Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Free???

you grow up hearing the song of freedom. Time and again you are told that you can choose the way you tread and you have options to choose from, many options.You love life and its pleasant surprises. You start admiring life's unpredictability and love to make most of those uncertainities.You grow up to become an optimist. YOu see clear skies,green grass and sunshines. YOu see innumerable possibilities.

By the time you start feeling strong enough life opens the doors to reality. You realise that you are not what you thought to be. YOu are not free as much as you assumed to be.You are vulnerable to the misdeeds of your people.You are vulnerable to their indifference. Their follies can still hurt you. YOu no more enjoy their fancies and whims. YOu dont do anything wrong yet you suffer.YOu become a slave to the actions of people you live with. YOu can neither enjoy solitude nor their company. In solitude you think about their actions and in their company you long to be let alone.

You are no more a bundle of joy.YOu fail to distinguish between pain and joy because you come to conclusion that both of them are illusions. Your smiles are a matter of fact, your tears dry up, you become indifferent to everything that is happening around you. You talk, walk,work yet you are not invloved in anyone of these actions. YOu just do it for the heck of it. You neither resent doing anything nor enjoy doing anything.

So, what is wrong? Is it something to do with your conditioning or you as such? Or is it that you expect too much from the people around you? When you have nothing to do with their actions why do those actions matter to you? You are neither the source nor the target of their actions, yet why do they hurt you?

Thursday, August 11, 2005

Gone Missing...

Nanavati commission report is made public and it clearly tells us who are the culprits.

Where are the self -proclaimed secularists and human rights activists who scouted for the blood of Narendra Modi.......like
Shabana Azmi,
Teesta Seetalvad,
Mahesh Bhatt,
Javed Akthar,
Kuldip Nayyar,
Arundhati Roy.....and their ilk.?????

yes, I can figure out the reason....Sikhs dont have any Godfathers in other countries like Pakistan, Europe and US to sponsor these so called "Secular and Human Rights activists".

After all it is one of their Secular bothers who is indicted........;)

Tuesday, August 09, 2005

detoxification....!!!

As usual good stuff from Mr. Gurumurthy.

http://www.newindpress.com/newspages.asp?page=2&Title=Second+Article&

I was discussing about the problems that India facing today on an online community and I was talking about the same point. Our education system tries to demaean things which are Indian. It never asks a kid to be proud of his origin rather it tells him that he should learn to live like someonelse.

"detoxifying ‘truths’ are contained in textbooks to educate young India. Obviously, Secular India has accepted the Marxian view as its view of the timeless India. So the message is clear: deride revered symbols like Rama and Krishna, demean noble souls like Sri Ramakrishna and devalue great heroes like Prithviraj. So that young India does not look up to them, or to anyone within India, for inspiration and looks elsewhere".

Mr Gurumurthy is at his best when he said

" Asked why a book in which Sri Ramakrishna is described in demeaning terms was permitted by NCERT, the HRD Minister Arjun Singh gave a lecture to the media on history writing. ‘‘History has to be written after carefully weighing all facts”. “Of course, I have not read the book in question. If it is so written we should look into it!” “Should look into it” — what a sober reply! He could afford to be sober as he knows that no mob will burn down government owned buses or buildings for vulgarising one of the greatest spiritualists of all time, Sri Ramakrishna. There will be no fatwas kill the writers, no bandh or violence. Thus goes on detoxification to save secularism. Notwithstanding that it corrupts, even destroys, the idea of India in the mind of young, unwary Indian".

Monday, August 08, 2005

The Winning habit.

England have finally manged to win the 2nd test of Ashes. They almost screwed it up that I thought they lost it. They deserved to win the match as they outplayed ozzies in all the departments. Flintoff played his heart out and proved that he is a genuine alrounder who can make differnce. Once again the Ozzie attack wihout McGrath looked ordinary.

The game reminded me one thing the Geff Boycott said once that Winning is a habit.

In normal life also, you see some guys make it a habit. They go to any exam and they come out with flying colours. Where as there are many others who are good enough but they stumble at the last step. They are as good as the winner but what they lack is that "winning habit".

In that second Ashes test when Ozzies were 8 down with more that 125 runs to score, everyone thought it is a matter of time for England to win. But the English who havent won any test against the Ozzies in the recent past were full of butterflies. The thought of winning excited them so much that they didnt bowl properly.Flintoff was stretched a bit far I think. But who cares, a win is a win after all and they deserved it.The Ozzies as usual are resilient, they alsmost won the match.

But, I think that ball of Shane Warne to Strauss on the second day, which spun some 2 meters, is the best ball in the recent times. Warne is not old yet, he is still the best spinner in the world.

India has won the match against Windies and reached the triseries finals. Good..isnt it??? Especially the batting of Yuvaraj and Kaif needs to be appreciated. They played well though against a weak bowling attack.

But what I hated to see is that expression of Yuvaraj after reaching his 100. Every Indian can read out his lips. Yes, he played superbly but what he needs to know is that is his first century in the last 1 year. I think he was reacting to his exclusion in the team for one match against Sri Lanka.

It is better he talks with his bat frequently rather than uttering some expletive whenever he hits some runs once in a bluemoon. He can learn much from his seniors like Rahul Dravid and Sachin who are epitomes of modesty. Sachin has hit more than 35 centuries and none has seen his uttering such words even once. Critics called him selfish, record-wanting etc.etc...but he never behaved like this.

What makes people like Sachin, Roger Federer, Michael Schumacher legends is their modesty. It is better our young players learn these things from the greats.