Sponsors Decide Winners

What a match it was? India Won a thriller. Zaheer bowled a superb last over....these were the reactions of myriad number of cricket fans across the country. But, I think the match was fixed by the sponsors to bring India into finals. How could the empire miss the 3 wides bowled by Irfan pathan? How could a bolwler who gave away 45 runs in 5 overs gave only 6 runs in the last over?.....they are all debateable....but ....the buggers have fixed the match ..that is very clear....

I pray god that they dont play cricket here in Aisa. Everything is dictated by sponsors  and they care only abt money ...meanwhile ...none btothers abt the harm being doe to the game of Cricket.

Let alone Australia , NewZealand, England, WI, ...all non Asian nations play cricket....hell with these fixed matches...........................

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Another Gulti ( telugu ) Movie

I happened to see a Telugu movie over the weekend..names Sree Anjaneyam ( in reference to the God Anjaneya). This is a shit of a movie to the "spiderman" and Hollynwood freaks. yeah, they think only Hollywood can make better movies. I beg to differ. The Tamil and Telugu industry has some great directors who can make really good movies.

Let me come back to the movie under discussion. The movies starts with the launch of a big water dam which will feed the villages around. But, as usual, a group headed by one village biggie tries to stop the dam citing various reasons ALA Medha Padgars, Arundhathi Roys...

Ofcourse the movie digresses towards some trivial things in the course of time, if you look beyind the scantily dressed heroine and dramatic bahkthi seens...there is much in this movie.
The dirty politics involed behind these water dams and the real intentions of people who claim that they are " Sangha Sanskrthas" or " Samaj Sevaks".

Though I was disappointed at the end of the movies that the Director could have done better to focus on the real issue rather than sentiments and bhakthi.

India Wins against Bangladesh

I could not control my laughter. It was funny. The headlines read " Sachin tames Bangladesh". Man....how sick it is? You "tame" wild and strong  animals , but when you catch a rat or rabbit...do u call it "taming"??? :-))).....We dont need Tendulkars to win against Bangladesh. Any second rung team can defeat Bangladesh. Or is it that India came to such levels that they need all their star players to defeat Bangladesh? Funny....or pathetic state of affairs I would say. Dravid plays against Srilanka and people make a god out of him for the fighting spirit he has, though we lose the game. Sachin plays against Bangladesh and people say " saching plays against only weak sides"...... I think I am hating cricket these days.....plzzzzz....show me some great cricket....cricket of some higher levels....not of teethless bowling attacks and " Ganguly , dravid" kinda batting... I wish I were born  in the era of the great West Indian cricketing....I m dying to see Sir Vivian playing again....isnt he better than any batsmen now, though he is retired.....

The Funny Cup ( Aisa Cup)

The great game of cricket has become a cheap entertainment for masses. And , so called Asians are excelling in this art. The Asia cup.....haahhhaaahhhaaa......what level the game of cricket has come to? You dont watch such substandard cricket ever in life. On one side of the globe , Australians ans NewZealanders are playing a level of cricket which you dont see often, but that is soemthing good that is happening to cricket. I dont understand what do they want to achieve by holding this fully series called Asia Cup. Including teams like Hongkong, UAE and Bangladesh. They dont even know the rules of cricket properly. I think my galli cricket is a better site to watch than this. And, the so called " Test playing teams ( what is there in playing....what matters is winning...)"...are worse than these new teams. Are they playing Cricket???? I was really disappointed the way India plyed in the first two matches.  The so called great players played some poor shots and the Captain ....huh...what has he had  in his mind??....They might win against Bangladesh and Hongkong...might go to the Finals and win the cup...but this will remain as the worst of the Series ever played in Asia. Dying to see Australians in India.  Man.....watz happening to me....a die hard Sachina and India fan......losing interest in their game......

Warne - The Magician

The amount of money involved in oneday cricket killed an art called Spin Bowling.Even in the real cricket we saw the decline of quality spinners. Inspired by the Garners, Holdings, Hadleys, Kapils, Wasims , most of the young kids want to become fast bowlers. They think that is the kind of bowling that can intimidate the oppasition. The want to give night mares to the batsmen with the pace.

But, every now and then, every sport has seen some individuals who set standards, who are born for that particular cause, they are the people who are the best at that particular skill.

Shane Warne is one such great player Cricket is gifted with.
He revived the dying art of Legspin, he created another version of Spin which is dedlier than the spin bowling. He is the master of flippers, batsmen have no clue what is happening barring some Indian players. The Legerdemine claimed many vicitms ( err ...most as the records state). Records apart, he is one bowler who made the difference at the time of substandard bowlers.

Ofcourse, he had his ups and downs in his personal and professional life. But, I havent seen Prasanna much...I regard Warne as the best bowler I have ever seen. He inspires you so much that you feel like learning legspin.

However, like other legends, he still have one unconquered land..The Subcontinent and the Indian Batsmen.The East for Alexander The Great, Wimbledon for Lendel, French Open for Sampras ....

I salute to this great player. I compare him to the legends like Maradona, Vivian Richards..He is one of that class.

Many more victims for this great bowler.

Bangalore - The Heavens Open Up and the City goes back to Dark Ages

Bangalore - The IT capital of India ( errr....world), the city of Gardens, the city of serene weather, the true cosmopolitan city of India. Bangalore sans rains and traffic is all the above.

The city shines with the beautiful buildings of IT powerhouses, umpteern number of pubs, sports bars, denim clad muses and irresistable hunks. Bangaloreans are proud of their Casmopolitan city, they love the city. Take them anywhere in the world , they will come back and say nothing is like Bangalore. Such is the greatness of this city and its citizens.

But, look at the city when it rains. The weather is so beautiful that you feel like going for a long drive or getting drenched in the rain.wait, do you think you can afford that?

The rains open up the drains in the city. The drains overflow and the raods are submerged.Many beautiful roads , the showpieces of Bangalore, are filled with drain water and ther is no respite for any vehicle. This submersion of most of the roads of Bangalore is the harbinger of some of the worst traffice snarls.Some blessed souls who have four wheelers are spared to some extent. Atleast the can sit back and enjoy some music when there is a jam...The riders of two wheelers have hell of a time here. You wear jackets, wind cheaters whatever, you are bound to get drenched in the unpredictable rains...and you push through the roads with your knees in drain water. Sometimes , the poor two wheeler cant do anything except stalling...because you cant get the silencer to your seat level.

If this is the story of people who are doing well, imagine the plight of "have nots". The poor have a helluva time here in Bangalore in rainy season ( Is there a season???). Manual Labourers, Construction Workers, and many others.. Bangalore rains even claim the lives of people. Every year , atleast some 50-100 people die due to rains. Someone gets drowned in an overflowing drain, someones' car gets submerged in a drain, someones' house just collapses due to rain, some construction worker dies because a pile of mud just burries him in a duct, a child gets killed because a tree is uprooted by the rains....ther is no end to this list..rain invents new ways of killing people.

What are the authorities doing? They just dont have any clue. They just dont have any clue about why the drainages are overflowing, they are not aware of the traffic condition which is eating away productivities of manny people. They just cant handle the situation...all and all...the authorities are ineffective in handling rains in Bangalore.

When will Bangaloreans enjoy rains rather than cursing rains? I am not born and brought up in Bangalore, but I like the city. The city is killing people in rains rather than sheltering them. What a city or any other place is for if it cannot give shelter to its own people.

God bless Bangalore in Rainy Season.

Budget 2004

They want to do the following things:

1.Plans to double agriculture credit in 3 years

2.Calls for fiscal consolidation

3.Gross budgetary support raised to Rs 1,45,000 Cr

4.Provides for addl Rs 10,000 cr for expenditure

5. Calls for 7-8% GDP growth on sustained basis.

We have seen so many budgets..promising growth and fiscal consolidation. Ofcourse, Mr.Singh is one of the harbingers of economic revolution in India. So, many people are looking forward to a sensible budget. But, how much is it going to improve the situation of the poor? The IT revolution has created a new creed of middle class. When will the poor get the benefits of the new economy? Will this budget answer all the questions of the poor?
hmmmmm....in another 8 hrs..I think everything will be clear and I dont think it is going to be very much different.