The week so far

For the last one month or so i am totally engrossed in my studies and work, and not getting enough time to write blogs. Last 10 days or so has been phenomenal in all the aspects of life, be it politics, environment or sports.

I am still not able to reconcile myself with my last post about Mr. Basu after reading a lot of articles with different perceptions. Some says that he actually robbed the Bengal of its entire generation of intellectuals and left a wasteland out of something.
A lot of controversy was generated by India and Pakistan media after the so called "snubbing" of Pakistan Cricket Players by IPL's team owners. I do not know where Indian government is coming in picture, its prerogative of the team owners whether to choose Pakistan players in their teams or not. If you take my view, i can not understand myself cheering these players after experiencing horrendous 26/11. It will tantamount to spitting on the faces of dead 26/11 martyrs. I will say break every relation from Pakistan and let it die its natural death. It will be against the Law of Natural evolution if we help Pakistan at this point of time. After all they did not ask India before creating Talibans or Let or Hizbul. To me "Aman ki Asha" is the biggest joke of 2010.

Lastly the blunder done by Dr. Pachauri led Nobel Prize winning IPCC in estimating the timeline of the melting of Himalayan Glaciers. Dr. Pachauri owes a serious apology to Mr. Raina for calling his research about Himalayan glaciers a "Voodo" science. I do not know now who is more deserving Mr. Obama or IPCC led by Pachauri.

Last weekend i went to summer resort of Tipu Sultan i.e. Nandi Hills. It was a good experience to feel the remaining atoms of Tipu there.

Death of Marxist Patriarch: Jyoti Basu

When Soviet Union collapsed with the fall of Berlin wall, it was said that the days of socialist dream is over (China's communism is a tailored version of Marxism, known as Maoism in contemporary world). But Jyoti Basu helped India's left to retain control of the most intellectual state of South Asia.
I don't give a damn to Indian communists but its a fair statement when i say that the Indian left has not been given due recognition. The land reforms in Kerala and West Bengal were path breaking in their own. Kerala is able to make giant progress and i attribute this to the presence of strong opposition party ( in Congress and vice versa). West Bengal has been ruled by Communists for almost 4 decades and an absence of a strong united opposition was deeply felt many a times. The current jangalmahal movement is grown because of absence of strong opposition. Indian National Congress behaves in a way that it was the only party that won freedom for India. It easily forgets that the members of left, right, centre parties that time were member of Congress as well. Jyoti Basu and M N Roy also played a great role in serving mother India and they should also be given recognition.
I don't know the future whereabouts of soul (I doubt whether it does exist) in Marxist ideology but i offer my deep condolences to the sorrowful family. Jyoti Basu was a giant among all his contemporaries. I rate him as good as Bajpayee, Manmohan Singh, Indira Gandhi in 60 years of our republic.

2010 AD

I am becoming regularly irregular in posting articles, may be its related to the loss of bachelorhood.

3 Idiots (2009) Well i gave my adieu to the last year by watching 3-Idiots. Amir Khan rocks yet again although Raju, Vidhu and Amir would have done much better by accepting that the movie was based on 5 Points someone. Anyways its a must watch and reserves 9 points instead of 5 points. 9/10.
Invictus (2009)
This one is story of making RSA an umbrella nation after long decades of brutal apartheid. Morgan Freeman looks exactly like Nelson Mandela and he acted superbly. 7/10.
District 9 (2009)
This is a sci-fi movie and it features in imdb top 250 list. To me its not worth it. Its an age old concept and does not deserve anything. 5/10.

So far 2010 has been great for Test series. Series in Australia and in RSA are providing us glorious matches and lets see now who win in this year T-20 or Test or ODI.
Things are not so fine in Down Under and Indians there are facing the brutality of "White Australians". I feel so right about this cartoon.