will be impressed by the movie but sooner or later, the theme of this movie will inevitably be the future.

The timing is just right, hope the swines negotiating a 'Climate change protocol' in Copenhagen watch this movie to justify how they want our future to be.
Folks, unfortunately, our future lies in their hands. Especially somebody like me from a developing country. So, this famous dialogue from the Matrix holds false for me:

Morpheus: "Tell me Neo, do you believe in fate"

Neo: "No, I dont, I am not comfortable with the idea that someone is controlling us"

Morpheus: "I know exactly what you mean"

Hail Copenhagen. Sayonara.

Scooby Doo, Where are you????

Scooby dooby dooooo was the instant reply to the question. Wish I could tell the same. Its been almost 2 months since the last blog post and suddenly, I am out of ideas regarding the subject.

No TV, no newspaper, nothing to speak about. This post is turning out to be such a rude one that people who read it will never visit this website again. But, have to take such risks and the mission should be accomplished.

So, started with reading other's blogs. Two of my favorites, one by Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and the other by my IIT friend Amrit vatsa. Surprisingly, an avid blogger like Vatsa posted his last story after a 15 day interval. I dont see any blog updates by others too. May be, occassional writing is the mantra. But, occassional, not such a long interval.

Surely, will be back with more once I settle down (the one after marriage). Till then, as Sharukh said (Movie: Om shanti Om)

"Picture abhi baaki hai mere dost"

Palace of Mirrors

"History is so amazing & interesting". The problem with this statement if viewed mathematically is as follows,

Statement/Hypothesis - "History is so amazing and interesting"
test - whether the hypothesis is true or not
Result- Hypothesis is true when age > 15 if condition (stream chosen after 10th std is not arts) and
when condition (studied in state syllabus during childhood) is true
else hypothesis is false.

Reason - You never get to read history anymore after finishing 10th std in school unless you have chosen "Arts" stream. Also, central sylabus has been proven superior to state sylabus. Hence, people from the "central scheme" of things are more inclined to appreciate History.

Otherwise, rest is history!

Anyways, whateverrrrr!!

This post is dedicated to "history of Kutch", the barren lands which protect us from our friendly neighbourly enemy from invasion.

I happened to visit the so called capital of Kutch called Bhuj city, which is 60 km from Gandhidham. This place has so many stories to tell, but very little is now available(not even 10%, mathematically speaking).
The appreciation for history started with a visit to one of the palaces in Bhuj called "Prag Mahal".



Nothing much in it, except a vast hall which was supposed to be a "Diwan-e-khas" or the "royal dining table" where Kings and queens and various other gentlemen used to enjoy royal food and drinks etc. Now, all you can get to eat there is pigeon shit!



The passage to the hall reveals the condition of the palace now and how magnificient it would have looked earlier. I wonder if the entry fee (which is Rs 12) is being used for cleaning up the pigeon shit, the place (palace) really stinks. But, one must appreciate the history and forget the pigeons and crows for a while. In the hall, there were photos of Lord Mountbatten, our own Bapu, Nehru chacha & friends (Sardar patel, etc).

So what is especially so special about these photos, the trick lies in the place. One has to imagine how barren this land of Kutch would have been during the good old times and appreciate that this place had a 'Maharaja' to rule over the land and this 'Maharaja' had a good friend called 'Mountbatten' who was the last "Viceroy" of India, and this viceroy was the reason for "Independence" and "partition of India"
Marvellous, isnt it!

Now comes the real interesting thing, the "Aina mahal" or "Palace of mirrors". Unfortunately, no photos with me to describe the beauty of this palace. If one has watched "Mughal-e-azam" movie which recently released in color, especially the song "pyar kiya to darna kya", the palace becomes easy to imagine.

Else, One must imagine a rectangular hall full of small sized mirrors pasted on the wall, with a king seated at one end and damsels dancing naked.

Kyon, khada hogaya kya, read on,

The beauty is that the King's seat is in the middle of an "island of fountains" with mirrors all around. Legend has it that many damsels from the far east and west have in the past displayed their beauty to the Kings who ruled Kutch. Now, the hall also has a life sized sculpture of a "Lion" which was supposedly shot by one of the kings. Gives an idea that Lions existed even in such barren lands, superb!!

From this palace, I happened to visit the Museum which is just next to the lake in Bhuj. Here, I really appreciated the wordings on a cannon displayed outsite.



It said "This cannon was gifted by Tipu Sultan, King of Mysore to the Maharaja of Kutch in exchange for the beautiful Kutch horses"

The sentence above says it all, such beautiful links in History. Modern commuting systems and commuters must really appreciate this and feel ashamed.I mean, where is Mysore and where is Kutch, 2000 km separates the barren land from the land of dreams. That too in 1780 A.D, horses & cannons were transported so far off.

Not to mention the beauty of History, Tipu Sultan, alias the "Tiger of Mysore" allied with the French and fought four battles with the British which paved the way for other revolts and gave birth to the "First war of Indian Independence in 1857".

So much appreciation of history ends with history again. This expedition was carried out on a beautiful sunday of October 11th 2009, but written today Oct 21st 2009. History, can be really beautiful!!

Disturbia

It all started on the second day of October 2009, when I decided to watch a movie after travelling 80 km from Mundra to Gandhidham. All I wanted to do was to enjoy the movie, so, me being the punctual type of guy, started early remembering that "early bird catches the flight". On reaching the multiplex, I was glad I had 3 choices,
1. I could watch 'Wake up Sid' starring Ranbir "Romeo" Kapoor and thats all I know of the movie.
2. I could watch 'Wanted' starring Sallu mea with long macho hair and stuff. Since, I knew before that this was a spoof of the telugu hit "Pokiri", and I did not want to see Ayesha Takia's takias bouncing up and down (you know what I mean). So, automatically, this was a bad choice.
3. I decided to watch 'Do knot Disturb' which after glancing at the poster revealed a good mix of actors like comedian Govinda & Former miss universe Sushmita. Immediately, bought the ticket and fell inside the theater

Little did I realize, the star cast was completely different, this is wat it looked like
a. An obese Govinda obsessed with Shahrukh's bolti in the movie "Darr"
b. An obese and busty Sushmita
c. A skinny Ritesh Deshmukh
d. A medium sized medium busted Lara dutta
e. A horny Rajpal yadav
f. Out of nowhere, Ranbir Shorey who loves showing his undies.
Overall, directed by "comedy ka sartaj", the huge, the mega obese David Dhawan, check it out.



Well, to be honest, the movie started off on a good enough note, with good dialogues but the story is itself so 'ghisa pita' (about extra-marital affairs & nothing else). David ji should have transferred some of his weight to the film, kuch to wajan hoti film mein. But he chose to transfer his weight to Govinda & Sush baby (no longer a baby, she is now Grandma! ). So, one can expect to carry the burden of all these weights superimposed while watching the movie.

Coming to the dialogues, one top class dialogue which I can remember out of the many cheap mobile spoofs are " Woh dono toh aise lipte hue hain jaise ek hi mobile mein do do sim ghusaya hai" and many such spoofs like : outgoing shuru karo, sms bhejo and so on and so forth.

Now the part which every Bollywood movie is not complete without!, the song dude!!
Well, there was this song, Youre my bebo which really stinks of raw flesh from foreign prostitutes dancing in the background and Ritesh doing "Yo man, wassup" stuff. No complaints about Lara, except she is not Bebo, Kareena is Bebo man. Wat the hell!



Speaking of Kareena, wonder how she would have looked like if she would have acted in 'Dil bole Hadippa' starring skinny Rani Mukherjee
Here's an attempt to find out how she would have looked like, a BEBO Sardar




Well, needless to say, Hadippa would have been Hudi baba with a punjabi accent if we had Bebo in it, also, it needed to star Saif ali compulsorily.

Whatever!!

Only wonder when will another sensible film release, how much longer would the patient common man have to wait. Lets wait and see.

You are nasty

How would you react to the following situation:-
one gloomy morning, you open up your mailbox and recieve a mail from an unknown stranger, you do not know the guy and you reply saying that you are not the intended recipient. You feel your work is done and suddenly you get this freaky reply

"You are nasty"

But, here is the twist - you come to know from another source that the reply is from an 8 year old kid. Now what would be your reaction?

Although, the kid's reply itself was nasty, he must be appreciated for his knowledge of words, mailing knowledge and other general knowledge. The kid seemed to know how to reply to mails with a vengeance. One must really appreciate his attitude, here's a glimpse of it



Moral of the story: Never take panga with the new generation kids, especially spoilt brats with loads of cash in banks left over by generous dad's.

Korba chimney collapse! How does it matter!!!

This blog post is dedicated to the huge tall middle finger look alike chimney which could not stand any longer due to the weight of the injustice on it and fell like a dragon slayed by the avenger. Although, the chimney now rests in peace and is happily in heaven, on its way it awakened me into something even taller than the chimney! This post is dedicated once again to the "aam aadmi" or the common man who is as usual- an immortal creature.



Although the collapse occured at around 2 to 3 pm in the afternoon hours of 23rd sep 2009, the news started spreading only after 5 pm. Google showed links of previously collapsed chimneys all over the world until that time. Only after 5 pm, a daring news network dared to update its website to incorporate such a horrible incident. Me with the least iota of patience stopped checking google and wasted no time in waiting for the news report on major news channels such as Ndtv, star etc. Then a voice from above educated me, that I would have to wait until eternity for watching what exactly happened on such channels.

In fact, I wonder why such channels even exist. A big disgrace to the Indian population who do not fear public wrath. They just show people and places and metros especially. In fact, some channels have dedicated time slots for showing the junk fashion, happenings and 'this guy did that' in metros.

Such a massive incident occured but there is no news on it, ndtv instead showed famous reporter Barkha questioning our President's son on "why he was chosen as a Presidential candidate". Well, the Mumbai crowd seemed to have the right answer for it - "Uske paas Maa hai". This silsila (silly silla) continued till the wee hours of 10 pm until patience broke away and blood boiled so much that a night walk had to cool it down.

When I happened to google this morning, I found so many websites giving news related to the collapse, but revealed the name of the contractor who was constructing the chimney, instead the poor owner (Balco)had to bear all the criticism, which was not the practice earlier. Wonder if the Media has been fed properly by the contractor to keep it a secret.




This is not the only current issue. India is facing a Border problem with the Chinese and there is no news relating to such events which could threaten national security. Cudos to the media who is being fed by the Government also.

"Andher nagari, Chaupat government, Ghatia media, ab tera kya hoga India"

Seriously, there is a problem in the Indian media and it needs to be rectified fast and furiously. Media should move over from the metros to the villages and show the real India, not the 'India shining' wala India.

P.S: Acknowledgement- Sincere thanks to Mr. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala for his guts and daredevillery. An inspiration for all bloggers to condemn any sort of injustice through the internet medium.