Thursday, December 29, 2005
End of Days, year 2005
I celebrated the first day of year 2005 by visiting the grand museum of BHU "The Bharat Kala Bhawan", along with Rajat, Aviral, Baba, Nimish, Durgi, yadav and many more A really great collection of history.
That followed by our visit to Sarnath to attain a bit of salvation. We completed the historical trinity by completing the visit of "Shri Vishwanath Mandir". The epitome of the everlasting religion.
This year also witnessed the so called "CRUSADE" by the students of 4th CSE against hippocracy of fellow BHU'ians. This year also witnessed the graduation of batch of 2005. Hats off to BHU, for giving a great batch of Computer engineers to the country. 3 gems of the batch joined Foreign universities this year only and many more are aspiring for it. We all have joined our respective companies this year only.
This year i also experinced duel with some of my best friends, whom i think very capable in debating and many other things. This year everything fitted perfectly in its slot (save one thing, my friends know it) and i hope the next year will behave in the same manner.
This year i read some of the best books including "Jonathan Livingston Seagull", a fable, given by my Project Manager, "FountainHead", "Main Kampf", "Alchemist" and many more.
Once again a year is lost and i am not able to decide about my future. MS/PHD, MBA, IAS or an Archeologist, very hazy about my future. Dont know which way to go. I hope this year will bring the right decisions to me. Good bye "The Best year of My life" 2005.
" vicory without danger is a triumph without glory", this line best suits to the year 2005 as far as i am concerned, as i had no danger this year. BBye
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Alexander, The great of Macedon.
came to Indus, 23 Centuries ago,
came from the land of Greece,
to wage war in place of making peace,
crushed the mighty persia,
married the Roxane of Bactria,
Before his soldiers were the final frontier,
India was the name,Porus was the border,
fierce battle fought in the midst of jungle,
as Greeks said, indians surrendered in jungle,
Before the Zeus's son, he did as a victor should do,
in return of that he got everything to do,
The taste of india soldiers soured the plan,
of going forward in the Ganges plains,
the munithy of his country men,
lead to initiate the journey to babylon,
where he lived an ordinary death,
No one ever had enetered in the Motherland,
without beaten and sent to his fatherland,
That was the glory of Indian land,
as greeks called us Amitrochates, o men.
---- TBC
The eyes are not here
Well in Fountain head i really admired the character of Howard Roark. That is a character of a man who believes that a person's ego read it as his self respect is above all other things in this world. As this is quite opposite of indian philosophy, which beleives in altruism, as written in our vedas and holy scripts,
"Sarve bhawantu sukhinah, sarve santu niramaya"
"Sarve bhadrani pashyantu, ma kaschid dukh bhag bhavet"
(All should remain happy, healthy. They should see the righteous and no body should feel the dejection)
But according to Rand, one must seek his happiness, one must not loose self respect in doing any sort of service. But all the religion in the world preaches the philosophy of altruism. Altruism is right to that extent only till the person does not loose his self respect. Absolute altruism can not be attained and if a person fails in that immediately at that extent he or she looses his or her self respect. He always feels that he is guilty of some sort, as preached by every religion that every person should believe in atruism and a person who does not do that he is a devil of some undefined order.
Why people believe in written rules and why they follow them, these rules are not written by so called GOD. They are written by God Damn man. Then why people afraid of going away from these rules, why they afraid of creating their own. I am not saying that one should start killing other people as all the good books tell us to love every other person. But what i am saying is why we believe blindly. The people who wrote these books themselves were not sure that the coming generations of the man kind would follow them blindly. As these are very controversial statements but i believe in them. Blind following of everything is just inhumane. Take any religion, every philospher/Prophet tried to do the things differently thats why they founded newer and newer religions. But now why people are stagnant in their thoughts. No body has an answer and if any body has do tell me.
Friday, December 16, 2005
Well Done Sourav
I saw a plenty of indian cricket as i saw more than 300 ODI and more than 100 Test matches. But only two incidents has hurt me badly: The first one was India's defeat in the World Cup'96 Semifinal against Srilanka and the second one was Ganguly's expulsion.
I can recall few great knocks played by the INCOMPETENT Sourav Ganguly. They are not in any order of ranking.
1. 127 of 126 balls at Johannesberg in Oct, 2001 against mighty South Africans led by Pollock. In the first wicket partnership of 193 with Sachin, ganguly scored 127 runs and Sachin 60. He hitted 14 fours and 5 sixes all over the ground. One of the finest knock overseas. India lost the match.
2. 90 of 119 balls at Lords in september 2004 against England. India scored only 204 runs. He hitted 5 fours and 3 sixes. India won the heroic battle.
3. 141 of 144 balls at Adelaide in jan 2000 against Pakistan having bowling attack led by Wasim Akaram, Shoaib Akhtar and Saqlain Mustaq. India scored 264 and india won the match. That was the only match won by indian in Australia in 1999-00.
4. 85 off 95 balls at East London in 2001 against South Africans. He hitted 6 fours and 4 sixes in this inning. A brave effort. India lost the match.
5. 89 of 96 balls at Karachi in Pakistan in 1997. That was India's first victory in more than a decade in Pakistan.
6. 124 off 138 balls against Pakistan in Bangladesh in 1998. First team india chased more than 300 runs successfully and created the world that was broken some time later.
7. 153 off 150 balls against New Zealand in 1999. Indian score was only 261. We won the match.
8. 141 off 142 balls against South Africa in 2000, in Kenya, ICC Trophy. South Africa then had a bowling attack of Donald and Pollock. Ganguly smashed 6 sixes and 11 fours all around the stadium. We won convincingly.
9. 82 off 83 balls against mighty Australians in 2003 at Melbourne. India lost the match gravely.
10. Last but not the least important, 183 off 158 balls against Sri Lanka at Taunton in 1999 world Cup. he smashed 17 fours and 7 sixes and created a then world record partnership with Dravid.
Yet they say that he cant play fast bowling and they are honourable men. Well This is possibly my last blog dedicated to The Great Legend of Indian Cricket, Sourav Ganguly. I have no hope of seeing you playing again. Good Luck.
Good bye Mr. Ganguly, thats the way we treat our heroes
Dravid oops sorry "The Great Wall of India"
People say that he had become The wall much in 1999 but why they forget to see that this wall had scored 187 runs in 10 Test innings against quality bowling attack of Australia and South Africa in winters of 1999-2000. Yet Ganguly gave his full support. Ganguly could have done anything at that time. He could have not selected Dravid in team 11, but he did because he knew that Dravid is one of the greatest batsman ever produced by India. The same condition revisited team India with role reversed and the result also reversed. (Dravid didnt agrue for ganguly in selection)
Throughout his tenure he went on supporting his players because that was his duty. His player went on performing for him because that was their duty. Who can forget the Mike Dennis case, in which Ganguly aggressively took the side of Sachin and asked the Steve Waugh" To Shutup your mouth".
How can one forget how he supported Harbhajan during chucking allegations. But what he got, none of the players supported him when he was banned for 4 ODI due to bad overrate in Kolkata ODI against Pakistan. Its really shocking no body visited his room hotel day before yesterday.
You should take retirement from cricket let it remain as a BLACK SPOT on Indian Cricket, how they treated you. Thats the way to treat our heroes and thats the reason we had/have only one Ganguly. Can any body thought that why British media and Australian media always criticized ganguly, the only factor was his attitude. Good Luck Sourav for your all future endeavours.
Thursday, December 15, 2005
BCCI is great: courtsey Indians
I called Dravid "The Brutus of India". Brutus was just great and Dravid is no more comparable to his status by compromising the politics. And yet i call him the "Brutus" and he is an honourable man.
What i think and what i believe i write in these blogs. Any body has a full freedom to have different view but according to me Dravid and Greg Chappel are equally responsible for Ganguly's exit apart from Board politics. Can any body tell me why Dravid not insisted to take Zaheer in place of Agarkar who bowled badly to the last limit. This is shear politics nothing else. If they want to make a future team then why they have given captainship to a veteran of 33 years, who will retire in 2-3 years? Why they have not given Captainship to much younger player in order to make future team India just like South Africa gave it to Smith?Why they are not axing Lakshman to include Kaif in order to build future Team India? No body has an answer. My best wishes with Team India for upcoming series against Pakistan and hope they will not meet with a disaster there.
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Julius Ceaser revisited
In Indian version of Shakespeare’s play Ganguly is the Ceaser himself. Dravid is Brutus, Greg Chappel is Cassius. Kiran More is the Cinna the conspirator. In this play there is no role for Sachin as he has no leadership quality (His captainship record is dismissal). In the beginning both Julius and Brutus won a large number of matches for India. They appeared in most of the partnership and they were just like great friends. Sourav always appreciated Rahul for his temperament and vice-versa. There were no ill feelings and everything was running fine. India i.e. Rome was winning so many victories in every other country. Then there was some quarrel with Kiran More the Cinna when Sourav sided with Abhijit Kale as Kale told media persons that More asked him for bribe in order to have a place in the team. More decided to teach Sourav a lesson in favorable time. Then came the Cassius i.e. Greg who was appointed as a coach of India with an advice from Sourav.
Now comes the true theme, Greg as Cassius did in the original play always used to say ill things about Sourav to Rahul. As Cassius was interested to rule over Rome so Greg wants to rule over the team. Rahul always considered Sourav as a great man. But as a great personality, Greg eventually succeeded in winning over Rahul to his side and then they both conspired against Sourav the Ceaser. Then came the immortal words from the Sourav “ET tu Rahul “then it’s indeed a time to fall Sourav. Sourav lost his place in the senate (i.e. in the Team). Greg and Rahul also tried so that Sourav can’t get a chance to play in Test as they voted against him. But again due to bad politics and fickle mind of Indian public (similar to Romans) they succeeded in throwing him out of the Test team.
In the original Julius Ceaser there was a character “Marcus Antonius” better known as Mark Antony who took the vengeance. But in India there is no Antony so Ceaser will always be assassinated and no lesson would be learned.
We Indian always follow others without thinking. The person who taught Indian team to fight and to win is himself fighting the battle of his survival.
I closely watched the progress of Indian Cricket from the first match I saw, a match in which Sachin thrashed legendry Qadir at a very young age of 15 years and many days. I will never forget when India toured Australia in 1999 and Australia media called Indian team as a team of coward Hindus and in that Series Ganguly was the only Indian player who scored 2 centuries against quality bowling of Pakistan and Australia.
You can throw out your hero without giving any reasons.
Ganguly scored 85 runs and Gambhir scored only 6 whereas Lakshman also scored 85 in this series against Sri Lanka and they are in the team. Ganguly you deserved better than you got. You will always remain as my Julius Ceaser, my ideal, my mentor and my inspirator.
“When cowards die there are no comets seen, Heaven blaze forth themselves at the death of princes".
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Title Song of Bharat Ek Khoj
http://geocities.com/neerajcseitbhu/Bharat_Ek_Khoj.mp3
http://geocities.com/neerajcseitbhu/Bharat_Ek_Khoj_Ending.mp3
So anybody if interested please download and listen to the heaven's songs.
India is going very strongly in the Delhi Test and i am sure we will win it convincingly. But againg the "Nahin hai Pata".
Sunday, December 11, 2005
Bharat ek Khoj
The lyrics are:
Srushtee se pehle sat nahin thaa, asat bhi nahinAntariksh bhi nahin, aakaash bhin nahin tha chhipaa thaa kyaa kahaan, kisne dekhaa thaaus pal to agam, atal jal bhi kahaan thaa
Shushtee kaa kaun hain kartaaKartaa hain yeh vaa akartaa Oonche aasmaan mein rahtaa Sadaaa adhyaksh banaa rahtaa Wohin sach much mein jaantaa..Yaa nahin bhi jaanataaHain kisi ko nahin pataa Nahin pataa
Voh tha hiranya garbh srishti se pehle vidyamaan, Vohi to saare bhoot jaat ka swami mahaan
jo hai astitvamaana dharti aasmaan dhaaran karAise kis devta ki upasana kare hum avi dekar Jis ke bal par tejomay hai ambar Prithvi hari bhari sthapit sthir Swarg aour sooraj bhi sthir
Aise kis devta ki upasana kare hum avi dekar
Garbh mein apne agni dhaaran kar paida kar Vyapa tha jal idhar udhar neeche uparJagaa chuke vo ka ekameva pran bankarAise kis devta ki upasana kare hum avi dekar
Om ! Srishti nirmata swarg rachayta purvaj rakhsa karSatya dharma palak atul jal niyamak raksha kar Phaili hain dishayen bahu jaisi uski sab mein sab parAisi hi devta ki upasana kare hum avi dekarAisi hi devta ki upasana kare hum avi dekar.
These are the great lines from the Rig Veda. The basic questions, humankind has been asking from very beginning. The answer remains the same " Nahin hai Pata".
Saturday, December 10, 2005
The God of Indian Cricket
The first match i watched on TV was the match in which Sachin hammered Abdul Kadir, a legendery spinner from pakistan some time in 1989. I was a mere kid then. Then I watched him playing in a ground just 300-400 meters from my home in kanpur. He played a great knock and i met him with my friends that time. Then came the series played in England in which he scored a great century by scoring a four on off side. England had placed 7 players in the slip. After that he scored innings of great show in Australia in 1991-92 in Benson Hedges Series. India got a 4-0 defeat in 5 test matche series. From 1989 to 2005 i watched some very great innings played by him. Who will forget the inning of 136 played by him in 1999 test series against pakistan at chennai or who can forget the inning of 114 played at perth against Australia when he was just 18.
I used to bunk classes in order to just see the innings of Sachin Tendulkar. One incident i remember. In 1996 World cup, india was playing against Srilanka at Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi. I was in my school. When i got to know that india was batting then i along with Anurag decided to asked the Principal to give us a break as Sachin was playing. She immediately did the same. Such is the attitude of indian people when cricket and sachin comes. People forget their work the life goes on strike when sachin comes.
Siddhu one said that in India you can question Prime Minister but not Sachin. He is un questionable and some believe he is immortal. The only indian thing who keep india united irrespective of so many problems.
Hail Sachin, hail india, Long Live sachin Long live Indian Cricket.
Thursday, December 08, 2005
Varanasi, the living legend.
After studying for 4 great years in Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University I can proudly say that I studied in a culture, I studied in a living tradition and I can say that I lived a life. I am not sorry if any other has any other opinion. There are many things to tell but two things that happened to me and influenced my life till now are none other than the spirit of Varanasi and my seniors.
My College is among very few colleges who have proper chapters of SPICMACAY. SPICMACAY stands for Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth. A cultural movement started in 1979 please forgive me if I am wrong. ITBHU used to organize cultural activities related to SPICMACAY throughout the academic session.
When I was in my first year, i.e. in 2001-2002, I used to participate with full enthusiasm in all college activities. That time I met with a guy from 4th year mechanical, his name was Somesh. He was organizing the cultural festival known as VIRASAT related to SPICMACAY that year. His never say no attitude and his dedication towards work was exemplary and only few guys were comparable to him that time. One such guy was Animesh whom I always looked for help of any sort any time and he always helped me in all possible ways he can. I am indebted to both of them.
Lewis carrol once said that Varanasi is older than the civilsation and it is very true to the last limit. I can never forget those ghats, more than 100 in number, the temples of Varanasi and the historical place of Sarnath. The ancient site of Sarnath, the stupa have been singing the songs of Indian civilization for more than 2200 years. These ancient monuments can inspire any body. I got a rare chance to touch the Lion Capital of Ashoka (National Emblem). In doing so I broke the law of the muesum but I am not sorry for that.
This is the celebration of having been born an Indian. The celebration of living in India and the celebration of living in Varanasi.
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
The QUEST
Alexander came from very far some 2300 years ago and conquered great part of earth at a very early age and he reached at the banks of river Indus and its tributaries only to return back to his new capital of Babylon. The unconquerable was not able to conquer his destiny and he was not able to see his native land, the land from where he came and destroyed the greatest empire of Persia world has ever seen. But what he had achieved in his quest, a great empire which was prone to be destroyed by Sandracattus and later Persian kings.
Ashoka, world’s greatest emperor was a son of a not so great emperor Bindusara. He also had a feeling of QUEST like Alexander, and he did the same but Ashoka was very fortunate to realize the ultimate aim of the life. After the infamous battle of Kalinga he gave up everything and adopted the mantra of Buddham Sharnam Gachhami.
As it is very clear both wanted to conquer the whole world by power and they were quite successful in their aims but not fully successful. One was stopped by his own death and the other was stopped by others death. Life is too short to conquer the world by sword. One can only conquer by love and wisdom and later Ashoka did the same.
So the world should make QUEST of winning the world by love not by shear power. History has given us such a beautiful example in Asoka and Alexander and will go giving such example of QUEST.
Monday, December 05, 2005
Indian Railways
Now let me tell you my own experiences with Indian railways.
The first experience:
After enjoying my Diwali vacation I was returning Noida from my home town (Kanpur). I had a reservation in Unchahar express but was not able to pick that train. So I had to look for another train, ShramShakti express. So I took the ticket and sat on the platform waiting for the train. The train came and somehow I was able to get a seat in the train in general compartment. Then some policemen came and asked me to immediately get out of the train. I protested then they asked me to give 50 rupee to remain in that seat. I agreed after many verbal assaults. Then I saw that they occupied the gate of the coach and then they stopped other people from entering in the coach. They said to them if they want to get inside then they have to pay 50 rupee each. Some passengers agreed some didn’t. I was busy in my own thoughts, such a great country and such rubbish policemen of the country. I decided to teach them a lesson but I had no proof. I looked at them and scanned them for some identity but none of them had any name plates. They had removed their name badges. But then I looked at their rifles and I saw a number. I haven’t told that number to any body. The number was Cnb rld/20.
That was my first bad experience of Indian railways.
The second experience:
This experience is very recent. I was going home i.e. Kanpur from Noida. I had a reservation in Unchahar express. When I reached the station I came to know that that train was cancelled. That came as a shock to me. I enquired with the Officer in charge. He told me that you can only get you money back that’s all. I was astonished but I was in a hopeless situation. So i got my money back then I saw some person selling sleeper ticket of another train going to Kanpur. I bought the ticket and some how I reached my home. When I was returning Noida again I had reservation in Unchahar express. This time it was not canceled but it came 5 hrs late, and when my reached my destination it was more than 7 hrs behind of its schedule.
Such were my experiences with Indian railways within a month. But who cares. But I think some body has to do the dirty work of cleaning the dirt.
If we are not a part of solution then we are a problem.
Thursday, December 01, 2005
World AIDS Day
World celebrate 01 Dec each year as World AIDS day. AIDS is the most dangerous disease ever known in the history of man kind. Scientist are trying their level best to find some drug so that this desease can be cured. We can only hope for the best.
Origin of the desease
No body knows exact origin of this desease. Most of the people think that it has come from green monkey, a species of monkey found in Africa (in last quarter of 20th century). Some human must have done the dirty work. Some indian scholars believe that this desease was known and cured in ancient india. In those times it was known by the name "OJO KSHAYAH". Its curing procedure is written in our sacred books but to it is near to impossible to decipher the names of the herbs and shrubs as written in those books.
Present Status
Currently the continent of Africa is the worst AIDS effected area. Very poor countries of the world have some very high percentage of AIDS patients. The 20-25% population of countries like South Africa and Zimbawbe is AIDS infected. In India this percentage is around 1%. Altough the % is quite low but due to large population , the total number of AIDS infected people id India are much larger.
What we should do?
Being human i.e. the wise man, its about moral responsibility to help each other in curing human kind from this suffering. We should spread AIDS aware ness to our neighbour hood and to as far as we can. We should also not misbehave with AIDS infected person. We should not feel him isolated, otherwise there may be some dangerous results. The best cure is to have confidence in one's partner and to always go for safe sex. We shoule go all out in removing this desease from this great blue planet.
"Remember one thing, together we can and we will make a difference"
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
My views on Aryan Invasion Theory
About 4500-5000 years ago, a great urban based Civilisation flourished across the western india. Previously archaeologist and historians thought that the center of that civilisation was around greateriver Indus, but now people think that the center was between Indus river and river Saraswati. The civilians of this civilisation were the worshippers of Mother Goddess, Pashupati and forces of nature. Very early form of Hinduism can be found in the seals, altars of this civilisation. The main problem is that we are yet not able to decipher the Harrappan script.
Western scholars say that the Aryans came from central asia and destroyed this great urban civilisation and propagated their own culture and religion. They composed hymns in the form Vedas. The main flaw with this thought was that in whole Rig veda there is not even a single line about the place from where the Aryans were supposed to come to india, but there are lines depicting the great Harappan civilisation. How can a person will forget to write about the place from where he is supposed to be migrated?. This point clearly suggest that the Aryans were the followers of Harrappan civilisation.
Another point is that suppose they attacked india and destroyed Harrappan civilisation then why they had accepted the religion and customs of harrappan civlisation. History books clearly suggest that the victor dictates the terms and conditions to the looser.
Another point is that if they attacked india then how they had the knowledge of geographical boundaries of india as written in Rigveda.
But now there is another question if Aryans were the civilians of Harrappan civilisation then how this great civilsation become extinct. Many scholars think that, that may be due to the floods in Indus river, this reason is also justified by the history of india which clearly says that after Harrappan civilsation people moved to eastern india in the plains of ganges.
This topic is highly debatable and i welcome all comments.
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
They say we are not smart enough
With Due respect to the sentiments of IT Professionals India, I can say that Craig is right in his statement. We lack exposure to newer technolgies. Theories can be learn in class rooms but to learn newer technolgy we should fund our institutions more vigorously.
Return to Cricket, My dear friends wrote that i often change sides and i am worst than the indian politicians. I am firm on the statements made by me about Ganguly, Rahul and Dravid. I am a fan of Sourav Ganguly and i will remain for ever. I am not a person who becomes friend only in happier times. I am invariant to the person's situation.
Some body, who had no enough courage to show his name, wrote anonymously that Sourav had never played a inning like Rahul's last inning. I can only laugh at his ignorance.
Sharad Pawar won the election and he has removed those selector who voted for Sourav Ganguly. It was a very expected move. So Sourav, Good luck for an Indian Safari.
Monday, November 28, 2005
Sunday, November 27, 2005
The Legend of a born idiot
"First they will ignore you, then they will laugh at you, then they will abuse you, they will fight with you and then you will win" --None other than Einstein's Mahatma.
So i guess i am right at the third stage.
I want to clarify one more thing i always loved indian team and i will always love it. Sachin, sourav, rahul doesnt matter a dan shit to me. But i cant see blindly the unjustice to a very capable leader. During whose captainship india is currently number 3 test team in the world and yet he lost his Test captainship.
Some body wrote about wickets of Eden well i want to remind him abt the wickets of Nagpur in 2004 series against Australia. Thats total politics. And about the gesture of Kolkatan crowds toward Rahul, who will forget the gesture of Banglore crowd towards Ganguly when india lost the Test match in 2005 against Pakistan, and the gesture of Mumbai's crowd in 2001-2 ODI series against England towards Ganguly when ganguly got out at a very decent 80 of 99 balls including 4 sixes. I have many more to tell but these are useless things. Players have to take both applaude and crticism equally.
And about Chappel, he accepted that he showed his finger (http://cricket.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1309472.cms) now i am waiting what our honourable BCCI will do. The final match is on Monday. Lets hope the win of best team.
Saturday, November 26, 2005
Our Honourable Coach showed his mission.
And about Greg, Now doubt he was a great player of his time. But every body knows what he said to his brother Trevor Chappel. Now he showed his fingure to the Indian crowd. What a shameful act. Every crowd has full right to support or to crticise any body but look at what our so called "COACH with a mission did" absolutely great. I have now further words.
About Ganguly, well his is doing his home work, after taking 5 wickets in first innings of Maharashtra and now he scored a scintillating 159 runs, what a slap on the faces of so called guardians of Indian cricket.
Friday, November 25, 2005
Thursday, November 24, 2005
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Bade beabaroo hoker tere kuche se hum nikale
India against SRL in 2001 in Srilanka.India lost 2-1.
In this series he was adjudged man of the match in 2nd test match.
3 matches, 166 total runs, 98* highest ,average 33.20 and 2 wickets.
One more thing about this series Sachin was not playing and basically B team was playing.
India against South Africa 2001 in SAF. India lost 1-0
In this series the famous mike denice controversy involving sachin appeared.
2 matches, 90 total runs, 42* highest, average 30.00. Sourav failed in this series.
India against West Indies in WI in 2002. India lost 2-1.
He performed brilliantly.
5 matches, 322 total runs, 75* highest, average 53.66.
India against England in England in 2002. Series drawn 1-1.
He performed brilliantly.
4 matches, 351 total runs, 128* highest, average 58.50*.
India in Newzealand in NZL in 2003. India lost 2-0.
Whole team india failed including sachin, dravid and other top guns.
2 matches, 29 total runs, 17 highest, 7.25 average.
India in Australia in Australia in 2003-04. Series drawn 1-1
He played really good cricket.
4 matches, 284 total runs, 144 highest, 47.33 average.
India in Pakistan in Pakistan in 2004. Series won 2-1. he played in last match.
he played brilliantly in only match he played.
1 match, 77 total runs, 77 highest, average 77.00
This is his batting record overseas. In his capatainship he played 21 matches (not including bangladesh and Zimb).
His record is really very good.
Match 21, 1319 total runs , 144 vs Aus highest, average 42.55, 2 wickets.
Who say he played badly against quality opposition overseas. Yet he has been deprived of the captainship of Test team. Any one listening.
Monday, November 21, 2005
Great Indian Mindset
Well, its always been a proud thing to be a fan of Sourav Ganguly. I know some sports men whom i consider my ideal icon, Lance Armstrong, Jesse Owens, Andre Agassi , Rahul and none other than ur not so favourite Ganguly.
I never hated Dravid, i always admired him, but to some aspect his is too polite. I dont even consider Sachin in that league. Please forgive me. But that doesnot say that I hate Sachin. Even if i do hat doesnt make any difference. Great kudos to sharma Mukesh Kumar for writing his thoughts. A advice to him he should reconsider the spelling of Captain. He spelled it wrongly throught out the mail.
Finally Congratulations Team India for winning a one sided affair. As i am not a patriot as from you side. We will be back in the next match at Chennai.
Friday, November 18, 2005
Why I admire Sourav Ganguly
Consider a person who is about to show his talent to the world and at that time he is forced to live miserably for some 5 golden years, the same person after those years make a come back rather heroic comeback, made two glorious centuries on the swinging wickets in first two chances, and after showing 5 years of heriosm he gets the award of highest order, and after some 5 golden years of his leadership period he is again forced to live miserably and yet he is trying very hard to make a come back.
What an attitude and i am a fan of this attitude. I agree he played miserably last year, but in that miserably year too he had an average of 32.50 in one dayers.
One more thing people ofetn speak that ganguly usually make centuries against weaker opponents like kenya he scored 3, i would like to tell them that the likes of Sachin Tendulkar also scored centuries against Kenya and the number is 4.
One important factor is ot of 22 centuries scored by ganguly indian had won 18 matches. So what an excellent winning percentage while sachin is too far behind.
I dont want to compare the two, but some buddy has to do the dirty work.
Well hoping the disaster for India in Banglore , 19th November. South Africa will win this match.
Sunday, November 13, 2005
Sunday, October 23, 2005
Sourav, a man with tons of attitude
Congratulations Sourav for remarkable display of determination, energy, class and attitude agains NorthZone team in Duleep Trophy match. Look at man, who did nothing wrong, Indian won the overseas Test series ( well people will say minnows), but can any body tell me that this minnow country has defeated us in a test series in Zimwabve it self. What he got, He lost his captainship, a place in India Team, This is a shame for indian cricket, Ganguly who had just one bad year with his bat lost his place and captainship, Why no body wants to talk about Tendulkar, Who performed badly during his captainship, We indians dont want any body who wants to raise. So bad luck India, bad luck Indian Cricket Team, Ganguly you deserve better farewell than this. Good luck to you future...I guess I am not alone in this..
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Close to Heart
That experienced the reality of this life, the imperfect part,
Friendship make people great, love make them greatest,
But to find Love is like reaching the summit of Everest.
The god who has made earth, made this divine feeling,
Can himself live without having one for whom he has this feeling.
People say there is someone for everyone in this lost world,
But when I find someone, there is other one for that one in this World.
What should I do, after knowing such a cruel thing,
To give up that one, like many do being human being,
Or to write poems as shelley did near a river,
Or to choose a different path without any fear.
Life goes beyond all the problems, as it should be,
But life without love is doomed, pple say thou wrong, may be,
But I will strive to achieve the unattainable goal,
With more effort, more enthusiasm and more zeal,
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Batch of '05
That included some big guns, like me n you,
We roared throughout the places,
Now they are extinct in pages,
Starting from the genesis the person was Rajesh,
That has made the entire batch on shake,
Then their was non other than TPS,
Who was the big thorn in teachers’ass,
Next was none other then our beloved bhabhi
Who always used to say hanji, aji.
Who will forget the person,the bond who putted people at bay,
Inspired from the movie titled Die Another Day,
O’ humpty we were sorry we had our santa own,
Who can throw anybody by stomach of his own,
Then came the star very immodest jadaun the person,
Who used to tell everybody the secret reason,
No body was so capable then our bipin bihari,
But none of us shouted abki bari bipin bihari,
Katy is not so far behind, the metro boy,
Acted throughout the btech life like a playboy,
Rahul one of the smartest, one of the modest,
Still always used to say good bye after drinking fest,
People said There is no ghost of ghalib,
But can any one of us say after reading Govinda’s lips,
A word in hindi that i.e. sarvagya who knows everything,
But he had everything apart from that very important thing,
Dalal, person who once wondered through out the streets,
To search some guy, whom he can kiss starting from the feet
Who can forget the Manu, who made us all proud,
By fucking the bastard of zoo who used to shout,
Who can let that person out,
Name is pankaj but people made another shout,
Fubu,One of the greatest entertainer of our batch, is’nt
Who used to beat the romans in their eating habits,
Some people read history some creates it,
Kashyap was the guy who did the later is not it,
Well in hindi, We used to call “Samosha bhi hai”
As Mukesh. always shouted “ek paper aur bhi hai”
No body can achieve the rarest feat other than anshu man
Who made us all to say He man, He Man,
CIA tried hard to find the person who made the fault,
Some one of our batch called “Galti to jat kit hi” , and halt
Generations to come it will be hard to believe,
Such a person ever walked in BHU, barman, lives.
The scene is 2020 india and US went on a war,
Our PLD single handedly won the war,
The person who always tried for girls, mano ya na mano
Well diya is the name watch out for girls, right manu,
The next is the Microsoft champ, the baba,Who made A KT to dance on his feets,
The reason as we knew some body has to do the dirty work , on the streets
People used to eat medicines to cure Viral fever,
We faced the same without taking any medicines, the A-viral.
The luckiest guy the shukla who had all, the prettiest girl friend,
And a gang of persons who can call him, dear frnd,
When beggars die there are no comets seen,
When nimish used to win matches no body was seen,
The perfect gentle man durgi who achived heights in everything,
Be it academics, AOE or 29 or bolly, anything missing,
The master of novels, 29, and all games,
Saugi did it all without any world’s fame,
The cassanova is not so far behind, The person,
Is gavri who made all girls of VNS mad, everyone,
The person who we all respect, I.e. nitin,
Behaved throughout the btech life like tintin,
The real person who is man ka ladla,
None other than Maaa ka lounda,
Fatte, fatte, The gusy who worked like a machine,
Left us all with perfect ten and a wound in chin,
Ranjan, the mess manager or ranjan the Veer of Veer Zara,
All of us pray he should not wait for so long for his Zara,
The perfect son of his parents, the statesman,
Keep guessing he may give u gacchha all men,
Phoolon ka taro ka sabka kahna hai, Lakhon hazaron main meri bahna hai,
Ye mere bhai ka kahna hai, Shobhit shukla ka kahna hai, Mishra hai,
No we are gone, but still we have won.
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Dedicated to my Batch CSE05, ITBHU
An evening that counts even more than a thing,
When the family waits for their beloved ones,
Including the parents and the young ones,
That beloved one whom they so adore,
But the lust of work has made their lives bore,
So where is the end of that waiting,
Once when I was thinking about an evening,
An evening that counts even more than a thing,
When the toll bell rings,
And the sun start singing the break of the dawn,
And the air start giving the feeling of the heaven,
But there is no end to that waiting,
Once when I was thinking about an evening,
An evening that counts even more than a thing,
When the poor farmer start singing the song,
The cattle’s acknowledge with the melodious tune,
The fields start giving the way to their fieldsmen,
But there is no end to that waiting,
Once when I was thinking about an evening,
An evening that counts even more than a thing,
Saturday, August 06, 2005
Dedicated to some one very special
Where are you…
Want to smell the scent of frndship that flies
From death where my destination lies
This not an elegy written in dejection
Meant for a frnd with love and affection
Searching and searching throughout the world.
But no one is there for me in this lost world..
Yet I again chant the famous line..
That makes the frontpage headlines..
Happy Friendship week cum day to you..
Sunday, July 17, 2005
To someone very special..
badi masoom dhadkane laga dil uske liye,
kahta tha dil kah doon usko,
ishke mohabbat ka junoon,
pa loonga usko jiske liye utha ye khumar,
par darta tha ek anjan dar se
na jane kya bat thi us ladki main,
main man hi man marta tha uspe.
Friday, May 06, 2005
Inspiration
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
-----Rudyard Kipling
Saturday, April 30, 2005
Dejection
Sunday, April 17, 2005
Dedicated to Indian soldiers who died fighting the Chinese.
into a thousand irreparable fragment
A bitter grief is hurled at normalcy and peace.
Never will they be quite complete again
The crack of pain and death will always show
The weeping of wives bereft, of the anguished old
Will echo down the years of history
The wasted unspent lives, the loss of years
Too many to be counted
Too precious to be valued
A generation unborn, man's immortality...
there is the bitterness
So violent that the heart revolts and weeps
unceasing, arid, unshed tears
The sense of shame, of betrayal unforgivable
Never to be redeemed
Of sacrifice avoidable, insensate
that is the guilt we share
The valley is silent shrouded in death's immobility final and absolute.
But the soundless cry from the mountains beats upon our ears
Pitiless and Undeniable
We died, unsecured, helpless
We were your soldiers, men of bravery and pride
Yet we died like animals, trapped in a cage with no escape
Massacred at will, denied the dignity of battle
With the cold burning flame of anger and resolution
With the courage both of the living and the dead.
Avenge our un-played lives
Redeem the unredeemable sacrifice
In freedom and integrity
Let this be your inheritance
and our unwritten epitaph.
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Akele hain to kya gum hai
like p.b. shelley near a river...
writing poems without any fear..
fear may be but not any near..
that the calmmess you should have dear..
No worry, No feelings save the loneliness..
as people come, go with no belonginess...
but stille i chant tha same lines....
akele hain to kya gum hai...
akele hain to kya gum hai...