Power Politics and Corruption

Its been frustrating to read the news lately, I am saying as if I used to happy before...... but it has touched new lows.....the power politics corruption nexus has taken such a deep root now that a serious overhaul is needed to uproot it, if party A is guilty of corruption party B shows us that they are not far behind.
I used to think that sports was above it all and it was naive of me to believe that, I think in sports its even more deep rooted than any other aspects of life.
Money Talks and you watch any sport and you will understand what I mean....
Its been sad state of affairs recently...only gloom and more gloom..........hopefully this dark cloud will have its silver lining and we would have sunny days in near future (I doubt it though....)

Where do I start......

So where do I start..... 1992 WC wen my brother used to get pasting to get up or not at all sleep to catch the action from Australia or the 1996 Eng tour that few frnds followed on ESPN and I was trying to tune my red transistor to freq such that i cud barely hear what was happening or the Independence Cup in Dhaka.....the complete class in school was in the room of Dhobi watching it....later he regretted letting us watch it :p..... Hit of Kanitkar in that match that won us the Cup........the Sharjah Storm that can not be and will not be ever emulated.......the 2001 kolkatta test lying on the couch for the inevitable to happen for India to fold, but that was not happening at all half way through the day a hope kindled may be we can save this, by the end of the end it was wow!!! can we win this and thts exactly wat we did WIN it....or the 2003 WC which was preceded by horrific series in NZ and a humiliating loss to the Aussies at the tym we were praying that somehow we shud make it to the semis and we did one better than that...lets pretend the final never happened....or the Monkeygate that followed it in the series down under....then Aussies found a new innovative way to strike back Wid Greg Chappel.....the division of Indian team started leading us to the WC 2007.....or shud i start from the ERA of a person called M.S. Dhoni....stated at the helm after recommendation of none other than SACHIN RAMESH TENDULKAR.......so shud I start from the amazing T20 WC in which we didnt even know the rules till India played the first game.......or the absorbing SA series.......or is this is a new beginning WC2011....
Ahhhhhhh.........let me not think tooo much of nething lets NJOY the moment.......will think later where to start........ its a dream that has finally been realized..... a CUP has found a holder that deserved it long tym bak..... :)

Summer

So my first summer in the USA is nearing its end.
It was an eventful summer to say the least...it was a never ending 3 months, real colors of a lot people were unveiled, the inner strength of people tested and showcased.
It was a great summer coz my Mom was here and I got to spend a lot of time with her and my sister.
i came to know that it is so simple to exploit me and m not the only 1 being exploited. At times i found I was the one exploiting people and was exposed to a very vicious face of life that i had always failed to look into.
I am so thankful to this summer that it introduced me to the hard reality of life. its not as if i have stopped exploiting people or being exploited upon but now when such things are happening I am totally aware of these things and have started to work on solution for that.

Glitz, glamour, IPL and new resolve

Its been that kind of week for me...lots of ups and down...till date i havent written a blog about me...this is the first one....
The week started on a hard note for me there were lot of issues bothering me and as the week went by it became more clear and problems just cleared themselves....there were some high points also my fav sports person Sachin Tendulkar shutoff his critics on one more topic.... Captaincy...hope he wins the IPL and shuts them off for ever.....the IPL dirt which was always spoken in murmurs is now in open due to Ego of two persons...and the worst kept secret of IPL match fixing is back... It is one of those crisis that will take political stalwarts all their might to get around...I really hope for once everyone is just thrown into jail and let the law take its own course but i doubt it...
and finally i have a committment to declare publicly so that I stick to it....I am planning to make a website and should be out by end of june and it should center around TEch and Cricket the two topics that interest me...so until that time chao!!!

MUJHME KYA TALAASHOGE

Nice poem I found on web.......


Mujhme kya talaashoge HUSHN waalon

Main sehra ka musafir hun,pyaase hi reh jaaoge

Zaaheri shakhshiyat pe na jao,dhokha hai ye

Main bujha hua aagh hun andar na aao jal jaaoge



Main jaanta hun na de sakta hun main tumhe kuchh bhi

Main tapti ret ka samandar hun,paas aaoge to pighal jaaoge

Mujhe talaash hai sehra ke musafir ki,jo samjhe mujhe

Baaghon ke musafir to pal bhar mein chhod nikal jaayegen



log kehte hain k EHSAAS tujh mein kuchh bhi nahi baaqi

paas aao baitho kuchh der,haqiqat khud hi samajh jaaoge

Main khud se sharminda hun,na koi shikwa hai duniya se mujhko

Jab ROOH hi nakarne lage EHSAAS tujhko,bolo phir kidhar jaaoge

IPad – A Media Revolution?

I have been reading about IPad for about a month now. Since the CES 2010 when many companies showed their tablets everything was discarded even without a look in anticipation of the iSlate (the rumored name of the apple tablet). For weeks there rumor mills were on a high of what it looks like and how wonderfully it works. Finally when Steve Jobs introduced it on Jan 27th 10.00 am PST all the rumor mills were shut out. We had seen the iPad or should a say an enlarged version of the iPhone.
Lets look at what works for the iPad. It has good 1Ghz processor created by apple, all of the iPhone applications will work on it, it looks sleek (don’t know how it weighs- claimed to be light), has a powerful battery life, Wi-fi- 3G enabled amazing display for the photos and e-reader (kindle should be wary of this) and that’s it, cant think of anything other than that.
For me what doesn’t work: the memory size for a device that claims to be netbook killer has unusually small capacity, neither there is extended memory support, no multi tasking, same OS as iPhone 3GS, don’t understand much difference from iTouch except that the screen is larger, Price every one is gung ho how cheap it is!!!!!!!!! Is it me only…... to be able to get a 3G enabled 64GB iPad you need to shed $829 thats expensive I will get a top laptop for that price and for a device that does half of the things of laptop why waste that much money.
All in all I think that apple has a decent product and it will find its audience. Its much improved than Newton but I can’t say that they have a winner at hand like they did with iPhone; this time apple might get the initial rave reviews because of the euphoria surrounding it but once the euphoria subsides they will have a "Job" (pun intended) at hand to sell it with current specs. It’s a neat product but I do not believe it’s a media revolution as its being made out to be. With 4G round the corner I expect apple to make many changes and release a better version by next year and who knows that might be the media revolution everyone is waiting for.

The Day Devil Cried…..

So India was attacked yet again…The regularity that India gets struck by these terrorist and the new innovative ways that they come up with would make any auto manufacturer envious that they can not do the same. Let’s not loose the seriousness of the plot here. This time the reaction has been different. This attack seems to have jolted the INDIANS from their sleep. There is outcry against the POLITICIANS and against their NO ACTION policy. Our politicians believe that just condemning an act is enough and no action needs to be taken so that these things do not repeat in the future what else would describe the number of BLASTS that our country has faced this year. IF ANY POLITICAL PARTY was serious then this would have not been allowed. All the political parties are trying to gain POLITICAL advantage after this GHASTLY act conducted by the terrorists. Tell me if BJP was any serious about terrorism and providing our police force with better facilities why was the POLICE REFORM ACT not passed under their LEADERSHIP, why was KANDAHAR left to happen? To Save 250 ppl we have lost more than 5000 ppl to these peoples tell me which option was better……
Why would a person kill another person just because he/she is well dressed? HOW CAN YOU KILL CHILDREN????? The other thing that bothers me is every one is saying this is INDIA’s 9/11… NO this is not INDIA’s 9/11… this is INDIA’s 26/11… There is no comparison between 9/11 and 26/11 even though lot more people were killed in 9/11, I say this coz…. 9/11 was over in few hours the HORROR images and the HORROR that people saved happened for less than 24 hours……here the HORROR continued for more than 60 hours… I pray to GOD that the CHILDREN watching this do not lose their HUMAN touch and would be able to come out of this HORRIFIC ACT.
These things above I was talking about the political fall out of the HORROR that we have faced in the last week and are still reeling under. The fact remains that 10 people came and held a nation of more than a BILLION to RANSOM for more than 60 hours and that too for NO REASON. If anyone knows the reason for their INSANITY, I can not even call them ANIMAL coz ANIMALS are much better than them in Behaviour…PLS LET ME KNOW. Even DEVIL has reason when he does some act but these PPL devoid of any motive went on the killing spree that even DEVIL would have found hard to understand and I believe would be CRYING…………………………