Indian dream can crash if they continue to play like this....

And World Cup has now started little more than a week later its official opening ceremony in Bangladesh. India - England match will remain one of the most exciting matches of ODI history and the only ODI match that i watched more than 75% of its duration. It was a match of dwindling fortunes in the first and and last 10 overs of each inning. Sehwag started blindly and was beaten comprehensively by Anderson and Co. in the very first overs. The partnership of Sachin and Gambhir produced one the cleanest and elegant art of batting. Sachin started slowly but after reaching in his 20's, he started batting like batting virtuoso. An artist painting his Monalisa in the midst of a world war, such is the aura of Sachin. Yuvraj played a good inning but would have loved to see Kohli coming before Yuvraj. It was shameful to see India bundled out within 50 overs.
You can not afford to give an inch to your opposition else they conquer your country. England is famous for this. Strauss was excellent and he was aided by the wayward bowling of Indian bowlers. When Harbhajan will learn the real Doosra? The entire Indian bowling hinges around Zaheer and Harbhajan and if India has to perform well in this World Cup then these two bowlers have to best their best in every game. 1983 World Cup was won not by batting but by bowling
while 2003 World Cup was lost not by batting but by bowling. Ian Bell was clearly LBW even by the review system still he was given not out. Zaheer produced one the finiest spell of bowling he has ever bowled but there was no one to finish the game for India. It was pathetic to see two tailenders hitting 28 runs of last two overs of regular Indian bowler. India should have won the match with an ease and this Tie should be taken as a warning by India. They desperately need to pull up their socks specially their bowling department else even million dips in Holy Ganges wont be enough to wash the sins of giving up the World Cup.

Some thoughts on Valentine Day

Happy Valentine day to all of you, after all 14th Feb was the day when St. Valentine attained his
martyrdom and on this day we "celebrate" the import of his legend to India. I don't understand the logic of importing St. Valentine to India when we have our own Lord Krishna, Meera, Heer-Ranjha. Why we need an occasion to show love to our dearest? Din ho Holi Raat Diwali, Roz manati Madhushala. Like no one has a monopoly over truth, love and morality similarly no day can have monopoly over love and by extension of the same logic no "Sena" has a monopoly over "ethical" and "moral" bedrocks of a society, culture or civilization. No film industry produces more films on Love theme than our own Bollywood and still we need Valentine day to practice love. The same logic applies to the concept of Father's day, Mother's day, Friendship day blah blah blah. The highest selling "item" is the index of the "psyche" of a civilization and in a country where Infant Mortality Rate is 50 per thousand we can do better by contributing something to those unfortunate infants than to give those costly roses to beloved ones. Even if 1% of our population celebrate 14th Feb and if they consume 100 Rupees by most conservative estimate than we have 100 Crore Rupee contribution on this day only and by this i think we can build atleast 100 good hospitals in remote and underdeveloped corners of India. Revolution is not only about blogs, facebook or tweets its also about going and working where no one has gone or worked before.  St. Valentine will be very proud.

And the Sphinx roars

I have always loved Egypt and i will always love it. Egypt to me means a nation with superb mythology, great pyramids, great history and great culture.Pyramids are almost 5000 years old and are more gigantic man made structure than any structure produced by any other Neolithic or Chalcolithic civilization. Egypt was known as bread basked for Roman empire and the mighty Julius Caesar and Mark Antonius used to pay their obedience to the sheer beauty of sensuous Cleopatra. The Pharaohs were so great that they even forced Moses to part the Red sea. Every conqueror in the history of mankind had tried to conquer Egypt (and almost all were able to conquer it)) and that list is tectonically impressive with people like Alexander, Julius Caesar, Saladin, Ottomans, Napoleon, Britishers, Hitler and others. The pride of all conquering Mongols were broken by Egyptians only.
Alexandria was the capital of human intellect and its library was the saturated solution of human civilization. Almost all the major empires of world enriched Egypt and also got enriched by it. The golden period of Indian commerce, from the days of Hellenistic kingdoms to the onslaught of Europeans depended very much on the ports of Egypt on Mediterranean and Red seas.

The situation has changed a lot in few decades and once again Egypt is attracting attention of entire world in their struggle for "Independence" and "Prosperity". Nothing is more worth than fighting for a just cause and all Revolutionaries have a duty and a moral obligation to make sure that their revolution is not hijacked by opportunists. I am praying for well being of common Egyptian on one hand while at the same time i wish this revolution should not result in further restriction on freedom or anarchy. Mr. Hosni Mubarak should step down and should propose a framework for the orderly transfer of power to the people. Revolutionaries should have patience of Mahatma Gandhi and courage of Che Guevara. Some times its better to retreat and wait than to become fodder for the anarchists and counter revolutionaries. Let Truth and Freedom prevail. Amen