great indian exaggerated comparision

Slum"God" Millionaire

Govinda Govinda…….. Ok, hold on, I am not going to talk about filmy Govinda nor the movie Slumdog Millionaire. I am here trying to reference our Millionaire God in Tiirupathi. Before all you communal and secular folks start reasoning let me finish this. I have just started this in the Name of God. Majority of the bad and also the good things these days are done in the name of God.

One thing that hurts me the most is when I see kids working at different places in India. Hotels, construction sites, traffic signals, mechanic works, factories, anywhere and everywhere you could find work, you can find these children. We have too many organizations and government policies to contain this, but a 100% implementation is a dream far away. Poverty being the reason with no other alternatives to the parents these children are adding up to this industry.

Now coming back to our God who has been attracting millions of pilgrims from around the world for fulfilling their wishes has also been attracting a lot of these children. To grant their wishes? Childhood dreams? Nope but livelihood. Oh God thank you for providing these poor souls a piece of bread. Many of these children may not even try and have a darshan as it would consume too much of their working hours and they do not have the money to pay thousands for that comforting way of praying in shorter queues. As Mahatma once said, "people can be so poor that the only way they see God is in a piece of bread".

Poverty has been the problem for the parents and their children not our God. I do not complain. Our millionaire God, has his trust which provides many good services such as free food, education and medical services being a few important of those many services. It’s just that they are not sufficient. I do not think it’s the money that is insufficient it’s the services that are. Oh my lord I pray for that day you will provide education and food for every kid that turns up to work at your holy place.

Is it not interesting to listen to our prime minister when he says strict laws are in place for eradication of child labor and they will be implemented strictly? Oh Lord our Prime Minister cannot, you are the one who foresees the good and evil in society, Please provide good vision to all the law enforcing agencies in your holy town to see these poor children who have flooded all of the hotels and shops. I saw them everywhere; you see them everywhere then why not our law enforcement people. There are additional law enforcing people at your service for all the reasons we could think of, just bring in a thought to implement their duty. I wish, hope and pray that every child who turns up at your holy town for livelihood be identified and proper resources be provided to him for his education and living. If this cannot be achieved here where else can it be achieved? You’ve got the money; you’ve got the good people coming to you wanting to do good work and the bad people to wash away the sins. Please give them the will and means to implement these services for all those younger ones in a more efficient way.

For any of those media persons reading this please do not restrict yourselves to the occasional documentary once in months. Please take up this issue. There is nothing more grave then the future of the younger ones in our Country. If, we as a nation cannot provide food for all the children of our nation for which they have been turning into labors what does GDP or any growth percentage mean.

Oh my lord, finally, though you could not save the thousands who died in East and West, hundreds who are dying in war against religion, its just that we do not have any other source of Hope. We just cannot tell the kids that we elders have been fighting between ourselves in the name of religion, region and money and there is nothing we could do. We can tell them to pray you, our only source of hope for a better tomorrow with peace and prosperity.

Rezang La

This isn't about sounding patriotic or some other wiki stuff. This is for all those of you like me who haven't heard the words in the title until now. Rezang La isn't Spanish nor the famous Chinese action film title. Rezang La was the site of the famous last stand of the of the 'C' Company of 13 Kumaon during the Sino-Indian War in 1962. This is for the small memorial at the site , which reads:

How can a Man die Better than facing Fearful Odds,
For the Ashes of His Fathers and the Temples of His Gods,
To the sacred memory of the Heroes of Rezang La,
114 Martyrs of 13 Kumaon who fought to the Last Man,
Last Round, Against Hordes of Chinese on 18 November 1962.
Built by All Ranks 13th Battalion, The Kumaon Regiment.

The battle of Rezangla, fought at an altitude of 17,000 feet, is one of the most incredible sagas of valour and courage that Indian soldiers have showed on November 18, 1962. They fought and died for Indian soil. This is a salutation to the 114 brave men who fought until " Last man and Last bullet" in sub zero temperature.

Lets not only remember the 300 Spartans and Pearl Harbour but also remember and respect the real INDIAN HEROES and pass on their story to the generations to come.

Thank You Champs.

When i look back at the end of Australian series, and our victory against the world champions, I am not completely excited, rather sad to an extent. Yeah, there is a certain bit of saddness in me. I remind myself that I no longer can wait in a test match for Kumble to bowl that quicker one, or a googly, for those crucial wickets at tougher times. More depressing is the fact I can no more wait for Ganguly coming down the track to launch the ball into the stands of the spinners. With the end of careers of these legends has Indian cricket lost some of its viewers? I bet you argue not, with Dhonis, Yuvraj's and Harbhajan's. But somehow, if not completely lost, the sheer excitement of a cricket match in me has died to some extent. I just fear of the day when Sachin or Dravid does not step into a test match, will I and some of my friends ever turn on the match and watch it with the same enthusiasm. May be Dhoni is the star to watch out now, But my heart does not stop for that moment when he plays that mis-timed shot in air as it does for Sachin. It may be vice-versa for Dhoni's fans. I hate the feeling that my game, my religion of Cricket has started with these God's and may end with them. Is it the impact these legends had on me while I grew up watching them. Is it the age thing? Ok hold on I ain't too old to complain. I just do not respect the younger stars with what they deserve, inspite of their achievements in the same way. I do not look at Harbhajan to inspire me or the school kid with that matter the same way as Kumble did. Then i question myself do I just admire Sachin, Ganguly, VVS, Dravid, Kumble or do I worship them. Am i blind with my faith ? Am I loyal? Doesn't Yuvraj hit a six as stylish as Ganguly would do. Is it like Ganguly removing his shirt makes me proud, but the same thing with Yuvraj false pride or arrogance. Do I need to give these younger stars some time to occupy space and respect in my heart, or should i lower my enthusiasm. Has my professional life eaten into my enthusiasm? No I have been typing this in my lunch break on a typical working day at office. There a lot of questions which time will answer. We wanted our juniors to look at Sachin should I complain if my junior advices his on Dhoni or Yuvraj. Is it a all heart thing?mind thing ? i do not know. Am I too confused. Am i taking this too seriously? May be, but you forgot in India cricket is'nt just a game its a RELIGION.

But now, I would like to remind myself of all those moments these stars, and cricket as a game filled our lives with. The Morning discussions, lunch break, evening, mid night discussions and all those we had even before the exams all had our Indian team. We had our own team compositions for every series even before the selectors had. Finally I would like to thank all these players.

Thank you Anil for all those punches I had given in the air, When you took those crucial wickets, and those high5 moments I had with friends for those unpredictable balls you bowled. Thankyou for showing us what GentleMan's game is about. Thankyou for leading us in the Crucial times, and inspiring a genration of bowlers.

Thank You DADA for all those wonderful shots on Off side and the balls you parked outside the ground of the spinners and seamers. Thank you for showing us your chest at Lords, and thank you for leading the Indian side into confidence to look into the eyes of opponents.

Thank You Sachin(God) for all those 12000 runs you made for us while we sat praying before the telivision for you to make those. Thank you for inspiring a generation, a game and a nation. Thank you Jammy for being the Great Wall of India and VVS for always playing those very very special knocks.

Thank you Dhoni for making us World Champions in Twenty20 and maintaining the standards at home once again. Thank you Yuvraj for those 6 sixes and Sehwag for the same on 94, 194, 294. I am looking forwarld to all you guys, do not disappoint us. Let our religion be followed the same way. We Indians can accomdate many Gods in our hearts.

PS: The Author is currently in US and has been missing out some cricket action on live tv, though fighting out the odd time zones and internet for cricket action has been disturbed to an extent. So may forgive him for the crap.

Pray for me brother

Pray for me brother -Lyrics by Blaaze

Lookin' for the answers To all the questions In my life
Will I be alone Will you be there By my side
Is it something he said Is it something he did I wonder why
He is searchin' For the answers To stay alive
Could you ever listen Could you ever care To speak your mind
Only for a minute For only one moment In timeThe joy is around us
But show me the love That we must find
Are you searchin' For a reason to be kind, to be kind… He said… Pray for me brother

Happily Ever After

"They lived Happily ever after" was the ending for the different stories which we listened to as kids. As we grew up, got too busy, and too little time to listen to stories of others. Somehow even the good or bad realities (not stories) from the media do not have a lasting impact on most of us. They have become more like our childhood stories or movies, where we are engaged and we feel about them only for that particular moment. Most of the problems do not directly effect us, nor we have the time to think and implement solutions. We just move on Happily Ever After.

The 100-150 points of stock exchange variations have more impact on most of us and marked for something to be followed up, not an average twelve deaths of farmers in most villages of different states. These no longer even contribute to the breaking stories, nor flash news for the media who thrive to fill in our grandmas shoes for telling us true stories . Hurley's Big Indian marriage, Shilpa's kiss, Cold war inside team India, Quattrocchi's whereabouts are some of the most important topics they believe majority of the nation should watch and discuss in that little time, so that even if they forget, they have a very little impact and everyone could just move on happily ever after.

The MTV watching, Internet using youth sometimes comment about some of these issues in the new world of Internet. They contribute to the intellectual source of identifying how crap the system is and how damn the government works. Commenting on almost every forum which discusses about India, live happily ever after. They got more entertaining stuff to get hold onto for more time.

To end, Amitabh Bacchan claiming to be farmer is something watched by the majority, and thoroughly discussed for sometime and forgotten. If a farmer watches the same episode argues why in the hell does Amitabh ji wants to become a farmer? Is his situation worse than mine in films? has his bottle of local liquor and sleeps happily( not ever after) but that night thinking may be his situation his just better than Amitabh's and with the pride of saying even Amitabh is a farmer.

We discuss, we criticize, we move on. We just don't ACT.

The Blue Billion

The reactions of the cricket crazy billion fans and the performance of the team India, both have been disappointing. The very meaning of "Sport" is something which is forgotten when ever we deal with cricket in India. The media has its share too. It has been playing its part on who should be sacked, whom do u want to blame for the defeat and the list of questions go on and on. Then the educated majority of the billion come out with there findings that cricketers have been concentrating on the ads and not the cricket.Firstly I would like to present my perspective to this section of people. On an average an international cricketer is on tours abroad or playing in India for a period of 100-150 days. Then there are the training camps in India apart from the tours which he attends for 30-60 days. So from the remaining days of a year out of his personal time he utilizes for the ads. To my belief an ad shoot will not take more than 3-5 days. So even if he endorses 10 -15 products it does not cost him more than 30 days in a year. So in turn its his own personal time he has been loosing out. Just because an ad is telecast after every over or every hour it doesn't mean the cricketer has been concentrating too much on the ads. Do you still believe that these three to five days of the year are what the Indian cricketers are concentrating and not on the world cup. It looks " silly" for me at least to link the defeat to the endorsements. Obviously at the end of the day we will not pay them after their retirement. They get to earn when the opportunity is knocking at them.

Then comes the next section of people who have been telling the people who all should retire, what sort of strategies should have been opted. This section also includes the legendary cricketers of India and abroad. To me even the 1983 world cup winning team has not dominated the world cricket for such a long time to complain about the present attitude of cricketers. All the cricketers have had their set of highs and lows and should at least respect the present set in these crucial situations, instead of reacting like the normal crazy Indian fan who is very much impulsive. Its just one of the worst low of Indian cricket which has happened. Even all these people who are having these many complaints now are very much happy about the team jugs a week ago after completing the practise match against WI. Its just a couple of bad days where there was enormous amount of pressure and the same fear of what happened now which supposedly was on the minds of our team. On any given day you know that we can beat Bangladesh 9 out of 10 times. Its just that one odd thing which preservers the beauty of the sport. Thatz what you compete for. As Dr avid mentioned its also the cruelty of the sport.

Lastly how can we separate cricket in India from sachin. The debate is always on for his performance. I would like to point out just what we demand against him from how he has performed. There were days when we used to turn off the TV the moment he was out. Then we built a team of youngsters and senior players where we started boasting that the team India is no more dependent on Sachin alone. "But" for me once again when Sachin was out on the D 'day for the match against SriLanka, I to an extent felt that the match was over. Suddenly the revival of the Indian team over the years did not have much impact on my mind.All the stars present in the team and the youngsters who are tagged as match winners did not immediately pop up into my mind. I believe it is something which happens to most of us. Such is the expectancy from the little master. Deep in our hearts the billion of us cannot resist the failure of the master. You love him or hate him you cannot resist when he fails. It hurts deeply. To put up the stats in the last twenty matches including the three in world cup the master has got 4 fifties and a century. Does it any sense indicate the genius loosing out his skill set. He has just scored a lot low on the expectancy of the Indian fan. Then the other factor is that he has moved down the order. People should understand that he has been moved down to play a more supporting role than to be attacking. Still we claim that he is no more aggressive as he was earlier and want him to step down forgetting his present batting order. Such was the impact of the masters aggressive batting which is not erased from the minds and hearts of the cricket enthusiasts . He has been just short of the expectancy which he had developed all through this years. Mind you please set your limit on what you demand from the little master blaster.

To conclude we know the team and the fans will be back again in their same old terms with the team in a couple of months. Its just one bad memory for the typical Indian cricket fan. The media which lost out on the hours of match analysis has been doing its best to show the disappointed fan how frustrated his fellow fans are. Obviously they have to make out something for the 24 *7 schedule. Every move from the investigation of death of Bob Woolmer has also filled up many slots. Do you believe people are to be informed every movement in the investigation, Which does not make any senes atleast to me. I beleive we are supposed to watch something much better more constructive or productive to the public then the investigation. Its not a crime serial with twists and turns we want watch on a 24*7 news channel. Yes we do regret as an human for what has happened. But life did not stop there. Lets get on with life. Lets not show a disappointed fan how other irritaed fans are showing their grief . Lets back up the team. Lets not show all the possible ways to killing. Lets change the thinking to other major happening in the Nation or abroad to enligten our people as an responsible news channel. Lets atleast teach the youngsters how to take life sportively to handle the ups and downs and show them there are always supporters when you fall down. Not only those who demolish them when they fall.

PS: Do all these fans who have taken the extreme steps on cricketers houses, etc do the same on the politicians who do not fulfill their election promises.

CRY

hey, hi n welcome to my space. i wud like to start of with a "CRY". yup i wud like to blog out something related to the Child Relief and You. May b i dunn wanna preach. nor do u wanna read my preachings. But still I am gonna blog and i hope u will read. The thoughts are random. so mentions the heading. No complaints at the end.
newayz Its more about the awareness. In this context i wud like to tell u abt the small article in todayz newspaper . The poster girl who was used by the so called UNICEF to educate people about the child labour does the same old job of hers. Hold on the officials had a diplomatic answer to that saying " The Unicef is a technical agency and we don't give any compensation to the subject used in our campaigns,"". so does tht mean its just bothered about the publicity and it has nothing to do with problem nor the solution. I really dinn get that. if u've got one plzz leave a comment.
May be as times go by You learn that it is truly in giving that we receive. And that there is power and glory in creating and contributing and you stop maneuvering through life merely as a consumer looking for your next fix.