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

Now Kashmir, Tomorrow what?

Is Kashmir a part of India? This is a very emotional question and answer varies depending on whether you are an Indian, a separatist, a "Secular" breed of Left Liberals, Media or a politician or an ideologue et al. So let me clarify my stand here, I am an Indian and i don't belong to the self rightist breed of left liberals. For a nation state to survive its essential that its territorial integrity remain sacrosanct and it should follow an uniform principle in all the cases and that principle should remain subject invariant. 

Last summer we saw a very unfortunate volatile situation in Kashmir and more than 100 lives were lost. Media says that they were fighting for their rights democratically. Can stone pelting be a part of peaceful demonstration? The Kashmiri leaders are more responsible for the death of these 100 odd young Kashmiris than the Indian security forces. Why people don't see that no prominent politician get hurt in case of any demonstration? These 100 odd deaths don't include even a single Kashmiri Politician.

When Geelani, Arundhanti Roy et all assembled in New Delhi to do a "Tamasha" and openly asked for freedom from India, our Breed (i will call self rightist left liberals and "seculars" as breed from now on) did not speak a word, they even advocated and endorsed those statements of Roy and Geelani after all they were all using Right to Expression granted by the constitution of very country(they were trying to disintegrate). Our honourable HM did not do anything. But now when Now another party is trying to unfurl Tiranga at Lal chowk this same breed and other parties are seeing "Divisive" politics in it. Can unfurling of Tiranga be a divisive issue and if it indeed a divisive issue in Jammu Kashmir then we should stop saying that Kashmir is an integral part of India. Kashmiris openly unfurl Pakistani flag at Lal Chowk without any issue, our great PM and great Breed don't speak any single word of protest against this heinous act but they go all out against the unfurling of Tiranga.

Any one who has a problem with Tiranga is free to go to Pakistan or to Hell. I don't believe in forcefull occupation of any part of India and if Kashmiri people do believe in seceding from India then India should give a serious consideration to it but remember one thing it can open a pandorra box. Today is Kashmir, tomorrow it can be UP or even Tamil Nadu. In all this drama we are loosing the agony of innocent Kashmiri Pundits who were driven from their homes in the worse possible case of ethnic cleansing. They were raped, murdered in huge numbers but our Breed don't see any issue in it. They will go all out for the case of so called Indian tyranny in J&K but nothing for poor Pundits. If we keep on doing this again and again the day is not far when India will consist of many Independent Republics and Kingdoms and we will be responsible for that tragedy.

We have a right as well as duty to India as well as to our coming generation to pass them a safe and peaceful India and we should be better ready for this Crusade.

2010: A controversial year

2010 will always be remembered as the year that exposed the much respected Indian democracy. It exposed the dirty nexus between politicians,military, media, beareacracy and the corporates.  Radia Gate is just a tip of an iceberg.

This year also saw some great sportings feats  like 200 runs in an ODI inning and 50 centuries in Test career by Cricket Virtuoso Sachin Tendulkar, Indians some how managed  to keep Test Rank 1 against all odds, Australia is fighting so hard against their colonial masters and an Australian is making life hell for almost all the diplomats by much publicized and highly required leaks. India as a democracy has "survived" yet another disturbing year despite of strong corruption charges against the current UPA government. Ayodhya verdict  was another landmark judgment that exposed the ideology of so called left liberals and secularists. I have never seen people changing their positions within few hours after the judgment. This year will also be remembered  for Mary Kom, Saina Nehwal, and Gagan Narang apart from other great athletes who showed their mettle in CWG and ASIAD. 

On a personal front i completed my first year of wedding life and this was a great achievement for me. Thanks a lot Pratiksha for making my life sweet and beautiful.

I wish next year to be free from corruption, riots, wars and calamities. Wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.