Back to blogging

Now I realise how much difficult it is pen down your thoughts. It has been a while I have done any kind of writing maybe due to sheer laziness or procrastination. Yeah, from now on surely will try to scribble something or the other, be it crap.

Chote Nawab: Long live thy glory

It has been exactly two months I have passed my graduation and have no other engagements other than hanging out with my friends. It so happened one day that me and my friend A had been to an internet cafe and found every computer occupied by a browser, so we preferred to wait for sometime as there was no hurry. To while away our time we ordered soft drinks each and sipped leisurely. A handsome young man of our age was at the counter and seeing jobless guys as us, got an opportunity to kick off a conversation. We went on talking anything and everything, when that young man dragged the conversation towards the new released movie Mangal Pandey - The Rising. He shared his experience of how he wasted his money on the movie, the movie didn't had a good storyline, Aamir Khan wasted his worthful four years for a wasted movie ............... blah, blah and host of things he blurted out. At that very moment I was enjoying my drink unaware of the ongoing talk and had least interest for the young man's comment on Aamir's "rising or falling". My dear friend A sitting beside me seemed to be absorbed during the conversation and he quickly spoke intervening - "Saif Ali Khan doesn't deserve a national award for Hum Tum." I thought it to be his personal opinion and we both also sheepishly agreed to him.
Then all of a sudden a guy emerged from a cabin of the cafe and demanded the person who dared to say that Saif doesn't deserved a national award. At first I was startled to see this unwanted intruder, who interfered our discussion. Friend A with a calm poise admitted that he was the one to comment on Saif. Then the so-called unwanted intruder argued his way out advocating the cause of his "maybe favourite actor", but he surely sounded. I was quite sure that my friend will emerge victorious from the bout of words. At the end of the verbal duel the guy admitted his defeat and announced that he is a great fan of Saif, then dissolved into his cabin to continue with his work. I could sense the satisfaction on my friend's face. For a while I felt sorry for the guy, who seemed to be obsessed with Mr Saif (son of a black buck killer).
Then the young man at the counter directed us to an emptied cabin. After taking our seat, I asked A cynically if he knew the mail id of Saif Ali khan so that i can dash him a mail, writing - "Mr khan you are a lucky person to have a fan following at a place called Cuttack and moreover your fans out here are aggressive and can do anything for your glory." Hearing this A smiled mockingly and we both burst out into a laughter.

PS: This I wrote just after my graduation results were out and mind you it's not fiction.

Towel censored

Last evening while watching news, I came across an interesting development related to the movie "Saawariya." The so called watch-dog of bollywood censor board has asked the director of the movie to edit one particular scene, in which the debutant actor and scion of legendary Kapoor family Ranbir is seen sporting a towel in a song sequence. But as the song progresses and as per the demand of the director he has to drop his towel. What does this signifies? This indicates how ridiculous sometimes a watch-dog gets, when it has more sensible things to do. What about the heroines, who don’t mind flaunting their skin.
Lesson to learn for guys from this censor – not to roam about at home or outside nor venture to the bathroom in a towel because who knows the "censor board" is keeping a watch on you.

Finally a journo

After nine days I will graduate from one of the top journalism institutes in India and will be a journalist, sounds great. But fuck I am still without a job, trying hard to fix an internship with any crap newspaper, am I worth for it, leave aside job. Who is to be blamed me or the institute, entitled to see it's students placed, anyways have no qualms against anyone.

Again Cricket

The two-month long cricket World Cup has come to an end with Australia lifting the coveted cup for the third time in a row. This years World Cup failed to be a crowd puller, overshadowed by the death of Pakistan’s coach Bob Woolmer and early exit of cricket titans India and Pakistan. The matter of concern for us is the future of Indian cricket, where will it head to.
After Team India’s fiasco in the World Cup repercussions were evident to come from the fans and more importantly Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Although BCCI took some stringent decisions, but in a way failed to address the real problem that ails Indian cricket. Presently the think tank’s course of action should be concentrating on domestic cricket such as Ranji and Duleep trophy in order to select young and talented players. Now, what India requires is a pool of young players and there should be an urgency to build on the bench strength, like the Australians.
The selectors should be stern in selecting the team and show no leniency towards the out-form or senior players. Moreover, selection of a right coach is the most important factor in any sport. The recent dismal performance of Team India was attributed to coach Greg Chappell by cricket pundits, fans and media. Team management should now come out from the obsession of having a foreign coach because its no way going to help. The selection of a coach should be on the basis of his man management skills rather he should be a motivator and could understand the psyche of players. In the recent board meeting of BCCI, the decision of slashing contract system and curb on players endorsements engagements was a welcome move, but some former players have criticised team management’s this decision. Another crucial aspect is that cricket should be considered as any other sport and should not be given so much of importance.
The media can also be blamed for giving a demi-god status to the cricketers and creating hype about cricket. Rather the media for a while should abstain itself from cricket and report on other sports in India, which are in a state of doldrums. Indian team both for One-day and Test matches has been announced for the upcoming Bangladesh tour. Former Test cricketer Ravi Shastri has now been appointed as the manager cum coach of the team and some new faces have also been included in the team, but we have to wait and see the result of these changes.

Indian Cricket travails

After Team India’s fiasco at the World Cup, criticisms were evident to come from cricketing and non-cricketing fraternity. In a write up by Infosys chief Narayan Murthy has lambasted Indian cricket team’s lackadaisical attitude at the World Cup and furthermore has suggested few mantras for Indian cricket.
One thing the cricket fans have to admit that the Bangladeshis an Sri-Lankans played better cricket than us and Team India was not prepared for the bigger challenge. It is easy for one to comment or criticise and point out loopholes because saying is much easier than implementing anything into action. Now, the course of action by the think tank of Indian cricket should be taking decisions keeping in mind a long term solution. The funny part is that according to cricket pundits the reason for India’s debacle was, the players are more committed towards endorsing products rather slogging out in the field.
But, the critics tend to forget that the cricketers endorse when they are off and moreover they are professionals, who know which is more serious a job, endorsements or playing for the country. Cricket is a game of uncertainty where the match can turn in the next ball, therefore it will be impartial to always hold the players responsible for a failure.

As Editor

Week as a editor is over, which bloody gave two sleepless nights. Role of an editor here for the lab paper brings lots of tension-stress concomitant to it. Luckily everything went on smoothly, wrote an editorial of 400 words, which Iam satisfied, till now none of my classmates have given kudos for my effort. But at the end of the day, I can say job well done, editor-cheers.