Monday, March 24, 2008
The advantages of rain..besides the known ones!
Incessant rain (incessant drizzles shoudl be fine)hitting the city of hyderabad for a count of four days. Weekend plans purged (keeping the spirit of beer alive though), endless sleeps, purposeful drench in the rain are some of the events that took place during the span of the rain-days. The surrounding have been quite dirty, unbearable stench at places, pools of water at places and potholes at places. However, the negatives i might add there have been the positives to the story. Hyderabad has got water now, so there shall not be water problems for atleast a month (considering the timely supply which otherwise was stopped a week ago), the trees are quenched of thirst, the leaves which were brown before the rain are reflecting green thereby adding to the scenic beauty which otherwise is lost in the summer. In addition to all this, there has been a considerable downfall in the leve of dust which occupy the roads frequently travelled. I was travelling this morning in the bus to the office, reading 'India in mind' - a compilation of stories by Pankaj Mishra. Stories, written by writers/ authors from the west who visited india in their time and penned down their experiences during their travel. There was this dug up road which the bus crosses everyday. Apart from the bumps and 'hurts' it used to provide, the dust was gifted to the lungs of the passengers, by the vehicles passing each other. The option left with the passengers would be to shut the window. fine you shut the window but who will shut the door? right. Now that the rain god has graced us, the dust particles have been forced to 'stick' together, form a paste and lie on the road. Inhaling of dust in injurious to health and rain has come to the rescue of the chain-inhalers and make ppl realise the importance of what fresh air could do the body and err....hair!
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Its been two months with no post...aiyeiiioooo!
Two months with no post in the blogger...thats bad. I shouldn't be saying i was occupied when i've got internet at my home and laptop to work on. Lets see whom can i critisize this time. hmmm..who better than the media..ha ha
The indian team recently won the Commonwealth Bank tri -series with a convincing victory of 2 games over none in the best of 3 clashes. The indian team is close to acquiring the status of a formidable team, a real FORMIDABLE TEAM. With times gone by when cricket fanatics would pull their hair over disturbing thoughts of the directions in which the indian cricket would be heading when the seniors were more in the team and the alegations that the seniors are not letting any 'junees' to come inside. With 'T-20' win and the latest one in the kitty, the cricket crazy dudes can stop pulling their hair and if they have lost some in the process, can look up to some hair growing lotions. With the good combination of seniors and juniors, the learning and the execution of processes is just going to be better and good for indian cricket, not to forget the amount of money spent by corporates and movies stars on the glizty, glamorous Indian Premier League (IPL) [ which is an answer to Zee TV's Indian Ccricket League (ICL) initiative]. Nonetheless, its just another business where large investors and FII's pump money and make more and pull out their stocks when they want it to!
Well, i'm deviating again. I was talking of the media. Listen about this. I had just returned home from office on tuesday, the day of the 2nd match of the 3 matches, which india won. Something struck my dull but awake mind to watch the famous of all channels, AAJ TAK (sabse tez) and the 'coming up' bar showed 'maa tujhe salaam' [Mother, I salute you]. I, for some reason, thought something on cricket should be up and coming soon, instead, i couldn't figure out how the title of the forthcoming show could link itself to the above mentioned subject that arose in my mind. Its only when the program began (after switching few channels here and there, i came back to AAJ TAK ), i see the mothers of all the cricketers (of all the young players of the team) sit in front of the camera to answer few questions which these journalists put up. The prologue to the show began with the cricketers running and hugging after the triumphant win. Interestingly, i happened to hear a pronoun from the mouth of one of the journalists when it was the turn to talk about Harbhajan Singh, the off spin bowler in the indian team, who is fondly called 'Bhajji'. The pronoun being' hamara' bhajji, meaning 'our' bhajji. I found it hideously strange. It were the same people who were criticising a hell lot (perhaps until the fire is intensified, till the satisfaction that the fire has actually intensified) of about the team whenever they lost the match and interestingly, there were no pronouns used, ***k the pronouns, its these bunch of retards acting like they know good amount of cricket and license to question the ability of the person and bringing forth solutions which you can only laugh at and throw it back at them. Yes, i do agree that in one of the games india did play badly (when they were all out for 153 against the aussie total of 202) but its only a game man. its not the end of all and now that they have won the series, everyone wants to have a piece of the pie, with these media run by hypocritic people, of the exclusive interviews and one hour, maybe longer, shows with the concluding segments having the clips of the winning moment and song from hindi movies in the background. I remember, the song, ' hum sikander hain' for the U-19 team, who won the U-19 world cup, by beating the south african team at kuala lumpur.
Its funny how people react and if you are a keen observer, like me (ha...at least in these issues if not the others), you can't help stop laughing at the shear immaturity shown by the some 'growing' journalists..
i need to sleep. have some work tmrw.
good night,
The indian team recently won the Commonwealth Bank tri -series with a convincing victory of 2 games over none in the best of 3 clashes. The indian team is close to acquiring the status of a formidable team, a real FORMIDABLE TEAM. With times gone by when cricket fanatics would pull their hair over disturbing thoughts of the directions in which the indian cricket would be heading when the seniors were more in the team and the alegations that the seniors are not letting any 'junees' to come inside. With 'T-20' win and the latest one in the kitty, the cricket crazy dudes can stop pulling their hair and if they have lost some in the process, can look up to some hair growing lotions. With the good combination of seniors and juniors, the learning and the execution of processes is just going to be better and good for indian cricket, not to forget the amount of money spent by corporates and movies stars on the glizty, glamorous Indian Premier League (IPL) [ which is an answer to Zee TV's Indian Ccricket League (ICL) initiative]. Nonetheless, its just another business where large investors and FII's pump money and make more and pull out their stocks when they want it to!
Well, i'm deviating again. I was talking of the media. Listen about this. I had just returned home from office on tuesday, the day of the 2nd match of the 3 matches, which india won. Something struck my dull but awake mind to watch the famous of all channels, AAJ TAK (sabse tez) and the 'coming up' bar showed 'maa tujhe salaam' [Mother, I salute you]. I, for some reason, thought something on cricket should be up and coming soon, instead, i couldn't figure out how the title of the forthcoming show could link itself to the above mentioned subject that arose in my mind. Its only when the program began (after switching few channels here and there, i came back to AAJ TAK ), i see the mothers of all the cricketers (of all the young players of the team) sit in front of the camera to answer few questions which these journalists put up. The prologue to the show began with the cricketers running and hugging after the triumphant win. Interestingly, i happened to hear a pronoun from the mouth of one of the journalists when it was the turn to talk about Harbhajan Singh, the off spin bowler in the indian team, who is fondly called 'Bhajji'. The pronoun being' hamara' bhajji, meaning 'our' bhajji. I found it hideously strange. It were the same people who were criticising a hell lot (perhaps until the fire is intensified, till the satisfaction that the fire has actually intensified) of about the team whenever they lost the match and interestingly, there were no pronouns used, ***k the pronouns, its these bunch of retards acting like they know good amount of cricket and license to question the ability of the person and bringing forth solutions which you can only laugh at and throw it back at them. Yes, i do agree that in one of the games india did play badly (when they were all out for 153 against the aussie total of 202) but its only a game man. its not the end of all and now that they have won the series, everyone wants to have a piece of the pie, with these media run by hypocritic people, of the exclusive interviews and one hour, maybe longer, shows with the concluding segments having the clips of the winning moment and song from hindi movies in the background. I remember, the song, ' hum sikander hain' for the U-19 team, who won the U-19 world cup, by beating the south african team at kuala lumpur.
Its funny how people react and if you are a keen observer, like me (ha...at least in these issues if not the others), you can't help stop laughing at the shear immaturity shown by the some 'growing' journalists..
i need to sleep. have some work tmrw.
good night,
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